DynFaceRestore: Balancing Fidelity and Quality in Diffusion-Guided Blind Face Restoration with Dynamic Blur-Level Mapping and Guidance

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13797v1
• Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:16:08 GMT
• Title: DynFaceRestore: Balancing Fidelity and Quality in Diffusion-Guided Blind Face Restoration with Dynamic Blur-Level Mapping and Guidance
• Authors: Huu-Phu Do, Yu-Wei Chen, Yi-Cheng Liao, Chi-Wei Hsiao, Han-Yang Wang, Wei-Chen Chiu, Ching-Chun Huang,
• Abstract summary: Blind Face Restoration aims to recover high-fidelity, detail-rich facial images from unknown degraded inputs.<n>We propose DynFaceRestore, a novel blind face restoration approach that learns to map any blindly degraded input to blurry images.<n>DynFaceRestore achieves state-of-the-art performance in both quantitative and qualitative evaluations.
• Score: 23.898755072744425
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Blind Face Restoration aims to recover high-fidelity, detail-rich facial images from unknown degraded inputs, presenting significant challenges in preserving both identity and detail. Pre-trained diffusion models have been increasingly used as image priors to generate fine details. Still, existing methods often use fixed diffusion sampling timesteps and a global guidance scale, assuming uniform degradation. This limitation and potentially imperfect degradation kernel estimation frequently lead to under- or over-diffusion, resulting in an imbalance between fidelity and quality. We propose DynFaceRestore, a novel blind face restoration approach that learns to map any blindly degraded input to Gaussian blurry images. By leveraging these blurry images and their respective Gaussian kernels, we dynamically select the starting timesteps for each blurry image and apply closed-form guidance during the diffusion sampling process to maintain fidelity. Additionally, we introduce a dynamic guidance scaling adjuster that modulates the guidance strength across local regions, enhancing detail generation in complex areas while preserving structural fidelity in contours. This strategy effectively balances the trade-off between fidelity and quality. DynFaceRestore achieves state-of-the-art performance in both quantitative and qualitative evaluations, demonstrating robustness and effectiveness in blind face restoration.

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