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AKNet: an aligned kernel network for image restoration

Jul 2026 · The Visual Computer · Vol 42 · 0 citations · 69 references
Computer Science

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An efficient aligned kernel network (AKNet) is proposed, which innovatively employs super-large convolution kernels to capture global receptive fields with minimal computational overhead, effectively mimicking the long-range dependency modeling of transformers.

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