arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 21

SkillIR: Evolving Scene-Aware Skills for Agentic Image Restoration

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
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

Loop-Mamba: A Loop Mamba with Degradation-Aware and Shared Memory for Old Photo Restoration

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