EvoIR: Towards All-in-One Image Restoration via Evolutionary Frequency Modulation

TL;DR

EvoIR introduces an adaptive image restoration framework that employs evolutionary frequency modulation to enhance structural fidelity and details across diverse degradations, outperforming existing methods.

Contribution

The paper presents EvoIR, a novel framework combining explicit frequency decomposition with evolutionary optimization for improved all-in-one image restoration.

Findings

EvoIR achieves superior performance on multiple benchmarks.

The method effectively balances structural accuracy and perceptual quality.

EvoIR converges faster than previous approaches.

Abstract

All-in-One Image Restoration (AiOIR) tasks often involve diverse degradation that require robust and versatile strategies. However, most existing approaches typically lack explicit frequency modeling and rely on fixed or heuristic optimization schedules, which limit the generalization across heterogeneous degradation. To address these limitations, we propose EvoIR, an AiOIR-specific framework that introduces evolutionary frequency modulation for dynamic and adaptive image restoration. Specifically, EvoIR employs the Frequency-Modulated Module (FMM) that decomposes features into high- and low-frequency branches in an explicit manner and adaptively modulates them to enhance both structural fidelity and fine-grained details. Central to EvoIR, an Evolutionary Optimization Strategy (EOS) iteratively adjusts frequency-aware objectives through a population-based evolutionary process, dynamically balancing structural accuracy and perceptual fidelity. Its evolutionary guidance further mitigates gradient conflicts across degradation and accelerates convergence. By synergizing FMM and EOS, EvoIR yields greater improvements than using either component alone, underscoring their complementary roles. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmarks demonstrate that EvoIR outperforms state-of-the-art AiOIR methods.