ClearAIR: A Human-Visual-Perception-Inspired All-in-One Image Restoration
This work addresses the limitations of existing all-in-one image restoration methods, which often suffer from over-smoothing and artifacts due to their reliance on degradation-specific representations and struggle with complex real-world degradations. Inspired by human visual perception mechanisms, we propose a coarse-to-fine hierarchical restoration framework. It first leverages a multimodal large language model for cross-modal image quality assessment, then performs task-adaptive restoration through semantic-guided, region-aware degradation modeling, and finally enhances fine detail recovery via a self-supervised internal cue reuse mechanism. To our knowledge, this is the first approach to integrate human visual perception principles into all-in-one image restoration. Extensive experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art performance across multiple synthetic and real-world datasets, with significant suppression of artifacts and notable improvements in perceptual detail quality.