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Performing facial expression transfer under one-shot setting has been increasing in popularity among research community with a focus on precise control of expressions. Existing techniques showcase compelling results in perceiving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Siddharth Nijhawan , Takuya Yashima , Tamaki Kojima

Photo-realistic video portrait reenactment benefits virtual production and numerous VR/AR experiences. The task remains challenging as the reenacted expression should match the source while the lighting should be adjustable to new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Youjia Wang , Taotao Zhou , Minzhang Li , Teng Xu , Minye Wu , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu

Face reenactment aims to generate realistic talking head videos by transferring motion from a driving video to a static source image while preserving the source identity. Although existing methods based on either implicit or explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Mingtao Guo , Guanyu Xing , Yanci Zhang , Yanli Liu

The paper proposes a novel generative adversarial network for one-shot face reenactment, which can animate a single face image to a different pose-and-expression (provided by a driving image) while keeping its original appearance. The core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Guangming Yao , Yi Yuan , Tianjia Shao , Shuang Li , Shanqi Liu , Yong Liu , Mengmeng Wang , Kun Zhou

This work proposes a novel method to generate realistic talking head videos using audio and visual streams. We animate a source image by transferring head motion from a driving video using a dense motion field generated using learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Madhav Agarwal , Rudrabha Mukhopadhyay , Vinay Namboodiri , C V Jawahar

Facial animation is one of the most challenging problems in computer graphics, and it is often solved using linear heuristics like blend-shape rigging. More expressive approaches like physical simulation have emerged, but these methods are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Yeara Kozlov , Hongyi Xu , Moritz Bächer , Derek Bradley , Markus Gross , Thabo Beeler

In recent years, the role of image generative models in facial reenactment has been steadily increasing. Such models are usually subject-agnostic and trained on domain-wide datasets. The appearance of the reenacted individual is learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Ariel Elazary , Yotam Nitzan , Daniel Cohen-Or

This paper introduces ActGAN - a novel end-to-end generative adversarial network (GAN) for one-shot face reenactment. Given two images, the goal is to transfer the facial expression of the source actor onto a target person in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Ivan Kosarevych , Marian Petruk , Markian Kostiv , Orest Kupyn , Mykola Maksymenko , Volodymyr Budzan

In this paper, we present our framework for neural face/head reenactment whose goal is to transfer the 3D head orientation and expression of a target face to a source face. Previous methods focus on learning embedding networks for identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Stella Bounareli , Christos Tzelepis , Vasileios Argyriou , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

We present IMU2Face, a gesture-driven facial reenactment system. To this end, we combine recent advances in facial motion capture and inertial measurement units (IMUs) to control the facial expressions of a person in a target video based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Justus Thies , Michael Zollhöfer , Matthias Nießner

This paper presents a generative adversarial learning-based human upper body video synthesis approach to generate an upper body video of target person that is consistent with the body motion, face expression, and pose of the person in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Zhaoxiang Liu , Huan Hu , Zipeng Wang , Kai Wang , Jinqiang Bai , Shiguo Lian

In the era of digital animation, the quest to produce lifelike facial animations for virtual characters has led to the development of various retargeting methods. While the retargeting facial motion between models of similar shapes has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Yeonsoo Choi , Inyup Lee , Sihun Cha , Seonghyeon Kim , Sunjin Jung , Junyong Noh

Face transfer animates the facial performances of the character in the target video by a source actor. Traditional methods are typically based on face modeling. We propose an end-to-end face transfer method based on Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Runze Xu , Zhiming Zhou , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

Face swapping transfers the identity of a source face to a target face while retaining the attributes like expression, pose, hair, and background of the target face. Advanced face swapping methods have achieved attractive results. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Runqi Wang , Yang Chen , Sijie Xu , Tianyao He , Wei Zhu , Dejia Song , Nemo Chen , Xu Tang , Yao Hu

We present Dynamic Neural Portraits, a novel approach to the problem of full-head reenactment. Our method generates photo-realistic video portraits by explicitly controlling head pose, facial expressions and eye gaze. Our proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Michail Christos Doukas , Stylianos Ploumpis , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Facial expression transfer and reenactment has been an important research problem given its applications in face editing, image manipulation, and fabricated videos generation. We present a novel method for image-based facial expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Chao Yang , Ser-Nam Lim

Head avatar reenactment focuses on creating animatable personal avatars from monocular videos, serving as a foundational element for applications like social signal understanding, gaming, human-machine interaction, and computer vision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Wei Liang , Hui Yu , Derui Ding , Rachael E. Jack , Philippe G. Schyns

We present a novel online unsupervised method for face identity learning from video streams. The method exploits deep face descriptors together with a memory based learning mechanism that takes advantage of the temporal coherence of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Federico Pernici , Federico Bartoli , Matteo Bruni , Alberto Del Bimbo

Face performance capture and reenactment techniques use multiple cameras and sensors, positioned at a distance from the face or mounted on heavy wearable devices. This limits their applications in mobile and outdoor environments. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Mohamed Elgharib , Mallikarjun BR , Ayush Tewari , Hyeongwoo Kim , Wentao Liu , Hans-Peter Seidel , Christian Theobalt

This paper presents a novel approach to synthesize automatically age-progressed facial images in video sequences using Deep Reinforcement Learning. The proposed method models facial structures and the longitudinal face-aging process of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Chi Nhan Duong , Khoa Luu , Kha Gia Quach , Nghia Nguyen , Eric Patterson , Tien D. Bui , Ngan Le