UniCoRN: Latent Diffusion-based Unified Controllable Image Restoration Network across Multiple Degradations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15868v2
• Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:24:45 GMT
• Title: UniCoRN: Latent Diffusion-based Unified Controllable Image Restoration Network across Multiple Degradations
• Authors: Debabrata Mandal, Soumitri Chattopadhyay, Guansen Tong, Praneeth Chakravarthula,
• Abstract summary: We propose UniCoRN, a unified image restoration approach capable of handling multiple degradation types simultaneously.<n>Specifically, we uncover the potential of low-level visual cues extracted from images in guiding a controllable diffusion model.<n>We also introduce MetaRestore, a metalens imaging benchmark containing images with multiple degradations and artifacts.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Image restoration is essential for enhancing degraded images across computer vision tasks. However, most existing methods address only a single type of degradation (e.g., blur, noise, or haze) at a time, limiting their real-world applicability where multiple degradations often occur simultaneously. In this paper, we propose UniCoRN, a unified image restoration approach capable of handling multiple degradation types simultaneously using a multi-head diffusion model. Specifically, we uncover the potential of low-level visual cues extracted from images in guiding a controllable diffusion model for real-world image restoration and we design a multi-head control network adaptable via a mixture-of-experts strategy. We train our model without any prior assumption of specific degradations, through a smartly designed curriculum learning recipe. Additionally, we also introduce MetaRestore, a metalens imaging benchmark containing images with multiple degradations and artifacts. Extensive evaluations on several challenging datasets, including our benchmark, demonstrate that our method achieves significant performance gains and can robustly restore images with severe degradations. Project page: https://codejaeger.github.io/unicorn-gh

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