IDF: Iterative Dynamic Filtering Networks
for Generalizable Image Denoising

Dongjin Kim*, Jaekyun Ko*, Muhammad Kashif Ali, Tae Hyun Kim^†

_{^{* Equal contribution. † Corresponding author.}}

     

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We introduce a compact iterative dynamic filtering (IDF) framework for image denoising that predicts pixel-adaptive denoising kernels. Even though IDF is trained with extremely limited data (e.g., a single-level Gaussian noise), it generalizes effectively to diverse unseen noise types and levels with only ~0.04M parameters.

📦 Installation

git clone https://github.com/dongjinkim9/IDF.git
cd IDF
pip install -r requirements.txt

🚀 Demo

You can try IDF in several ways:

• Hugging Face:

• Colab:

• Local (Python script):

python demo.py

📁 Dataset Preparation

Dataset Type	Dataset
Training	CBSD432
Testing (Synthetic Noise)	CBSD68
	McMaster
	Kodak24
	Urban100
Testing (Real-World Noise)	SIDD
	SIDD+
	PolyU
	Nam
	MonteCarlo

1. Download datasets individually from the table above, or download the full bundled dataset package.

2. After downloading, set the dataset root path (dataroot) in the dataset configuration YAML files located in configs/datasets.

dataset:
  target: idf.datasets.gaussian.GaussianDataset
  params:
    dataroot: {dataset_root_path}/{train|test}/{dataset_name}

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🏋️ Training & Evaluation

A. Train IDF

python main.py --config configs/train_lit_denoising.yaml

B. Validation / Testing

python main.py --config configs/test_lit_denoising.yaml

C. Reproducing Results

1. Pretrained checkpoints are available in the pretrained_models directory.
2. To evaluate a pretrained model:

python main.py --config configs/test_lit_denoising.yaml

D. Configuration Details

For detailed options related to training, datasets, and the model settings, please refer to:

• Training / Testing: configs/{train|test}_lit_denoising.yaml
• Datasets:
  • Training: configs/datasets/train/gaussian.yaml
  • Testing: configs/datasets/test/synthetic.yaml
• Model: configs/models/idfnet.yaml

🎇 Results

Full qualitative comparisons are available on the project page:

🧪 Synthetic Noise

🌏 Real-World Noise

📚 Citation

Please cite us if our work is useful for your research:

@InProceedings{Kim_2025_ICCV,
    author    = {Kim, Dongjin and Ko, Jaekyun and Ali, Muhammad Kashif and Kim, Tae Hyun},
    title     = {IDF: Iterative Dynamic Filtering Networks for Generalizable Image Denoising},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
    month     = {October},
    year      = {2025},
    pages     = {12180-12190}
}