DeepEnhancer: Temporally Consistent Focal Transformer for Comprehensive Video Enhancement

Restoring and colorizing old films is a comprehensive video enhancement task, marked by the presence of heterogeneous and structured degradations. Our DeepEnhancer addresses this challenge through a unified pipeline that combines restoration and colorization. In this workflow, we implement a bidirectional propagation strategy. Specifically, we incorporate second-order feature alignment to reduce the accumulation of inaccuracies in optical flow estimation. Simultaneously, we utilize cross-scale long-term attention mechanisms to model correlations within hidden states, thereby ensuring spatial and temporal consistency. To address the notable content loss in aging films, we introduce a temporally consistent focal transformer guided by global information. This transformer utilizes various window levels with distinct sub-window sizes to seamlessly integrate fine-grained and coarse-grained features. Comprehensive experimental results conclusively demonstrate the superiority of our model in both quantitative and qualitative comparisons when compared to existing approaches.