arXiv Computer Vision

Benchmarking RAW and RGB Restoration in Image Signal Processors

The paper benchmarks two strategies for blind image restoration around a fixed image signal processor (ISP): restoring in the RAW domain before the ISP (pre‑ISP) and restoring in the sRGB domain after the ISP (post‑ISP). Across four smartphone groups, two learned ISPs, and three degradation regimes (noise, blur, and combined noise‑blur), the study finds that RAW restoration generally outperforms generic RGB restoration, but RGB models trained with ISP‑aware supervision achieve the best overall performance. The authors emphasize that restoration performance depends heavily on how well the restoration model aligns with the imaging pipeline, and they recommend reporting restoration placement and ISP‑aware supervision as key experimental factors.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 10

SloMoDeblur: A Large-Scale Smartphone Image Deblurring Dataset

arXiv:2506.19445v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Motion blur remains one of the most common and visually disruptive degradations in real-world smartphone imaging, yet existing deblurring benchmark...

By Syed Mumtahin Mahmud, Mahdi Mohd Hossain Noki, Prothito Shovon Majumder, Abdul Mohaimen Al Radi, Sudipto Das Sukanto, Afia Lubaina, Md. Mosaddek Khan
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

Controllable blind deblurring with diffusion models

The paper introduces SuperSharpen, a diffusion-based method for blind deblurring in professional photography that can invert unknown isotropic blur without knowing the degradation kernel. It offers explicit control over restoration strength via a blur measure and compares two conditioning strategies: a ControlNet-style adapter on a frozen backbone and full finetuning of the diffusion prior. Experiments on synthetic and real-world blur show that finetuning yields higher fidelity with fewer hallucinated details, improving perceptual quality and controllable restoration strength.

By Imane Si Salah, Emile Cribelier, Thomas Veit, Wolf Hauser, Arthur Leclaire