Learning Dynamic Prompts for All-in-One Image Restoration.

Journal: IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
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Abstract

All-in-one image restoration, which seeks to handle multiple types of degradation within a unified model, has become a prominent research topic in computer vision. While existing deep learning models have achieved remarkable success in specific restoration tasks, extending these models to heterogenous degradations presents significant challenges. Current all-in-one methods predominantly concentrate on extracting degradation priors, often employing learned and fixed task prompts to guide the restoration process. However, these static prompts are inclined to generate an average distribution characteristics of degradations, unable to accurately depict the unique attribute of the given input, consequently providing suboptimal restoration results. To tackle these challenges, we propose a novel dynamic prompt approach called Degradation Prototype Assignment and Prompt Distribution Learning (DPPD). Our approach decouples the degradation prior extraction into two novel components: Degradation Prototype Assignment (DPA) and Prompt Distribution Learning (PDL). DPA anchors the degradation representations to predefined prototypes, providing discriminative and scalable representations. In addition, PDL models prompts as distributions rather than fixed parameters, facilitating dynamic and adaptive prompt sampling. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our DPPD framework can achieve significant performance improvement on different image restoration tasks. Codes are available at our project page https://github.com/Aitical/DPPD.

Authors

  • Gang Wu
    State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu, P. R. China.
  • Junjun Jiang
    Guangxi Key Laboratory of AIDS Prevention and Treatment & Guangxi Universities Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Highly Prevalent Disease, School of Public Health, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, Guangxi, China.
  • Kui Jiang
    School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
  • Xianming Liu
    School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China. Electronic address: csxm@hit.edu.cn.
  • Liqiang Nie

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