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The widespread use of face retouching on social media platforms raises concerns about the authenticity of face images. While existing methods focus on detecting face retouching, how to accurately recover the original faces from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jiaxin Liu , Qichao Ying , Zhenxing Qian , Sheng Li , Runqi Zhang , Jian Liu , Xinpeng Zhang

Image restoration is a classic low-level problem aimed at recovering high-quality images from low-quality images with various degradations such as blur, noise, rain, haze, etc. However, due to the inherent complexity and non-uniqueness of…

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Benefiting from the significant advancements in text-to-image diffusion models, research in personalized image generation, particularly customized portrait generation, has also made great strides recently. However, existing methods either…

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Preserving face identity is a critical yet persistent challenge in diffusion-based image restoration. While reference faces offer a path forward, existing reference-based methods often fail to fully exploit their potential. This paper…

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Blind face restoration is an important task in computer vision and has gained significant attention due to its wide-range applications. Previous works mainly exploit facial priors to restore face images and have demonstrated high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Xiaoxu Chen , Jingfan Tan , Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Xiaochun Cao

Image restoration (IR) has been an indispensable and challenging task in the low-level vision field, which strives to improve the subjective quality of images distorted by various forms of degradation. Recently, the diffusion model has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xin Li , Yulin Ren , Xin Jin , Cuiling Lan , Xingrui Wang , Wenjun Zeng , Xinchao Wang , Zhibo Chen

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

Latent diffusion models have made great strides in generating expressive portrait videos with accurate lip-sync and natural motion from a single reference image and audio input. However, these models are far from real-time, often requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Hanzhong Guo , Hongwei Yi , Daquan Zhou , Alexander William Bergman , Michael Lingelbach , Yizhou Yu

Existing methods for restoring degraded human-centric images often struggle with insufficient fidelity, particularly in human body restoration (HBR). Recent diffusion-based restoration methods commonly adapt pre-trained text-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jue Gong , Zihan Zhou , Jingkai Wang , Shu Li , Libo Liu , Jianliang Lan , Yulun Zhang

This technical report presents a diffusion model based framework for face swapping between two portrait images. The basic framework consists of three components, i.e., IP-Adapter, ControlNet, and Stable Diffusion's inpainting pipeline, for…

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Suspect face generation remains a technical challenge in crime investigations. Traditional sketch-drawing workflows suffer from low efficiency and quality, while diffusion-based approaches still face intrinsic limitations on conditional…

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Diffusion models represent the state-of-the-art in generative modeling. Due to their high training costs, many works leverage pre-trained diffusion models' powerful representations for downstream tasks, such as face super-resolution (FSR),…

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The rapid evolution of diffusion models has democratized face swapping but also raises concerns about privacy and identity security. Existing proactive defenses, often adapted from image editing attacks, prove ineffective in this context.…

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Diffusion models, praised for their success in generative tasks, are increasingly being applied to robotics, demonstrating exceptional performance in behavior cloning. However, their slow generation process stemming from iterative denoising…

Generating realistic cast shadows for inserted foreground objects is a crucial yet challenging problem in image composition, where maintaining geometric consistency of shadow and object in complex scenes remains difficult due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jing Li , Jing Zhang

While diffusion-based image restoration (IR) methods have achieved remarkable success, they are still limited by the low inference speed attributed to the necessity of executing hundreds or even thousands of sampling steps. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zongsheng Yue , Jianyi Wang , Chen Change Loy

Diffusion models have been demonstrated as strong priors for solving general inverse problems. Most existing Diffusion model-based Inverse Problem Solvers (DIS) employ a plug-and-play approach to guide the sampling trajectory with either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Jiankun Zhao , Bowen Song , Liyue Shen

While multi-step diffusion models have advanced both forward and inverse rendering, existing approaches often treat these problems independently, leading to cycle inconsistency and slow inference speed. In this work, we present Ouroboros, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shanlin Sun , Yifan Wang , Hanwen Zhang , Yifeng Xiong , Qin Ren , Ruogu Fang , Xiaohui Xie , Chenyu You

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…

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