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Detecting manipulated images has become a significant emerging challenge. The advent of image sharing platforms and the easy availability of advanced photo editing software have resulted in a large quantities of manipulated images being…

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Image synthesis has witnessed substantial progress due to the increasing power of generative model. This paper we propose a novel generative approach for exemplar based facial editing in the form of the region inpainting. Our method first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Jingtao Guo , Yi Liu , Zhenzhen Qian , Zuowei Zhou

Fine-grained facial expression editing has long been limited by intrinsic semantic overlap. To address this, we construct the Flex Facial Expression (FFE) dataset with continuous affective annotations and establish FFE-Bench to evaluate…

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Formulated as a conditional generation problem, face animation aims at synthesizing continuous face images from a single source image driven by a set of conditional face motion. Previous works mainly model the face motion as conditions with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Xintian Wu , Qihang Zhang , Yiming Wu , Huanyu Wang , Songyuan Li , Lingyun Sun , Xi Li

Over recent years, diffusion models have facilitated significant advancements in video generation. Yet, the creation of face-related videos still confronts issues such as low facial fidelity, lack of frame consistency, limited editability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Linze Li , Sunqi Fan , Hengjun Pu , Zhaodong Bing , Yao Tang , Tianzhu Ye , Tong Yang , Liangyu Chen , Jiajun Liang

Manipulating human facial images between two domains is an important and interesting problem. Most of the existing methods address this issue by applying two generators or one generator with extra conditional inputs. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-15 X G Tu , Y Luo , H S Zhang , W J Ai , Z Ma , M Xie

An important application of interactive machine learning is extending or amplifying the cognitive and physical capabilities of a human. To accomplish this, machines need to learn about their human users' intentions and adapt to their…

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This paper presents a subject-independent facial action unit (AU) detection method by introducing the concept of relative AU detection, for scenarios where the neutral face is not provided. We propose a new classification objective function…

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In this paper, we focus on the facial expression translation task and propose a novel Expression Conditional GAN (ECGAN) which can learn the mapping from one image domain to another one based on an additional expression attribute. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Hao Tang , Wei Wang , Songsong Wu , Xinya Chen , Dan Xu , Nicu Sebe , Yan Yan

Facial expressions are an ideal means of communicating one's emotions or intentions to others. This overview will focus on human facial expression recognition as well as robotic facial expression generation. In the case of human facial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Niyati Rawal , Ruth Maria Stock-Homburg

The recent advances in deep learning have made it possible to generate photo-realistic images by using neural networks and even to extrapolate video frames from an input video clip. In this paper, for the sake of both furthering this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Lijie Fan , Wenbing Huang , Chuang Gan , Junzhou Huang , Boqing Gong

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

Talking face generation is a novel and challenging generation task, aiming at synthesizing a vivid speaking-face video given a specific audio. To fulfill emotion-controllable talking face generation, current methods need to overcome two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ziqi Zhang , Cheng Deng

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

Multimodal foundation models have significantly improved feature representation by integrating information from multiple modalities, making them highly suitable for a broader set of applications. However, the exploration of multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Kaiwen Zheng , Xuri Ge , Junchen Fu , Jun Peng , Joemon M. Jose

People naturally understand emotions, thus permitting a machine to do the same could open new paths for human-computer interaction. Facial expressions can be very useful for emotion recognition techniques, as these are the biggest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Pietro B. S. Masur , Willams Costa , Lucas S. Figueredo , Veronica Teichrieb

Generating random photo-realistic images has experienced tremendous growth during the past few years due to the advances of the deep convolutional neural networks and generative models. Among different domains, face photos have received a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ahmad Nickabadi , Maryam Saeedi Fard , Nastaran Moradzadeh Farid , Najmeh Mohammadbagheri

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

Facial expression recognition has been an active research area over the past few decades, and it is still challenging due to the high intra-class variation. Traditional approaches for this problem rely on hand-crafted features such as SIFT,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Shervin Minaee , Amirali Abdolrashidi

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