Re-boosting Self-Collaboration Parallel Prompt GAN for Unsupervised Image Restoration

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Auteurs principaux: Lin, Xin, Zhou, Yuyan, Yue, Jingtong, Ren, Chao, Chan, Kelvin C. K., Qi, Lu, Yang, Ming-Hsuan
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author Lin, Xin
Zhou, Yuyan
Yue, Jingtong
Ren, Chao
Chan, Kelvin C. K.
Qi, Lu
Yang, Ming-Hsuan
author_facet Lin, Xin
Zhou, Yuyan
Yue, Jingtong
Ren, Chao
Chan, Kelvin C. K.
Qi, Lu
Yang, Ming-Hsuan
contents Unsupervised restoration approaches based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) offer a promising solution without requiring paired datasets. Yet, these GAN-based approaches struggle to surpass the performance of conventional unsupervised GAN-based frameworks without significantly modifying model structures or increasing the computational complexity. To address these issues, we propose a self-collaboration (SC) strategy for existing restoration models. This strategy utilizes information from the previous stage as feedback to guide subsequent stages, achieving significant performance improvement without increasing the framework's inference complexity. The SC strategy comprises a prompt learning (PL) module and a restorer ($Res$). It iteratively replaces the previous less powerful fixed restorer $\overline{Res}$ in the PL module with a more powerful $Res$. The enhanced PL module generates better pseudo-degraded/clean image pairs, leading to a more powerful $Res$ for the next iteration. Our SC can significantly improve the $Res$'s performance by over 1.5 dB without adding extra parameters or computational complexity during inference. Meanwhile, existing self-ensemble (SE) and our SC strategies enhance the performance of pre-trained restorers from different perspectives. As SE increases computational complexity during inference, we propose a re-boosting module to the SC (Reb-SC) to improve the SC strategy further by incorporating SE into SC without increasing inference time. This approach further enhances the restorer's performance by approximately 0.3 dB. Extensive experimental results on restoration tasks demonstrate that the proposed model performs favorably against existing state-of-the-art unsupervised restoration methods. Source code and trained models are publicly available at: https://github.com/linxin0/RSCP2GAN.
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spellingShingle Re-boosting Self-Collaboration Parallel Prompt GAN for Unsupervised Image Restoration
Lin, Xin
Zhou, Yuyan
Yue, Jingtong
Ren, Chao
Chan, Kelvin C. K.
Qi, Lu
Yang, Ming-Hsuan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
Unsupervised restoration approaches based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) offer a promising solution without requiring paired datasets. Yet, these GAN-based approaches struggle to surpass the performance of conventional unsupervised GAN-based frameworks without significantly modifying model structures or increasing the computational complexity. To address these issues, we propose a self-collaboration (SC) strategy for existing restoration models. This strategy utilizes information from the previous stage as feedback to guide subsequent stages, achieving significant performance improvement without increasing the framework's inference complexity. The SC strategy comprises a prompt learning (PL) module and a restorer ($Res$). It iteratively replaces the previous less powerful fixed restorer $\overline{Res}$ in the PL module with a more powerful $Res$. The enhanced PL module generates better pseudo-degraded/clean image pairs, leading to a more powerful $Res$ for the next iteration. Our SC can significantly improve the $Res$'s performance by over 1.5 dB without adding extra parameters or computational complexity during inference. Meanwhile, existing self-ensemble (SE) and our SC strategies enhance the performance of pre-trained restorers from different perspectives. As SE increases computational complexity during inference, we propose a re-boosting module to the SC (Reb-SC) to improve the SC strategy further by incorporating SE into SC without increasing inference time. This approach further enhances the restorer's performance by approximately 0.3 dB. Extensive experimental results on restoration tasks demonstrate that the proposed model performs favorably against existing state-of-the-art unsupervised restoration methods. Source code and trained models are publicly available at: https://github.com/linxin0/RSCP2GAN.
title Re-boosting Self-Collaboration Parallel Prompt GAN for Unsupervised Image Restoration
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09241