| MR-VNet: Media Restoration using Volterra Networks | | 40.58 | 0.963 | | MR-VNet-LLA | 2024-01-01 |
| Teacher-Guided Causal Interventions for Image Denoising: Orthogonal Content-Noise Disentanglement in Vision Transformers | | 40.48 | | | TCD-Net | 2026-03-01 |
| CascadedGaze: Efficiency in Global Context Extraction for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 40.39 | 0.964 | | CGNet | 2024-01-26 |
| SeNM-VAE: Semi-Supervised Noise Modeling with Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder | | 40.38 | | | SeNM-VAE (extra data) | 2024-03-26 |
| KBNet: Kernel Basis Network for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 40.35 | 0.972 | | KBNet | 2023-03-06 |
| Simple Baselines for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 40.30 | 0.961 | | NAFNet | 2022-04-10 |
| Improving Image Restoration through Removing Degradations in Textual Representations | ✓ Link | 40.09 | 0.960 | | TextualDegRemoval + Restormer (SIDD) (extra data) | 2023-12-28 |
| Single Stage Adaptive Multi-Attention Network for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 40.08 | 0.962 | | SSAMAN | 2024-04-10 |
| Learning to Generate Realistic Noisy Images via Pixel-level Noise-aware Adversarial Training | ✓ Link | 40.07 | 0.960 | | PNGAN | 2022-04-06 |
| Cross Aggregation Transformer for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 40.05 | 0.9602 | | CAT+ | 2022-11-24 |
| Restormer: Efficient Transformer for High-Resolution Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 40.02 | 0.960 | | Restormer | 2021-11-18 |
| HINet: Half Instance Normalization Network for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 39.99 | 0.958 | | HINet | 2021-05-13 |
| MAXIM: Multi-Axis MLP for Image Processing | ✓ Link | 39.96 | 0.960 | | MAXIM-3S | 2022-01-09 |
| MaIR: A Locality- and Continuity-Preserving Mamba for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 39.92 | 0.960 | | MaIR (real denoising) | 2024-12-28 |
| Uformer: A General U-Shaped Transformer for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 39.89 | 0.960 | | Uformer-B | 2021-06-06 |
| MambaIR: A Simple Baseline for Image Restoration with State-Space Model | ✓ Link | 39.89 | 0.960 | | MambaIR (real denoising) | 2024-02-23 |
| DiNAT-IR: Exploring Dilated Neighborhood Attention for High-Quality Image Restoration | | 39.89 | 0.960 | | DiNAT-IR | 2025-07-23 |
| EAMamba: Efficient All-Around Vision State Space Model for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 39.87 | 0.960 | | EAMamba | 2025-06-27 |
| Learning Enriched Features for Real Image Restoration and Enhancement | ✓ Link | 39.72 | 0.959 | | MIRNet | 2020-03-15 |
| Selective Residual M-Net for Real Image Denoising | ✓ Link | 39.72 | 0.959 | | SRMNet | 2022-03-03 |
| Multi-Stage Progressive Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 39.71 | 0.958 | | MPRNet | 2021-02-04 |
| AKDT: Adaptive Kernel Dilation Transformer for Effective Image Denoising | ✓ Link | 39.70 | 0.961 | | AKDT | 2025-02-26 |
| CycleISP: Real Image Restoration via Improved Data Synthesis | ✓ Link | 39.52 | 0.957 | | CycleISP | 2020-03-17 |
| Dual Adversarial Network: Toward Real-world Noise Removal and Noise Generation | ✓ Link | 39.47 | 0.957 | | DANet+ | 2020-07-12 |
| Spatial-Adaptive Network for Single Image Denoising | ✓ Link | 39.46 | 0.957 | | SADNet | 2020-01-28 |
| Variational Denoising Network: Toward Blind Noise Modeling and Removal | ✓ Link | 39.28 | 0.956 | | VDN | 2019-08-29 |
| All-Optical Nonlinear Diffractive Deep Network for Ultrafast Image Denoising | | 38.97 | | | N3DNet | 2025-06-11 |
| Transfer Learning from Synthetic to Real-Noise Denoising with Adaptive Instance Normalization | ✓ Link | 38.95 | 0.952 | | AINDNet | 2020-02-26 |
| Real Image Denoising with Feature Attention | ✓ Link | 38.71 | 0.951 | | RIDNet | 2019-04-16 |
| Robust Image Denoising through Adversarial Frequency Mixup | ✓ Link | 38.35 | 0.9478 | | DnCNN-Ours | 2024-06-17 |
| Real-World Mobile Image Denoising Dataset with Efficient Baselines | ✓ Link | 36.77 | | | SplitterNet | 2024-06-17 |
| Toward Convolutional Blind Denoising of Real Photographs | ✓ Link | 30.78 | 0.801 | | CBDNet | 2018-07-12 |
| NBNet: Noise Basis Learning for Image Denoising with Subspace Projection | ✓ Link | | 0.973 | | NBNet | 2020-12-30 |
| Dual Residual Attention Network for Image Denoising | ✓ Link | | 0.957 | 39.50 | DRANet | 2023-05-07 |