Uformer: A General U-Shaped Transformer for Image Restoration

In this paper, we present Uformer, an effective and efficient Transformer-based architecture for image restoration, in which we build a hierarchical encoder-decoder network using the Transformer block. Without bells and whistles, our Uformer achieves superior or comparable performance compared with the advanced algorithms.

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• 1 In Uformer, there are two core designs.
• 2 First, we introduce a novel locally-enhanced window (LeWin) Transformer block, which performs non-overlapping window-based self-attention instead of global self-attention.
• 3 It significantly reduces the computational complexity on high resolution feature map while capturing local context.

This research advances how AI systems learn, reason, and solve problems — with direct implications for automation and scientific discovery.

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