Adapt or Perish: Adaptive Sparse Transformer with Attentive Feature Refinement for Image Restoration (CVPR 2024)

Shihao Zhou, Duosheng Chen, Jinshan Pan, Jinglei Shi, and Jufeng Yang

News

• Jul 16, 2025: Hugging Face Demo is available now, thanks contribution of congcong
• Feb 27, 2024: AST has been accepted to CVPR 2024 🎉

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Package dependencies

The project is built with PyTorch 1.9.0, Python3.7, CUDA11.1. For package dependencies, you can install them by:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Training

Derain

To train AST on SPAD, you can run:

sh script/train_derain.sh

Dehaze

To train AST on Densehaze, you can run:

sh script/train_dehaze.sh

Raindrop

To train AST on AGAN, you can run:

sh script/train_raindrop.sh

Evaluation

To evaluate AST, you can run:

sh script/test.sh

For evaluate on each dataset, you should uncomment corresponding line.

Results

Experiments are performed for different image processing tasks including, rain streak removal, raindrop removal, and haze removal. Here is a summary table containing hyperlinks for easy navigation:

Benchmark	Pretrained model	Visual Results
SPAD	(code:h68m)	(code:wqdg)
AGAN	(code:astt)	(code:astt)
Dense-Haze	(code:astt)	(code:astt)

Citation

If you find this project useful, please consider citing:

@inproceedings{zhou2024AST,
  title={Adapt or Perish: Adaptive Sparse Transformer with Attentive Feature Refinement for Image Restoration},
  author={Zhou, Shihao and Chen, Duosheng and Pan, Jinshan and Shi, Jinglei and Yang, Jufeng},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  year={2024}
}

Acknowledgement

This code borrows heavily from Uformer.