{"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/semantic-aware-latent-space-exploration-for","title":"Self-Supervised Face Image Restoration with a One-Shot Reference","arxiv_id":"2203.03005","date":"2022-03-06","proceeding":null,"authors":["Yanhui Guo","Fangzhou Luo","Shaoyuan Xu"],"abstract":"For image restoration, methods leveraging priors from generative models have been proposed and demonstrated a promising capacity to robustly restore photorealistic and high-quality results. However, these methods are susceptible to semantic ambiguity, particularly with images that have obviously correct semantics such as facial images. In this paper, we propose a semantic-aware latent space exploration method for image restoration (SAIR). By explicitly modeling semantics information from a given reference image, SAIR is able to reliably restore severely degraded images not only to high-resolution and highly realistic looks but also to correct semantics. Quantitative and qualitative experiments collectively demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed SAIR. Our code is available at https://github.com/Liamkuo/SAIR.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03005v5","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.03005v5.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":"semantic-aware-latent-space-exploration-for","repo_url":"https://github.com/liamkuo/sair","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"image-restoration","task_name":"Image Restoration"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}