arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 16

HonestFace: Towards Honest Face Restoration with One-Step Diffusion Model

HonestFace is a one‑step diffusion model designed for honest face restoration, preserving identity and realistic textures. It introduces an identity embedder that captures key identity features from low‑quality inputs and reference faces, and a masked face alignment method to enhance fine‑grained details. The authors also release a new real‑world dataset, MultiRefCeleb‑Test, and demonstrate that HonestFace outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods in both visual quality and quantitative metrics.

By Jingkai Wang, Wu Miao, Jue Gong, Zheng Chen, Xing Liu, Hong Gu, Yutong Liu, Yulun Zhang