RestormGAN: Restormer with generative facial prior towards real-world blind face restoration

Changhui Hu, Weihong Zhu, Lintao Xu, Fei Wu, Ziyun Cai, Mengjun Ye, Xiaobo Lu

Abstract: Highlights•This paper combines Restormer based encoder with GAN prior to restore facial details.•This paper proposes a novel channel height and width axes attention module and a dual down-sampling module.•This paper combines multi-handcraft degradations strategy with the pretrained learning degradation model.