Multiple Exemplars-based Hallucination for Face Super-resolution and Editing

Kaili Wang, Jose Oramas, Tinne Tuytelaars; Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2020

Abstract


Given a really low-resolution input image of a face (say 16x16 or 8x8 pixels), the goal of this paper is to reconstruct a high-resolution version thereof. This, by itself, is an ill-posed problem, as the high-frequency information is missing in the low-resolution input and needs to be hallucinated, based on prior knowledge about the image content. Rather than relying on a generic face prior, in this paper, we explore the use of a set of exemplars, i.e. other high-resolution images of the same person. These guide the neural network as we condition the output on them. Multiple exemplars work better than a single one. To combine the information from multiple exemplars effectively, we intro-duce a pixel-wise weight generation module. Besides standard face super-resolution, our method allows to perform subtle face editing simply by replacing the exemplars with another set with different facial features. A user study is conducted and shows the super-resolved images can hardly be distinguished from real images on the CelebA dataset. A qualitative comparison indicates our model outperforms methods proposed in the literature on the CelebA and WebFace data.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Wang_2020_ACCV, author = {Wang, Kaili and Oramas, Jose and Tuytelaars, Tinne}, title = {Multiple Exemplars-based Hallucination for Face Super-resolution and Editing}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)}, month = {November}, year = {2020} }