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WaveFreqAnchor: Wave-Structural Anchoring and Frequency Correction Diffusion for Training-Free Face Restoration

Researchers propose WaveFreqAnchor, a training-free framework for face restoration that uses Wave-Structural Anchoring and Frequency Correction Diffusion to preserve facial identity and restore sharp details. The method outperforms existing approaches in experiments, addressing structural drift and fidelity issues under severe degradations.

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arXiv:2608.06717v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion-based face restoration that adjusts the sampling trajectory of pre-trained diffusion models has achieved remarkable progress. However, existing approaches provide insufficient constraints during reverse diffusion, causing identity-related structural drift and degraded fidelity under severe degradations. To address this, we propose WaveFreqAnchor, a training-free framework based on Wave-Structural Anchoring and Frequency Correction Diffusion. Specifically, Anchor-Space Wave-Structural Guidance (ASWG) constrains facial structures through anisotropic wave-response consistency, while Multi-scale Wavelet-Fourier Injection (MWFI) aligns the predicted low-frequency subband with the observation by replacing its phase, correcting inconsistencies accumulated during reverse diffusion. For real-world scenes, we further introduce Subband High-Frequency Enhancement (SHE), which performs bounded, spatially masked refinement on the predicted high-frequency subbands to recover fine facial details under unknown compound degradations. Together, these designs effectively preserve facial identity while restoring sharp and realistic facial details. Extensive experiments show that our method consistently outperforms existing methods, achieving high-quality and high-fidelity face restoration.

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