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Face recognition (FR) stands as one of the most crucial applications in computer vision. The accuracy of FR models has significantly improved in recent years due to the availability of large-scale human face datasets. However, directly…

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Advanced diffusion-based Text-to-Image (T2I) models, such as the Stable Diffusion Model, have made significant progress in generating diverse and high-quality images using text prompts alone. However, when non-famous users require…

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High-fidelity facial avatar reconstruction from a monocular video is a significant research problem in computer graphics and computer vision. Recently, Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has shown impressive novel view rendering results and has…

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Blind Face Restoration (BFR) aims to recover high-quality face images from low-quality ones and usually resorts to facial priors for improving restoration performance. However, current methods still suffer from two major difficulties: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Yanjiang Yu , Puyang Zhang , Kaihao Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Changsheng Li , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang

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…

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Image Restoration (IR) methods based on a pre-trained diffusion model have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance. However, they have two fundamental limitations: 1) they often assume that the degradation operator is completely known and…

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In recent years, various Blind Face Restoration (BFR) techniques were developed. These techniques transform low quality faces suffering from multiple degradations to more realistic and natural face images with high perceptual quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Messaoud Bengherabi , Douaa Laib , Fella Souhila Lasnami , Ryma Boussaha

Text-to-image (T2I) models have significantly advanced the development of artificial intelligence, enabling the generation of high-quality images in diverse contexts based on specific text prompts. However, existing T2I-based methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Salaheldin Mohamed , Dong Han , Yong Li

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

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm in fundamental cross-modality research, demonstrating significant potential in both image understanding and generation. However, existing research in the face domain…

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Ophthalmologists have used fundus images to screen and diagnose eye diseases. However, different equipments and ophthalmologists pose large variations to the quality of fundus images. Low-quality (LQ) degraded fundus images easily lead to…

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Modern text-to-video (T2V) diffusion models can synthesize visually compelling clips, yet they remain brittle at fine-scale structure: even state-of-the-art generators often produce distorted faces and hands, warped backgrounds, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tejas Panambur , Ishan Rajendrakumar Dave , Chongjian Ge , Ersin Yumer , Xue Bai

Current subject-driven image generation methods encounter significant challenges in person-centric image generation. The reason is that they learn the semantic scene and person generation by fine-tuning a common pre-trained diffusion, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Yibin Wang , Weizhong Zhang , Jianwei Zheng , Cheng Jin

Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR) refers to matching cross-domain faces and plays a crucial role in public security. Nevertheless, HFR is confronted with challenges from large domain discrepancy and insufficient heterogeneous data. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Chaoyou Fu , Xiang Wu , Yibo Hu , Huaibo Huang , Ran He

Modern surveillance systems increasingly rely on multi-wavelength sensors and deep neural networks to recognize faces in infrared images captured at night. However, most facial recognition models are trained on visible light datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Mingshu Cai , Osamu Yoshie , Yuya Ieiri

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

Recent years have witnessed the remarkable performance of diffusion models in various vision tasks. However, for image restoration that aims to recover clear images with sharper details from given degraded observations, diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Liyan Wang , Qinyu Yang , Cong Wang , Wei Wang , Jinshan Pan , Zhixun Su

Although generative facial prior and geometric prior have recently demonstrated high-quality results for blind face restoration, producing fine-grained facial details faithful to inputs remains a challenging problem. Motivated by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Yuchao Gu , Xintao Wang , Liangbin Xie , Chao Dong , Gen Li , Ying Shan , Ming-Ming Cheng

Diffusion priors have been used for blind face restoration (BFR) by fine-tuning diffusion models (DMs) on restoration datasets to recover low-quality images. However, the naive application of DMs presents several key limitations. (i) The…

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