Learning to Restore Multi-Degraded Images via Ingredient Decoupling and Task-Aware Path Adaptation

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Main Authors: Gao, Hu, Lei, Xiaoning, Zhang, Ying, Xu, Xichen, Jiang, Guannan, Ma, Lizhuang
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author Gao, Hu
Lei, Xiaoning
Zhang, Ying
Xu, Xichen
Jiang, Guannan
Ma, Lizhuang
author_facet Gao, Hu
Lei, Xiaoning
Zhang, Ying
Xu, Xichen
Jiang, Guannan
Ma, Lizhuang
contents Image restoration (IR) aims to recover clean images from degraded observations. Despite remarkable progress, most existing methods focus on a single degradation type, whereas real-world images often suffer from multiple coexisting degradations, such as rain, noise, and haze coexisting in a single image, which limits their practical effectiveness. In this paper, we propose an adaptive multi-degradation image restoration network that reconstructs images by leveraging decoupled representations of degradation ingredients to guide path selection. Specifically, we design a degradation ingredient decoupling block (DIDBlock) in the encoder to separate degradation ingredients statistically by integrating spatial and frequency domain information, enhancing the recognition of multiple degradation types and making their feature representations independent. In addition, we present fusion block (FBlock) to integrate degradation information across all levels using learnable matrices. In the decoder, we further introduce a task adaptation block (TABlock) that dynamically activates or fuses functional branches based on the multi-degradation representation, flexibly selecting optimal restoration paths under diverse degradation conditions. The resulting tightly integrated architecture, termed IMDNet, is extensively validated through experiments, showing superior performance on multi-degradation restoration while maintaining strong competitiveness on single-degradation tasks.
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spellingShingle Learning to Restore Multi-Degraded Images via Ingredient Decoupling and Task-Aware Path Adaptation
Gao, Hu
Lei, Xiaoning
Zhang, Ying
Xu, Xichen
Jiang, Guannan
Ma, Lizhuang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image restoration (IR) aims to recover clean images from degraded observations. Despite remarkable progress, most existing methods focus on a single degradation type, whereas real-world images often suffer from multiple coexisting degradations, such as rain, noise, and haze coexisting in a single image, which limits their practical effectiveness. In this paper, we propose an adaptive multi-degradation image restoration network that reconstructs images by leveraging decoupled representations of degradation ingredients to guide path selection. Specifically, we design a degradation ingredient decoupling block (DIDBlock) in the encoder to separate degradation ingredients statistically by integrating spatial and frequency domain information, enhancing the recognition of multiple degradation types and making their feature representations independent. In addition, we present fusion block (FBlock) to integrate degradation information across all levels using learnable matrices. In the decoder, we further introduce a task adaptation block (TABlock) that dynamically activates or fuses functional branches based on the multi-degradation representation, flexibly selecting optimal restoration paths under diverse degradation conditions. The resulting tightly integrated architecture, termed IMDNet, is extensively validated through experiments, showing superior performance on multi-degradation restoration while maintaining strong competitiveness on single-degradation tasks.
title Learning to Restore Multi-Degraded Images via Ingredient Decoupling and Task-Aware Path Adaptation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04920