DDR-Net: Dual-Stream for Degraded Infrared Image Restoration Network
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Infrared (IR) imaging technology is drawing significant attention in various critical applications due to its unique capabilities for object detection and scene understanding, even under challenging environments and adverse weather conditions. However, IR imaging fundamentally faces two major limitations: inherent lowresolution and contamination by complex noise (Gaussian, stripe, and non-uniformity). Existing approaches suffer from critical limitations. Conventional Super-Resolution (SR) models are vulnerable to composite noise in IR imagery. Existing Denoising (DN) models either address only single noise types or neglect the low-resolution problem. Sequential pipelines (DN→SR or SR→DN) introduce irreversible information loss, while current joint DN+SR methods consider only simplistic noise models, proving insufficient for real-world IR data. To address these challenges, this study proposes the Dual-stream for Degraded infrared image Restoration Network (DDR-Net), a lightweight end-to-end network for simultaneous complex noise removal and super-resolution. DDR-Net features three key contributions: (1) A novel frequency-domain decomposition-based dual-stream architecture that independently performs noise suppression in low-frequency components and edge preservation in high-frequency components, followed by efficient fusion. (2) The Self-Dual Calibrated Projection Attention (SDCPA) mechanism for effective information exchange between streams. (3) Integration of a validated composite noise model reflecting real-world IR sensor characteristics. Extensive experiments on four benchmark datasets (FLIR, IR100, DLS-NUC-100, and ESPOL FIR) demonstrate that DDR-Net consistently achieves superior performance across various noise levels and upscaling factors (×2, ×4). The parameter-efficient architecture ensures practical deployment suitability, providing an effective solution for infrared image restoration in diverse real-world scenarios.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it