The paper introduces Restoring without Forgetting (RwF), a continual learning framework for image restoration that handles multiple degradations sequentially without accessing prior data. RwF trains a lightweight adapter for each new degradation, uses an unsupervised routing mechanism to select the correct restoration path, and achieves significant PSNR gains over fine‑tuning on five benchmark degradation domains. The method also demonstrates strong transfer performance on eleven real‑degradation datasets with high routing accuracy.
By Alif Ashrafee, Bartosz Krawczyk
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:2608.30305v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Image restoration models are typically trained with a fixed set of capabilities. When new restoration requirements emerge, existing solutions usually t...
By Hu Gao, Yulong Chen, Lizhuang Ma
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. 09482v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: All-in-one image restoration is a unified low-level vision task that aims to effectively recover high-quality images from inputs degraded by various types and levels of corruption using a single model.
By Chunxiao Liu, Wei Liu, Anbin Xiong, Erli Meng
arXiv:2605.22208v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM)-driven image restoration agent demonstrates effectiveness in degradation coupling scenarios by flexibly sele...
By Kailin Zhuang, Jiawei Wu, Zhi Jin
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:2609.13791v1 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
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
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...
arXiv:2609.31170v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Task-driven image restoration aims to improve both image quality and downstream task performance. However, existing methods predominantly focus on sing...
By Yanjie Tu, Qingsen Yan, Axi Niu, Wenxuan Cai, Tao Hu, Wei Dong, Haokui Zhang
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