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While deep learning-based methods for blind face restoration have achieved unprecedented success, they still suffer from two major limitations. First, most of them deteriorate when facing complex degradations out of their training data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zongsheng Yue , Chen Change Loy

Denosing diffusion model, as a generative model, has received a lot of attention in the field of image generation recently, thanks to its powerful generation capability. However, diffusion models have not yet received sufficient research in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 ZiHan Cao , ShiQi Cao , Xiao Wu , JunMing Hou , Ran Ran , Liang-Jian Deng

Face Restoration (FR) aims to restore High-Quality (HQ) faces from Low-Quality (LQ) input images, which is a domain-specific image restoration problem in the low-level computer vision area. The early face restoration methods mainly use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Jiankang Deng , Tong Lu , Wei Liu , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Face editing methods, essential for tasks like virtual avatars, digital human synthesis and identity preservation, have traditionally been built upon GAN-based techniques, while recent focus has shifted to diffusion-based models due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Mengting Wei , Tuomas Varanka , Yante Li , Xingxun Jiang , Huai-Qian Khor , Guoying Zhao

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

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

Removing degradation from document images not only improves their visual quality and readability, but also enhances the performance of numerous automated document analysis and recognition tasks. However, existing regression-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Zongyuan Yang , Baolin Liu , Yongping Xiong , Lan Yi , Guibin Wu , Xiaojun Tang , Ziqi Liu , Junjie Zhou , Xing Zhang

With the advancement of face recognition (FR) systems, privacy-preserving face recognition (PPFR) systems have gained popularity for their accurate recognition, enhanced facial privacy protection, and robustness to various attacks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Dong Han , Yong Li , Joachim Denzler

Diffusion models have established new state of the art in a multitude of computer vision tasks, including image restoration. Diffusion-based inverse problem solvers generate reconstructions of exceptional visual quality from heavily…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Zalan Fabian , Berk Tinaz , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Deep learning analyses have offered sensitivity leaps in detection of cognitive states from functional MRI (fMRI) measurements across the brain. Yet, as deep models perform hierarchical nonlinear transformations on their input, interpreting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Hasan Atakan Bedel , Tolga Çukur

Face morphing attacks seek to deceive a Face Recognition (FR) system by presenting a morphed image consisting of the biometric qualities from two different identities with the aim of triggering a false acceptance with one of the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Zander W. Blasingame , Chen Liu

Image restoration aims to recover high-quality images from degraded observations. When the degradation process is known, the recovery problem can be formulated as an inverse problem, and in a Bayesian context, the goal is to sample a clean…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Darshan Thaker , Abhishek Goyal , René Vidal

Diffusion models have demonstrated impressive performance in face restoration. Yet, their multi-step inference process remains computationally intensive, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios. Moreover, existing methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jingkai Wang , Jue Gong , Lin Zhang , Zheng Chen , Xing Liu , Hong Gu , Yutong Liu , Yulun Zhang , Xiaokang Yang

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

Current deep learning approaches in computer vision primarily focus on RGB data sacrificing information. In contrast, RAW images offer richer representation, which is crucial for precise recognition, particularly in challenging conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Christoph Reinders , Radu Berdan , Beril Besbinar , Junji Otsuka , Daisuke Iso

We present a novel framework for free-viewpoint facial performance relighting using diffusion-based image-to-image translation. Leveraging a subject-specific dataset containing diverse facial expressions captured under various lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Mingming He , Pascal Clausen , Ahmet Levent Taşel , Li Ma , Oliver Pilarski , Wenqi Xian , Laszlo Rikker , Xueming Yu , Ryan Burgert , Ning Yu , Paul Debevec

In this research work we have proposed high-level ChildDiffusion framework capable of generating photorealistic child facial samples and further embedding several intelligent augmentations on child facial data using short text prompts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Muhammad Ali Farooq , Wang Yao , Peter Corcoran

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

Face super-resolution (FSR), also known as face hallucination, which is aimed at enhancing the resolution of low-resolution (LR) face images to generate high-resolution (HR) face images, is a domain-specific image super-resolution problem.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Junjun Jiang , Chenyang Wang , Xianming Liu , Jiayi Ma

The field of photorealistic 3D avatar reconstruction and generation has garnered significant attention in recent years; however, animating such avatars remains challenging. Recent advances in diffusion models have notably enhanced the…