TimeWeaver: Age-Consistent Reference-Based Face Restoration with Identity Preservation

ArXi:2603.22701v1 Announce Type: new Recent progress in face restoration has shifted from visual fidelity to identity fidelity, driving a transition from reference-free to reference-based paradigms that condition restoration on reference images of the same person. However, these methods assume the reference and degraded input are age-aligned. When only cross-age references are available, as in historical restoration or missing-person retrieval, they fail to maintain age fidelity.