Blind Face Restoration

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

5 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

29 shown of 29 papers with code (55 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• DeblurGAN-v2: Deblurring (Orders-of-Magnitude) Faster and Better
  10 Aug 2019 6 repositories listed
  We present a new end-to-end generative adversarial network (GAN) for single image motion deblurring, named DeblurGAN-v2, which considerably boosts state-of-the-art deblurring efficiency, quality, and flexibility.
• HiFaceGAN: Face Renovation via Collaborative Suppression and Replenishment
  11 May 2020 5 repositories listed
  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…
• GAN Prior Embedded Network for Blind Face Restoration in the Wild
  13 May 2021 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 16 of 21 samples · 5 unverified · 21 pointer-only (licence)
  The proposed GAN prior embedded network (GPEN) is easy-to-implement, and it can generate visually photo-realistic results.
• DiffBIR: Towards Blind Image Restoration with Generative Diffusion Prior
  29 Aug 2023 2 repositories listed
  We present DiffBIR, a general restoration pipeline that could handle different blind image restoration tasks in a unified framework.
• DifFace: Blind Face Restoration with Diffused Error Contraction
  13 Dec 2022 2 repositories listed
  Moreover, the transition distribution can contract the error of the restoration backbone and thus makes our method more robust to unknown degradations.
• Blind Face Restoration: Benchmark Datasets and a Baseline Model
  8 Jun 2022 2 repositories listed
  To address this problem, we first synthesize two blind face restoration benchmark datasets called EDFace-Celeb-1M (BFR128) and EDFace-Celeb-150K (BFR512).
• Visual Style Prompt Learning Using Diffusion Models for Blind Face Restoration
  30 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  Blind face restoration aims to recover high-quality facial images from various unidentified sources of degradation, posing significant challenges due to the minimal information retrievable from the degraded images.
• RestorerID: Towards Tuning-Free Face Restoration with ID Preservation
  21 Nov 2024 1 repository listed
  RestorerID is a diffusion model-based method that restores low-quality images with varying levels of degradation by using a single reference image.
• AuthFace: Towards Authentic Blind Face Restoration with Face-oriented Generative Diffusion Prior
  13 Oct 2024 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we propose a novel framework, namely AuthFace that achieves highly authentic face restoration results by exploring a face-oriented generative diffusion prior.
• Posterior-Mean Rectified Flow: Towards Minimum MSE Photo-Realistic Image Restoration
  1 Oct 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 4 of 10 samples · 6 unverified
  Photo-realistic image restoration algorithms are typically evaluated by distortion measures (e.
• 3D Priors-Guided Diffusion for Blind Face Restoration
  2 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  To inherit the exceptional realism generative ability of the diffusion model and also constrained by the identity-aware fidelity, we propose a novel diffusion-based framework by embedding the 3D facial priors as…
• Efficient Diffusion Model for Image Restoration by Residual Shifting
  12 Mar 2024 1 repository listed
  While diffusion-based image restoration (IR) methods have achieved remarkable success, they are still limited by the low inference speed attributed to the necessity of executing hundreds or even thousands of sampling…
• Towards Real-World Blind Face Restoration with Generative Diffusion Prior
  25 Dec 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 11 of 16 samples · 5 unverified
  We propose BFRffusion which is thoughtfully designed to effectively extract features from low-quality face images and could restore realistic and faithful facial details with the generative prior of the pretrained…
• Dual Associated Encoder for Face Restoration
  14 Aug 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 3 of 5 samples · 2 unverified · 5 pointer-only (licence)
  Restoring facial details from low-quality (LQ) images has remained a challenging problem due to its ill-posedness induced by various degradations in the wild.
• RestoreFormer++: Towards Real-World Blind Face Restoration from Undegraded Key-Value Pairs
  14 Aug 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 11 of 12 samples · 1 unverified
  In this work, we propose RestoreFormer++, which on the one hand introduces fully-spatial attention mechanisms to model the contextual information and the interplay with the priors, and on the other hand, explores an…
• OPHAvatars: One-shot Photo-realistic Head Avatars
  18 Jul 2023 1 repository listed
  And with the coarse video, our method synthesizes a coarse talking head avatar with a deforming neural radiance field.
• DR2: Diffusion-based Robust Degradation Remover for Blind Face Restoration
  13 Mar 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 2 of 3 samples · 1 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  However, it is expensive and infeasible to include every type of degradation to cover real-world cases in the training data.
• Learning Dual Memory Dictionaries for Blind Face Restoration
  15 Oct 2022 1 repository listed Syntology ran 4 of 4 samples · 0 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)
  Generally, it is a challenging and intractable task to improve the photo-realistic performance of blind restoration and adaptively handle the generic and specific restoration scenarios with a single unified model.
• Multi-Prior Learning via Neural Architecture Search for Blind Face Restoration
  28 Jun 2022 1 repository listed
  To this end, we propose a Face Restoration Searching Network (FRSNet) to adaptively search the suitable feature extraction architecture within our specified search space, which can directly contribute to the restoration…
• Towards Robust Blind Face Restoration with Codebook Lookup Transformer
  22 Jun 2022 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we demonstrate that a learned discrete codebook prior in a small proxy space largely reduces the uncertainty and ambiguity of restoration mapping by casting blind face restoration as a code prediction…
• VQFR: Blind Face Restoration with Vector-Quantized Dictionary and Parallel Decoder
  13 May 2022 1 repository listed Syntology ran 9 of 15 samples · 6 unverified · 15 pointer-only (licence)
  Equipped with the VQ codebook as a facial detail dictionary and the parallel decoder design, the proposed VQFR can largely enhance the restored quality of facial details while keeping the fidelity to previous methods.
• RestoreFormer: High-Quality Blind Face Restoration from Undegraded Key-Value Pairs
  17 Jan 2022 1 repository listed Syntology ran 3 of 4 samples · 1 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  Blind face restoration is to recover a high-quality face image from unknown degradations.
• Towards Real-World Blind Face Restoration with Generative Facial Prior
  11 Jan 2021 1 repository listed
  Blind face restoration usually relies on facial priors, such as facial geometry prior or reference prior, to restore realistic and faithful details.
• Implicit Subspace Prior Learning for Dual-Blind Face Restoration
  12 Oct 2020 1 repository listed
  Face restoration is an inherently ill-posed problem, where additional prior constraints are typically considered crucial for mitigating such pathology.
• Progressive Semantic-Aware Style Transformation for Blind Face Restoration
  18 Sep 2020 1 repository listed
  Compared with previous networks, the proposed PSFR-GAN makes full use of the semantic (parsing maps) and pixel (LQ images) space information from different scales of input pairs.
• Blind Face Restoration via Deep Multi-scale Component Dictionaries
  2 Aug 2020 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 2 samples · 1 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  Next, with the degraded input, we match and select the most similar component features from their corresponding dictionaries and transfer the high-quality details to the input via the proposed dictionary feature…
• Enhanced Blind Face Restoration With Multi-Exemplar Images and Adaptive Spatial Feature Fusion
  1 Jun 2020 1 repository listed
  First, given a degraded observation, we select the optimal guidance based on the weighted affine distance on landmark sets, where the landmark weights are learned to make the guidance image optimized to HQ image…
• Image Processing Using Multi-Code GAN Prior
  15 Dec 2019 1 repository listed
  Such an over-parameterization of the latent space significantly improves the image reconstruction quality, outperforming existing competitors.
• Learning Warped Guidance for Blind Face Restoration
  13 Apr 2018 1 repository listed
  For better recovery of fine facial details, we modify the problem setting by taking both the degraded observation and a high-quality guided image of the same identity as input to our guided face restoration network…

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