In this work, we consider the task of generating highly-realistic images of a given face with a redirected gaze. We treat this problem as a specific instance of conditional image generation and suggest a new deep architecture that can handle this task very well as revealed by numerical comparison with prior art and a user study. Our deep architecture performs coarse-to-fine warping with an additional intensity correction of individual pixels. All these operations are performed in a feed-forward manner, and the parameters associated with different operations are learned jointly in the end-to-end fashion. After learning, the resulting neural network can synthesize images with manipulated gaze, while the redirection angle can be selected arbitrarily from a certain range and provided as an input to the network.
@article{arxiv.1607.07215,
title = {DeepWarp: Photorealistic Image Resynthesis for Gaze Manipulation},
author = {Yaroslav Ganin and Daniil Kononenko and Diana Sungatullina and Victor Lempitsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.07215},
year = {2016}
}