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Time-Travel Rephotography

arXiv 2012.12261 ↗First posted 22 Dec 2020cs.CVcited by 26

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Abstract (arXiv)

Many historical people were only ever captured by old, faded, black and white photos, that are distorted due to the limitations of early cameras and the passage of time. This paper simulates traveling back in time with a modern camera to rephotograph famous subjects. Unlike conventional image restoration filters which apply independent operations like denoising, colorization, and superresolution, we leverage the StyleGAN2 framework to project old photos into the space of modern high-resolution photos, achieving all of these effects in a unified framework. A unique challenge with this approach is retaining the identity and pose of the subject in the original photo, while discarding the many artifacts frequently seen in low-quality antique photos. Our comparisons to current state-of-the-art restoration filters show significant improvements and compelling results for a variety of important historical people.

Key facts. Cited by 26 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). First posted on arXiv 22 Dec 2020.

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  1. 2021Labels4Free: Unsupervised Segmentation using StyleGANcited by 53
  2. 2021StyleAlign: Analysis and Applications of Aligned StyleGAN Modelscited by 48
  3. 2022Spatially-Adaptive Multilayer Selection for GAN Inversion and Editingcited by 39
  4. 2022State-of-the-Art in the Architecture, Methods and Applications of StyleGANcited by 34
  5. 2022BigColor: Colorization using a Generative Color Prior for Natural Imagescited by 34
  6. 2022MyStyle: A Personalized Generative Priorcited by 26
  7. 2023Robust Unsupervised StyleGAN Image Restorationcited by 14
  8. 2024InstantRestore: Single-Step Personalized Face Restoration with Shared-Image Attentioncited by 13
  9. 2022Panini-Net: GAN Prior Based Degradation-Aware Feature Interpolation for Face Restorationcited by 12
  10. 2022StyleDomain: Efficient and Lightweight Parameterizations of StyleGAN for One-shot and Few-shot Domain Adaptationcited by 10
  11. 2022What's in a Decade? Transforming Faces Through Timecited by 9
  12. 2022Synthesis and Reconstruction of Fingerprints using Generative Adversarial Networkscited by 7
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  2. 2023Spectral Sensitivity Estimation Without a Cameracited by 3
  3. 2023Personalized Restoration via Dual-Pivot Tuningcited by 3
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  5. 2024Descanning: From Scanned to the Original Images with a Color Correction Diffusion Modelcited by 2
  6. 2025Snapmoji: Instant Generation of Animatable Dual-Stylized Avatarscited by 2
  7. 2024Linearly Constrained Diffusion Implicit Modelscited by 1
  8. 2025Towards a Universal Image Degradation Model via Content-Degradation Disentanglementcited by 1
  9. 2022Influence of Color Spaces for Deep Learning Image Colorizationcited by 0
  10. 2023Facial Reenactment Through a Personalized Generatorcited by 0
  11. 2024Continual Learning of Personalized Generative Face Models with Experience Replaycited by 0
  12. 2025CaMiT: A Time-Aware Car Model Dataset for Classification and Generationcited by 0
  13. 2026MDTD-ArtIR: Benchmarking Image Editing and Restoration Models for Art Image Restoration under Texture-Overlay Degradationscited by 0
  14. 2026Beyond Fixed Luminance: Towards Panchromatic and Orthochromatic Image Colorizationcited by 0