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Blind Face Restoration with Vector-Quantized Dictionary and Parallel Decoder
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VQFR (ECCV 2022 Oral)

This paper aims at investigating the potential and limitation of Vector-Quantized (VQ) dictionary for blind face restoration.


We propose a new framework VQFR – incoporating the Vector-Quantized Dictionary and the Parallel Decoder.
Compare with previous arts, VQFR produces more realistic facial details and keep the comparable fidelity.

VQFR: Blind Face Restoration with Vector-Quantized Dictionary and Parallel Decoder

Yuchao Gu, Xintao Wang, Liangbin Xie, Chao Dong, Gen Li, Ying Shan,
Ming-Ming Cheng

Nankai University; Tencent ARC Lab; Tencent Online Video; Shanghai AI Laboratory;

Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

License

VQFR is released under Apache License Version 2.0.

Acknowledgement

Thanks to the following open-source projects:

Taming-transformers

GFPGAN

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Citation

@inproceedings{gu2022vqfr,
  title={VQFR: Blind Face Restoration with Vector-Quantized Dictionary and Parallel Decoder},
  author={Gu, Yuchao and Wang, Xintao and Xie, Liangbin and Dong, Chao and Li, Gen and Shan, Ying and Cheng, Ming-Ming},
  year={2022},
  booktitle={ECCV}
}

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