TaskGuard: Task-Conditioned Restoration Utility for Risk-Aware Object Detection
Image restoration is commonly applied before object detection under adverse conditions, yet a visually improved image need not improve the downstream task. We study this mismatch as restoration utility prediction: given a degraded image and its candidate restoration, should the restoration be used or should the original observation be preserved? We introduce TaskGuard, a post-hoc controller for frozen restoration and detection pipelines. TaskGuard characterizes the realized restoration residual through its interaction with detector sensitivity and predicts whether the intervention is task-beneficial. Exact regional counterfactuals reveal substantial within-image utility heterogeneity, whi...
| Authors | Vung Pham |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 7 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 7 September 2026 |
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