docs/history_changelog.md

# History of Changelog

- **2023.04.19**: :whale: Training codes and config files are public available now.
- **2023.04.09**: Add features of inpainting and colorization for cropped face images.
- **2023.02.10**: Include `dlib` as a new face detector option, it produces more accurate face identity.
- **2022.10.05**: Support video input `--input_path [YOUR_VIDEO.mp4]`. Try it to enhance your videos! :clapper: 
- **2022.09.14**: Integrated to :hugs: [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/spaces). Try out online demo! [![Hugging Face](https://img.shields.io/badge/Demo-%F0%9F%A4%97%20Hugging%20Face-blue)](https://huggingface.co/spaces/sczhou/CodeFormer)
- **2022.09.09**: Integrated to :rocket: [Replicate](https://replicate.com/explore). Try out online demo! [![Replicate](https://img.shields.io/badge/Demo-%F0%9F%9A%80%20Replicate-blue)](https://replicate.com/sczhou/codeformer)
- **2022.09.04**: Add face upsampling `--face_upsample` for high-resolution AI-created face enhancement.
- **2022.08.23**: Some modifications on face detection and fusion for better AI-created face enhancement.
- **2022.08.07**: Integrate [Real-ESRGAN](https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN) to support background image enhancement.
- **2022.07.29**: Integrate new face detectors of `['RetinaFace'(default), 'YOLOv5']`. 
- **2022.07.17**: Add Colab demo of CodeFormer. <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1m52PNveE4PBhYrecj34cnpEeiHcC5LTb?usp=sharing"><img src="https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg" alt="google colab logo"></a>
- **2022.07.16**: Release inference code for face restoration. :blush:
- **2022.06.21**: This repo is created.