Physics-Informed Image Restoration via Progressive PDE Integration

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06244v1
• Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2025 06:10:20 GMT
• Title: Physics-Informed Image Restoration via Progressive PDE Integration
• Authors: Shamika Likhite, Santiago López-Tapia, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos,
• Abstract summary: We propose a training framework that integrates physics-informed PDE dynamics into state-of-the-art restoration architectures.<n>Our approach naturally captures the directional flow characteristics of motion blur while enabling principled global spatial modeling.<n>Our PDE-enhanced deblurring models achieve superior restoration quality with minimal overhead, adding only approximately 1% to inference GMACs.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Motion blur, caused by relative movement between camera and scene during exposure, significantly degrades image quality and impairs downstream computer vision tasks such as object detection, tracking, and recognition in dynamic environments. While deep learning-based motion deblurring methods have achieved remarkable progress, existing approaches face fundamental challenges in capturing the long-range spatial dependencies inherent in motion blur patterns. Traditional convolutional methods rely on limited receptive fields and require extremely deep networks to model global spatial relationships. These limitations motivate the need for alternative approaches that incorporate physical priors to guide feature evolution during restoration. In this paper, we propose a progressive training framework that integrates physics-informed PDE dynamics into state-of-the-art restoration architectures. By leveraging advection-diffusion equations to model feature evolution, our approach naturally captures the directional flow characteristics of motion blur while enabling principled global spatial modeling. Our PDE-enhanced deblurring models achieve superior restoration quality with minimal overhead, adding only approximately 1\% to inference GMACs while providing consistent improvements in perceptual quality across multiple state-of-the-art architectures. Comprehensive experiments on standard motion deblurring benchmarks demonstrate that our physics-informed approach improves PSNR and SSIM significantly across four diverse architectures, including FFTformer, NAFNet, Restormer, and Stripformer. These results validate that incorporating mathematical physics principles through PDE-based global layers can enhance deep learning-based image restoration, establishing a promising direction for physics-informed neural network design in computer vision applications.

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