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We propose, WarpGAN, a fully automatic network that can generate caricatures given an input face photo. Besides transferring rich texture styles, WarpGAN learns to automatically predict a set of control points that can warp the photo into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Yichun Shi , Debayan Deb , Anil K. Jain

Face-off is an interesting case of style transfer where the facial expressions and attributes of one person could be fully transformed to another face. We are interested in the unsupervised training process which only requires two sequences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Xiaohan Jin , Ye Qi , Shangxuan Wu

The topic of facial landmark detection has been widely covered for pictures of human faces, but it is still a challenge for drawings. Indeed, the proportions and symmetry of standard human faces are not always used for comics or mangas. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Marco Stricker , Olivier Augereau , Koichi Kise , Motoi Iwata

Generating identity-preserving faces aims to generate various face images keeping the same identity given a target face image. Although considerable generative models have been developed in recent years, it is still challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Zhigang Li , Yupin Luo

We propose AnonyGAN, a GAN-based solution for face anonymisation which replaces the visual information corresponding to a source identity with a condition identity provided as any single image. With the goal to maintain the geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Nicola Dall'Asen , Yiming Wang , Hao Tang , Luca Zanella , Elisa Ricci

This paper addresses a major flaw of the cycle consistency loss when used to preserve the input appearance in the face-to-face synthesis domain. In particular, we show that the images generated by a network trained using this loss conceal a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Enrique Sanchez , Michel Valstar

The human face is one of the most crucial parts in interhuman communication. Even when parts of the face are hidden or obstructed the underlying facial movements can be understood. Machine learning approaches often fail in that regard due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Tim Büchner , Sven Sickert , Gerd Fabian Volk , Christoph Anders , Orlando Guntinas-Lichius , Joachim Denzler

Producing realistic character animations is one of the essential tasks in human-AI interactions. Considered as a sequence of poses of a humanoid, the task can be considered as a sequence generation problem with spatiotemporal smoothness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Maryam Sadat Mirzaei , Kourosh Meshgi , Etienne Frigo , Toyoaki Nishida

We present a novel approach to generating photo-realistic images of a face with accurate lip sync, given an audio input. By using a recurrent neural network, we achieved mouth landmarks based on audio features. We exploited the power of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Seyed Ali Jalalifar , Hosein Hasani , Hamid Aghajan

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are the driving force behind the state-of-the-art in image generation. Despite their ability to synthesize high-resolution photo-realistic images, generating content with on-demand conditioning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Markos Georgopoulos , James Oldfield , Grigorios G Chrysos , Yannis Panagakis

To detect bias in face recognition networks, it can be useful to probe a network under test using samples in which only specific attributes vary in some controlled way. However, capturing a sufficiently large dataset with specific control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Nataniel Ruiz , Barry-John Theobald , Anurag Ranjan , Ahmed Hussein Abdelaziz , Nicholas Apostoloff

Face aging, which renders aging faces for an input face, has attracted extensive attention in the multimedia research. Recently, several conditional Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs) based methods have achieved great success. They can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Si Liu , Yao Sun , Defa Zhu , Renda Bao , Wei Wang , Xiangbo Shu , Shuicheng Yan

Generating talking face videos from audio attracts lots of research interest. A few person-specific methods can generate vivid videos but require the target speaker's videos for training or fine-tuning. Existing person-generic methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Weizhi Zhong , Chaowei Fang , Yinqi Cai , Pengxu Wei , Gangming Zhao , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

We propose a method to translate cartoon images to real world images using Generative Aderserial Network (GAN). Existing GAN-based image-to-image translation methods which are trained on paired datasets are impractical as the data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-25 K M Arefeen Sultan , Labiba Kanij Rupty , Nahidul Islam Pranto , Sayed Khan Shuvo , Mohammad Imrul Jubair

Conditional image generation is effective for diverse tasks including training data synthesis for learning-based computer vision. However, despite the recent advances in generative adversarial networks (GANs), it is still a challenging task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Yutaro Miyauchi , Yusuke Sugano , Yasuyuki Matsushita

Generating realistic 3D faces is of high importance for computer graphics and computer vision applications. Generally, research on 3D face generation revolves around linear statistical models of the facial surface. Nevertheless, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Baris Gecer , Alexander Lattas , Stylianos Ploumpis , Jiankang Deng , Athanasios Papaioannou , Stylianos Moschoglou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

The problem of deforming an artist-drawn caricature according to a given normal face expression is of interest in applications such as social media, animation and entertainment. This paper presents a solution to the problem, with an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Keyu Chen , Jianmin Zheng , Jianfei Cai , Juyong Zhang

In the past decades, the excessive use of the last-generation GAN (Generative Adversarial Networks) models in computer vision has enabled the creation of artificial face images that are visually indistinguishable from genuine ones. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Ehsan Nowroozi , Mauro Conti , Yassine Mekdad

The ability of generative models to produce highly realistic synthetic face images has raised security and ethical concerns. As a first line of defense against such fake faces, deep learning based forensic classifiers have been developed.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Fahad Shamshad , Koushik Srivatsan , Karthik Nandakumar

As a significant step for human face modeling, editing, and generation, face landmarking aims at extracting facial keypoints from images. A generalizable face landmarker is required in practice because real-world facial images, e.g., the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Jiayi Liang , Haotian Liu , Hongteng Xu , Dixin Luo