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microsoft/Bringing-Old-Photos-Back-to-Life

Bringing Old Photo Back to Life (CVPR 2020 oral) observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/microsoft/Bringing-Old-Photos-Back-to-Life · homepage · Python · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

23/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 2261
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 1042
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

15704 stars · 2096 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

The official PyTorch implementation of 'Bringing Old Photos Back to Life' (CVPR 2020 Oral), a deep learning model that restores old photos suffering from scratches, dust, noise, and blurriness using a triplet domain translation network with VAE latent spaces. It includes pretrained models, training code, and support for high-resolution inputs.

Use cases

  • restore old damaged family photos
  • remove scratches and dust spots from scanned photographs
  • fix noise and blurriness in degraded images
  • enhance faces in old photos
  • experiment with GAN-based image restoration research
  • run photo restoration on a GPU with pretrained models

When to choose

  • you need to restore real old photos with mixed degradations like scratches, noise, and blur
  • you want a research-grade reference implementation of the CVPR 2020 paper
  • you have an Nvidia GPU and want pretrained models for photo restoration

When to avoid

  • you need a production-ready, optimized service with fast inference or easy deployment
  • you lack a CUDA-capable GPU
  • you need general-purpose modern photo enhancement rather than old-photo-specific restoration

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

image-processing machine-learning deep-learning computer-vision image-processing deep-learning photography python image-restoration gan pytorch old-photos photo-enhancement scratch-removal face-enhancement research-code linux gpu

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Member repositories

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