UHD Image Deblurring via Autoregressive Flow with Ill-conditioned Constraints
About
Ultra-high-definition (UHD) image deblurring poses significant challenges for UHD restoration methods, which must balance fine-grained detail recovery and practical inference efficiency. Although prominent discriminative and generative methods have achieved remarkable results, a trade-off persists between computational cost and the ability to generate fine-grained detail for UHD image deblurring tasks. To further alleviate these issues, we propose a novel autoregressive flow method for UHD image deblurring with an ill-conditioned constraint. Our core idea is to decompose UHD restoration into a progressive, coarse-to-fine process: at each scale, the sharp estimate is formed by upsampling the previous-scale result and adding a current-scale residual, enabling stable, stage-wise refinement from low to high resolution. We further introduce Flow Matching to model residual generation as a conditional vector field and perform few-step ODE sampling with efficient Euler/Heun solvers, enriching details while keeping inference affordable. Since multi-step generation at UHD can be numerically unstable, we propose an ill-conditioning suppression scheme by imposing condition-number regularization on a feature-induced attention matrix, improving convergence and cross-scale consistency. Our method demonstrates promising performance on blurred images at 4K (3840$\times$2160) or higher resolutions.
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image Deblurring | GoPro | PSNR33.85 | 354 | |
| Deblurring | RealBlur-R | PSNR36.18 | 87 | |
| Deblurring | RealBlur-J | PSNR28.82 | 84 | |
| Image Deblurring | UHD-Blur | PSNR30.838 | 26 | |
| Image Deblurring | MC-Blur UHDM | PSNR28.328 | 15 | |
| Image Deblurring | DVD | PSNR34.39 | 15 |