csxmli2016/GFRNet

Learning warped guidance for blind face restoration (ECCV 2018)

GFRNet

Torch implementation for Learning Warped Guidance for Blind Face Restoration

GFRNet framework

Overview of our GFRNet. The WarpNet takes the degraded observation and guided image as input to predict the dense flow field, which is adopted to deform guided image to the warped guidance. Warped guidance is expected to be spatially well aligned with ground-truth. Thus the RecNet takes warped guidance and degradated observation as input to produce the restoration result.

Testing

th test.lua

Models

Download the pre-trained model with the following url and put it into ./checkpoints/FaceRestoration/.

• BaiduNetDisk
• GoogleDrive

Results

Restoration on real low quality images

The first row is real low quality image(close-up in right bottom is the guided image). The second row is GFRNet result.

Warped guidance

IMDB results

The content marked with green box is the restoration results by our GFRNet. All of these images are collected from Internet Movie Database (IMDb).

 

Input	Guided Image	Bicubic	GFRNet Results

• More IMDB resutls can be found here.
• Poster can be found here.

Requirements and Dependencies

• Torch
• Cuda-8.0
• Stn

Acknowledgments

Code borrows heavily from pix2pix. Thanks for their excellent work!

Citation

@InProceedings{Li_2018_ECCV,
author = {Li, Xiaoming and Liu, Ming and Ye, Yuting and Zuo, Wangmeng and Lin, Liang and Yang, Ruigang},
title = {Learning Warped Guidance for Blind Face Restoration},
booktitle = {The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
month = {September},
year = {2018}
}