Related paper: TPAMI

A high resolution version of VGGFace2 for academic face editing purpose.This project uses GFPGAN for image restoration and insightface for data preprocessing (crop and align).

We provide a download link for users to download the data, and also provide guidance on how to generate the VGGFace2 dataset from scratch.

If you find this project useful, please star it. It is the greatest appreciation of our work.

We have uploaded the dataset of VGGFace2 HQ to the cloud, and you can download it from the cloud.

[Google Drive]

We are especially grateful to Kairui Feng PhD student from Princeton University.

[Baidu Drive] Password: sjtu

We highly recommand that you use Anaconda for Installation

conda install pytorch==1.8.0 torchvision==0.9.0 torchaudio==0.8.0 cudatoolkit=10.2 -c pytorch
pip install insightface==0.2.1 onnxruntime
(optional) pip install onnxruntime-gpu==1.2.0

pip install basicsr
pip install facexlib
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py develop

• The pytorch and cuda versions above are most recommanded. They may vary.
• Using insightface with different versions is not recommanded. Please use this specific version.
• These settings are tested valid on both Windows and Ununtu.

• We use the face detection and alignment methods from insightface for image preprocessing. Please download the relative files and unzip them to ./insightface_func/models from this link.
• Download GFPGANCleanv1-NoCE-C2.pth from GFPGAN offical repo. Place "GFPGANCleanv1-NoCE-C2.pth" in ./experiments/pretrained_models.

• Download VGGFace2 Dataset from VGGFace2 Dataset for Face Recognition

• Frist, perform data preprocessing on all photos in VGGFACE2, that is, detect faces and align them to the same alignment format as FFHQdataset.

python scripts/crop_align_vggface2_FFHQalign.py --input_dir $DATAPATH$/VGGface2/train --output_dir_ffhqalign $ALIGN_OUTDIR$ --mode ffhq --crop_size 256

• And then, do the magic of image restoration with GFPGAN for processed photos.

python scripts/inference_gfpgan_forvggface2.py --input_path $ALIGN_OUTDIR$  --batchSize 8 --save_dir $HQ_OUTDIR$

If you find our work useful in your research, please consider citing:

@Article{simswapplusplus,
    author = {Xuanhong Chen and
    Bingbing Ni and
    Yutian Liu and
    Naiyuan Liu and
    Zhilin Zeng and
    Hang Wang},
    title = {SimSwap++: Towards Faster and High-Quality Identity Swapping},
    journal = {{IEEE} Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.},
    volume = {46},
    number = {1},
    pages = {576--592},
    year = {2024}
}

Please visit our popular face swapping project

Please visit our another ACMMM2020 high-quality style transfer project

Please visit our AAAI2021 sketch based rendering project

Learn about our other projects

[VGGFace2-HQ];

[RainNet];

[Sketch Generation];

[CooGAN];

[Knowledge Style Transfer];

[SimSwap];

[ASMA-GAN];

[SNGAN-Projection-pytorch]

[Pretrained_VGG19].

• GFPGAN
• Insightface
• VGGFace2 Dataset for Face Recognition