The field of image restoration and continual learning is rapidly advancing, with a focus on developing innovative methods to improve the accuracy and efficiency of these tasks. Recent research has explored the use of reinforcement learning, adaptive total variation regularization, and coreset selection to enhance image restoration and continual learning capabilities. Notably, the development of frameworks such as FoodRL, IMDNet, and TimeSearch-R has demonstrated significant potential for social impact and adaptive ensemble learning. Additionally, the introduction of methods like PDAC and CADIC has improved the efficiency and effectiveness of coreset selection and continual anomaly detection. Overall, the field is moving towards more sophisticated and adaptive approaches to image restoration and continual learning, with a emphasis on real-world applications and social impact.
Noteworthy papers include: FoodRL, which proposes a novel reinforcement learning framework for in-kind food donation forecasting, demonstrating significant potential for social impact. IMDNet, which introduces an adaptive multi-degradation image restoration network, showing superior performance on multi-degradation restoration tasks. TimeSearch-R, which reformulates temporal search as interleaved text-video thinking, achieving state-of-the-art performance on temporal search benchmarks.