ICCV 2025
Even though IDF is trained on a single Gaussian level (σ = 15),
It generalizes to both Synthetic (Gaussian, Spatial Gaussian, Poisson, Speckle,
Salt & Pepper)
and Real-World (SmartPhone, DSLR, Monte Carlo, Medical Imaging) noise.
Compared with prior SOTA image denoisers trained at a single Gaussian noise level (σ = 15), IDF removes OOD noise more effectively across diverse images while using far fewer parameters and requiring no external priors such as CLIP.
IDF allows users to tune denoising strength by adjusting the number of iterations,
balancing fidelity versus realism, computational cost, and inference speed.
IDF generates pixel-wise varying denoising kernels and regularizes them by enforcing their elements to sum to one.
This mechanism guides IDF toward content-adaptive averaging rather than memorizing specific noise patterns.
@inproceedings{kim2025idf,
title={IDF: Iterative Dynamic Filtering Networks for Generalizable Image Denoising},
author={Dongjin Kim and Jaekyun Ko and Muhammad Kashif Ali and Tae Hyun Kim},
booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
year={2025}
}