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Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR) addresses the challenge of matching face images across different sensing modalities, such as thermal to visible or near-infrared to visible, expanding the applicability of face recognition systems in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Anjith George , Sebastien Marcel

Facial recognition systems have achieved remarkable success by leveraging deep neural networks, advanced loss functions, and large-scale datasets. However, their performance often deteriorates in real-world scenarios involving low-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Sadaf Gulshad , Abdullah Aldahlawi

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

In this work, we present a new method for 3D face reconstruction from sparse-view RGB images. Unlike previous methods which are built upon 3D morphable models (3DMMs) with limited details, we leverage an implicit representation to encode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Moran Li , Haibin Huang , Yi Zheng , Mengtian Li , Nong Sang , Chongyang Ma

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have recently shown remarkable performance in image generation tasks, which are capable of generating highly realistic images. When adopting DPMs for image restoration tasks, the crucial aspect lies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yi Zhang , Xiaoyu Shi , Dasong Li , Xiaogang Wang , Jian Wang , Hongsheng Li

Multi-modality image fusion aims to combine different modalities to produce fused images that retain the complementary features of each modality, such as functional highlights and texture details. To leverage strong generative priors and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Zixiang Zhao , Haowen Bai , Yuanzhi Zhu , Jiangshe Zhang , Shuang Xu , Yulun Zhang , Kai Zhang , Deyu Meng , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Weichen Liu , Yixin Yang , Changsheng Chen , Alex Kot

We present the RAW domain diffusion model (RDDM), an end-to-end diffusion model that restores photo-realistic images directly from the sensor RAW data. While recent sRGB-domain diffusion methods achieve impressive results, they are caught…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Yan Chen , Yi Wen , Wei Li , Junchao Liu , Yong Guo , Jie Hu , Xinghao Chen

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Mo Zhou , Keren Ye , Viraj Shah , Kangfu Mei , Mauricio Delbracio , Peyman Milanfar , Vishal M. Patel , Hossein Talebi

Blind face restoration (BFR) is fundamentally challenged by the extensive range of degradation types and degrees that impact model generalization. Recent advancements in diffusion models have made considerable progress in this field.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Xinmin Qiu , Bonan Li , Zicheng Zhang , Congying Han , Tiande Guo

Traditional speech enhancement methods often oversimplify the task of restoration by focusing on a single type of distortion. Generative models that handle multiple distortions frequently struggle with phone reconstruction and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Tushar Dhyani , Florian Lux , Michele Mancusi , Giorgio Fabbro , Fritz Hohl , Ngoc Thang Vu

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

Face video restoration (FVR) is a challenging but important problem where one seeks to recover a perceptually realistic face videos from a low-quality input. While diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have been shown to achieve remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zihao Zou , Jiaming Liu , Shirin Shoushtari , Yubo Wang , Weijie Gan , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) and their variants have been widely used in large scale face recognition(FR) recently. Existing methods have achieved good performance on many FR benchmarks. However, most of them suffer from two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Jing Xu , Tszhang Guo , Yong Xu , Zenglin Xu , Kun Bai

Identity-preserving face synthesis aims to generate synthetic face images of virtual subjects that can substitute real-world data for training face recognition models. While prior arts strive to create images with consistent identities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yuxi Mi , Zhizhou Zhong , Yuge Huang , Qiuyang Yuan , Xuan Zhao , Jianqing Xu , Shouhong Ding , ShaoMing Wang , Rizen Guo , Shuigeng Zhou

Accurate 3D face reconstruction from 2D images is an enabling technology with applications in healthcare, security, and creative industries. However, current state-of-the-art methods either rely on supervised training with very limited 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Will Rowan , Patrik Huber , Nick Pears , Andrew Keeling

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuhong Zhang , Hengsheng Zhang , Xinning Chai , Zhengxue Cheng , Rong Xie , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang

Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved promising performance in image restoration but haven't been explored for stereo images. The application of DM in stereo image restoration is confronted with a series of challenges. The need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Huiyun Cao , Yuan Shi , Bin Xia , Xiaoyu Jin , Wenming Yang

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