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We present EXE-GAN, a novel exemplar-guided facial inpainting framework using generative adversarial networks. Our approach can not only preserve the quality of the input facial image but also complete the image with exemplar-like facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Wanglong Lu , Hanli Zhao , Xianta Jiang , Xiaogang Jin , Yongliang Yang , Min Wang , Jiankai Lyu , Kaijie Shi

As the expressive depth of an emotional face differs with individuals or expressions, recognizing an expression using a single facial image at a moment is difficult. A relative expression of a query face compared to a reference face might…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Youngsung Kim , ByungIn Yoo , Youngjun Kwak , Changkyu Choi , Junmo Kim

This paper presents a generic face animator that is able to control the pose and expressions of a given face image. The animation is driven by human interpretable control signals consisting of head pose angles and the Action Unit (AU)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Soumya Tripathy , Juho Kannala , Esa Rahtu

Despite the recent success in applying supervised deep learning to medical imaging tasks, the problem of obtaining large and diverse expert-annotated datasets required for the development of high performant models remains particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Amirata Ghorbani , Vivek Natarajan , David Coz , Yuan Liu

Facial expression datasets remain limited in scale due to the subjectivity of annotations and the labor-intensive nature of data collection. This limitation poses a significant challenge for developing modern deep learning-based facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Xilin He , Cheng Luo , Xiaole Xian , Bing Li , Muhammad Haris Khan , Zongyuan Ge , Weicheng Xie , Siyang Song , Linlin Shen , Bernard Ghanem , Xiangyu Yue

StyleGAN is a state-of-art generative adversarial network architecture that generates random 2D high-quality synthetic facial data samples. In this paper, we recap the StyleGAN architecture and training methodology and present our…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Viktor Varkarakis , Shabab Bazrafkan , Peter Corcoran

We present User-predictable Face Editing (UP-FacE) -- a novel method for predictable face shape editing. In stark contrast to existing methods for face editing using trial and error, edits with UP-FacE are predictable by the human user.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Florian Strohm , Mihai Bâce , Andreas Bulling

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have made great success in synthesizing high-quality images. However, how to steer the generation process of a well-trained GAN model and customize the output image is much less explored. It has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Chen Zhang , Yinghao Xu , Yujun Shen

Recent advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence have fueled numerous applications, particularly those involving Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), which are essential for synthesizing realistic photos and videos. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Ziji Shi , Jialin Li , Yang You

Despite the recent success of face image generation with GANs, conditional hair editing remains challenging due to the under-explored complexity of its geometry and appearance. In this paper, we present MichiGAN (Multi-Input-Conditioned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Zhentao Tan , Menglei Chai , Dongdong Chen , Jing Liao , Qi Chu , Lu Yuan , Sergey Tulyakov , Nenghai Yu

Building facial analysis systems that generalize to extreme variations in lighting and facial expressions is a challenging problem that can potentially be alleviated using natural-looking synthetic data. Towards that, we propose LEGAN, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Sandipan Banerjee , Ajjen Joshi , Prashant Mahajan , Sneha Bhattacharya , Survi Kyal , Taniya Mishra

In this paper we investigate the feasibility of using synthetic data to augment face datasets. In particular, we propose a novel generative adversarial network (GAN) that can disentangle identity-related attributes from non-identity-related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Daniel Sáez Trigueros , Li Meng , Margaret Hartnett

Photorealistic facial expression synthesis from single face image can be widely applied to face recognition, data augmentation for emotion recognition or entertainment. This problem is challenging, in part due to a paucity of labeled facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Yuqian Zhou , Bertram Emil Shi

Deep learning vision models excel with abundant supervision, but many applications face label scarcity and class imbalance. Controllable image editing can augment scarce labeled data, yet edits often introduce artifacts and entangle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Joris Kirchner , Amogh Gudi , Marian Bittner , Chirag Raman

In this paper, we propose a novel cross-attention-based generative adversarial network (GAN) for the challenging person image generation task. Cross-attention is a novel and intuitive multi-modal fusion method in which an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Hao Tang , Ling Shao , Nicu Sebe , Luc Van Gool

This work represents the experimental and development process of system facial expression recognition and facial stress analysis algorithms for an immersive digital learning platform. The system retrieves from users web camera and evaluates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Fabio Cacciatori , Sergei Nikolaev , Dmitrii Grigorev , Anastasiia Archangelskaya

Recent advances in deep generative models have demonstrated impressive results in photo-realistic facial image synthesis and editing. Facial expressions are inherently the result of muscle movement. However, existing neural network-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-07 ShahRukh Athar , Zhixin Shu , Dimitris Samaras

Face aging is the task aiming to translate the faces in input images to designated ages. To simplify the problem, previous methods have limited themselves only able to produce discrete age groups, each of which consists of ten years.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Seogkyu Jeon , Pilhyeon Lee , Kibeom Hong , Hyeran Byun

Current face reenactment and swapping methods mainly rely on GAN frameworks, but recent focus has shifted to pre-trained diffusion models for their superior generation capabilities. However, training these models is resource-intensive, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Yue Han , Junwei Zhu , Keke He , Xu Chen , Yanhao Ge , Wei Li , Xiangtai Li , Jiangning Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Yong Liu

Over the centuries, humans have developed and acquired a number of ways to communicate. But hardly any of them can be as natural and instinctive as facial expressions. On the other hand, neural networks have taken the world by storm. And no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Subodh Lonkar