Title
Restormer: Efficient Transformer for High-Resolution Image Restoration
Abstract
Since convolutional neural networks (CNNs) perform well at learning generalizable image priors from large-scale data, these models have been extensively applied to image restoration and related tasks. Recently, another class of neural architectures, Transformers, have shown significant performance gains on natural language and high-level vision tasks. While the Transformer model mitigates the shortcomings of CNNs (i.e., limited receptive field and inadaptability to input content), its computational complexity grows quadratically with the spatial resolution, therefore making it infeasible to apply to most image restoration tasks involving high-resolution images. In this work, we propose an efficient Transformer model by making several key designs in the building blocks (multi-head attention and feed-forward network) such that it can capture long-range pixel interactions, while still remaining applicable to large images. Our model, named Restoration Transformer (Restormer), achieves state-of-the-art results on several image restoration tasks, including image deraining, single-image motion deblurring, defocus deblurring (single-image and dual-pixel data), and image denoising (Gaussian grayscale/color denoising, and real image denoising). The source code and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/swz30/Restormer.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.00564
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Low-level vision, Computational photography, Deep learning architectures and techniques
Conference
2022
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Syed Waqas Zamir1315.51
Aditya Arora2163.27
Salman Khan338741.05
Munawar Hayat431519.30
Fahad Shahbaz Khan5162269.24
Yang Ming-Hsuan615303620.69