UHDRes: Ultra-High-Definition Image Restoration via Dual-Domain Decoupled Spectral Modulation

Published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2026

Shihao Zhao, Wanglong Lu, Binhao Wang, Tao Wang, Kaihao Zhang, Hanli Zhao

UHDRes architecture

Brief description:

UHDRes is a lightweight ultra-high-definition image restoration framework that integrates spatial-domain structure modeling with frequency-domain degradation modeling. It explicitly modulates the amplitude spectrum to capture robust global degradation patterns while implicitly restoring phase information through spatial refinement.

Highlights:

  • Dual-domain decoupled spectral modulation for jointly exploiting spatial structures and frequency features.
  • Spatio-spectral fusion with multi-scale large-kernel convolutions for local textures and global structures.
  • Shared gated feed-forward network for efficient feature interaction and structural consistency.
  • Evaluated on UHD-LL, UHD-Haze, 8KDehaze-mini, UHD-Blur, and 4K-Rain13k, achieving strong performance with only 400K parameters.

UHDRes efficiency comparison

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Recommended citation:

@article{zhao2026uhdres,
  title={UHDRes: Ultra-High-Definition Image Restoration via Dual-Domain Decoupled Spectral Modulation},
  author={Zhao, Shihao and Lu, Wanglong and Wang, Binhao and Wang, Tao and Zhang, Kaihao and Zhao, Hanli},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology},
  year={2026}
}