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Zhiyu Qu

5 accepted papers

2025

CaricatureBooth: Data-Free Interactive Caricature Generation in a Photo Booth

CVPR 2025poster

We present CaricatureBooth, a system that transforms caricature creation into a simple interactive experience -- as easy as using a photo booth! A key challenge in caricature generation is two-fold: the scarcity of high-quality caricature data and the difficulty in enabling precise creative control…

2025

Unlocking the Potential of Diffusion Priors in Blind Face Restoration

ICCV 2025poster

Although diffusion prior is rising as a powerful solution for blind face restoration (BFR), the inherent gap between the vanilla diffusion model and BFR settings hinders its seamless adaptation. The gap mainly stems from the discrepancy between 1) high-quality (HQ) and low-quality (LQ) images and 2)…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Modelling complex vector drawings with stroke-clouds

ICLR 2024poster

Vector drawings are innately interactive as they preserve creational cues. Despite this desirable property they remain relatively under explored due to the difficulties in modeling complex vector drawings. This is in part due to the primarily _sequential and auto-regressive nature_ of existing appro…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2024

Wired Perspectives: Multi-View Wire Art Embraces Generative AI

CVPR 2024poster

Creating multi-view wire art (MVWA) a static 3D sculpture with diverse interpretations from different viewpoints is a complex task even for skilled artists. In response we present DreamWire an AI system enabling everyone to craft MVWA easily. Users express their vision through text prompts or scribb…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2023

SketchXAI: A First Look at Explainability for Human Sketches

CVPR 2023poster

This paper, for the very first time, introduces human sketches to the landscape of XAI (Explainable Artificial Intelligence). We argue that sketch as a "human-centred" data form, represents a natural interface to study explainability. We focus on cultivating sketch-specific explainability designs. T…