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Deep Generalized Unfolding Networks for Image Restoration (CVPR 2022)

Chong Mou, Qian Wang, Jian Zhang

Paper

Abstract: Deep neural networks (DNN) have achieved great success in image restoration. However, most DNN methods are designed as a black box, lacking transparency and interpretability. Although some methods are proposed to combine traditional optimization algorithms with DNN, they usually demand pre-defined degradation processes or handcrafted assumptions, making it difficult to deal with complex and real-world applications. In this paper, we propose a Deep Generalized Unfolding Network (DGUNet) for image restoration. Concretely, without loss of interpretability, we integrate a gradient estimation strategy into the gradient descent step of the Proximal Gradient Descent (PGD) algorithm, driving it to deal with complex and real-world image degradation. In addition, we design inter-stage information pathways across proximal mapping in different PGD iterations to rectify the intrinsic information loss in most deep unfolding networks (DUN) through a multi-scale and spatial-adaptive way. By integrating the flexible gradient descent and informative proximal mapping, we unfold the iterative PGD algorithm into a trainable DNN. Extensive experiments on various image restoration tasks demonstrate the superiority of our method in terms of state-of-the-art performance, interpretability, and generalizability.

:fire: Network Architecture

:art: Applications

🚩Deblurring🚩

🚩Deraining🚩

🚩Denoising🚩

🚩Compressive Sensing🚩

:wrench: Installation

The model is built in PyTorch 1.1.0 and tested on Ubuntu 16.04 environment (Python3.7, CUDA9.0, cuDNN7.5). The model is trained with 2 NVIDIA V100 GPUs.

For installing, follow these intructions

conda create -n pytorch1 python=3.7
conda activate pytorch1
conda install pytorch=1.1 torchvision=0.3 cudatoolkit=9.0 -c pytorch
pip install matplotlib scikit-image opencv-python yacs joblib natsort h5py tqdm

Install warmup scheduler

cd pytorch-gradual-warmup-lr; python setup.py install; cd ..

:computer: Training and Evaluation

Training and Testing codes for deblurring, deraining, denoising and compressive sensing are provided in their respective directories.

:european_castle: Model Zoo

For Deblurring, Deraining, Denoising

Please download checkpoints from Google Drive.

For Compressive Sensing

Please download checkpoints from Google Drive.

📑 Citation

If you use DGUNet, please consider citing:

@inproceedings{Mou2022DGUNet,
    title={Deep Generalized Unfolding Networks for Image Restoration},
    author={Chong Mou and Qian Wang and Jian Zhang},
    booktitle={CVPR},
    year={2022}
}

:e-mail: Contact

If you have any question, please email eechongm@gmail.com.

:hugs: Acknowledgements

This code is built on MPRNet (PyTorch). We thank the authors for sharing their codes of MPRNet.