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The latest developments in Face Restoration have yielded significant advancements in visual quality through the utilization of diverse diffusion priors. Nevertheless, the uncertainty of face identity introduced by identity-obscure inputs…

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Human-centric generative models designed for AI-driven storytelling must bring together two core capabilities: identity consistency and precise control over human performance. While recent diffusion-based approaches have made significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Following the remarkable success of diffusion models on image generation, recent works have also demonstrated their impressive ability to address a number of inverse problems in an unsupervised way, by properly constraining the sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou , Alexandros Lattas , Stylianos Moschoglou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

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

Although diffusion models are rising as a powerful solution for blind face restoration, they are criticized for two problems: 1) slow training and inference speed, and 2) failure in preserving identity and recovering fine-grained facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yunqi Miao , Jiankang Deng , Jungong Han

In recent years, the role of image generative models in facial reenactment has been steadily increasing. Such models are usually subject-agnostic and trained on domain-wide datasets. The appearance of the reenacted individual is learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Ariel Elazary , Yotam Nitzan , Daniel Cohen-Or

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in generating high-quality samples. Existing diffusion-based image restoration algorithms exploit pre-trained diffusion models to leverage data priors, yet they still preserve elements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Hongjie Wu , Linchao He , Mingqin Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Kunming Luo , Mengting Luo , Ji-Zhe Zhou , Hu Chen , Jiancheng Lv

Face stylization refers to the transformation of a face into a specific portrait style. However, current methods require the use of example-based adaptation approaches to fine-tune pre-trained generative models so that they demand lots of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Jin Liu , Huaibo Huang , Chao Jin , Ran He

Blind face restoration has made great progress in producing high-quality and lifelike images. Yet it remains challenging to preserve the ID information especially when the degradation is heavy. Current reference-guided face restoration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Jiacheng Ying , Mushui Liu , Zhe Wu , Runming Zhang , Zhu Yu , Siming Fu , Si-Yuan Cao , Chao Wu , Yunlong Yu , Hui-Liang Shen

Face restoration has achieved remarkable advancements through the years of development. However, ensuring that restored facial images exhibit high fidelity, preserve authentic features, and avoid introducing artifacts or biases remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jingkai Wang , Wu Miao , Jue Gong , Zheng Chen , Xing Liu , Hong Gu , Yutong Liu , Yulun Zhang

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

Existing diffusion models show great potential for identity-preserving generation. However, personalized portrait generation remains challenging due to the diversity in user profiles, including variations in appearance and lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Han Yang , Enis Simsar , Sotiris Anagnostidis , Yanlong Zang , Thomas Hofmann , Ziwei Liu

Recent advancements in personalized image generation using diffusion models have been noteworthy. However, existing methods suffer from inefficiencies due to the requirement for subject-specific fine-tuning. This computationally intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xu Peng , Junwei Zhu , Boyuan Jiang , Ying Tai , Donghao Luo , Jiangning Zhang , Wei Lin , Taisong Jin , Chengjie Wang , Rongrong Ji

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

The inherent generative power of denoising diffusion models makes them well-suited for image restoration tasks where the objective is to find the optimal high-quality image within the generative space that closely resembles the input image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zheng Ding , Xuaner Zhang , Zhuowen Tu , Zhihao Xia

The rapid growth of social media has led to the widespread sharing of individual portrait images, which pose serious privacy risks due to the capabilities of automatic face recognition (AFR) systems for mass surveillance. Hence, protecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Ali Salar , Qing Liu , Yingli Tian , Guoying Zhao

Personalized image synthesis has emerged as a pivotal application in text-to-image generation, enabling the creation of images featuring specific subjects in diverse contexts. While diffusion models have dominated this domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Kaiyue Sun , Xian Liu , Yao Teng , Xihui Liu

Modern cameras' performance in low-light conditions remains suboptimal due to fundamental limitations in photon shot noise and sensor read noise. Generative image restoration methods have shown promising results compared to traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xijun Wang , Prateek Chennuri , Dilshan Godaliyadda , Yu Yuan , Bole Ma , Xingguang Zhang , Hamid R. Sheikh , Stanley Chan

Portrait pictures, which typically feature both human subjects and natural backgrounds, are one of the most prevalent forms of photography on social media. Existing image super-resolution (ISR) techniques generally focus either on generic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Renjie Li , Zihao Zhu , Xiaoyu Wang , Zhengzhong Tu

In human-centric content generation, the pre-trained text-to-image models struggle to produce user-wanted portrait images, which retain the identity of individuals while exhibiting diverse expressions. This paper introduces our efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Renshuai Liu , Bowen Ma , Wei Zhang , Zhipeng Hu , Changjie Fan , Tangjie Lv , Yu Ding , Xuan Cheng