Title
GCFSR: a Generative and Controllable Face Super Resolution Method Without Facial and GAN Priors
Abstract
Face image super resolution (face hallucination) usu-ally relies on facial priors to restore realistic details and preserve identity information. Recent advances can achieve impressive results with the help of GAN prior. They ei-ther design complicated modules to modify the fixed GAN prior or adopt complex training strategies to finetune the generator. In this work, we propose a generative and controllable face SR framework, called GCFSR, which can re-construct images with faithful identity information without any additional priors. Generally, GCFSR has an encoder-generator architecture. Two modules called style modu-lation and feature modulation are designed for the multi-factor SR task. The style modulation aims to generate real-istic face details and the feature modulation dynamically fuses the multi-level encoded features and the generated ones conditioned on the upscaling factor. The simple and elegant architecture can be trained from scratch in an end-to-end manner. For small upscaling factors (≤8), GCFSR can produce surprisingly good results with only adversar-ialloss. After adding L1 and perceptual losses, GCFSR can outperform state-of-the-art methods for large upscalingfac-tors (16, 32, 64). During the test phase, we can modulate the generative strength via feature modulation by changing the conditional upscaling factor continuously to achieve various generative effects. Code is available at https://github.com/hejingwenhejingwen/GCFSR
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.00193
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Low-level vision, Deep learning architectures and techniques
Conference
2022
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jingwen He100.34
Wu Shi200.34
Kai Chen300.34
Lean Fu401.69
Chao Dong5206480.72