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This paper claims that adverse weather image restoration improves when a state space model scans the image region-by-region according to superpixel semantics rather than along fixed pixel paths, and reports an average PSNR of 34.15 dB acros

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A superpixel-guided state space model with region-level gating reports top average PSNR/SSIM on six adverse weather restoration benchmarks.

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load-bearing objection Genuinely new superpixel-guided scan idea, strong benchmarks, but the central 'state confinement' claim is contradicted by the paper's own equations; table numbers also don't line up. the 4 major comments →

arxiv 2608.01760 v1 pith:32AFFS27 submitted 2026-08-03 cs.CV

Pixel Ignores, Superpixel Sees: Adverse Weather Image Restoration via Semantic-Center SSM

Dayu Li , Shihao Zhou , Leizhi Shu , Jin Wu , Chi Man Vong , Jufeng Yang This is my paper
classification cs.CV
keywords adverse weather image restorationall-in-one restorationstate space modelsuperpixel-guided selective scanregion-level gatingrain removalsnow removalhaze removal
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The reading

SSR is a unified model for restoring images degraded by snow, rain, haze, and raindrops. Its key claim is that the scanning order of a state space model should follow the image's semantic content, not a fixed geometric path. The paper replaces raster, window, and Hilbert scans with a superpixel-guided selective scan: pixels are first grouped into perceptually coherent regions, and the state propagation is confined within those regions. A companion region-level gating mechanism recalibrates channels using each region's mean and variance, allowing the model to suppress degradation outliers without mixing features across object boundaries. On the Snow100K-S, Snow100K-L, Outdoor, and RainDrop test sets, SSR reports the best average PSNR (34.15 dB) and SSIM (0.9442) among the compared methods, using only 7.05M parameters.

Core claim

SSR is a state space model for all-in-one adverse weather restoration. Its central claim is that the order in which an SSM scans the image should be decided by image content, not by a fixed geometric rule. The paper replaces raster, window, and Hilbert scans with a superpixel-guided selective scan: a superpixel generator partitions the feature map into perceptually coherent regions, a permutation operator groups the tokens of each region contiguously, and the SSM propagates its hidden state only within each region. A region-level gating mechanism then computes each region's mean and variance across channels and uses a small MLP to produce per-region channel gates. On the Snow100K-S, Snow100K

What carries the argument

The Superpixel-guided Selective Scan Mechanism (S3M), a content-adaptive replacement for fixed scan trajectories: a superpixel generator assigns each pixel a region label, a permutation operator makes tokens of the same superpixel contiguous, and the SSM recurrence runs within those contiguous blocks. The companion Region-level Gating Mechanism (RGM) uses each region's mean and variance to gate channels before the state update, performing intra-region calibration along the channel dimension.

Load-bearing premise

The superpixel generator always groups degraded pixels into perceptually coherent regions that match true scene semantics; under dense snow or torrential rain it can over-segment, splitting the image into fragments that the scan then treats as localized noise-fitting paths.

What would settle it

Compare SSR against the same model with superpixel labels replaced by random regions of the same size on the Outdoor benchmark: if random grouping matches the superpixel gain, semantic coherence is not carrying the improvement. Alternatively, measure the PSNR gap between SSR and a raster-scan SSM baseline on images with progressively denser snow and heavier rain; the gap should shrink or reverse if over-segmentation breaks the proposed mechanism.

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If this is right

  • A single SSR model can handle snow, rain, haze, and raindrop degradations, reporting the best average PSNR and SSIM among compared methods on the four standard test sets.
  • Confining state propagation to superpixel regions prevents features from different objects from being mixed, which the paper argues is why small structures and text stay sharper after restoration.
  • Region-level gating adds about 1.09 dB PSNR over no gating on the Outdoor benchmark while adding only 0.04G FLOPs, so per-region calibration is a cheap and effective component.
  • At 7.05M parameters and 54.27G FLOPs, SSR reaches its reported scores with fewer parameters than the transformer and diffusion baselines it is compared against, suggesting lightweight deployment is feasible.
  • The superpixel-guided scan and region gating are modular components that can be inserted into any hierarchical SSM encoder-decoder block; the ablations show consistent gains over raster, fixed-window, and Hilbert scans across four datasets.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • Semantic-guided scanning may transfer to other SSM-based dense prediction tasks where degradation is spatially non-uniform, such as deblurring or low-light enhancement; the paper does not test those tasks.
  • The fixed superpixel count K=16 could be made adaptive to image content or degradation density, which might address the over-segmentation failure mode the paper identifies for dense snow and torrential rain.
  • The paper does not isolate the Pearson correlation loss from the superpixel mechanism; a reader could ablate that loss alone to determine how much of the structural gain comes from scanning versus the extra loss term.
  • If the superpixel generator is the bottleneck, a learned or degradation-robust grouping module would likely yield larger gains than further changes to the SSM architecture itself.
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Referee Report

4 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper proposes SSR, a unified adverse-weather image restoration model built on a superpixel-guided selective scan mechanism (S3M) and a region-level gating mechanism (RGM). The core idea is to replace content-agnostic SSM scanning trajectories (raster, window, Hilbert) with superpixel-based permutations so that state propagation stays within perceptually coherent regions, while RGM calibrates features per superpixel along the channel dimension. The authors report state-of-the-art or competitive PSNR/SSIM on Snow100K-S, Snow100K-L, Outdoor-Rain, RainDrop, and real-world benchmarks, with 7.05M parameters and 54.27G FLOPs, and release code.

Significance. If the claimed mechanism were correctly specified and the benchmark numbers internally consistent, this would be a meaningful contribution: it demonstrates a content-adaptive scanning strategy for SSM-based image restoration with strong quantitative results and a much smaller parameter budget than recent Transformer and Mamba baselines. The paper also includes extensive ablation comparisons across scanning strategies and gating variants, plus real-world no-reference evaluations with an efficiency discussion. However, the central mechanism as written is not actually region-confined, and several ablation numbers disagree without explanation. These issues must be resolved before the empirical claims can be attributed to the proposed components.

major comments (4)
  1. [Sec. 3.2, Eqs. (4)-(7)] The SSM is applied to the full reordered sequence F_sp_seq, and the recurrence h_k = \bar{A}h_{k-1} + \bar{B}\tilde{x}_k carries the hidden state across the boundary between superpixel r and r+1. There is no reset, mask, or per-region initial state in the equations. Consequently, the claim that state propagation is 'strictly confined within perceptually coherent regions' is not supported by the stated formulation. The gain of the superpixel ordering over fixed scans in Table 5 could be due to the input-dependent permutation or to RGM rather than to region-confined state evolution. Please specify a per-region scan (e.g., h_0^{(r)}=0 for each region) or a boundary mask, or revise the conceptual claim accordingly.
  2. [Tables 4, 5, and 1] There is an unexplained numerical inconsistency among the ablations. Table 4 reports K=16 (described as the default) with Outdoor PSNR 31.91 dB, while Table 5 reports the 'Superpixel (Ours)' no-gating row on Outdoor as 32.13 dB, and Table 1 reports the final model as 33.22 dB. The text states that K=16 is the default for all experiments, and Table 5's superpixel row is the no-gating baseline used for the gating ablation, but no protocol difference is given. These numbers must be reconciled or the text must clearly state which configuration each table uses.
  3. [Sec. 3.2 and Table 4] The superpixel generator [55] is cited but not described: the input to clustering (RGB image, feature map, or intermediate features), the resolution at which labels are extracted, the number of iterations, whether the clustering is differentiable, and how K=16 is applied across the three encoder/decoder scales are all unspecified. Moreover, K is selected by maximizing the same benchmark averages reported in Table 1, so the final comparison is partially a test-set-selected result. Please provide implementation details and, if possible, a validation-based selection or a sensitivity analysis that does not use the final test averages.
  4. [Tables 4 and 5, FLOPs reporting] Table 4 reports FLOPs of 4.30G for K=16 and Table 5 reports 4.28G vs. 4.17G for the raster scan, while Table 2 reports full-model FLOPs of 54.27G. The units are inconsistent unless Tables 4-5 report per-block or per-stage FLOPs, but this is not stated. The efficiency comparison in Section 4.2 depends on the correct interpretation, so please define the FLOPs protocol in the ablations.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Title/Abstract] 'guilded' should be 'guided' in the title and abstract.
  2. [Sec. 3.2, paragraph after Eq. (4)] There is a stray word 'kemudian' in the sentence before the inverse permutation; this appears to be a leftover from a non-English draft.
  3. [Table 3] The table header 'RainDSParamNIQE' is run together; please separate the column names for readability.
  4. [References and author names] Several proper nouns are inconsistent or mistyped, e.g., 'CPLP romptIR' should be 'CPLP-PromptIR', 'TP AMI' should be 'TPAMI', and the Histoformer venue is listed inconsistently between Table 1 (ECCV'24) and reference [30] (JOE).
  5. [Sec. 4.2] The reported real-world no-reference differences (e.g., Q-Align scores in Table 3) are very small; please state whether these are averaged over multiple runs and whether any significance/variance information is available.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; SSR's claims are empirical benchmark comparisons with no derivation-level circularity.

full rationale

The paper's central claim is an empirical SOTA comparison on external benchmarks, not a first-principles derivation. The S3M mechanism is specified as a permutation operator plus a standard selective-scan recurrence (Eqs. 4-7); the asserted confinement of state propagation to superpixel regions is a design claim that may be internally inconsistent (Eq. 7 updates h across region boundaries without an explicit reset or mask), but this is a correctness/specification concern, not circularity. The superpixel generator is cited from external work [55], and no load-bearing argument reduces to a self-citation. The authors cite their own prior papers (e.g., refs 6, 18, 33, 61-63) only as task-specific related work, not as evidence for SSR's novelty or results. The choice K=16 in Table 4 is made by comparing PSNR/SSIM on the same benchmarks later used for final reporting, which is test-set hyperparameter tuning and a methodological concern, but it is not a fitted parameter renamed as a prediction and does not make the final benchmark comparison circular. The limitation in Sec. 4.4 explicitly acknowledges dependence on superpixel clustering accuracy; that is an honest stated assumption, not a circular step. Overall, no specific equation or argument is equivalent to its own input by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 3 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests mainly on the superpixel generator reliably segmenting degraded images and on the benchmark protocol being fair. No new physical or mathematical entities are introduced. The key tunable is K=16, chosen from the test benchmarks themselves.

free parameters (1)
  • Number of superpixels K = 16
    Selected in Sec. 4.3 (Table 4) as the value with highest average PSNR on the same four test benchmarks used for final evaluation; no separate validation set is reported.
axioms (3)
  • domain assumption Superpixel labels from [55] reflect semantic boundaries on degraded input features.
    Invoked in Sec. 3.2 as the basis for the permutation operator P_l. The paper's own Sec. 4.4 concedes that dense snow or rain can corrupt clustering, so the assumption is load-bearing and only partially tested.
  • standard math The selective scan SSM from Mamba-style layers maintains valid state propagation on reordered token sequences.
    Equations (4) and (7) rely on the SSM parameterization from prior work [9,25]; the paper does not prove properties of the permuted sequence formulation.
  • domain assumption The benchmark protocol and reported competitor numbers in Tables 1-3 are accurate and fairly comparable.
    The paper follows the standard protocol of prior all-in-one methods, but competitor numbers are compiled without running code, and the internal table inconsistency weakens confidence in the compilation.

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  title        = {Pith review of: Pixel Ignores, Superpixel Sees: Adverse Weather Image Restoration via Semantic-Center SSM},
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abstract

Adverse weather image restoration aims to recover clear visibility from degraded images in complex weather conditions. Existing works attempt to address this problem by modeling relationships between pixels, however, this paradigm defies the spatially non-uniformity fact of degradations and learns non-discriminative features from semantic-conflict regions. In this paper, we propose SSR, a \textbf{S}emantic-center guilded \textbf{S}tate space model for image \textbf{R}estoration. The key idea of SSR is to shift the conventional scanning strategy of pixel-serial to semantic-guilded one. Specifically, we introduce a Superpixel-guided Selective Scan Mechanism ($\text{S}^3$M), which first partitions the image into perceptually coherent regions via superpixel clustering and then performs relations modeling within the semantic-related regions. Moreover, a Region-level Gating Mechanism (RGM) is developed to perform intra-region calibration by modulating degradation outliers within each semantic superpixel unit along the channel dimension. Extensive experiments on \textbf{6} well-established benchmarks demonstrate that SSR performs favorably against state-of-the-art models with competitive computational cost.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2608.01760 by Chi Man Vong, Dayu Li, Jin Wu, Jufeng Yang, Leizhi Shu, Shihao Zhou.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparison of scanning mechanisms. (a-c) Existing predefined scan strategies fall into a content-agnostic paradigm, and may learn non-discriminative fea￾tures from semantic-conflict regions. (d) Our Superpixel-guided Selective Scan Mecha￾nism (S3M) Scan constrains the trajectory within perceptually coherent regions, effec￾tively preventing information leakage and ensuring structure-aware state evolution. –… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overall architecture of the proposed Semantic-center Guided State Space Model (SSR). Our model adopts a hierarchical U-shaped encoder-decoder structure to cap￾ture multi-scale features for unified weather restoration. The backbone consists of mul￾tiple S3M Blocks, which integrate the Superpixel-guided Selective Scan Mechanism (S3M) and a Region-level Gating Mechanism (RGM) to perform intra-region calibra￾t… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Structure of the S3M Block. (a) The S3M block enables structure-aware feature transitions by integrating the Superpixel-guided Selective Scan Mechanism (S3M) and a Feed-Forward Network (FFN). (b) The S3M incorporates two synergistic innovations: Superpixel-guided Scanning, which constrains state propagation within perceptually coherent regions to prevent learning non-discriminative features from semantic-c… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Illustration of the Region-level Gating Mechanism (RGM). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Visual comparisons of SSR against state-of-the-art unified methods. Top Row: Raindrop removal [28]. Middle Row: Joint deraining and dehazing [19, 20]. Bottom Row: Image desnowing [24]. schedule [26] over the remaining iterations. The number of blocks at each stage is set to N1,2,3 = {3, 3, 6}, the base channel dimension is 48, and the chan￾nel expansion ratio is set to 3. Standard data augmentation includi… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Visualization of the image partitioning with different values of K. As shown, K = 8 leads to overly coarse and mixed semantic features, while K = 32 results in fragmented regions. K = 16 provides the most continuous and coherent semantic representation. Effect of the Scanning Strategies. We investigate the impact of various scanning patterns to validate the proposed Superpixel-guided Selective Scan. Quanti… view at source ↗

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