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To enhance the controllability of text-to-image diffusion models, existing efforts like ControlNet incorporated image-based conditional controls. In this paper, we reveal that existing methods still face significant challenges in generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Ming Li , Taojiannan Yang , Huafeng Kuang , Jie Wu , Zhaoning Wang , Xuefeng Xiao , Chen Chen

Generating realistic talking faces is an interesting and long-standing topic in the field of computer vision. Although significant progress has been made, it is still challenging to generate high-quality dynamic faces with personalized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Bo Ding , Zhenfeng Fan , Shuang Yang , Shihong Xia

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

We consider the task of predicting various traits of a person given an image of their face. We estimate both objective traits, such as gender, ethnicity and hair-color; as well as subjective traits, such as the emotion a person expresses or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Yoad Lewenberg , Yoram Bachrach , Sukrit Shankar , Antonio Criminisi

Affine registration of one or several brain image(s) onto a common reference space is a necessary prerequisite for many image processing tasks, such as brain segmentation or functional analysis. Manual assessment of registration quality is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Baudouin Denis de Senneville , José V. Manjon , Pierrick Coupé

Generative models have surged in popularity recently due to their ability to produce high-quality images and video. However, steering these models to produce images with specific attributes and precise control remains challenging. Humans,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Tuomas Varanka , Huai-Qian Khor , Yante Li , Mengting Wei , Hanwei Kung , Nicu Sebe , Guoying Zhao

Capitalizing on the recent advances in image generation models, existing controllable face image synthesis methods are able to generate high-fidelity images with some levels of controllability, e.g., controlling the shapes, expressions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Keqiang Sun , Shangzhe Wu , Zhaoyang Huang , Ning Zhang , Quan Wang , HongSheng Li

Recognizing facial expressions from static images or video sequences is a widely studied but still challenging problem. The recent progresses obtained by deep neural architectures, or by ensembles of heterogeneous models, have shown that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Lisa Graziani , Stefano Melacci , Marco Gori

We present a minimalistic but effective neural network that computes dense facial correspondences in highly unconstrained RGB images. Our network learns a per-pixel flow and a matchability mask between 2D input photographs of a person and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Ronald Yu , Shunsuke Saito , Haoxiang Li , Duygu Ceylan , Hao Li

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved text-to-face generation, but achieving fine-grained control over facial features remains a challenge. Existing methods often require training additional modules to handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Liang Shi , Yun Fu

We are interested in attribute-guided face generation: given a low-res face input image, an attribute vector that can be extracted from a high-res image (attribute image), our new method generates a high-res face image for the low-res input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Yongyi Lu , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Training fingerprint recognition models using synthetic data has recently gained increased attention in the biometric community as it alleviates the dependency on sensitive personal data. Existing approaches for fingerprint generation are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Alon Shoshan , Nadav Bhonker , Emanuel Ben Baruch , Ori Nizan , Igor Kviatkovsky , Joshua Engelsma , Manoj Aggarwal , Gerard Medioni

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

Recent generative models produce images with a level of authenticity that makes them nearly indistinguishable from real photos and artwork. Potential harmful use cases of these models, necessitate the creation of robust synthetic image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Delyan Boychev , Radostin Cholakov

In this paper, we propose a novel face synthesis approach that can generate an arbitrarily large number of synthetic images of both real and synthetic identities. Thus a face image dataset can be expanded in terms of the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Sandipan Banerjee , John S. Bernhard , Walter J. Scheirer , Kevin W. Bowyer , Patrick J. Flynn

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

While the accuracy of face recognition systems has improved significantly in recent years, the datasets used to train these models are often collected through web crawling without the explicit consent of users, raising ethical and privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Anjith George , Sebastien Marcel

We propose a generative framework, FaceLit, capable of generating a 3D face that can be rendered at various user-defined lighting conditions and views, learned purely from 2D images in-the-wild without any manual annotation. Unlike existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Anurag Ranjan , Kwang Moo Yi , Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Oncel Tuzel

The recent computer graphics developments have upraised the quality of the generated digital content, astonishing the most skeptical viewer. Games and movies have taken advantage of this fact but, at the same time, these advances have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Edmar R. S. de Rezende , Guilherme C. S. Ruppert , Antonio Theophilo , Tiago Carvalho

We extend neural 3D representations to allow for intuitive and interpretable user control beyond novel view rendering (i.e. camera control). We allow the user to annotate which part of the scene one wishes to control with just a small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Kacper Kania , Kwang Moo Yi , Marek Kowalski , Tomasz Trzciński , Andrea Tagliasacchi