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Guanhua Zhao

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PVRF: All-in-one Adverse Weather Removal via Prior-modulated and Velocity-constrained Rectified Flow

Adverse weather removal (AWR) in real-world images remains challenging due to heterogeneous and unseen degradations, while distortion-driven training often yields overly smooth results. We propose PVRF, a unified framework that integrates zero-shot soft weather perceptions with velocity-constrained rectified-flow refinement. PVRF introduces an AWR-specific question answering module (AWR-QA) that uses frozen vision--language models (VLMs) to estimate soft probabilities of weather types and low-level attribute scores. These perceptions condition restoration networks via attribute-modulated normalization (AMN) and weather-weighted adapters (WWA), producing an anchor estimate for refinement. We then learn a terminal-consistent residual rectified flow with perception-adaptive source perturbation and a terminal-consistent velocity parameterization to stabilize learning near the terminal regime. Extensive experiments show that PVRF improves both fidelity and perceptual quality over state-of-the-art baselines, with strong cross-dataset generalization on single and combined degradations. Code will be released at https://github.com/dongw22/PVRF.

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Label-guided Facial Retouching Reversion

With the popularity of social media platforms and retouching tools, more people are beautifying their facial photos, posing challenges for fields requiring photo authenticity. To address this issue, some work has proposed makeup removal methods, but they cannot revert images involving geometric deformations caused by retouching. To tackle the problem of facial retouching reversion, we propose a framework, dubbed Re-Face, which consists of three components: a facial retouching detector, an image reversion model named FaceR, and a color correction module called Hierarchical Adaptive Instance Normalization (H-AdaIN). FaceR can utilize labels generated by the facial retouching detector as guidance to revert the retouched facial images. Then, color correction is performed using H-AdaIN to address the issue of color shift. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework and each module.

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AssetDropper: Asset Extraction via Diffusion Models with Reward-Driven Optimization

Recent research on generative models has primarily focused on creating product-ready visual outputs; however, designers often favor access to standardized asset libraries, a domain that has yet to be significantly enhanced by generative capabilities. Although open-world scenes provide ample raw materials for designers, efficiently extracting high-quality, standardized assets remains a challenge. To address this, we introduce AssetDropper, the first framework designed to extract assets from reference images, providing artists with an open-world asset palette. Our model adeptly extracts a front view of selected subjects from input images, effectively handling complex scenarios such as perspective distortion and subject occlusion. We establish a synthetic dataset of more than 200,000 image-subject pairs and a real-world benchmark with thousands more for evaluation, facilitating the exploration of future research in downstream tasks. Furthermore, to ensure precise asset extraction that aligns well with the image prompts, we employ a pre-trained reward model to fulfill a closed-loop with feedback. We design the reward model to perform an inverse task that pastes the extracted assets back into the reference sources, which assists training with additional consistency and mitigates hallucination. Extensive experiments show that, with the aid of reward-driven optimization, AssetDropper achieves the state-of-the-art results in asset extraction. Project page: AssetDropper.github.io.

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Deep RAW Image Super-Resolution. A NTIRE 2024 Challenge Survey

This paper reviews the NTIRE 2024 RAW Image Super-Resolution Challenge, highlighting the proposed solutions and results. New methods for RAW Super-Resolution could be essential in modern Image Signal Processing (ISP) pipelines, however, this problem is not as explored as in the RGB domain. Th goal of this challenge is to upscale RAW Bayer images by 2x, considering unknown degradations such as noise and blur. In the challenge, a total of 230 participants registered, and 45 submitted results during thee challenge period. The performance of the top-5 submissions is reviewed and provided here as a gauge for the current state-of-the-art in RAW Image Super-Resolution.

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