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Facial semantic guidance (including facial landmarks, facial heatmaps, and facial parsing maps) and facial generative adversarial networks (GAN) prior have been widely used in blind face restoration (BFR) in recent years. Although existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Kai Hu , Yu Liu , Renhe Liu , Wei Lu , Gang Yu , Bin Fu

Blind face restoration (BFR) from severely degraded face images in the wild is a very challenging problem. Due to the high illness of the problem and the complex unknown degradation, directly training a deep neural network (DNN) usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Tao Yang , Peiran Ren , Xuansong Xie , Lei Zhang

In recent years, various Blind Face Restoration (BFR) techniques were developed. These techniques transform low quality faces suffering from multiple degradations to more realistic and natural face images with high perceptual quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Messaoud Bengherabi , Douaa Laib , Fella Souhila Lasnami , Ryma Boussaha

Blind face restoration is an important task in computer vision and has gained significant attention due to its wide-range applications. Previous works mainly exploit facial priors to restore face images and have demonstrated high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Xiaoxu Chen , Jingfan Tan , Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Xiaochun Cao

Blind face restoration aims at recovering high-quality face images from those with unknown degradations. Current algorithms mainly introduce priors to complement high-quality details and achieve impressive progress. However, most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Zhouxia Wang , Jiawei Zhang , Tianshui Chen , Wenping Wang , Ping Luo

Blind face restoration endeavors to restore a clear face image from a degraded counterpart. Recent approaches employing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) as priors have demonstrated remarkable success in this field. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Xiaobin Lu , Xiaobin Hu , Jun Luo , Ben Zhu , Yaping Ruan , Wenqi Ren

Blind face restoration (BFR) is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision. To faithfully restore high-quality (HQ) photos from poor-quality ones, recent research endeavors predominantly rely on facial image priors from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Guoqiang Liang , Qingnan Fan , Bingtao Fu , Jinwei Chen , Hong Gu , Lin Wang

High-fidelity facial avatar reconstruction from a monocular video is a significant research problem in computer graphics and computer vision. Recently, Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has shown impressive novel view rendering results and has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Yunpeng Bai , Yanbo Fan , Xuan Wang , Yong Zhang , Jingxiang Sun , Chun Yuan , Ying Shan

Blind face restoration methods have shown remarkable performance, particularly when trained on large-scale synthetic datasets with supervised learning. These datasets are often generated by simulating low-quality face images with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Tianshu Kuai , Sina Honari , Igor Gilitschenski , Alex Levinshtein

Reversible face anonymization, unlike traditional face pixelization, seeks to replace sensitive identity information in facial images with synthesized alternatives, preserving privacy without sacrificing image clarity. Traditional methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Haoxin Yang , Xuemiao Xu , Cheng Xu , Huaidong Zhang , Jing Qin , Yi Wang , Pheng-Ann Heng , Shengfeng He

Face image super resolution (face hallucination) usually relies on facial priors to restore realistic details and preserve identity information. Recent advances can achieve impressive results with the help of GAN prior. They either design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Jingwen He , Wu Shi , Kai Chen , Lean Fu , Chao Dong

Blind face restoration (BFR) has attracted increasing attention with the rise of generative methods. Most existing approaches integrate generative priors into the restoration pro- cess, aiming to jointly address facial detail generation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Venkata Bharath Reddy Reddem , Akshay P Sarashetti , Ranjith Merugu , Amit Satish Unde

Face restoration is important in face image processing, and has been widely studied in recent years. However, previous works often fail to generate plausible high quality (HQ) results for real-world low quality (LQ) face images. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Chaofeng Chen , Xiaoming Li , Lingbo Yang , Xianhui Lin , Lei Zhang , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Recent generative-prior-based methods have shown promising blind face restoration performance. They usually project the degraded images to the latent space and then decode high-quality faces either by single-stage latent optimization or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Maitreya Suin , Rama Chellappa

Despite the success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in image synthesis, applying trained GAN models to real image processing remains challenging. Previous methods typically invert a target image back to the latent space either by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Jinjin Gu , Yujun Shen , Bolei Zhou

Generative diffusion models can serve as a prior which ensures that solutions of image restoration systems adhere to the manifold of natural images. However, for restoring facial images, a personalized prior is necessary to accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Pradyumna Chari , Sizhuo Ma , Daniil Ostashev , Achuta Kadambi , Gurunandan Krishnan , Jian Wang , Kfir Aberman

Facial composites are graphical representations of an eyewitness's memory of a face. Many digital systems are available for the creation of such composites but are either unable to reproduce features unless previously designed or do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Nicola Zaltron , Luisa Zurlo , Sebastian Risi

Recently, a surge of high-quality 3D-aware GANs have been proposed, which leverage the generative power of neural rendering. It is natural to associate 3D GANs with GAN inversion methods to project a real image into the generator's latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Fei Yin , Yong Zhang , Xuan Wang , Tengfei Wang , Xiaoyu Li , Yuan Gong , Yanbo Fan , Xiaodong Cun , Ying Shan , Cengiz Oztireli , Yujiu Yang

Emerging high-quality face restoration (FR) methods often utilize pre-trained GAN models (\textit{i.e.}, StyleGAN2) as GAN Prior. However, these methods usually struggle to balance realness and fidelity when facing various degradation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Yinhuai Wang , Yujie Hu , Jian Zhang

Learning a good image prior is a long-term goal for image restoration and manipulation. While existing methods like deep image prior (DIP) capture low-level image statistics, there are still gaps toward an image prior that captures rich…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Xingang Pan , Xiaohang Zhan , Bo Dai , Dahua Lin , Chen Change Loy , Ping Luo
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