{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/flair-a-conditional-diffusion-framework-with","title":"FLAIR: A Conditional Diffusion Framework with Applications to Face Video Restoration","arxiv_id":"2311.15445","date":"2023-11-26","proceeding":null,"authors":["Zihao Zou","Jiaming Liu","Shirin Shoushtari","YuBo Wang","Weijie Gan","Ulugbek S. Kamilov"],"abstract":"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 performance for face image restoration, they often fail to preserve temporally coherent, high-quality videos, compromising the fidelity of reconstructed faces. We present a new conditional diffusion framework called FLAIR for FVR. FLAIR ensures temporal consistency across frames in a computationally efficient fashion by converting a traditional image DPM into a video DPM. The proposed conversion uses a recurrent video refinement layer and a temporal self-attention at different scales. FLAIR also uses a conditional iterative refinement process to balance the perceptual and distortion quality during inference. This process consists of two key components: a data-consistency module that analytically ensures that the generated video precisely matches its degraded observation and a coarse-to-fine image enhancement module specifically for facial regions. Our extensive experiments show superiority of FLAIR over the current state-of-the-art (SOTA) for video super-resolution, deblurring, JPEG restoration, and space-time frame interpolation on two high-quality face video datasets.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.15445v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.15445v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"flair-a-conditional-diffusion-framework-with","repo_url":"https://github.com/wustl-cig/FLAIR","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"deblurring","task_name":"Deblurring"},{"task_slug":"image-enhancement","task_name":"Image Enhancement"},{"task_slug":"image-restoration","task_name":"Image Restoration"},{"task_slug":"super-resolution","task_name":"Super-Resolution"},{"task_slug":"video-restoration","task_name":"Video Restoration"},{"task_slug":"video-super-resolution","task_name":"Video Super-Resolution"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"diffusion","method_name":"Diffusion"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}