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| Format: | Preprint |
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2026
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.03061 |
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- Recent advances in generative AI raise the question of whether general-purpose image editing models can serve as unified solutions for image restoration. We conduct a systematic evaluation of Nano Banana 2 across diverse scenes and degradations. Our results show that prompt design is critical, with concise prompts and explicit fidelity constraints achieving a better balance between reconstruction and perceptual quality. Nano Banana 2 achieves competitive full-reference performance and is consistently preferred in user studies, while showing strong generalization in challenging scenarios. However, we observe a gap between perceptual quality and restoration fidelity, as the model tends to produce visually rich results with over-enhanced details and inconsistencies. This issue is not well captured by existing IQA metrics or user studies. Overall, general-purpose models show promise as unified IR solvers from a perceptual perspective, but require improved controllability and fidelity-aware evaluation. Further comparisons and detailed analyses are available in our project repository: https://github.com/yxyuanxiao/NanoBanana2TestOnIR.