Image Restoration

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Image restoration estimates cleaner or more complete images from degraded measurements, supporting applications from photography and remote sensing to medical and scientific imaging. Methods range from inverse-problem and physics-based models to CNNs, Transformers, state-space networks, and diffusion or flow models; self-supervised learning and pretrained priors help when clean paired examples are scarce. Work increasingly targets unified models for mixed degradations, real-world adaptation, and efficient deployment, with evaluation extending beyond image metrics to downstream tasks such as detection and diagnosis. A central challenge is balancing fidelity to observed evidence with perceptual quality: generative methods can add plausible but incorrect detail, so reliable control and hallucination assessment remain important.

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372 papers42 papers in the last four weeks, up 27% on the four weeks before. 0.2% of all new papers.

  1. From Fog Chamber to Aircraft Window: Pixel-Registered Imaging and Synthetic Fine-Tuning Enable Cross-Domain Defogging

    Jun 27, 2026Alexander Ingold, Sabina D. Menon, Manya Yellepeddy +5Synthetic-to-Real Domain AdaptationImage Restoration

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA · U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Remote Sensing Division, Washington DC 20375, USA.

  2. Self-Evolving Agentic Image Restoration via Deliberate Planning and Intuitive Execution

    Jun 27, 2026Shuang Cui, Fan Ji, Guanglong Sun +4Agent-Based Image RestorationImage Restoration

    Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China +1

  3. BiDeMem: Bidirectional Degradation Memory for Explainable Image Restoration

    Jun 26, 2026Xinrui Wu, Lichen HuangMemory-Augmented Neural NetworksUnsupervised Image Restoration

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

  4. A Zero-Shot Deep Image Prior Framework for Denoising and Deconvolution in Fluorescence Microscopy

    Jun 26, 2026Xiangyu Qian, Jing Liu, Yunqing Tang +2Deep Image PriorPhysics-Guided Image Restoration

    Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Biomedical Materials, Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, China · Postgraduate Training Base Alliance of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325035, China

  5. DeLux: Cross-Modal Local Artifact Restoration in Video Using Neuromorphic Data

    Jun 25, 2026Bartosz Stachowiak, Dariusz BrzezinskiImage RestorationImage Inpainting

    Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, ul. Piotrowo 2, 60-965 Poznan, Poland

  6. Multi-modality Image Fusion under Adverse Weather: Mask-Guided Feature Restoration and Interaction

    Jun 25, 2026Xilai Li, Xiaosong Li, Haishu Tan +3Multi-Source Image FusionCross-Modal Attention

    Foshan University, Foshan, China · China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, China · Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China

  7. TaskTok: Delving into Task Tokens for Task-driven Image Restoration

    Jun 25, 2026Hongjae Lee, Sojung Kang, Jaeseong Yu +1Image RestorationVisual Token Pruning

    Korea University

  8. LogicIR: Logic Gate Networks for Image Restoration

    Jun 25, 2026Hongjae Lee, Myungjun Son, Jaeseong Yu +1Efficient Neural Network InferenceImage Restoration

    Korea University

  9. A Benchmark for Heterogeneous Stereo Deblurring with Physically- and Epipolar-constrained Cross Attention

    Jun 24, 2026Hoju Shin, Jiah Kim, Seung-Wook Kim +1Image DeblurringCross-Attention

    Department of Intelligent Robot Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan, Republic of Korea · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  10. Shift Variant Image Degradation and Restoration Using Singular Value Decomposition

    Jun 24, 2026Arun D. KulkarniImage DeblurringImage Restoration

    Computer Science Department at University of Texas at Tyler, Tyker, TX 75799 USA

  11. Efficient Real-World Dehazing via Physics-Inspired Global-Local Decoupling

    Jun 24, 2026Yifei Qu, Ru Li, Junjie Chen +1Physics-Guided Image RestorationImage Restoration

    Faculty of Computing, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150006, China

  12. Noise-Aware Boundary-Enhanced Generative Learning for Ultrasound Speckle Reduction

    Jun 23, 2026Yuexi Gu, Mengqi Wu, Yongheng Sun +3Generative ModelingUltrasound Imaging

    Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA · Lampe Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.

  13. TIGER: Taming Identity, Geometry, and Generative Priors for High-Quality Face Video Restoration

    Jun 23, 2026Yang Zhou, Wenxue Li, Peng Zhang +3Image RestorationVideo Restoration

    MiLM Plus, Xiaomi Inc. · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  14. Fabric Image Demoiréing Benchmark from Synthesis to Restoration

    Jun 23, 2026Pengchao Wei, Xiaojie GuoSynthetic Benchmark GenerationImage Restoration

    Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

  15. Learning Adaptive Dynamical Features via Multi-ττ Liquid-Mamba for All-in-one Image Restoration

    Jun 22, 2026Hu Gao, Changshuo Wang, Yulong Chen +1MambaSelective SSMs

    Department of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China · Department of Architecture and Design, Harbin Institute of Technology, Heilongjiang, China

  16. FlowDec: Temporal Conditional Flow Decorruptor for Robust Continuous Vision-Language Navigation

    Jun 21, 2026Yufei Zhang, Changhao ChenVLM RobustnessVision-Language Navigation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China

  17. Flow Map Denoisers: Traversing the Distortion-Perception Plane for Inverse Problems

    Jun 18, 2026Nicolas Zilberstein, Morteza Mardani, Santiago SegarraFlow MatchingFlow Map Learning

    Rice University · NVIDIA Inc.

  18. DVANet: Degradation-aware Visual-prior Alignment Network for Image Restoration

    Jun 17, 2026Yanjie Tu, Qingsen Yan, Axi Niu +3All-in-One Image RestorationImage Restoration

    School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710000, China · Shenzhen Research Institute of Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shenzhen 518057, China · State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City, University of Macau, Macau 999078, China

  19. Learning to Distort: Weakly-Supervised Image Quality Transfer for Prostate DWI Correction

    Jun 17, 2026YuCheng Tang, Wen Yan, Alexander Ng +13Flow MatchingMagnetic Resonance Imaging

    UCL Hawkes Institute and Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, UK · Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London, UK · Centre for Medical Imaging, University College London, UK +5

  20. Spiking Pyramid Wavelet Transformation for High-efficient and Low-energy Image Restoration

    Jun 17, 2026Chen Zhao, Xiantao Hu, Song Wu +5Efficient Neural Network InferenceWavelet Methods

    School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Suzhou, 215163, Jiangsu, China · PCA Lab, Key Lab of Intelligent Perception and Systems for High-Dimensional Information of Ministry of Education, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094, Jiangsu, China · China Mobile Institute, Beijing, 100032, China +1

  21. Universal Image Restoration via Internalized Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

    Jun 16, 2026Yu Guo, Zhengru Fang, Shengfeng He +4All-in-One Image RestorationImage Restoration

    Hong Kong JC Lab of Smart City and the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong · School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University · Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University

  22. SP3^3: Spherical Priors for Plug-and-Play Restoration

    Jun 15, 2026Sean Man, Ron Raphaeli, Matan Kleiner +1Image Restoration

    Technion – Israel Institute of Technology · Independent Researcher

  23. Towards UAV Image Dehazing: A UAV Atmospheric Scattering Model, Benchmark, and Geometry-Aware Deep Unfolding Network

    Jun 15, 2026Wenxuan Fang, Jiangwei Weng, Yu Zheng +5Image RestorationRemote Sensing Benchmarks

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology

  24. Fi-Gaussian: Frequency-Aware Implicit Gaussian Splatting for Single Image Dehazing

    Jun 15, 2026Yuhan Chen, Ying Fang, Guofa Li +5Image RestorationGaussian Splatting

    College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA · National Innovation Center of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles, Beijing 100089, China +1

  25. Dehaze-GaussianImage: Zero-Shot Dehazing via Efficient 2D Gaussian Splatting Representation

    Jun 15, 2026Yuhan Chen, Wenxuan Yu, Guofa Li +5Image RestorationImage Dehazing

    College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA · National Innovation Center of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles, Beijing 100089, China +1

  26. The Third Challenge on Image Denoising at NTIRE 2026: Methods and Results

    Jun 14, 2026Lei Sun, Hang Guo, Bin Ren +6Image RestorationImage Denoising

    INSAIT, Sofia University, “St. Kliment Ohridski”

  27. CRIS: Cross-Plane Self-Supervised Isotropic Restoration for Anisotropic Volumetric Imaging Across Modalities

    Jun 14, 2026Adi Ahituv, Anat Ilivitzki, Moti FreimanSelf-Supervised LearningMedical Image Super-Resolution

    Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200003, Israel · Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, 3109601, Israel · Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200003, Israel +1

  28. Fusing Transferred Priors and Physics-based Decomposition for Underwater Image Enhancement

    Jun 14, 2026Haochen Hu, Yanrui Bin, Zhengyan Zhang +3Underwater Image EnhancementUnderwater Imaging

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR

  29. SPARK: Spatial Policy-driven Adaptive Reinforcement learning for Knowledge distillation

    Jun 13, 2026Mohamed Jismy Aashik Rasool, Shabir Ahmad, Gisong Oh +1RL for Knowledge DistillationQuantization-Aware Training

    Department of IT Convergence Engineering, Gachon University, Sujeong-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do 461-701, Republic of Korea

  30. Variational Deep Unfolding with Mamba-Based Nonlocal Modeling for Underwater Image Enhancement

    Jun 10, 2026Daniel Torres, Julia Navarro, Catalina Sbert +1Underwater Image EnhancementUnderwater Imaging

    Institute of Applied Computing and Community Code (IAC3) · Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Cra. de Valldemossa km. 7.5, E-07122 Palma, Spain