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Video-driven neural face reenactment aims to synthesize realistic facial images that successfully preserve the identity and appearance of a source face, while transferring the target head pose and facial expressions. Existing GAN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Stella Bounareli , Christos Tzelepis , Vasileios Argyriou , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Recent advances in generative adversarial networks (GANs) have led to remarkable achievements in face image synthesis. While methods that use style-based GANs can generate strikingly photorealistic face images, it is often difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Safa C. Medin , Bernhard Egger , Anoop Cherian , Ye Wang , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Xiaoming Liu , Tim K. Marks

We present a novel face swapping method using the progressively growing structure of a pre-trained StyleGAN. Previous methods use different encoder decoder structures, embedding integration networks to produce high-quality results, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Aravinda Reddy PN , K. Sreenivasa Rao , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Pabitra mitra

Facial attribute editing aims to modify target attributes while preserving attribute-irrelevant content and overall image fidelity. Existing GAN-based methods provide favorable controllability, but often suffer from weak alignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Wenmin Huang , Weiqi Luo , Xiaochun Cao , Jiwu Huang

This paper is on face/head reenactment where the goal is to transfer the facial pose (3D head orientation and expression) of a target face to a source face. Previous methods focus on learning embedding networks for identity and pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Stella Bounareli , Vasileios Argyriou , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Multimodal-driven talking face generation refers to animating a portrait with the given pose, expression, and gaze transferred from the driving image and video, or estimated from the text and audio. However, existing methods ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Chao Xu , Shaoting Zhu , Junwei Zhu , Tianxin Huang , Jiangning Zhang , Ying Tai , Yong Liu

Recent studies on StyleGAN show high performance on artistic portrait generation by transfer learning with limited data. In this paper, we explore more challenging exemplar-based high-resolution portrait style transfer by introducing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Shuai Yang , Liming Jiang , Ziwei Liu , Chen Change Loy

Facial appearance plays an important role in our social lives. Subjective perception of women's beauty depends on various face-related (e.g., skin, shape, hair) and environmental (e.g., makeup, lighting, angle) factors. Similar to cosmetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Xudong Liu , Ruizhe Wang , Chih-Fan Chen , Minglei Yin , Hao Peng , Shukhan Ng , Xin Li

In this paper, we present our method for neural face reenactment, called HyperReenact, that aims to generate realistic talking head images of a source identity, driven by a target facial pose. Existing state-of-the-art face reenactment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Stella Bounareli , Christos Tzelepis , Vasileios Argyriou , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Despite the significant success in image-to-image translation and latent representation based facial attribute editing and expression synthesis, the existing approaches still have limitations in the sharpness of details, distinct image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 WenTing Chen , Xinpeng Xie , Xi Jia , Linlin Shen

We present a new multi-modal face image generation method that converts a text prompt and a visual input, such as a semantic mask or scribble map, into a photo-realistic face image. To do this, we combine the strengths of Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Jihyun Kim , Changjae Oh , Hoseok Do , Soohyun Kim , Kwanghoon Sohn

In this paper, we propose a novel encoder, called ShapeEditor, for high-resolution, realistic and high-fidelity face exchange. First of all, in order to ensure sufficient clarity and authenticity, our key idea is to use an advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Shuai Yang , Kai Qiao

Recent attempts to solve the problem of head reenactment using a single reference image have shown promising results. However, most of them either perform poorly in terms of photo-realism, or fail to meet the identity preservation problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Michail Christos Doukas , Stefanos Zafeiriou , Viktoriia Sharmanska

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

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

This paper presents an innovative approach to achieve face cartoonisation while preserving the original identity and accommodating various poses. Unlike previous methods in this field that relied on conditional-GANs, which posed challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Kushal Jain , Ankith Varun J , Anoop Namboodiri

In this paper, we investigate an open research task of generating 3D cartoon face shapes from single 2D GAN generated human faces and without 3D supervision, where we can also manipulate the facial expressions of the 3D shapes. To this end,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Hao Wang , Wenhao Shen , Guosheng Lin , Steven C. H. Hoi , Chunyan Miao

Facial expression recognition is a challenging task due to two major problems: the presence of inter-subject variations in facial expression recognition dataset and impure expressions posed by human subjects. In this paper we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Kamran Ali , Ilkin Isler , Charles Hughes

In this research work, we proposed a novel ChildGAN, a pair of GAN networks for generating synthetic boys and girls facial data derived from StyleGAN2. ChildGAN is built by performing smooth domain transfer using transfer learning. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Muhammad Ali Farooq , Wang Yao , Gabriel Costache , Peter Corcoran

Creating fine-retouched portrait images is tedious and time-consuming even for professional artists. There exist automatic retouching methods, but they either suffer from over-smoothing artifacts or lack generalization ability. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Wanchao Su , Can Wang , Chen Liu , Hangzhou Han , Hongbo Fu , Jing Liao