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This study introduces Text-guided Blind Face Restoration (TBFR), a new method that uses text descriptions to improve face image reconstruction. TBFR enhances facial detail recovery, outperforming existing visual-only approaches.

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Area of Science:

Computer Vision
Artificial Intelligence
Image Processing

Background:

Blind Face Restoration (BFR) aims to restore high-quality faces from degraded images without prior knowledge.
Current GAN- and diffusion-based methods improve realism but struggle with subtle details and identity distortion under severe degradation.
Existing BFR methods rely solely on visual cues, limiting reconstruction accuracy for fine facial features.

Purpose of the Study:

To improve Blind Face Restoration (BFR) by incorporating auxiliary textual information.
To enable the recovery of subtle facial attributes like wrinkles and moles often missed by visual-only methods.
To establish a new benchmark for BFR tasks through enhanced fidelity and detail.

Main Methods:

Constructed a large-scale dataset of 30,000 detailed textual descriptions paired with CelebA-HQ face images.
Developed FaceCLIP, a fine-tuned vision-language model for accurate face image-text alignment.
Proposed Text-guided Blind Face Restoration (TBFR), a diffusion-based framework integrating text guidance via hybrid attention and text-aware loss.

Main Results:

TBFR effectively fuses visual and textual features for improved face reconstruction.
The text-aware loss enforces semantic consistency, enhancing identity preservation and detail recovery.
Experimental results demonstrate TBFR's superiority over state-of-the-art BFR methods in quantitative and qualitative evaluations.

Conclusions:

Text-guided BFR significantly enhances the reconstruction of subtle facial details and identity.
The proposed FaceCLIP model and TBFR framework establish a new standard for high-fidelity face restoration.
Integrating textual information offers a promising direction for advancing BFR research and applications.