Reconciling Stochastic and Deterministic Strategies for Zero-shot Image Restoration using Diffusion Model in Dual

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01288v1
• Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2025 08:25:22 GMT
• Title: Reconciling Stochastic and Deterministic Strategies for Zero-shot Image Restoration using Diffusion Model in Dual
• Authors: Chong Wang, Lanqing Guo, Zixuan Fu, Siyuan Yang, Hao Cheng, Alex C. Kot, Bihan Wen,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel zero-shot image restoration scheme dubbed Reconciling Model in Dual (RDMD)<n>RDMD uses only a bftextsingle pre-trained diffusion model to construct texttwo regularizers.<n>Our proposed method could achieve superior results compared to existing approaches on both the FFHQ and ImageNet datasets.
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• Abstract: Plug-and-play (PnP) methods offer an iterative strategy for solving image restoration (IR) problems in a zero-shot manner, using a learned \textit{discriminative denoiser} as the implicit prior. More recently, a sampling-based variant of this approach, which utilizes a pre-trained \textit{generative diffusion model}, has gained great popularity for solving IR problems through stochastic sampling. The IR results using PnP with a pre-trained diffusion model demonstrate distinct advantages compared to those using discriminative denoisers, \ie improved perceptual quality while sacrificing the data fidelity. The unsatisfactory results are due to the lack of integration of these strategies in the IR tasks. In this work, we propose a novel zero-shot IR scheme, dubbed Reconciling Diffusion Model in Dual (RDMD), which leverages only a \textbf{single} pre-trained diffusion model to construct \textbf{two} complementary regularizers. Specifically, the diffusion model in RDMD will iteratively perform deterministic denoising and stochastic sampling, aiming to achieve high-fidelity image restoration with appealing perceptual quality. RDMD also allows users to customize the distortion-perception tradeoff with a single hyperparameter, enhancing the adaptability of the restoration process in different practical scenarios. Extensive experiments on several IR tasks demonstrate that our proposed method could achieve superior results compared to existing approaches on both the FFHQ and ImageNet datasets.

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