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Recent advances in full-head reconstruction have been obtained by optimizing a neural field through differentiable surface or volume rendering to represent a single scene. While these techniques achieve an unprecedented accuracy, they take…

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Current learning-based subject customization approaches, predominantly relying on U-Net architectures, suffer from limited generalization ability and compromised image quality. Meanwhile, optimization-based methods require subject-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Jiale Tao , Yanbing Zhang , Qixun Wang , Yiji Cheng , Haofan Wang , Xu Bai , Zhengguang Zhou , Ruihuang Li , Linqing Wang , Chunyu Wang , Qin Lin , Qinglin Lu

Recent advances in large pretrained text-to-image models have shown unprecedented capabilities for high-quality human-centric generation, however, customizing face identity is still an intractable problem. Existing methods cannot ensure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Qinghe Wang , Xu Jia , Xiaomin Li , Taiqing Li , Liqian Ma , Yunzhi Zhuge , Huchuan Lu

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

Multimodal editing large models have demonstrated powerful editing capabilities across diverse tasks. However, a persistent and long-standing limitation is the decline in facial identity (ID) consistency during realistic portrait editing.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yuran Dong , Hang Dai , Mang Ye

To better preserve an individual's identity, face restoration has evolved from reference-free to reference-based approaches, which leverage high-quality reference images of the same identity to enhance identity fidelity in the restored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Teer Song , Yue Zhang , Yu Tian , Ziyang Wang , Xianlin Zhang , Guixuan Zhang , Xuan Liu , Xueming Li , Yasen Zhang

Restoring real-world degraded images, such as old photographs or low-resolution images, presents a significant challenge due to the complex, mixed degradations they exhibit, such as scratches, color fading, and noise. Recent data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Peng Xiao , Hongbo Zhao , Yijun Wang , Jianxin Lin

Recent works based on deep learning and facial priors have succeeded in super-resolving severely degraded facial images. However, the prior knowledge is not fully exploited in existing methods, since facial priors such as landmark and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Cheng Ma , Zhenyu Jiang , Yongming Rao , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

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 facial image restoration is highly challenging due to unknown complex degradations and the sensitivity of humans to faces. Although existing methods introduce auxiliary information from generative priors or high-quality reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zhicun Yin , Junjie Chen , Ming Liu , Zhixin Wang , Fan Li , Renjing Pei , Xiaoming Li , Rynson W. H. Lau , Wangmeng Zuo

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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Face Super-Resolution (SR) is a subfield of the SR domain that specifically targets the reconstruction of face images. The main challenge of face SR is to restore essential facial features without distortion. We propose a novel face SR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Deokyun Kim , Minseon Kim , Gihyun Kwon , Dae-Shik Kim

Video face restoration aims to enhance degraded face videos into high-quality results with realistic facial details, stable identity, and temporal coherence. Recent diffusion-based methods have brought strong generative priors to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zheng Chen , Bowen Chai , Rongjun Gao , Mingtao Nie , Xi Li , Bingnan Duan , Jianping Fang , Xiaohong Liu , Linghe Kong , Yulun Zhang

In real-world scenarios, many factors may harm face recognition performance, e.g., large pose, bad illumination,low resolution, blur and noise. To address these challenges, previous efforts usually first restore the low-quality faces to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Xiaoguang Tu , Jian Zhao , Qiankun Liu , Wenjie Ai , Guodong Guo , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Jiashi Feng

Blind face restoration aims at recovering high-quality face images from those with unknown degradations. Current algorithms mainly introduce priors to complement high-quality details and achieve impressive progress. However, most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Zhouxia Wang , Jiawei Zhang , Tianshui Chen , Wenping Wang , Ping Luo

While neural 3D reconstruction has advanced substantially, its performance significantly degrades with sparse-view data, which limits its broader applicability, since SfM is often unreliable in sparse-view scenarios where feature matches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhiwen Fan , Wenyan Cong , Kairun Wen , Kevin Wang , Jian Zhang , Xinghao Ding , Danfei Xu , Boris Ivanovic , Marco Pavone , Georgios Pavlakos , Zhangyang Wang , Yue Wang

In real-world scenarios, image impairments often manifest as composite degradations, presenting a complex interplay of elements such as low light, haze, rain, and snow. Despite this reality, existing restoration methods typically target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Yu Guo , Yuan Gao , Yuxu Lu , Huilin Zhu , Ryan Wen Liu , Shengfeng He

Generative diffusion models can serve as a prior which ensures that solutions of image restoration systems adhere to the manifold of natural images. However, for restoring facial images, a personalized prior is necessary to accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Pradyumna Chari , Sizhuo Ma , Daniil Ostashev , Achuta Kadambi , Gurunandan Krishnan , Jian Wang , Kfir Aberman

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

Despite the significant progress in diffusion prior-based image restoration, most existing methods apply uniform processing to the entire image, lacking the capability to perform region-customized image restoration according to user…

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