Video Restoration

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Video restoration studies how to recover useful visual information from degraded footage, including motion blur, low resolution, noise, compression artifacts, weather, flicker, and damaged archival film. Methods use temporal alignment and fusion, recurrent networks and transformers, physical models of how degradation forms, and diffusion or flow-matching generative priors; some also draw on metadata, reference frames, or other sensors. Evaluation spans settings such as super-resolution, deblurring, HDR reconstruction, and object removal, using benchmarks such as REDS, GoPro, and VFHQ alongside real-world footage. A central challenge is balancing perceptual detail and realistic generation with fidelity to the original scene, temporal stability, and the speed and memory needed for long or high-resolution video.

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  1. Taming Noise Initialization for Zero-shot Video Restoration with Image Diffusion Priors

    Oct 27, 2026Chong Wang, Zixuan Fu, Hao Cheng +3Video RestorationDiffusion Models

    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · School of Artificial Intelligence, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China · Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden +1

  2. From Legacy to Contemporary: Scalable Color Modernization for Long Videos

    Oct 19, 2026Dongyun Kim, Jiwoo Choi, Jaeseong Lee +1Video EditingVideo Restoration

    Yonsei University

  3. SCOPE-VSR: A Broad-Coverage Training Dataset for Video Super-Resolution

    Oct 17, 2026Gengyu Liao, Yechun Yong, Zheng Chen +4Video Super-ResolutionVideo Restoration

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  4. CRISP: Progressive Illumination Curriculum for Recurrent Low-Light Video Enhancement with Semantic Priors

    Oct 16, 2026Ruirui Lin, Xin Yan Lim, Yini Li +2Video RestorationLow-Light Image Enhancement

    University of Bristol

  5. MFVSR: A Multi-Style and Fine-Grained Benchmark for Video Subtitle Removal

    Oct 13, 2026Xiyan Huang, Qingdong He, Peng Tang +3Video RestorationVideo Editing

    National University of Singapore · Tencent Youtu Lab · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  6. Reference-Efficient Multimodal Bitstream-Corrupted Video Recovery via Depth-Conditioned Adaptation

    Oct 11, 2026Tianyi Liu, Jiaojiao Wang, Ye Lu +4Video RestorationMultimodal Fusion

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China · College of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China +2

  7. TSRN-RTVD: Real-Time Video Deblurring System

    Oct 6, 2026Nikita Alutis, Danila Evsyukov, Egor Chistov +3Camera Motion UnderstandingVideo Restoration

    Lomonosov Moscow State University Moscow, Russian Federation · MSU Institute for Artificial Intelligence Moscow, Russian Federation

  8. LoopMoEVR: Loop-Based Degradation-Aware Mixture-of-Experts for Unified UHD Video Restoration

    Oct 4, 2026Yucheng Xin, Runci Bai, Yongcong Wang +5Mixture of ExpertsImage Restoration

    Shandong Normal University · China Academy of Information and Communications Technology · Central South University +4

  9. FastVR: Efficient Streaming Video Restoration with One-Step Diffusion

    Sep 29, 2026Xiaoxu Chen, Qin Yang, Haoran Bai +2Diffusion TransformerVideo Restoration

    Alibaba Group · Xidian University

  10. LoCoVSR: Local Context Diffusion Posterior Sampling for Video Super-Resolution

    Sep 26, 2026Matan Ben Chorin, Michael EladVideo Super-ResolutionVideo Restoration

    Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel · Faculty of Computer Science Department Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel

  11. Double-stream registration with pyramid fusion for HDR video with alternating exposures

    Sep 25, 2026Onofre Martorell, Ivan Pereira-Sánchez, Antoni Fuentes +1HDR Video ReconstructionHDR Imaging

    Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Cra. de Valldemossa km 7.5, Palma, 07122, Illes Balears, Spain

  12. High Dynamic Range Video Reconstruction from Single-Exposure Raw Sequences

    Sep 23, 2026Tao Zhang, Peixian Su, Xingyu Gao +6HDR ImagingHDR Video Reconstruction

    School of Communication Engineering, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China, and also with Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Low Altitude Ubiquitous Networking Technology, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China · Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, and also with the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China +1

  13. Spatiotemporal Flux Probing for Single-Photon Videography

    Sep 18, 2026Jerry Yan, Matteo Forlivesi, Bowen Tan +3Video RestorationEvent-Based Vision

    Dept. of Computer Science, Purdue University · Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto · MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  14. S3VD: Semantic-Guidance Spatio-Temporal Scanning for Video Deraining

    Sep 18, 2026Kui Jiang, Yiang Chen, Yan Luo +3Video RestorationVisual SSMs

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China. · Zhengzhou Advanced Research Institute, Harbin Institute of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China.

  15. Copy What Is Seen, Generate What Is Not: Training-Free Anomaly-Aware Video Restoration

    Sep 16, 2026Zhida Qu, Shengchao ChenVideo RestorationVideo Surveillance

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University · Australian AI Institute, University of Technology Sydney

  16. Perceptual Refinement of an End-to-End Video Streaming Pipeline via Generative AI Layers

    Sep 16, 2026Emanuele Artioli, Farzad Tashtarian, Christian TimmererRate-Distortion OptimizationVideo Compression

    Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Institute of Information Technology (ITEC), Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria

  17. ClearText-Video: A Large-Scale Text-Centric Video Dataset Bridging Video Restoration and Scene-Text Enhancement

    Aug 28, 2026Jinlong Li, Jiaming Ding, Dingfu Lu +8VLM RobustnessEgocentric Video QA

    OPPO US AI Center, USA · University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA · University of California San Diego, USA

  18. Zero-Shot Video Restoration and Enhancement with Text-to-Image Latent Diffusion Models and Multi-Modal References

    Aug 27, 2026Cong Cao, Huanjing Yue, Xin Liu +1Video RestorationT2I Diffusion Models

    School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China · Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Laboratory, School of Engineering Science, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, Lappeenranta, Finland

  19. Towards Bitstream-corrupted Harsh Visual Understanding: Through Bitstream Language Modeling as Robust Semantic Priors

    Aug 22, 2026Chaoran Huang, Fangcheng Li, Tianyi Liu +2Video RestorationVideo Captioning

  20. Unwarping the Lens: A Physics-Grounded Approach to Video Glasses Removal

    Aug 20, 2026Radim Spetlik, David Futschik, Radek Danecek +4Image EditingVideo Restoration

    Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering · Google

  21. SPVC: Structured and Panoptic Video Fixing for Cross-Dataset Driving Scene Rendering

    Aug 18, 2026Gen Li, Shu Han, Yun Xi Qiao +5Autonomous Driving SimulationVideo Restoration

    Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. · Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. · University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA. +4

  22. Binarized High-Efficiency RAW Video Restoration and Beyond

    Aug 17, 2026Tianyu Zhu, Ying Fu, Hesong Li +3Video RestorationBinary Neural Networks

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China · Chinese Aeronautical Establishment, Beijing, China · Westlake University, Hangzhou, China +1

  23. From Synthesis to Removal: Physics-Grounded Reflection Simulation and Diffusion-Based Video Dereflection

    Aug 12, 2026Zepeng Wang, Jiagao Hu, Fuhao Li +3Video Diffusion ModelsVideo Restoration

    MiLM Plus, Xiaomi Inc.

  24. Revisiting the Current Frame: Physical-Trace-Guided Network Output Correction for Video Restoration

    Aug 10, 2026Yifeng Lin, Liuxiang Qiu, Guangming Ren +1HDR Video ReconstructionVideo Restoration

    Fujian Key Lab for Intelligent Processing and Wireless Transmission of Media Information, College of Physics and Information Engineering, Fuzhou University

  25. EffectLearner: World-Aware Object-Effect Reasoning for Real-World Video Object Removal

    Aug 6, 2026Feier Wu, Wanke Xia, Xu He +8Video Diffusion ModelsVideo Editing

    Tsinghua University · China Agricultural University · Jiangnan University +1

  26. OmniVR: Audio-Video Conditional Generation for Archival Footage Restoration

    Aug 4, 2026Xin Lu, Zihao Fan, Jie Huang +4Audio-Visual SynchronizationVideo Restoration

    University of Science and Technology of China · JD Explore Academy

  27. MoCRA: Mixture of Compositional Rank-1 Atoms for 4K All-in-One Video Restoration

    Aug 3, 2026Yongcong Wang, Pu Wang, Hingchin Chen +8Video Restoration

    1Central South University · 2Shandong University · 3Shenzhen Loop Area Institute +8

  28. WildShadowRemover: In-the-Wild Video Shadow Removal via Detail-Preserving Video Diffusion Models

    Jul 28, 2026Jiamin Xu, Cong Wang, Zheng Dong +4Shadow RemovalVideo Diffusion Models

    Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China · Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China · State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  29. DART: A Degradation-Aware Recurrent Transformer for Archival Film Restoration

    Jul 23, 2026Mikołaj Jastrzębski, Wojciech Kozłowski, Kamil AdamczewskiRecurrent TransformersVideo Restoration

    Wrocław University of Science and Technology

  30. RealVDeblur: One-Step Diffusion for Generalizable Real-World Video Deblurring

    Jul 22, 2026Renbiao Jin, Mingxin Yang, Yutian Chen +8Video Diffusion ModelsVideo Restoration

    1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Shanghai AI Laboratory · 3CUHK MMLab +2