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Restore images

These models restore and improve images by fixing defects like blur, noise, and low resolution. Key capabilities:

  • Deblurring - Sharpen blurry images by reversing blur effects. Useful for old photos.
  • Denoising - Remove grain and artifacts by learning noise patterns.
  • Colorization - Add realistic color to black and white photos.
  • Face restoration - Improve the image quality of faces in old photos, or unrealistic AI generated faces.

Our Picks

Best photo restoration model: jingyunliang/swinir.

If you need to sharpen a blurry photo, upscale a small picture, or remove noise or compression artifacts, start with jingyunliang/swinir. It’s a fast and powerful model for many types of photo restoration. Another popular choice is megvii-research/nafnet.

Best colorization model: piddnad/ddcolor

The best model for adding color to black and white photos is piddnad/ddcolor. It runs faster and produces more vibrant results than other models. If you are looking for more diverse outputs, try cjwbw/bigcolor which will give you several options from one input.

Best face restoration model: tencentarc/gfpgan

If you’re looking for a face restoration model, start with tencentarc/gfpgan, which runs in a fraction of a second. If you need even more realistic faces, try lucataco/codeformer.

For more options, make sure to check out our image upscaling collection →

Featured models

flux-kontext-apps / restore-image

Use FLUX Kontext to restore, fix scratches and damage, and colorize old photos

Updated 1 month ago

100.9K runs

sczhou / codeformer

Robust face restoration algorithm for old photos / AI-generated faces

Updated 5 months, 2 weeks ago

43.5M runs

tencentarc / gfpgan

Practical face restoration algorithm for *old photos* or *AI-generated faces*

Updated 1 year, 3 months ago

91.7M runs

piddnad / ddcolor

Towards Photo-Realistic Image Colorization via Dual Decoders

Updated 1 year, 5 months ago

403.7K runs

jingyunliang / swinir

Image Restoration Using Swin Transformer

Updated 2 years, 9 months ago

6M runs

megvii-research / nafnet

Nonlinear Activation Free Network for Image Restoration

Updated 3 years, 2 months ago

1.4M runs

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Color match and white balance fixes for images

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Bringing Old Photos Back to Life

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Updated 2 years, 11 months ago

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Blind Face Restoration with Vector-Quantized Dictionary and Parallel Decoder

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Blind Face Restoration with Vector-Quantized Dictionary and Parallel Decoder

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google-research / maxim

Multi-Axis MLP for Image Processing

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