We now provide a *clean* version of GFPGAN, which does not require customized CUDA extensions. See [here](README.md#installation) for this easier installation.<br>
If you want want to use the original model in our paper, please follow the instructions below.
1. Clone repo
```bash
git clone https://github.com/xinntao/GFPGAN.git
cd GFPGAN
```
1. Install dependent packages
As StyleGAN2 uses customized PyTorch C++ extensions, you need to **compile them during installation** or **load them just-in-time(JIT)**.
You can refer to [BasicSR-INSTALL.md](https://github.com/xinntao/BasicSR/blob/master/INSTALL.md) for more details.
**Option 1: Load extensions just-in-time(JIT)** (For those just want to do simple inferences, may have less issues)
Blind face restoration usually relies on facial priors, such as facial geometry prior or reference prior, to restore realistic and faithful details. However, very low-quality inputs cannot offer accurate geometric prior while high-quality references are inaccessible, limiting the applicability in real-world scenarios. In this work, we propose GFP-GAN that leverages **rich and diverse priors encapsulated in a pretrained face GAN** for blind face restoration. This Generative Facial Prior (GFP) is incorporated into the face restoration process via novel channel-split spatial feature transform layers, which allow our method to achieve a good balance of realness and fidelity. Thanks to the powerful generative facial prior and delicate designs, our GFP-GAN could jointly restore facial details and enhance colors with just a single forward pass, while GAN inversion methods require expensive image-specific optimization at inference. Extensive experiments show that our method achieves superior performance to prior art on both synthetic and real-world datasets.
#### BibTeX
@InProceedings{wang2021gfpgan,
author = {Xintao Wang and Yu Li and Honglun Zhang and Ying Shan},
title = {Towards Real-World Blind Face Restoration with Generative Facial Prior},
booktitle={The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
Blind face restoration usually relies on facial priors, such as facial geometry prior or reference prior, to restore realistic and faithful details. However, very low-quality inputs cannot offer accurate geometric prior while high-quality references are inaccessible, limiting the applicability in real-world scenarios. In this work, we propose GFP-GAN that leverages **rich and diverse priors encapsulated in a pretrained face GAN** for blind face restoration. This Generative Facial Prior (GFP) is incorporated into the face restoration process via novel channel-split spatial feature transform layers, which allow our method to achieve a good balance of realness and fidelity. Thanks to the powerful generative facial prior and delicate designs, our GFP-GAN could jointly restore facial details and enhance colors with just a single forward pass, while GAN inversion methods require expensive image-specific optimization at inference. Extensive experiments show that our method achieves superior performance to prior art on both synthetic and real-world datasets.
#### BibTeX
@InProceedings{wang2021gfpgan,
author = {Xintao Wang and Yu Li and Honglun Zhang and Ying Shan},
title = {Towards Real-World Blind Face Restoration with Generative Facial Prior},
booktitle={The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
1.[Component locations of FFHQ: FFHQ_eye_mouth_landmarks_512.pth](https://github.com/TencentARC/GFPGAN/releases/download/v0.1.0/FFHQ_eye_mouth_landmarks_512.pth)
