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

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}
}