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Existing face restoration researches typically relies on either the degradation prior or explicit guidance labels for training, which often results in limited generalization ability over real-world images with heterogeneous degradations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Lingbo Yang , Chang Liu , Pan Wang , Shanshe Wang , Peiran Ren , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

This work aims to tackle the all-in-one image restoration task, which seeks to handle multiple types of degradation with a single model. The primary challenge is to extract degradation representations from the input degraded images and use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Jie Chu , Tong Su , Pei Liu , Yunpeng Wu , Le Zhang , Zenglin Shi , Meng Wang

Recent developments in face restoration have achieved remarkable results in producing high-quality and lifelike outputs. The stunning results however often fail to be faithful with respect to the identity of the person as the models lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Tuomas Varanka , Tapani Toivonen , Soumya Tripathy , Guoying Zhao , Erman Acar

Blind Face Restoration aims to recover high-fidelity, detail-rich facial images from unknown degraded inputs, presenting significant challenges in preserving both identity and detail. Pre-trained diffusion models have been increasingly used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Huu-Phu Do , Yu-Wei Chen , Yi-Cheng Liao , Chi-Wei Hsiao , Han-Yang Wang , Wei-Chen Chiu , Ching-Chun Huang

Although diffusion prior is rising as a powerful solution for blind face restoration (BFR), the inherent gap between the vanilla diffusion model and BFR settings hinders its seamless adaptation. The gap mainly stems from the discrepancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Yunqi Miao , Zhiyu Qu , Mingqi Gao , Changrui Chen , Jifei Song , Jungong Han , Jiankang Deng

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

The computer vision community has developed numerous techniques for digitally restoring true scene information from single-view degraded photographs, an important yet extremely ill-posed task. In this work, we tackle image restoration from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yucheng Mao , Boyang Wang , Nilesh Kulkarni , Jeong Joon Park

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

In this paper, we introduce \textit{DecoRec}, a novel system designed to elevate single-view 2D images to a decomposed 3D scene mesh. Current methods for single-view scene reconstruction typically rely on object retrieval or the regression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yuhan Ping , Yuan Liu , Xiaoxiao Long , Peng Wang , Junhui Hou , Jianyi Zheng , Jia Pan , Xin Li , Cheng Lin

Face personalization aims to insert specific faces, taken from images, into pretrained text-to-image diffusion models. However, it is still challenging for previous methods to preserve both the identity similarity and editability due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Kaede Shiohara , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Blind face restoration is a challenging task due to the unknown and complex degradation. Although face prior-based methods and reference-based methods have recently demonstrated high-quality results, the restored images tend to contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Guojing Ge , Qi Song , Guibo Zhu , Yuting Zhang , Jinglu Chen , Miao Xin , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Recent years have witnessed the prosperity of reference-based image super-resolution (Ref-SR). By importing the high-resolution (HR) reference images into the single image super-resolution (SISR) approach, the ill-posed nature of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Zihan Wang , Ziliang Xiong , Hongying Tang , Xiaobing Yuan

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

In nighttime circumstances, it is challenging for individuals and machines to perceive their surroundings. While prevailing image restoration methods adeptly handle singular forms of degradation, they falter when confronted with intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yifan Chen , Fei Yin , Chunle Guo , Chongyi Li , Yujiu Yang

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

Image super-resolution pursuits reconstructing high-fidelity high-resolution counterpart for low-resolution image. In recent years, diffusion-based models have garnered significant attention due to their capabilities with rich prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Aiwen Jiang , Zhi Wei , Long Peng , Feiqiang Liu , Wenbo Li , Mingwen Wang

Due to their highly structured characteristics, faces are easier to recover than natural scenes for blind image super-resolution. Therefore, we can extract the degradation representation of an image from the low-quality and recovered face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Zhicun Yin , Ming Liu , Xiaoming Li , Hui Yang , Longan Xiao , Wangmeng Zuo

Referring Camouflaged Object Detection (Ref-COD) segments specified camouflaged objects in a scene by leveraging a small set of referring images. Though effective, current systems adopt a dual-branch design that requires reference images at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yu-Huan Wu , Zi-Xuan Zhu , Yan Wang , Liangli Zhen , Deng-Ping Fan

Blind face restoration usually relies on facial priors, such as facial geometry prior or reference prior, to restore realistic and faithful details. However, very low-quality inputs cannot offer accurate geometric prior while high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Xintao Wang , Yu Li , Honglun Zhang , Ying Shan

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