CodeFormer vs GFPGAN

CodeFormer

[NeurIPS 2022] Towards Robust Blind Face Restoration with Codebook Lookup Transformer (by sczhou)

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GFPGAN

GFPGAN aims at developing Practical Algorithms for Real-world Face Restoration. (by TencentARC)

Pytorch Gan Deep Learning super-resolution face-restoration image-restoration gfpgan

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CodeFormer		GFPGAN
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28	Mentions	93
13,396	Stars	34,594
-	Growth	1.4%
2.0	Activity	2.7
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	28 days ago
Python	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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CodeFormer

Posts with mentions or reviews of CodeFormer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-29.

Automatic1111 for Intel Arc (A380 Tested)
5 projects | /r/StableDiffusion | 29 May 2023

CodeFormer
Working with a prompt someone posted earlier ( workflow in comments)
1 project | /r/StableDiffusion | 28 Apr 2023

https://github.com/sczhou/CodeFormer like this, did you install anything???
Robust Blind Face Restoration with Codebook Lookup Transformer
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Mar 2023
Images created in Automatic1111 on M1 Mac - Blue tint
2 projects | /r/StableDiffusion | 23 Mar 2023

https://github.com/sczhou/CodeFormer/releases/download/v0.1.0/codeformer.pth to /stable-diffusion-webui/models/Codeformer/codeformer-v0.1.0.pth
How can I make this command run?
1 project | /r/NoStupidQuestions | 14 Mar 2023

I just watched a youtube video of two minute papers and I was impressed by this face restauration ai.
Towards Robust Blind Face Restoration with Codebook Lookup TransFormer | high quality faces!
1 project | /r/StableDiffusion | 9 Mar 2023
I tried restoring this REALY old photo of my wife's great great great great Grandpa.
1 project | /r/StableDiffusion | 9 Mar 2023

Have you tried this instead? https://github.com/sczhou/CodeFormer , you can try it at https://replicate.com/sczhou/codeformer
12 best AI websites to make your life easier [save 100s of hours]
1 project | dev.to | 25 Jan 2023
Hoping to get this 1890's photo of my great grandmother and her 3 sisters restored as a Christmas present for my father.
1 project | /r/estoration | 4 Dec 2022

CodeFormer is another good alternative to GFPGAN if you're not pleased with its results.
new ai upscale tech
1 project | /r/nyannyancosplay | 11 Nov 2022

GFPGAN

Posts with mentions or reviews of GFPGAN. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-24.

Ask HN: What is the state of the art in AI photo enhancement?
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2024
Open source software has gotten a lot better at having smooth swaps. Below is what i got.
2 projects | /r/faceswap | 28 Jun 2023

Mainly as the base model. https://insightface.ai/ There was some post processing done to further improve quality. https://github.com/TencentARC/GFPGAN
AI generator for photos of past people?
1 project | /r/artificial | 16 May 2023

Check out GFOGAN https://github.com/TencentARC/GFPGAN
A little bedtime story by the AI nanny | Stable Diffusion + GPT = a match made in latent space
2 projects | /r/StableDiffusion | 12 May 2023

It's not animating really, just lip sync and face restoration, here I used: https://github.com/Rudrabha/Wav2Lip and https://github.com/TencentARC/GFPGAN respectively.
Tools For AI Animation and Filmmaking , Community Rules, ect. (**FAQ**)
20 projects | /r/AI_Film_and_Animation | 5 May 2023

Real-ESRGAN/GFPGAN https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN (Real-ESRAN - Upscale images, facial restoration with GFPGAN setting) https://github.com/TencentARC/GFPGAN (GFPGAN - Facial restoration and Upscale) -------MATTE AND COMPOSITE--------
what should i do
1 project | /r/StableDiffusion | 4 May 2023

2.install it using pip install git+https://github.com/TencentARC/GFPGAN.git@8d2447a2d918f8eba5a4a01463fd48e45126a379
hey guys, need hsome help
1 project | /r/learnpython | 2 Mar 2023

Cloning https://github.com/TencentARC/GFPGAN.git (to revision 8d2447a2d918f8eba5a4a01463fd48e45126a379) to /private/var/folders/qw/_kkcnr2s59n3kplbwxsk_k2c0000gn/T/pip-req-build-bgantjtl
Need help, keep getting [Errno 2] No such file or directory when running batch file.
1 project | /r/StableDiffusionInfo | 26 Feb 2023

All I have done is add Stable Diffusion Checkpoints and the GFPGAN checkpoints to C:\Program Files (x86)\stable-diffusion-webui-master\stable-diffusion-webui-master\models\Stable-diffusion.
Free AI-Powered Photo Restoration Service to Restore Photos
1 project | /r/freebies | 25 Feb 2023
Sorry I'm not a Coder. How do you use GPFGAN with Anaconda Stable Diffusion?
1 project | /r/StableDiffusion | 21 Feb 2023

Where you would find its commands here.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing CodeFormer and GFPGAN you can also consider the following projects:

stable-diffusion-webui - Stable Diffusion web UI

Real-ESRGAN - Real-ESRGAN aims at developing Practical Algorithms for General Image/Video Restoration.

GPEN

Real-ESRGAN-ncnn-vulkan - NCNN implementation of Real-ESRGAN. Real-ESRGAN aims at developing Practical Algorithms for General Image Restoration.

DFDNet - Blind Face Restoration via Deep Multi-scale Component Dictionaries (ECCV 2020)

MidJourney-Styles-and-Keywords-Reference - A reference containing Styles and Keywords that you can use with MidJourney AI. There are also pages showing resolution comparison, image weights, and much more!

stable-diffusion-webui - Stable Diffusion web UI [Moved to: https://github.com/sd-webui/stable-diffusion-webui]

stable-diffusion-ui - Easiest 1-click way to install and use Stable Diffusion on your computer. Provides a browser UI for generating images from text prompts and images. Just enter your text prompt, and see the generated image. [Moved to: https://github.com/easydiffusion/easydiffusion]

stable-diffusion - A latent text-to-image diffusion model