| Pre-Trained Image Processing Transformer | ✓ Link | 41.62 | 0.988 | | | IPT | 2020-12-01 |
| SD-PSFNet: Sequential and Dynamic Point Spread Function Network for Image Deraining | | 41.47 | 0.9896 | | | SD-PSFNet | 2025-11-22 |
| A Mountain-Shaped Single-Stage Network for Accurate Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 40.04 | 0.985 | | | M3SNet | 2023-05-09 |
| MCW-Net: Single Image Deraining with Multi-level Connections and Wide Regional Non-local Blocks | ✓ Link | 39.73 | 0.988 | | | MCW-Net | 2020-09-29 |
| Mixed Hierarchy Network for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 39.47 | 0.984 | | | MHNet | 2023-02-19 |
| Instruct-IPT: All-in-One Image Processing Transformer via Weight Modulation | ✓ Link | 39.35 | 0.977 | | | Instruct-IPT | 2024-06-30 |
| Prompt-based Ingredient-Oriented All-in-One Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 39.22 | 0.981 | | | CAPTNet | 2023-09-06 |
| ACL: Activating Capability of Linear Attention for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 39.18 | 0.983 | | | ACL | 2025-06-11 |
| A Comparative Study of Image Restoration Networks for General Backbone Network Design | ✓ Link | 39.10 | 0.978 | | | X-Restormer (trained on Rain13K) (extra data) | 2023-10-18 |
| CogSENet: Blind Image Deblurring with Blur-Conditioned Semantic Routing and Explicit Frequency Fusion | | 39.02 | 0.9785 | | | CogSENet (light, 8.9M) | 2026-06-29 |
| Restormer: Efficient Transformer for High-Resolution Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 38.99 | 0.978 | | | Restormer | 2021-11-18 |
| DiNAT-IR: Exploring Dilated Neighborhood Attention for High-Quality Image Restoration | | 38.93 | 0.977 | | | DiNAT-IR | 2025-07-23 |
| Image Restoration with Mean-Reverting Stochastic Differential Equations | ✓ Link | 38.3 | 0.9805 | 7.94 | 0.014 | IR-SDE | 2023-01-27 |
| Selective Frequency Network for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 38.21 | 0.974 | | | SFNet | 2023-04-13 |
| Progressive Image Deraining Networks: A Better and Simpler Baseline | ✓ Link | 37.48 | 0.979 | | | PReNet | 2019-01-26 |
| HINet: Half Instance Normalization Network for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 37.28 | 0.97 | | | HINet | 2021-05-13 |
| Multi-Stage Progressive Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 36.40 | 0.965 | | | MPRNet | 2021-02-04 |
| Multi-Scale Progressive Fusion Network for Single Image Deraining | ✓ Link | 32.40 | 0.933 | | | MSPFN | 2020-03-24 |
| Semi-supervised Transfer Learning for Image Rain Removal | ✓ Link | 25.03 | 0.842 | | | SEMI | 2018-07-29 |
| MAXIM: Multi-Axis MLP for Image Processing | ✓ Link | | 0.977 | | | MAXIM | 2022-01-09 |
| Uncertainty Guided Multi-Scale Residual Learning-using a Cycle Spinning CNN for Single Image De-Raining | ✓ Link | | 0.923 | | | UMRL | 2019-06-12 |
| Clearing the Skies: A deep network architecture for single-image rain removal | ✓ Link | | 0.884 | | | DerainNet | 2016-09-07 |
| Recurrent Squeeze-and-Excitation Context Aggregation Net for Single Image Deraining | | | 0.881 | | | RESCAN | 2018-07-16 |
| Density-aware Single Image De-raining using a Multi-stream Dense Network | ✓ Link | | 0.741 | | | DIDMDN | 2018-02-21 |