How HINT’s Hierarchical Multi‑Head Attention Boosts Image Restoration Quality
The paper introduces HINT, a Transformer‑based image restoration model that employs Hierarchical Multi‑Head Attention (HMHA) and a Query‑Key Cache Updating (QKCU) module to eliminate attention redundancy, achieving superior PSNR/SSIM scores across low‑light enhancement, dehazing, desnowing, denoising, and deraining tasks while maintaining low model complexity.
