| UDPNet: Unleashing Depth-based Priors for Robust Image Dehazing | ✓ Link | 43.30 | 0.997 | FSNet + UDP | 2026-01-11 |
| EAMamba: Efficient All-Around Vision State Space Model for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 43.19 | 0.995 | EAMamba | 2025-06-27 |
| UDPNet: Unleashing Depth-based Priors for Robust Image Dehazing | ✓ Link | 43.12 | 0.997 | ConvIR + UDP | 2026-01-11 |
| A Comparative Study of Image Restoration Networks for General Backbone Network Design | ✓ Link | 42.90 | 0.995 | X-Restormer (trained on RESIDE-ITS) | 2023-10-18 |
| Revitalizing Convolutional Network for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 42.72 | 0.997 | ConvIR | 2024-06-25 |
| MixDehazeNet : Mix Structure Block For Image Dehazing Network | ✓ Link | 42.62 | 0.997 | MixDehazeNet | 2023-05-28 |
| Curricular Contrastive Regularization for Physics-aware Single Image Dehazing | ✓ Link | 42.56 | 0.9954 | C2PNet | 2023-03-24 |
| Image Restoration via Frequency Selection | ✓ Link | 42.45 | 0.997 | FSNet | 2023-11-06 |
| From Physical Degradation Models to Task-Aware All-in-One Image Restoration | | 42.21 | | OPIR | 2026-01-15 |
| Efficient Dual-domain Image Dehazing with Haze Prior Perception | | 42.18 | 0.997 | DGFDNet | 2025-07-15 |
| Learning to Restore Multi-Degraded Images via Ingredient Decoupling and Task-Aware Path Adaptation | | 42.17 | | IMDNet | 2025-11-07 |
| Learning Adaptive Dynamical Features via Multi-$τ$ Liquid-Mamba for All-in-one Image Restoration | | 42.14 | 0.997 | MLMIR | 2026-06-22 |
| HNDiff: Haze-Noise Diffusion for Image Dehazing | ✓ Link | 42.1 | | ConvIR+HNDiff | 2026-08-11 |
| DDR-Net: Haze-Aware Dual-Domain Refinement for Single-Image Dehazing | | 42.03 | | DDR-Net | 2026-07-13 |
| Exploring the potential of channel interactions for image restoration | ✓ Link | 41.95 | 0.997 | ChaIR | 2023-12-20 |
| SAD-Net: a full spectral self-attention detail enhancement network for single image dehazing | ✓ Link | 41.71 | 0.993 | SAD-Net | 2025-04-07 |
| Prior-guided Hierarchical Harmonization Network for Efficient Image Dehazing | ✓ Link | 41.70 | 0.996 | PGH2Net | 2025-03-03 |
| Fourier-RWKV: A Multi-State Perception Network for Efficient Image Dehazing | | 41.60 | 0.996 | Fourier-RWKV | 2025-12-09 |
| WaMaIR: Image Restoration via Multiscale Wavelet Convolutions and Mamba-based Channel Modeling with Texture Enhancement | | 41.55 | 0.996 | WaMaIR | 2025-10-19 |
| Improving Image Restoration through Removing Degradations in Textual Representations | ✓ Link | 41.48 | 0.996 | TextualDegRemoval + SFNet (SOTS Indoor) (extra data) | 2023-12-28 |
| Dual-domain strip attention for image restoration | ✓ Link | 41.36 | 0.997 | DSANet | 2024-03-01 |
| Rethinking Performance Gains in Image Dehazing Networks | ✓ Link | 41.34 | 0.996 | gUNet-D | 2022-09-23 |
| DEA-Net: Single image dehazing based on detail-enhanced convolution and content-guided attention | ✓ Link | 41.31 | 0.9945 | DEA-Net-CR | 2023-01-12 |
| U-Net-Like Spiking Neural Networks for Single Image Dehazing | ✓ Link | 41.26 | 0.996 | DehazeSNN-L | 2025-12-30 |
| Selective Frequency Network for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 41.24 | 0.996 | SFNet | 2023-04-13 |
| IRNeXt: Rethinking Convolutional Network Design for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 41.21 | 0.996 | IRNeXt | 2023-04-24 |
| Fast and Accurate Image Restoration with Rank Enhanced Linear Attention | ✓ Link | 41.17 | 0.996 | LAformer-T | 2026-09-08 |
| Focal Network for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 40.82 | 0.996 | FocalNet | 2023-01-01 |
| Omni-Kernel Network for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 40.79 | 0.996 | OKNet | 2024-03-24 |
| Strip Attention for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 40.40 | 0.996 | SANet | 2023-08-01 |
| Vision Transformers for Single Image Dehazing | ✓ Link | 40.05 | 0.996 | DehazeFormer-L | 2022-04-08 |
| MaIR: A Locality- and Continuity-Preserving Mamba for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 39.45 | 0.997 | MaIR | 2024-12-28 |
| Learning Hierarchical Dynamics with Spatial Adjacency for Image Enhancement | ✓ Link | 38.56 | 0.991 | HDM | 2022-08-10 |
| Perceiving and Modeling Density is All You Need for Image Dehazing | ✓ Link | 38.41 | 0.99 | PMNet | 2021-11-18 |
| MAXIM: Multi-Axis MLP for Image Processing | ✓ Link | 38.11 | | MAXIM-2S | 2022-01-09 |
| PP-Net: A Hybrid Physical-Prior Neural Network for Scattered Light Removal in Biomedical Images on Embedded Devices | | 37.6547 | 0.9901 | PP-Net P | 2026-09-22 |
| Contrastive Learning for Compact Single Image Dehazing | ✓ Link | 37.17 | 0.990 | AECR-Net | 2021-04-19 |
| U2-Former: A Nested U-shaped Transformer for Image Restoration | | 36.42 | 0.988 | U2-Former | 2021-12-04 |
| FFA-Net: Feature Fusion Attention Network for Single Image Dehazing | ✓ Link | 36.39 | 0.989 | FFA-Net | 2019-11-18 |
| Rethinking the Elementary Function Fusion for Single-Image Dehazing | ✓ Link | 35.36 | 0.9808 | CL2S | 2024-05-23 |
| Image Restoration with Mean-Reverting Stochastic Differential Equations | ✓ Link | 34.14 | 0.9886 | IR-SDE | 2023-01-27 |
| Physics-based Feature Dehazing Networks | | 32.68 | 0.976 | PFDN | |
| GridDehazeNet: Attention-Based Multi-Scale Network for Image Dehazing | ✓ Link | 32.16 | 0.984 | GridDehazeNet | 2019-08-08 |
| Uformer: A General U-Shaped Transformer for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 31.91 | 0.971 | Uformer | 2021-06-06 |
| Gated Context Aggregation Network for Image Dehazing and Deraining | ✓ Link | 30.23 | 0.98 | GCANet | 2018-11-21 |
| Frequency Domain-Based Diffusion Model for Unpaired Image Dehazing | ✓ Link | 27.43 | 0.957 | FrDiff | 2025-07-02 |
| An ensemble multi-scale residual attention network (EMRA-net) for image Dehazing | ✓ Link | 25.72 | 0.9448 | EMRA-Net | 2021-06-23 |
| Enhanced Pix2pix Dehazing Network | ✓ Link | 25.06 | 0.9232 | EPDN | 2019-06-01 |
| Gated Fusion Network for Single Image Dehazing | | 22.30 | 0.880 | GFN | 2018-03-31 |
| Generic Model-Agnostic Convolutional Neural Network for Single Image Dehazing | ✓ Link | 20.53 | 0.8081 | GMAN | 2018-10-05 |
| AOD-Net: All-In-One Dehazing Network | ✓ Link | 20.51 | 0.816 | AOD-Net | 2017-10-01 |
| Unsupervised Single Image Dehazing Using Dark Channel Prior Loss | ✓ Link | 19.25 | 0.832 | Deep DCP | 2018-12-06 |
| CasDyF-Net: Image Dehazing via Cascaded Dynamic Filters | ✓ Link | | 0.997 | CasDyF-Net | 2024-09-13 |