README.md

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## Towards Robust Blind Face Restoration with Codebook Lookup Transformer

[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11253) | [Project Page](https://shangchenzhou.com/projects/CodeFormer/) | [Video](https://youtu.be/d3VDpkXlueI)

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[Shangchen Zhou](https://shangchenzhou.com/), [Kelvin C.K. Chan](https://ckkelvinchan.github.io/), [Chongyi Li](https://li-chongyi.github.io/), [Chen Change Loy](https://www.mmlab-ntu.com/person/ccloy/) 

S-Lab, Nanyang Technological University

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:star: If CodeFormer is helpful to your pothos or projects, please help star this repo. Thanks! :hugs: 

### Updates

- **2022.08.07**: Integrate Real-ESRGAN to support background image enhancement.
- **2022.07.29**: New face detector with supporting `['YOLOv5', 'RetinaFace']`. 
- **2022.07.17**: The Colab demo of CodeFormer is available now. <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1m52PNveE4PBhYrecj34cnpEeiHcC5LTb?usp=sharing"><img src="https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg" alt="google colab logo"></a>
- **2022.07.16**: Test code for face restoration is released. :blush:
- **2022.06.21**: This repo is created.


#### Face Restoration

<img src="assets/restoration_result1.png" width="400px"/> <img src="assets/restoration_result2.png" width="400px"/>
<img src="assets/restoration_result3.png" width="400px"/> <img src="assets/restoration_result4.png" width="400px"/>

#### Face Color Enhancement and Restoration

<img src="assets/color_enhancement_result1.png" width="400px"/> <img src="assets/color_enhancement_result2.png" width="400px"/>

#### Face Inpainting

<img src="assets/inpainting_result1.png" width="400px"/> <img src="assets/inpainting_result2.png" width="400px"/>



### Dependencies and Installation

- Pytorch >= 1.7.1
- CUDA >= 10.1
- Other required packages in `requirements.txt`
```
# git clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/sczhou/CodeFormer
cd CodeFormer

# create new anaconda env
conda create -n codeformer python=3.8 -y
source activate codeformer

# install python dependencies
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python basicsr/setup.py develop
```
<!-- conda install -c conda-forge dlib -->

### Quick Inference

##### Download Pre-trained Models:
Download the facelib pretrained models from [[Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1b_3qwrzY_kTQh0-SnBoGBgOrJ_PLZSKm?usp=sharing) | [OneDrive](https://entuedu-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/s200094_e_ntu_edu_sg/EvDxR7FcAbZMp_MA9ouq7aQB8XTppMb3-T0uGZ_2anI2mg?e=DXsJFo)] to the `weights/facelib` folder. 
You can download by run the following command OR manually download the pretrained models.
```
python scripts/download_pretrained_models.py facelib
```

Download the CodeFormer pretrained models from [[Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CNNByjHDFt0b95q54yMVp6Ifo5iuU6QS?usp=sharing) | [OneDrive](https://entuedu-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/s200094_e_ntu_edu_sg/EoKFj4wo8cdIn2-TY2IV6CYBhZ0pIG4kUOeHdPR_A5nlbg?e=AO8UN9)] to the `weights/CodeFormer` folder. 
You can download by run the following command OR manually download the pretrained models.
```
python scripts/download_pretrained_models.py CodeFormer
```

##### Prepare Testing Data:
You can put the testing images in the `inputs/TestWhole` folder. If you would like to test on cropped and aligned faces, you can put them in the `inputs/cropped_faces` folder.


##### Testing on Face Restoration:
```
# For cropped and aligned faces
python inference_codeformer.py --w 0.5 --has_aligned --test_path [input folder]

# For the whole images
# If you want to enhance the background regions with Real-ESRGAN,
# you can add '--bg_upsampler realesrgan' in the following command
python inference_codeformer.py --w 0.7 --test_path [input folder]
```

NOTE that *w* is in [0, 1]. Generally, smaller *w* tends to produce a higher-quality result, while larger *w* yields a higher-fidelity result. 

The results will be saved in the `results` folder.

### Citation
If our work is useful for your research, please consider citing:

    @article{zhou2022codeformer,
        author = {Zhou, Shangchen and Chan, Kelvin C.K. and Li, Chongyi and Loy, Chen Change},
        title = {Towards Robust Blind Face Restoration with Codebook Lookup TransFormer},
        journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.11253},
        year = {2022}
    }

### License

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>.

### Acknowledgement

This project is based on [BasicSR](https://github.com/XPixelGroup/BasicSR). We also borrow some codes from [Unleashing Transformers](https://github.com/samb-t/unleashing-transformers), [YOLOv5-face](https://github.com/deepcam-cn/yolov5-face), and [FaceXLib](https://github.com/xinntao/facexlib).

### Contact
If you have any question, please feel free to reach me out at `[email protected]`.