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A zero-shot diffusion method deblurs smartphone photos using Lidar depth maps, beating state-of-the-art on a new real-image benchmark.

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Lidar depth-guided deblurring via a zero-shot diffusion method, evaluated on a new 45-scene dataset, achieves the best perceptual quality (LPIPS).

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arxiv 2509.09241 v1 pith:SXC6TQR3 submitted 2025-09-11 eess.IV

A novel method and dataset for depth-guided image deblurring from smartphone Lidar

Antonio Montanaro , Diego Valsesia This is my paper
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keywords Image deblurringLidar depthZero-shot learningDiffusion modelsControlNetSmartphone photographyLPIPSDataset
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The reading

This paper aims to show that depth maps from a smartphone's Lidar sensor can guide image deblurring without requiring paired training data. The authors introduce ZSLDB, a blind zero-shot method built on a pretrained latent diffusion model and a ControlNet that injects depth information at inference time, plus an optimization loop that estimates both the blur kernel and the latent code. They also present a new dataset of real low-light motion-blurred iPhone photos with registered Lidar depth and sharp ground truth. On this dataset, ZSLDB achieves lower LPIPS (0.1643) than state-of-the-art deblurring methods (DeblurGAN, Restormer, J-MKPD), and removing depth guidance degrades performance to 0.1821, supporting the claim that Lidar depth helps.

Core claim

The central claim is that ZSLDB, a zero-shot deblurring method using a pretrained Stable Diffusion model conditioned on Lidar depth through ControlNet, outperforms state-of-the-art blind deblurring methods on real smartphone images in terms of perceptual quality (LPIPS). On their new dataset, ZSLDB scores 0.1643 LPIPS versus 0.1884 for DeblurGAN, 0.1783 for Restormer, and 0.1819 for J-MKPD. Ablations show that depth guidance improves quality over the no-depth variant (0.1821) and that using the raw depth map is more effective than using an edge map extracted from it (0.1682), suggesting depth gradients carry additional useful information beyond object boundaries.

What carries the argument

The key mechanism is a latent diffusion model (Stable Diffusion) combined with a ControlNet subnetwork that takes the Lidar depth map as conditioning side information. ZSLDB first inverts the blurred image into the diffusion latent space using DDIM, then optimizes the latent and an estimated blur kernel by backpropagating through a short DDIM sampling chain, measuring consistency with the blurred observation via L2 loss in the VAE latent space plus LPIPS and an aesthetic reward. This allows blind zero-shot deblurring that leverages depth without any paired training data.

Load-bearing premise

The central claim rests on the assumption that the blurred images, Lidar depth maps, and sharp ground truth are registered well enough that LPIPS differences reflect true deblurring quality rather than alignment artifacts.

What would settle it

A concrete check would be to compute pixel-level alignment error between the depth maps, blurred images, and ground truth (e.g., using optical flow or manual correspondence) and to re-evaluate LPIPS on tightly aligned crops. If the LPIPS gap between ZSLDB and baselines shrinks or reverses after alignment correction, the claimed benefit of Lidar guidance would be called into question. Alternatively, testing on synthetic blurred images with known kernels and perfect registration would directly validate whether the optimization recovers the true kernel and sharp image.

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If this is right

  • Smartphone Lidar depth can serve as a practical conditioning signal for image restoration, improving perceptual quality on real low-light motion blur.
  • Zero-shot diffusion approaches can avoid the need for large paired datasets of blurred images and depth maps, reducing the domain-gap problem of synthetic training data.
  • The new dataset provides a benchmark with real blurred images, registered Lidar depth, and sharp ground truth, enabling future research on depth-guided deblurring.
  • Depth guidance is more effective than edge guidance, indicating that full depth gradients regularize the deblurring problem better than binary boundaries alone.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The method is likely extensible to other side-information modalities (e.g., normal maps, segmentation, or multi-spectral cues) using the same ControlNet conditioning and latent optimization framework.
  • Because the evaluation relies on LPIPS rather than PSNR, the reported gains may partly reflect perceptual alignment rather than pixel-accurate restoration; a more complete comparison would include alignment-corrected PSNR or human studies.
  • The zero-shot nature suggests the approach could generalize to unseen camera and blur characteristics, provided the pretrained diffusion prior matches the input domain; testing on additional devices would clarify this.
  • The dataset's 45 indoor scenes, mostly in Lidar range, may favor depth guidance; extending to outdoor or long-range scenes would test whether the benefit persists when depth boundaries are sparse or noisy.
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Referee Report

4 major / 4 minor

Summary. The paper proposes ZSLDB, a zero-shot blind image deblurring method that uses a pretrained Stable Diffusion model with a ControlNet branch conditioned on smartphone Lidar depth maps. The method formulates deblurring as optimization over a latent code and an unknown blur kernel, with data fidelity measured in VAE latent space and with LPIPS, plus an aesthetic reward regularizer. The paper also introduces a new dataset of 45 real low-light motion-blurred smartphone images with paired Lidar depth maps and sharp ground truths, acquired with an iPhone 15 Pro. In experiments, ZSLDB reports LPIPS 0.1643, outperforming DeblurGAN (0.1884), Restormer (0.1783), and J-MKPD (0.1819). An ablation without depth guidance gives 0.1821, and an edge-map-conditioned variant gives 0.1682. The authors conclude that Lidar depth guidance improves perceptual quality and that ZSLDB achieves state-of-the-art results on real data.

Significance. If the claims hold, the paper makes two useful contributions: it provides the first real-world smartphone dataset pairing motion-blurred images, Lidar depth maps, and sharp ground truth, and it demonstrates a training-free way to inject depth side information into a diffusion-based deblurring pipeline. The zero-shot formulation avoids the expensive paired-data requirement of prior supervised Lidar-guided deblurring, and the code/dataset release is a concrete asset for the community. However, the central empirical claims rest on a single perceptual metric over 45 scenes, and the paper itself flags the alignment problem that makes that metric difficult to interpret. The qualitative and architectural ideas are promising, but the evaluation needs substantial strengthening before the state-of-the-art claim can be accepted.

major comments (4)
  1. [§5.1, Table 1 and dataset description in §4] The paper explicitly states that 'imperfect alignment at a single-pixel level' makes PSNR unreliable, and therefore uses LPIPS as the sole quantitative metric. However, no alignment-error analysis is provided. The blurred and sharp images are separate exposures; any residual parallax, small camera motion, or depth-map misregistration will produce systematic spatial shifts. Since ZSLDB conditions on a depth map that is registered to the blurred frame, its output edges may align to a different coordinate frame than the sharp ground truth, while baselines producing softer edges may be less penalized by misalignment. The reported LPIPS gap between ZSLDB and Restormer is 0.014, and the depth ablation gap is 0.018; these are small enough that a 1–2 pixel registration bias could plausibly account for them. The manuscript must provide quantitative alignment analysis (e.g., estimated residual dis
  2. [§3.2, Eq. (7)] The blur kernel A is central to the 'blind' deblurring claim, but the paper never specifies its parametric form, dimensionality, initialization, or optimization procedure. Is it a single global kernel, or spatially varying? What support size is used? Is it constrained (e.g., nonnegative, sum-to-one)? How is the minimization over A performed jointly with z? Without these details, the method cannot be reproduced and the 'blind' aspect is not substantiated. At minimum, the authors should state the kernel model and the optimization schedule, and ideally visualize estimated kernels on representative scenes.
  3. [§5.1, Table 1] The quantitative evaluation uses a single metric (LPIPS) on only 45 scenes, with no error bars, confidence intervals, or significance tests. The difference between ZSLDB (0.1643) and the closest baseline Restormer (0.1783) is 0.014; without per-scene paired statistics we cannot know whether this is meaningful. Add a paired significance test (e.g., Wilcoxon signed-rank) and report variance or confidence intervals. Additional perceptual metrics (e.g., DISTS, FID, or a user study) would also strengthen the claim, especially because LPIPS itself is used as a loss term in Eq. (7), creating a favorable-bias concern for the proposed method.
  4. [§5.1, baselines] The three comparison methods—DeblurGAN, Restormer, and J-MKPD—are used off-the-shelf with no adaptation to real low-light smartphone blur. These models were trained on synthetic or different-domain data, so their LPIPS scores may reflect domain shift rather than deblurring ability. The paper should either fine-tune/adapt the baselines on the new data (e.g., with a small amount of supervised tuning or test-time adaptation), or explicitly discuss and justify that off-the-shelf performance is the intended comparison. As it stands, the state-of-the-art claim is weakened by this asymmetry.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Abstract and §1] The phrase 'zero-shot' is used in a specific sense (no training with paired blurred/depth/ground-truth data), which is clarified in §5.1. Consider stating this definition earlier to avoid confusion, since the method still relies on pretrained Stable Diffusion and ControlNet.
  2. [§2] Typographical issues: 'Morevoer' should be 'Moreover', 'denosing' should be 'denoising', and 'V AE' spacing is inconsistent. Also Eq. (5) uses both $\hat\epsilon_t$ and $\epsilon_t$ without explicitly defining $\hat\epsilon_t$; please clarify.
  3. [§4] The DSLR acquisitions are mentioned as 'coarsely registered' and usable only for distribution-level assessment, but no such assessment is reported. Either add the distribution-level analysis or remove the sentence to avoid promising an evaluation that is not delivered.
  4. [§5.3, Table 3] The edge-map ablation compares depth conditioning to Canny edges on the depth map. The conclusion that 'depth gradients' provide extra information is plausible but speculative; consider analyzing which regions benefit most (e.g., textureless vs. textured) to support this interpretation.

Circularity Check

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No circular derivation: ZSLDB's objective does not coincide with its evaluation metric, and the depth ablation is an empirical comparison on a novel dataset.

full rationale

The paper's central claims are empirical rather than derivationally circular. ZSLDB is defined by the optimization in Eq. (7), which minimizes a VAE-latent L2 fidelity term, an aesthetic reward, and an LPIPS term evaluated between the output and the blurred observation y. The reported headline result in Table 1 is LPIPS between the output and the sharp ground truth. Thus the evaluation metric is not the same object as any term in the objective: LPIPS(y, G(z,d)) is not LPIPS(GT, G(z,d)). The depth ablation (Table 2) compares the same pipeline with and without the ControlNet branch, so the improvement attributed to depth is a measured difference, not an identity forced by construction. Reference [2] shares an author with the present paper and is used as motivation, but it is not load-bearing: no theorem, uniqueness claim, or ansatz is imported from [2] to justify the central result. The paper does note a real limitation—'imperfect alignment at a single-pixel level'—and therefore chooses LPIPS over PSNR; this is a validity concern about the benchmark, not a circular step. The lack of an external benchmark and the authors' own dataset are independence and reproducibility limitations, but they do not make the reported numbers equivalent to the method's inputs. No equation in the paper reduces to its own input, and no fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

4 free parameters · 5 axioms · 0 invented entities

The paper builds on off-the-shelf pretrained models and known diffusion sampling theory; the main added content is the objective function, the dataset, and the application. The free parameters are hand-set weights and unspecified optimization choices. There are no new physical entities.

free parameters (4)
  • gamma = 0.1
    Weight of the aesthetic reward term in Eq. (7); set by hand without sensitivity analysis.
  • lambda = 1.5
    Weight of the LPIPS data-fidelity term in Eq. (7); set by hand without sensitivity analysis.
  • blur kernel A parametrization = unspecified
    The optimization in Eq. (7) is over A, but the kernel's size, support, and spatial invariance are never stated; this is an ad hoc modeling choice that defines the optimization landscape.
  • optimization schedule = unspecified
    Learning rate, number of gradient steps, and optimizer for the latent/kernel optimization are not reported, so the exact procedure is unknowable from the text.
axioms (5)
  • domain assumption The forward degradation is a linear operator: y = Ax + n (Eq. 1).
    This underlies the entire optimization; real motion blur is not exactly linear and may be spatially varying, but the paper adopts this model without justification.
  • domain assumption DDIM inversion of a blurred image into Stable Diffusion's latent space is a valid starting point for deblurring.
    The method relies on inverting y to z0 and then optimizing; no evidence that blurred images invert sensibly in this latent space is provided.
  • ad hoc to paper Pretrained Stable Diffusion and ControlNet provide a general sharp-image prior for real low-light smartphone images.
    The zero-shot claim depends on this prior; the paper tests it only on its own 45-scene dataset.
  • ad hoc to paper The aesthetic reward model from [26] is a useful regularizer for perceptual quality.
    It is a learned black-box reward used in Eq. (7); the paper gives no evidence it transfers to the deblurring domain.
  • domain assumption Depth guidance through ControlNet improves boundary sharpness in the restored image.
    This is the central assumption tested by the ablation in Section 5.2; the mechanism is not analyzed beyond the ablation.

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Modern smartphones are equipped with Lidar sensors providing depth-sensing capabilities. Recent works have shown that this complementary sensor allows to improve various tasks in image processing, including deblurring. However, there is a current lack of datasets with realistic blurred images and paired mobile Lidar depth maps to further study the topic. At the same time, there is also a lack of blind zero-shot methods that can deblur a real image using the depth guidance without requiring extensive training sets of paired data. In this paper, we propose an image deblurring method based on denoising diffusion models that can leverage the Lidar depth guidance and does not require training data with paired Lidar depth maps. We also present the first dataset with real blurred images with corresponding Lidar depth maps and sharp ground truth images, acquired with an Apple iPhone 15 Pro, for the purpose of studying Lidar-guided deblurring. Experimental results on this novel dataset show that Lidar guidance is effective and the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art deblurring methods in terms of perceptual quality.

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