Beyond Wide-Angle Images: Unsupervised Video Portrait Correction via Spatiotemporal Diffusion Adaptation

Wide-angle cameras, despite their popularity for content creation, suffer from distortion-induced facial stretching-especially at the edge of the lens-which degrades visual appeal. To address this issue, we propose an image portrait correction framework using diffusion models named ImagePD. It integrates the long-range awareness of transformer and multi-step denoising of diffusion models into a unified framework, achieving global structural robustness and local detail refinement. Besides, considering the high cost of obtaining video labels, we then repurpose ImagePD for unlabeled wide-angle videos (termed VideoPD), by spatiotemporal diffusion adaption with spatial consistency and temporal smoothness constraints. For the former, we encourage the denoised image to approximate pseudo labels following the wide-angle distortion distribution pattern, while for the latter, we derive rectification trajectories with backward optical flows and smooth them. Compared with ImagePD, VideoPD maintains high-quality facial corrections in space and mitigates the potential temporal shakes sequentially. Finally, to establish an evaluation benchmark and train the framework, we establish a video portrait dataset with a large diversity in people number, lighting conditions, and background. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed methods outperform existing solutions quantitatively and qualitatively, contributing to high-fidelity wide-angle videos with stable and natural portraits. The codes and dataset will be available.

@article{nie2025_2504.00401,
  title={ Beyond Wide-Angle Images: Unsupervised Video Portrait Correction via Spatiotemporal Diffusion Adaptation },
  author={ Wenbo Nie and Lang Nie and Chunyu Lin and Jingwen Chen and Ke Xing and Jiyuan Wang and Yao Zhao },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.00401},
  year={ 2025 }
}