SkillIR is a skill-guided framework for agentic image restoration that represents restoration experience as degradation-centered action evidence rather than full tool-use trajectories. It consolidates context-dependent action outcomes into scene-aware restoration skills, guiding one bounded action at a time within a verified residual-state loop. Experiments on synthetic and real-world multi-degradation datasets show that SkillIR improves restoration quality and enables more reliable and effective tool use.
By Jie Shao, Shengkai Hu, Xu Zhang, Beihang Song, Yongcheng Jing, Xu Wu, Jun Wan
Loop‑Mamba is a lightweight, loop‑based state‑space framework designed for restoring old photographs that suffer from multiple degradations such as scratches, cracks, fading, blur, noise, and missing regions. It models restoration as progressive state evolution, using a Semantic‑Guided Degradation Estimator to predict local degradation maps and global scores, and a Shared Structural Memory Mamba to maintain a persistent restoration state across iterations. The method employs first‑order state recursion and a multi‑directional scanning strategy to reduce gradient dilution and computational overhead, and introduces the Old Photo Damage Recovery Score (ODRS) to evaluate both degradation recovery and structural reconstruction, achieving superior performance on the SynOld benchmark.
By Runci Bai, Yucheng Xin, Pu Wang, Yongcong Wang, Chen Wu, Dianjie Lu, Guijuan Zhang, Pengwen Dai, Guangwei Gao, Siyuan Yao, Zhuoran Zheng
arXiv:2608. 20141v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: All-in-One Image Restoration (AiOIR) aims to handle diverse degradations within a unified model.
By Zhaokun He, Kangbiao Shi, Axi Niu, Jian Jin, Peng Wu, Wei Dong, Qingsen Yan
arXiv:2608.21786v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: General image fusion aims to integrate complementary information from multiple source images, but existing methods often rely on task-specific mode...
By Xingxin Xu, Siqi Zhao, Xin Li, Xinjie Yao, Yiming Sun, Pengfei Zhu
arXiv:2609.16578v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The spatial support required for image restoration varies across degradation types, image regions, and reconstruction stages. However, most existing me...
By Hu Gao, Lizhuang Ma, Yulong Chen
Degradations vary widely across images, so a practical restoration system has to handle many degradation types with one model. A recent and effective recipe adapts a large pretrained image-editing mod...
The paper introduces ImIR, a method that tunes a large pretrained image‑editing model for all‑in‑one image restoration by replacing text prompts with continuous image‑derived instructions. The approach uses a lightweight token mapper to shift the degraded image’s vision‑language embedding toward that of a clean image, enabling a single adapter to handle six restoration tasks in about three hours on one GPU. ImIR outperforms text conditioning in matched comparisons and supports task‑agnostic restoration without requiring a degradation label.
By S\"uleyman Aslan, G\"orkay Aydemir, M{\i}sra Yavuz, Yunus Bilge Kurt, Nasrin Rahimi, Ahmet Rasim Emirda\u{g}{\i}, Burak Can Biner, M. Ak{\i}n Y{\i}lmaz
Remote sensing images acquired by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and satellites are often degraded by adverse weather, illumination variation, and imaging artifacts, which may co-occur and jointly induce global distribution shifts and local structural corruption. Although All-in-One image restoration offers an appealing unified alternative to task-specific pipelines, existing methods still suffer from weak or implicit degradation cues and parameter redundancy caused by full-rank multi-expert designs with overlapping restoration behaviors.
arXiv:2609.38591v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Adapting image restoration models to a stream of new tasks without revisiting past data remains challenging due to catastrophic forgetting. In this wor...
By Xin Feng, Jin Zhao, Yizhen Zhang, Wenjie Pei, Fanglin Chen, Guangming Lu
UniH$^3$ is a new framework for all-in-one medical image restoration that unifies hierarchical homogeneity and heterogeneity. It introduces a Hierarchical Homogeneity Memory (H2M) module to distill and retrieve shared anatomical priors, and a Hierarchical Heterogeneity Balancer (H2B) to mitigate inter- and intra-task conflicts during training. Experiments on MedIR-2D-500K and MedIR-3D-3K show that UniH$^3$ achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance for both multi‑task and single‑task restoration.
By Zhiwen Yang, Jiayin Li, Chengyu Liu, Hui Zhang, Bingzheng Wei, Yan Xu
arXiv:2609.13791v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recognition pipelines typically adopt a restore-then-recognize workflow, yet decades of experience show that generating visually pleasing images seldom...
By Lanqing Guo, Xijun Wang, Minchul Kim, Yu Yuan, Wes Robbins, Xingguang Zhang, Nicholas Chimitt, Stanley H. Chan, Zhangyang Wang, Xiaoming Liu
HP-UniIF is a unified vision framework that uses diffusion priors and a depth‑wise hierarchical conditional modulation strategy to support heterogeneous image fusion, visual restoration, and downstream perception tasks. The framework introduces task prompt modulation at bottleneck layers, a degradation prompt router at shallow layers, and an application prompt bank at decoding stages to decouple and adapt to different objectives. Experiments across multiple fusion tasks, degradations, and downstream applications show that HP‑UniIF achieves superior performance while maintaining visually faithful results and task‑relevant semantics.
By Xingxin Xu, Siqi Zhao, Xin Li, Xinjie Yao, Yiming Sun, Pengfei Zhu