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Learning Truncated Causal History Model for Video Restoration

4 Oct 2024arXiv:2410.03936archive 2025-07-28

Amirhosein Ghasemabadi, Muhammad Kamran Janjua, Mohammad Salameh, Di Niu

One key challenge to video restoration is to model the transition dynamics of video frames governed by motion. In this work, we propose TURTLE to learn the truncated causal history model for efficient and high-performing video restoration. Unlike traditional methods that process a range of contextual frames in parallel, TURTLE enhances efficiency by storing and summarizing a truncated history of the input frame latent representation into an evolving historical state. This is achieved through a sophisticated similarity-based retrieval mechanism that implicitly accounts for inter-frame motion and alignment. The causal design in TURTLE enables recurrence in inference through state-memorized historical features while allowing parallel training by sampling truncated video clips. We report new state-of-the-art results on a multitude of video restoration benchmark tasks, including video desnowing, nighttime video deraining, video raindrops and rain streak removal, video super-resolution, real-world and synthetic video deblurring, and blind video denoising while reducing the computational cost compared to existing best contextual methods on all these tasks.

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DeblurringDenoisingRain RemovalRaindrop RemovalSnow RemovalSuper-ResolutionVideo DeblurringVideo DenoisingVideo RestorationVideo Super-ResolutionVideo derainingmodel

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Deblurring Beam-Splitter Deblurring (BSD) Turtle PSNR 33.58 #1 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Deblurring GoPro Turtle PSNR 34.5 #8 of 56 Archive leaderboard report
Deblurring GoPro Turtle SSIM 0.972 #8 of 56 Archive leaderboard report
Rain Removal Nightrain Turtle PSNR 29.26 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Video Denoising Set8 sigma50 Turtle PSNR 30.29 #4 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Video deraining VRDS Turtle PSNR 32.01 #1 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Video deraining VRDS Turtle SSIM 0.9590 #1 of 8 Archive leaderboard report

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