Image Restoration for Beautification

Image restoration refers to the recovery from a degraded image to achieve better visual aesthetics. With the advances in imaging and computing, image restoration has developed rapidly, dealing with the degradations occurring during image formation, transmission, and storage. It covers a wide range of topics, including image denoising, image deblurring, image inpainting, image super-resolution, reflection removal, light enhancement, etc. This chapter will cover some of the latest research results related to image restoration for beautification. For young minds entering this field, it will include surveys and tutorials on some foundational topics. And for veteran researchers, it will serve as a quick reference.