Decomposition Ascribed Synergistic Learning for Unified Image Restoration

25 Sept 2024 (modified: 05 Feb 2025)Submitted to ICLR 2025EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY 4.0
Keywords: Image Restoration, Decomposition, Orthogonality, Signal formation
Abstract: Learning to restore multiple image degradations within a single model is quite beneficial for real-world applications. Nevertheless, existing works typically concentrate on regarding each degradation independently, while their relationship has been less comprehended to ensure the synergistic learning. To this end, we revisit the diverse degradations through the lens of singular value decomposition, with the observation that the decomposed singular vectors and singular values naturally undertake the different types of degradation information, dividing various restoration tasks into two groups, \ie, singular vector dominated and singular value dominated. The above analysis renders a more unified perspective to ascribe diverse degradation connections, compared to previous task-level independent learning. The dedicated optimization of degraded singular vectors and singular values inherently utilizes the potential partnership among diverse restoration tasks, attributing to the Decomposition Ascribed Synergistic Learning (DASL). Specifically, DASL comprises two effective operators, namely, Singular VEctor Operator (SVEO) and Singular VAlue Operator (SVAO), to favor the decomposed optimization, which can be lightly integrated into existing image restoration backbone. Moreover, the congruous decomposition loss has been devised for auxiliary. Extensive experiments on five image restoration tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.
Primary Area: learning theory
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