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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

Deepfakes pose significant security and privacy threats through malicious facial manipulations. While robust watermarking can aid in authenticity verification and source tracking, existing methods often lack the sufficient robustness…

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We introduce a novel Multi-modal Guided Real-World Face Restoration (MGFR) technique designed to improve the quality of facial image restoration from low-quality inputs. Leveraging a blend of attribute text prompts, high-quality reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Keda Tao , Jinjin Gu , Yulun Zhang , Xiucheng Wang , Nan Cheng

This work aims to improve the applicability of diffusion models in realistic image restoration. Specifically, we enhance the diffusion model in several aspects such as network architecture, noise level, denoising steps, training image size,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Ziwei Luo , Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Zheng Zhao , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

The widespread use of face retouching filters on short-video platforms has raised concerns about the authenticity of digital appearances and the impact of deceptive advertising. To address these issues, there is a pressing need to develop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Qichao Ying , Jiaxin Liu , Sheng Li , Haisheng Xu , Zhenxing Qian , Xinpeng Zhang

Mesh reconstruction from multi-view images is a fundamental problem in computer vision, but its performance degrades significantly under sparse-view conditions, especially in unseen regions where no ground-truth observations are available.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Haoyang Wang , Liming Liu , Peiheng Wang , Junlin Hao , Jiangkai Wu , Xinggong Zhang

Changing facial expressions, gestures, or background details may dramatically alter the meaning conveyed by an image. Notably, recent advances in diffusion models greatly improve the quality of image manipulation while also opening the door…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Alex Costanzino , Woody Bayliss , Juil Sock , Marc Gorriz Blanch , Danijela Horak , Ivan Laptev , Philip Torr , Fabio Pizzati

Talking head generation is a significant research topic that still faces numerous challenges. Previous works often adopt generative adversarial networks or regression models, which are plagued by generation quality and average facial shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ziyu Yao , Xuxin Cheng , Zhiqi Huang

Diffusion models have recently gained traction as a powerful class of deep generative priors, excelling in a wide range of image restoration tasks due to their exceptional ability to model data distributions. To solve image restoration…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Xiang Li , Soo Min Kwon , Shijun Liang , Ismail R. Alkhouri , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Qing Qu

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

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

Face video restoration (FVR) is a challenging but important problem where one seeks to recover a perceptually realistic face videos from a low-quality input. While diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have been shown to achieve remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zihao Zou , Jiaming Liu , Shirin Shoushtari , Yubo Wang , Weijie Gan , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in generative modelling, particularly in enhancing image quality to conform to human preferences. Recently, these models have also been applied to low-level computer vision for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ziwei Luo , Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Zheng Zhao , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

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

The ability to create high-quality 3D faces from a single image has become increasingly important with wide applications in video conferencing, AR/VR, and advanced video editing in movie industries. In this paper, we propose Face Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Hao Zhang , Yanbo Xu , Tianyuan Dai , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yushun Fang , Lu Liu , Xiang Gao , Qiang Hu , Ning Cao , Jianghe Cui , Gang Chen , Xiaoyun Zhang

Modern face recognition (FR) models excel in constrained scenarios, but often suffer from decreased performance when deployed in unconstrained (real-world) environments due to uncertainties surrounding the quality of the captured facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Žiga Babnik , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc

Diffusion models have demonstrated their ability to generate diverse and high-quality images, sparking considerable interest in their potential for real image editing applications. However, existing diffusion-based approaches for local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Wenjing Huang , Shikui Tu , Lei Xu

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

Inverting visual representations within deep neural networks (DNNs) presents a challenging and important problem in the field of security and privacy for deep learning. The main goal is to invert the features of an unidentified target image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Sai Qian Zhang , Ziyun Li , Chuan Guo , Saeed Mahloujifar , Deeksha Dangwal , Edward Suh , Barbara De Salvo , Chiao Liu