arxivcs.CVcs.LG2026-07-02
AbsoluteDegradation: A Physics-Inspired Synthetic Film-Degradation Pipeline and Archival Film Restoration Benchmark
Mikołaj Jastrzębski, Dawid Glinkowski, Dawid Zieliński, Daniel Borkowski, Wojciech Kozłowski, Kamil Adamczewski
Restoring archival film remains a fundamentally challenging problem due to the absence of paired training data and the lack of standardized evaluation benchmarks. Pristine versions of deteriorated footage are physically unrecoverable, requiring supervised methods to rely on synth…