4 papers
RefSTAR: Blind Facial Image Restoration with Reference Selection, Transfer, and Reconstruction
Zhicun Yin, Junjie Chen, Ming Liu +6
Blind facial image restoration is highly challenging due to unknown complex degradations and the sensitivity of humans to faces. Although existing methods introduce auxiliary infor…
NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Real-World Face Restoration: Methods and Results
Zheng Chen, Jingkai Wang, Kai Liu +51
This paper provides a review of the NTIRE 2025 challenge on real-world face restoration, highlighting the proposed solutions and the resulting outcomes. The challenge focuses on ge…
AnimateAnywhere: Rouse the Background in Human Image Animation
Xiaoyu Liu, Mingshuai Yao, Yabo Zhang +5
Human image animation aims to generate human videos of given characters and backgrounds that adhere to the desired pose sequence. However, existing methods focus more on human acti…
Beyond Static Scenes: Camera-controllable Background Generation for Human Motion
Mingshuai Yao, Mengting Chen, Qinye Zhou +9
In this paper, we investigate the generation of new video backgrounds given a human foreground video, a camera pose, and a reference scene image. This task presents three key chall…