CodeFormer: AI Face Restoration and Photo Enhancement in Python
CodeFormer restores and enhances faces in old or damaged photos, with colorization, inpainting, and Real-ESRGAN background upscaling. Python tool.
CodeFormer
This is a neural network tool for restoring and enhancing the quality of faces in old or damaged photographs.
It uses the Codebook Lookup Transformer architecture, which makes it possible to balance restoration quality and preserving facial identity.
Key features include face restoration, colorization of black-and-white images, filling in damaged areas, and quality enhancement.
Additionally, CodeFormer can improve the quality of image backgrounds using the Real-ESRGAN model.
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