HAT: Hybrid Attention Transformer for Image Restoration

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Autori principali: Chen, Xiangyu, Wang, Xintao, Zhang, Wenlong, Kong, Xiangtao, Qiao, Yu, Zhou, Jiantao, Dong, Chao
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author Chen, Xiangyu
Wang, Xintao
Zhang, Wenlong
Kong, Xiangtao
Qiao, Yu
Zhou, Jiantao
Dong, Chao
author_facet Chen, Xiangyu
Wang, Xintao
Zhang, Wenlong
Kong, Xiangtao
Qiao, Yu
Zhou, Jiantao
Dong, Chao
contents Transformer-based methods have shown impressive performance in image restoration tasks, such as image super-resolution and denoising. However, we find that these networks can only utilize a limited spatial range of input information through attribution analysis. This implies that the potential of Transformer is still not fully exploited in existing networks. In order to activate more input pixels for better restoration, we propose a new Hybrid Attention Transformer (HAT). It combines both channel attention and window-based self-attention schemes, thus making use of their complementary advantages. Moreover, to better aggregate the cross-window information, we introduce an overlapping cross-attention module to enhance the interaction between neighboring window features. In the training stage, we additionally adopt a same-task pre-training strategy to further exploit the potential of the model for further improvement. Extensive experiments have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed modules. We further scale up the model to show that the performance of the SR task can be greatly improved. Besides, we extend HAT to more image restoration applications, including real-world image super-resolution, Gaussian image denoising and image compression artifacts reduction. Experiments on benchmark and real-world datasets demonstrate that our HAT achieves state-of-the-art performance both quantitatively and qualitatively. Codes and models are publicly available at https://github.com/XPixelGroup/HAT.
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spellingShingle HAT: Hybrid Attention Transformer for Image Restoration
Chen, Xiangyu
Wang, Xintao
Zhang, Wenlong
Kong, Xiangtao
Qiao, Yu
Zhou, Jiantao
Dong, Chao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Transformer-based methods have shown impressive performance in image restoration tasks, such as image super-resolution and denoising. However, we find that these networks can only utilize a limited spatial range of input information through attribution analysis. This implies that the potential of Transformer is still not fully exploited in existing networks. In order to activate more input pixels for better restoration, we propose a new Hybrid Attention Transformer (HAT). It combines both channel attention and window-based self-attention schemes, thus making use of their complementary advantages. Moreover, to better aggregate the cross-window information, we introduce an overlapping cross-attention module to enhance the interaction between neighboring window features. In the training stage, we additionally adopt a same-task pre-training strategy to further exploit the potential of the model for further improvement. Extensive experiments have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed modules. We further scale up the model to show that the performance of the SR task can be greatly improved. Besides, we extend HAT to more image restoration applications, including real-world image super-resolution, Gaussian image denoising and image compression artifacts reduction. Experiments on benchmark and real-world datasets demonstrate that our HAT achieves state-of-the-art performance both quantitatively and qualitatively. Codes and models are publicly available at https://github.com/XPixelGroup/HAT.
title HAT: Hybrid Attention Transformer for Image Restoration
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05239