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Blind face restoration is a highly ill-posed problem due to the lack of necessary context. Although existing methods produce high-quality outputs, they often fail to faithfully preserve the individual's identity. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Siyu Liu , Zheng-Peng Duan , Jia OuYang , Jiayi Fu , Hyunhee Park , Zikun Liu , Chun-Le Guo , Chongyi Li

Blind face restoration (BFR) is fundamentally challenged by the extensive range of degradation types and degrees that impact model generalization. Recent advancements in diffusion models have made considerable progress in this field.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Xinmin Qiu , Bonan Li , Zicheng Zhang , Congying Han , Tiande Guo

Current deep learning methods for low-light image enhancement (LLIE) typically rely on pixel-wise mapping learned from paired data. However, these methods often overlook the importance of considering degradation representations, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Ziqian Shao , Wenhan Luo , Bjorn Stenger , Tae-Kyun Kim , Wei Liu , Hongdong Li

Blind image restoration remains a significant challenge in low-level vision tasks. Recently, denoising diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in image synthesis. Guided diffusion models, leveraging the potent generative priors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Jun Xiao , Zihang Lyu , Hao Xie , Cong Zhang , Yakun Ju , Changjian Shui , Kin-Man Lam

Blind face restoration (BFR) aims to recover high-quality facial images from degraded inputs, yet its inherently ill-posed nature leads to ambiguous and uncontrollable solutions. Recent diffusion-based BFR methods improve perceptual quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Chenxin Zhu , Yushun Fang , Lu Liu , Shibo Yin , Xiaohong Liu , Xiaoyun Zhang , Qiang Hu , Guangtao Zhai

An authentic face restoration system is becoming increasingly demanding in many computer vision applications, e.g., image enhancement, video communication, and taking portrait. Most of the advanced face restoration models can recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Yang Zhao , Tingbo Hou , Yu-Chuan Su , Xuhui Jia. Yandong Li , Matthias Grundmann

Liquify is a common technique for image editing, which can be used for image distortion. Due to the uncertainty in the distortion variation, restoring distorted images caused by liquify filter is a challenging task. To edit images in an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Yi Gu , Yuting Gao , Jie Li , Chentao Wu , Weijia Jia

Image restoration is a classic low-level problem aimed at recovering high-quality images from low-quality images with various degradations such as blur, noise, rain, haze, etc. However, due to the inherent complexity and non-uniqueness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuhong Zhang , Hengsheng Zhang , Xinning Chai , Zhengxue Cheng , Rong Xie , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang

Facial recognition systems have achieved remarkable success by leveraging deep neural networks, advanced loss functions, and large-scale datasets. However, their performance often deteriorates in real-world scenarios involving low-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Sadaf Gulshad , Abdullah Aldahlawi

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

Recently, diffusion-based blind super-resolution (SR) methods have shown great ability to generate high-resolution images with abundant high-frequency detail, but the detail is often achieved at the expense of fidelity. Meanwhile, another…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Shao-Hao Lu , Ren Wang , Ching-Chun Huang , Wei-Chen Chiu

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve the visibility of degraded images to better align with human visual perception. While diffusion-based methods have shown promising performance due to their strong generative capabilities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Jinhong He , Minglong Xue , Zhipu Liu , Mingliang Zhou , Aoxiang Ning , Palaiahnakote Shivakumara

Image retouching aims to enhance the visual quality of photos. Considering the different aesthetic preferences of users, the target of retouching is subjective. However, current retouching methods mostly adopt deterministic models, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Zheng-Peng Duan , Jiawei zhang , Zheng Lin , Xin Jin , Dongqing Zou , Chunle Guo , Chongyi Li

In this paper, we propose a diffusion-based face swapping framework for the first time, called DiffFace, composed of training ID conditional DDPM, sampling with facial guidance, and a target-preserving blending. In specific, in the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Kihong Kim , Yunho Kim , Seokju Cho , Junyoung Seo , Jisu Nam , Kychul Lee , Seungryong Kim , KwangHee Lee

Restoring real-world degraded images, such as old photographs or low-resolution images, presents a significant challenge due to the complex, mixed degradations they exhibit, such as scratches, color fading, and noise. Recent data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Peng Xiao , Hongbo Zhao , Yijun Wang , Jianxin Lin

Recent deep learning methods have achieved promising results in image shadow removal. However, their restored images still suffer from unsatisfactory boundary artifacts, due to the lack of degradation prior embedding and the deficiency in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Lanqing Guo , Chong Wang , Wenhan Yang , Siyu Huang , Yufei Wang , Hanspeter Pfister , Bihan Wen

Human body restoration plays a vital role in various applications related to the human body. Despite recent advances in general image restoration using generative models, their performance in human body restoration remains mediocre, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Yiming Zhang , Zhe Wang , Xinjie Li , Yunchen Yuan , Chengsong Zhang , Xiao Sun , Zhihang Zhong , Jian Wang

The rapid progress of Deepfake technology has made face swapping highly realistic, raising concerns about the malicious use of fabricated facial content. Existing methods often struggle to generalize to unseen domains due to the diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ke Sun , Shen Chen , Taiping Yao , Hong Liu , Xiaoshuai Sun , Shouhong Ding , Rongrong Ji

Diffusion models (DM) have achieved remarkable promise in image super-resolution (SR). However, most of them are tailored to solving non-blind inverse problems with fixed known degradation settings, limiting their adaptability to real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Feng Li , Yixuan Wu , Zichao Liang , Runmin Cong , Huihui Bai , Yao Zhao , Meng Wang

While recent works on blind face image restoration have successfully produced impressive high-quality (HQ) images with abundant details from low-quality (LQ) input images, the generated content may not accurately reflect the real appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Chi-Wei Hsiao , Yu-Lun Liu , Cheng-Kun Yang , Sheng-Po Kuo , Kevin Jou , Chia-Ping Chen