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Several works have developed end-to-end pipelines for generating lip-synced talking faces with various real-world applications, such as teaching and language translation in videos. However, these prior works fail to create realistic-looking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Sahil Goyal , Shagun Uppal , Sarthak Bhagat , Yi Yu , Yifang Yin , Rajiv Ratn Shah

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have improved steadily towards generating increasingly impressive real-world images. It is useful to steer the image generation process for purposes such as content creation. This can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 David Stap , Maurits Bleeker , Sarah Ibrahimi , Maartje ter Hoeve

Text-guided image editing aims to modify specific regions according to the target prompt while preserving the identity of the source image. Recent methods exploit explicit binary masks to constrain editing, but hard mask boundaries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yongwen Lai , Chaoqun Wang , Shaobo Min

We propose a new approach for editing face images, which enables numerous exciting applications including face relighting, makeup transfer and face detail editing. Our face edits are based on a visual representation, which includes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Jiajun Lu , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Nathan Carr , Sunil Hadap , David Forsyth

Affective Image Manipulation (AIM) seeks to modify user-provided images to evoke specific emotional responses. This task is inherently complex due to its twofold objective: significantly evoking the intended emotion, while preserving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Jingyuan Yang , Jiawei Feng , Weibin Luo , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hui Huang

Facial appearance editing is crucial for digital avatars, AR/VR, and personalized content creation, driving realistic user experiences. However, preserving identity with generative models is challenging, especially in scenarios with limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 MD Wahiduzzaman Khan , Mingshan Jia , Xiaolin Zhang , En Yu , Caifeng Shan , Kaska Musial-Gabrys

In this paper, an effective pipeline to automatic 4D Facial Expression Recognition (4D FER) is proposed. It combines two growing but disparate ideas in Computer Vision -- computing the spatial facial deformations using tools from Riemannian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Qingkai Zhen , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang , Hassen Drira , Boulbaba Ben Amor , Mohamed Daoudi

Image captioning is the process of generating a natural language description of an image. Most current image captioning models, however, do not take into account the emotional aspect of an image, which is very relevant to activities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Omid Mohamad Nezami , Mark Dras , Peter Anderson , Len Hamey

Face editing represents a popular research topic within the computer vision and image processing communities. While significant progress has been made recently in this area, existing solutions: (i) are still largely focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Martin Pernuš , Vitomir Štruc , Simon Dobrišek

Face age editing has become a crucial task in film post-production, and is also becoming popular for general purpose photography. Recently, adversarial training has produced some of the most visually impressive results for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Xu Yao , Gilles Puy , Alasdair Newson , Yann Gousseau , Pierre Hellier

Different forms of customized 2D avatars are widely used in gaming applications, virtual communication, education, and content creation. However, existing approaches often fail to capture fine-grained facial expressions and struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Hao Yu , Rupayan Mallick , Margrit Betke , Sarah Adel Bargal

Most of the existing work on automatic facial expression analysis focuses on discrete emotion recognition, or facial action unit detection. However, facial expressions do not always fall neatly into pre-defined semantic categories. Also,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Raviteja Vemulapalli , Aseem Agarwala

With recent advances in computer vision and graphics, it is now possible to generate videos with extremely realistic synthetic faces, even in real time. Countless applications are possible, some of which raise a legitimate alarm, calling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Andreas Rössler , Davide Cozzolino , Luisa Verdoliva , Christian Riess , Justus Thies , Matthias Nießner

Recent advancements in audio-driven talking face generation have made great progress in lip synchronization. However, current methods often lack sufficient control over facial animation such as speaking style and emotional expression,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Baiqin Wang , Xiangyu Zhu , Fan Shen , Hao Xu , Zhen Lei

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) in the wild is extremely challenging due to occlusions, variant head poses, face deformation and motion blur under unconstrained conditions. Although substantial progresses have been made in automatic FER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Fuyan Ma , Bin Sun , Shutao Li

Facial emotion recognition is an essential and important aspect of the field of human-machine interaction. Past research on facial emotion recognition focuses on the laboratory environment. However, it faces many challenges in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Zheng Lian , Ya Li , Jian-Hua Tao , Jian Huang , Ming-Yue Niu

In this paper, an approach to the problem of automatic facial feature extraction from a still frontal posed image and classification and recognition of facial expression and hence emotion and mood of a person is presented. Feed forward back…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-04-11 S. P. Khandait , R. C. Thool , P. D. Khandait

Existing facial expression recognition (FER) methods typically fine-tune a pre-trained visual encoder using discrete labels. However, this form of supervision limits to specify the emotional concept of different facial expressions. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Hangyu Li , Yihan Xu , Jiangchao Yao , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao , Bo Han

Emotion recognition from facial videos enables non-contact inference of human emotional states. Although facial expressions are widely used cues, they cannot fully reflect intrinsic affective states. Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xiwen Luo , Jia Li , Rencheng Song , Yu Liu , Juan Cheng

Facial Emotion Analysis (FEA) extends traditional facial emotion recognition by incorporating explainable, fine-grained reasoning. The task integrates three subtasks: emotion recognition, facial Action Unit (AU) recognition, and AU-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Jiulong Wu , Yucheng Shen , Lingyong Yan , Haixin Sun , Deguo Xia , Jizhou Huang , Min Cao