2 papers
cs.CV2026
IConFace: Fine-Grained Identity Conditioning for Reference-Aware Face Restoration
Axi Niu, Jinyang Zhang, Senyan Qing
Severe face degradation can remove person-specific evidence, making restoration underdetermined. A generative prior may recover a sharp, plausible face yet miss localized traits th…
cs.CV2026
The Second Challenge on Real-World Face Restoration at NTIRE 2026: Methods and Results
Jingkai Wang, Jue Gong, Zheng Chen +50
This paper provides a review of the NTIRE 2026 challenge on real-world face restoration, highlighting the proposed solutions and the resulting outcomes. The challenge focuses on ge…