# Face recovery doesn't understand eye-glasses **URL:** \ **Category:** Bugs and Issues\ **Created:** [November 21, 2023, 9:01am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/face-recovery-doesnt-understand-eye-glasses/56663 "2023-11-21T09:01:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nicholas.simpson](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/df705f/32.png) [@nicholas.simpson](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/nicholas.simpson)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 9:01am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/face-recovery-doesnt-understand-eye-glasses/56663/1 "2023-11-21T09:01:03Z")
The logic behind the face recovery feature obviously recognizes eye-glasses because it reconstructs eyeglass frames, unfortunately it doesn’t understand that eyeglass frames are symmetric. ![Screenshot 2023-11-21 085727](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/7/c/7caf739607258b33faa3e64db7a1a437d9652309.jpeg) * * * Topaz Photo AI [v2.1.2] on [Windows] ---
**Author:** ![lhkjacky](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/lhkjacky/32/256798_2.png) [@lhkjacky](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/lhkjacky)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 9:28am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/face-recovery-doesnt-understand-eye-glasses/56663/2 "2023-11-21T09:28:40Z")
> [@nicholas.simpson](#): > > eyeglass frames are symmetric. Not all eyeglass frames are symmetrical. 😅 ![image](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/5/6/569514d68ee3d49a91049af7ff7998c21296d7db.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![nicholas.simpson](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/df705f/32.png) [@nicholas.simpson](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/nicholas.simpson)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 11:34am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/face-recovery-doesnt-understand-eye-glasses/56663/3 "2023-11-21T11:34:49Z")
Fair point, but I don’t think those were really my father’s “style” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![andymagee-52287](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/andymagee-52287/32/102446_2.png) [@andymagee-52287](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/andymagee-52287)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 12:39pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/face-recovery-doesnt-understand-eye-glasses/56663/4 "2023-11-21T12:39:22Z")
It still seems to like creating frameless monocles as well. ![Screenshot 2023-07-06 184657](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/0/b/0b10c3e886f57acb4ed069bb18eb29ce9e96b057.png) ---
**Author:** ![AND-E](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/and-e/32/215196_2.png) [@AND-E](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/AND-E)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2023, 10:19am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/face-recovery-doesnt-understand-eye-glasses/56663/5 "2023-11-22T10:19:01Z")
Hi Nicolas. Just an observation, looking at the rest of your image seeing how obviously out of focus, blurry and soft it is it certainly looks like you handed Photo AI a difficult task. In my experience Topaz Photo AI Face Recovery has created spectacular results, sometimes truly magical. I have never expected Face Recovery to perform miracles. I wouldn’t be complaining, in fact I would be very happy that Photo AI has got me most of the way there, this would then be simple task to correct in Photoshop or any other image manipulation software. Well done to the boffins at Topaz ---
**Author:** ![nicholas.simpson](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/df705f/32.png) [@nicholas.simpson](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/nicholas.simpson)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2023, 10:21am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/face-recovery-doesnt-understand-eye-glasses/56663/6 "2023-11-22T10:21:59Z")
Doesn’t seem too much to ask for the AI model to understand that eyeglasses are generally symmetrical. It’s obvious that it recognizes eyeglasses, so it should be a relatively minor tweak to update the model to understand this. ---
**Author:** ![lhkjacky](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/lhkjacky/32/256798_2.png) [@lhkjacky](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/lhkjacky)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2023, 11:11am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/face-recovery-doesnt-understand-eye-glasses/56663/7 "2023-11-22T11:11:41Z")
> [@AND-E](#): > > Just an observation, looking at the rest of your image seeing how obviously out of focus, blurry and soft it is it certainly looks like you handed Photo AI a difficult task. > > In my experience Topaz Photo AI Face Recovery has created spectacular results, sometimes truly magical. I have never expected Face Recovery to perform miracles. > > I wouldn’t be complaining, in fact I would be very happy that Photo AI has got me most of the way there, this would then be simple task to correct in Photoshop or any other image manipulation software. Here is the result from me using free open source AI program. What do you think about it? 🥰 ![2023-10-23_152833](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/8/8/884772abeea8060d223500467212c7d162c2c99c.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![nicholas.simpson](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/df705f/32.png) [@nicholas.simpson](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/nicholas.simpson)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2023, 11:13am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/face-recovery-doesnt-understand-eye-glasses/56663/8 "2023-11-22T11:13:19Z")
Love to know what AI program you used for that ---
**Author:** ![lhkjacky](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/lhkjacky/32/256798_2.png) [@lhkjacky](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/lhkjacky)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2023, 11:16am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/face-recovery-doesnt-understand-eye-glasses/56663/9 "2023-11-22T11:16:48Z")
> [@nicholas.simpson](#): > > what AI program you used for that It is free program from Github and I further enhance the eyes using stable diffusion. For more detail about the program, you may refer to the post here > [@V2.0.1 faces look like wax museum](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/v2-0-1-faces-look-like-wax-museum/52325/10): > > The “Others” images are upscaled using the latest AI upscaling algorithm called DiffBIR, developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai AI Laboratory. They recently released their research paper in arXiv. DiffBIR utilizes stable diffusion and controlnet to upscale images and regenerate realistic details, including hair, skin texture, clothing texture, text, trees leaves, grasses and more. Based on my testing, their face recovery surpasses that of GPEN, GFPGAN, CodeFormer, and VQFR,… ---
**Author:** ![AND-E](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/and-e/32/215196_2.png) [@AND-E](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/AND-E)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2023, 11:49am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/face-recovery-doesnt-understand-eye-glasses/56663/10 "2023-11-22T11:49:38Z")
Fantastic results however you still had to use more than one piece of software to achieve this, and I speculate it wasn’t as straightforward as you suggest. so still no one stop shop. This may help Nicolas restore his father’s original image, let’s hope so The point I was making the higher quality the original image always the better the results can be achieved ---
**Author:** ![andymagee-52287](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/andymagee-52287/32/102446_2.png) [@andymagee-52287](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/andymagee-52287)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2023, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/face-recovery-doesnt-understand-eye-glasses/56663/11 "2023-11-22T12:33:38Z")
Here’s how my wife’s great-grandfather actually looked in a different image from 1890. ![image](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/f/b/fbc724e95608c7111d92a0ca7f7cdbfe0cc578b8.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/0/1/01f3a81387b26ce3eb3484b6327ee7b3988ca47e.svg) [@system](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/face-recovery-doesnt-understand-eye-glasses/56663/12 "2024-01-21T12:33:59Z")
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