A survey of deep face restoration: Denoise, super-resolution, deblur, artifact removal

T Wang, K Zhang, X Chen, W Luo, J Deng, T Lu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Face Restoration (FR) aims to restore High-Quality (HQ) faces from Low-Quality (LQ) input
images, which is a domain-specific image restoration problem in the low-level computer …

Towards robust blind face restoration with codebook lookup transformer

S Zhou, K Chan, C Li, CC Loy - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Blind face restoration is a highly ill-posed problem that often requires auxiliary guidance to
1) improve the mapping from degraded inputs to desired outputs, or 2) complement high …

Vqfr: Blind face restoration with vector-quantized dictionary and parallel decoder

Y Gu, X Wang, L Xie, C Dong, G Li, Y Shan… - … on Computer Vision, 2022 - Springer
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 …

Diffusionrig: Learning personalized priors for facial appearance editing

Z Ding, X Zhang, Z Xia, L Jebe… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We address the problem of learning person-specific facial priors from a small number (eg,
20) of portrait photos of the same person. This enables us to edit this specific person's facial …

Spatial-frequency mutual learning for face super-resolution

C Wang, J Jiang, Z Zhong, X Liu - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Face super-resolution (FSR) aims to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) face images from the
low-resolution (LR) ones. With the advent of deep learning, the FSR technique has achieved …

Difface: Blind face restoration with diffused error contraction

Z Yue, CC Loy - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While deep learning-based methods for blind face restoration have achieved
unprecedented success, they still suffer from two major limitations. First, most of them …

Learning generative structure prior for blind text image super-resolution

X Li, W Zuo, CC Loy - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Blind text image super-resolution (SR) is challenging as one needs to cope with diverse font
styles and unknown degradation. To address the problem, existing methods perform …

Lipformer: High-fidelity and generalizable talking face generation with a pre-learned facial codebook

J Wang, K Zhao, S Zhang, Y Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Generating a talking face video from the input audio sequence is a practical yet challenging
task. Most existing methods either fail to capture fine facial details or need to train a specific …

CTCNet: A CNN-transformer cooperation network for face image super-resolution

G Gao, Z Xu, J Li, J Yang, T Zeng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, deep convolution neural networks (CNNs) steered face super-resolution methods
have achieved great progress in restoring degraded facial details by joint training with facial …

PGDiff: Guiding diffusion models for versatile face restoration via partial guidance

P Yang, S Zhou, Q Tao, CC Loy - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Exploiting pre-trained diffusion models for restoration has recently become a favored
alternative to the traditional task-specific training approach. Previous works have achieved …