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UniLDiff: Unlocking the Power of Diffusion Priors for All-in-One Image Restoration

arXiv 2507.23685 ↗First posted 31 Jul 2025cs.CVcited by 4

On the map: Diffusion models → Inverse problems and image restoration

Abstract (arXiv)

All-in-One Image Restoration (AiOIR) has emerged as a promising yet challenging research direction. To address the core challenges of diverse degradation modeling and detail preservation, we propose UniLDiff, a unified framework enhanced with degradation- and detail-aware mechanisms, unlocking the power of diffusion priors for robust image restoration. Specifically, we introduce a Degradation-Aware Feature Fusion (DAFF) to dynamically inject low-quality features into each denoising step via decoupled fusion and adaptive modulation, enabling implicit modeling of diverse and compound degradations. Furthermore, we design a Detail-Aware Expert Module (DAEM) in the decoder to enhance texture and fine-structure recovery through expert routing. Extensive experiments across multi-task and mixed degradation settings demonstrate that our method consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance, highlighting the practical potential of diffusion priors for unified image restoration. Our code will be released.

Key facts. Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Inverse problems and image restoration, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 21 of its 34 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 31 Jul 2025.

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  1. 2023AutoDIR: Automatic All-in-One Image Restoration with Latent Diffusion16 Oct

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  2. 2023Emu: Enhancing Image Generation Models Using Photogenic Needles in a Haystackcited by 279
  3. 2024AdaIR: Adaptive All-in-One Image Restoration via Frequency Mining and Modulationcited by 111
  4. 2024OneRestore: A Universal Restoration Framework for Composite Degradationcited by 92
  5. 2024Complexity Experts are Task-Discriminative Learners for Any Image Restorationcited by 77
  6. 2025Degradation-Aware Feature Perturbation for All-in-One Image Restorationcited by 41
  7. 2025Vision-Language Gradient Descent-driven All-in-One Deep Unfolding Networkscited by 37
  8. 2024UniProcessor: A Text-induced Unified Low-level Image Processorcited by 22

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  1. 2025Diffusion Once and Done: Degradation-Aware LoRA for Efficient All-in-One Image Restoration
  2. 2025UniRes: Universal Image Restoration for Complex Degradations
  3. 2026TPGDiff: Hierarchical Triple-Prior Guided Diffusion for Image Restoration
  4. 2023A Unified Conditional Framework for Diffusion-based Image Restoration
  5. 2024Diff-Restorer: Unleashing Visual Prompts for Diffusion-based Universal Image Restoration
  6. 2025UniCoRN: Latent Diffusion-based Unified Controllable Image Restoration Network across Multiple Degradations
  7. 2024GenDeg: Diffusion-based Degradation Synthesis for Generalizable All-In-One Image Restoration
  8. 2025Unleashing Degradation-Carrying Features in Symmetric U-Net: Simpler and Stronger Baselines for All-in-One Image Restoration