ECMRNet is a continual-learning restoration network that decomposes features into isolated groups, expands new groups for novel degradations, prunes via structural entropy, and mines historical components for compound degradations in open-world TIR imaging.
Breaking Degradation Coupling: A Structural Entropy Guided Decoupled Framework and Benchmark for Infrared Enhancement
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Thermal infrared image enhancement aims to restore high-quality images from complex compound degradations. Existing all-in-one approaches typically employ a single shared backbone to handle diverse degradations, which causes gradient interference and parameter competition. To address this, we propose a Structural Entropy-Guided Decoupled (SEGD) Framework. Unlike unified modeling paradigms, SEGD decomposes compound degradations into independent sub-processes and models them in a divide-and-conquer manner through Degradation-Specific Residual Modules (DRMs). Each DRM focuses on residual estimation for a specific degradation, enabling task decoupling while remaining jointly trainable, which mitigates parameter contention. A Degradation-Aware Evidential Network further estimates degradation type and intensity, providing priors that adaptively regulate DRM restoration strength. To handle compound cases, DRMs are composed in varying orders to form multiple restoration paths, from which the most informative features are aggregated under a structural-entropy criterion, yielding decoder-ready representations with structural fidelity and degradation awareness. Integrating divide-and-conquer restoration, evidential perception, and entropy-guided adaptation, SEGD achieves fine-grained and interpretable enhancement. We also construct a nighttime TIR benchmark for evaluation under real low-light conditions. Experimental results demonstrate that SEGD surpasses state-of-the-art methods while achieving higher efficiency with fewer parameters.
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Expandable, Compressible, Mineable: Open-World Thermal Image Restoration
ECMRNet is a continual-learning restoration network that decomposes features into isolated groups, expands new groups for novel degradations, prunes via structural entropy, and mines historical components for compound degradations in open-world TIR imaging.