Two enhancers, one frame: routing faces to GFPGAN and the rest to Real-ESRGAN
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Run a general upscaler on a portrait and the face comes back plastic. Skin loses its pores, eyes go glassy, the whole face reads as smoothed-over wax. Run a face restorer on the same photo and the face looks great, but point it at the wall behind the person and it either ignores the wall or smears…
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- 2026-09-01 11:50 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Two enhancers, one frame: routing faces to GFPGAN and the rest to Real-ESRGAN
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