--- license: mit pipeline_tag: image-to-image tags: - photography - image restoration - image enhancement - computer vision - multimodal --- # InstructIR ✏️🖼️ [High-Quality Image Restoration Following Human Instructions](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16468) (arxiv version) [Marcos V. Conde](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NtB1kjYAAAAJ&hl=en), [Gregor Geigle](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uIlyqRwAAAAJ&hl=en), [Radu Timofte](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=u3MwH5kAAAAJ&hl=en) Computer Vision Lab, University of Wuerzburg | Sony PlayStation, FTG ### TL;DR: quickstart InstructIR takes as input an image and a human-written instruction for how to improve that image. The neural model performs all-in-one image restoration. InstructIR achieves state-of-the-art results on several restoration tasks including image denoising, deraining, deblurring, dehazing, and (low-light) image enhancement. **🚀 You can start with the [demo tutorial](https://github.com/mv-lab/InstructIR/blob/main/demo.ipynb)**
Abstract (click me to read)

Image restoration is a fundamental problem that involves recovering a high-quality clean image from its degraded observation. All-In-One image restoration models can effectively restore images from various types and levels of degradation using degradation-specific information as prompts to guide the restoration model. In this work, we present the first approach that uses human-written instructions to guide the image restoration model. Given natural language prompts, our model can recover high-quality images from their degraded counterparts, considering multiple degradation types. Our method, InstructIR, achieves state-of-the-art results on several restoration tasks including image denoising, deraining, deblurring, dehazing, and (low-light) image enhancement. InstructIR improves +1dB over previous all-in-one restoration methods. Moreover, our dataset and results represent a novel benchmark for new research on text-guided image restoration and enhancement.

### Contacts For any inquiries contact Marcos V. Conde: marcos.conde [at] uni-wuerzburg.de ### Citation BibTeX ``` @misc{conde2024instructir, title={High-Quality Image Restoration Following Human Instructions}, author={Marcos V. Conde, Gregor Geigle, Radu Timofte}, year={2024}, journal={arXiv preprint}, } ```