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Diffusion-based methodologies have shown significant potential in blind face restoration (BFR), leveraging their robust generative capabilities. However, they are often criticized for two significant problems: 1) slow training and inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Ziying Zhang , Xiang Gao , Zhixin Wang , Qiang hu , Xiaoyun Zhang

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

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

Video face restoration aims to enhance degraded face videos into high-quality results with realistic facial details, stable identity, and temporal coherence. Recent diffusion-based methods have brought strong generative priors to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zheng Chen , Bowen Chai , Rongjun Gao , Mingtao Nie , Xi Li , Bingnan Duan , Jianping Fang , Xiaohong Liu , Linghe Kong , Yulun Zhang

Diffusion models have achieved promising results in image restoration tasks, yet suffer from time-consuming, excessive computational resource consumption, and unstable restoration. To address these issues, we propose a robust and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Hai Jiang , Ao Luo , Songchen Han , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

Recent developments in face restoration have achieved remarkable results in producing high-quality and lifelike outputs. The stunning results however often fail to be faithful with respect to the identity of the person as the models lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Tuomas Varanka , Tapani Toivonen , Soumya Tripathy , Guoying Zhao , Erman Acar

Self-supervised representation learning has gained increasing attention for strong generalization ability without relying on paired datasets. However, it has not been explored sufficiently for facial representation. Self-supervised facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ruian He , Zhen Xing , Weimin Tan , Bo Yan

Blind face restoration usually relies on facial priors, such as facial geometry prior or reference prior, to restore realistic and faithful details. However, very low-quality inputs cannot offer accurate geometric prior while high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Xintao Wang , Yu Li , Honglun Zhang , Ying Shan

Blind face restoration usually synthesizes degraded low-quality data with a pre-defined degradation model for training, while more complex cases could happen in the real world. This gap between the assumed and actual degradation hurts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Zhixin Wang , Xiaoyun Zhang , Ziying Zhang , Huangjie Zheng , Mingyuan Zhou , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Makeup transfer aims to apply the makeup style from a reference face to a target face and has been increasingly adopted in practical applications. Existing GAN-based approaches typically rely on carefully designed loss functions to balance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jian Zhu , Shanyuan Liu , Liuzhuozheng Li , Yue Gong , He Wang , Bo Cheng , Yuhang Ma , Liebucha Wu , Xiaoyu Wu , Dawei Leng , Yuhui Yin , Yang Xu

Editing real facial images is a crucial task in computer vision with significant demand in various real-world applications. While GAN-based methods have showed potential in manipulating images especially when combined with CLIP, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Dongxu Yue , Qin Guo , Munan Ning , Jiaxi Cui , Yuesheng Zhu , Li Yuan

Current face reenactment and swapping methods mainly rely on GAN frameworks, but recent focus has shifted to pre-trained diffusion models for their superior generation capabilities. However, training these models is resource-intensive, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Yue Han , Junwei Zhu , Keke He , Xu Chen , Yanhao Ge , Wei Li , Xiangtai Li , Jiangning Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Yong Liu

Blind face restoration is a challenging task due to the unknown and complex degradation. Although face prior-based methods and reference-based methods have recently demonstrated high-quality results, the restored images tend to contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Guojing Ge , Qi Song , Guibo Zhu , Yuting Zhang , Jinglu Chen , Miao Xin , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

We present a novel approach to leverage prior knowledge encapsulated in pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models for blind super-resolution (SR). Specifically, by employing our time-aware encoder, we can achieve promising restoration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Jianyi Wang , Zongsheng Yue , Shangchen Zhou , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Chen Change Loy

Unveiling the real appearance of retouched faces to prevent malicious users from deceptive advertising and economic fraud has been an increasing concern in the era of digital economics. This article makes the first attempt to investigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Fengchuang Xing , Xiaowen Shi , Yuan-Gen Wang , Chunsheng Yang

Blind face restoration (BFR) is a highly challenging problem due to the uncertainty of degradation patterns. Current methods have low generalization across photorealistic and heterogeneous domains. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Nan Gao , Jia Li , Huaibo Huang , Zhi Zeng , Ke Shang , Shuwu Zhang , Ran He

Traditional speech enhancement methods often oversimplify the task of restoration by focusing on a single type of distortion. Generative models that handle multiple distortions frequently struggle with phone reconstruction and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Tushar Dhyani , Florian Lux , Michele Mancusi , Giorgio Fabbro , Fritz Hohl , Ngoc Thang Vu

The Latent Diffusion Model (LDM) has demonstrated strong capabilities in high-resolution image generation and has been widely employed for Pose-Guided Person Image Synthesis (PGPIS), yielding promising results. However, the compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jiaqi Liu , Jichao Zhang , Paolo Rota , Nicu Sebe

In the realm of image synthesis, achieving fidelity to a reference image while adhering to conditional prompts remains a significant challenge. This paper proposes a novel approach that integrates a diffusion model with latent space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Kshitij Pathania

Face anonymization aims to conceal identity information while preserving non-identity attributes. Mainstream diffusion models rely on inference-time interventions such as negative guidance or energy-based optimization, which are applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Haoxin Yang , Yihong Lin , Jingdan Kang , Xuemiao Xu , Yue Li , Cheng Xu , Shengfeng He