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In this paper we address the problem of neural face reenactment, where, given a pair of a source and a target facial image, we need to transfer the target's pose (defined as the head pose and its facial expressions) to the source image, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Stella Bounareli , Christos Tzelepis , Vasileios Argyriou , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Facial animation is one of the most challenging problems in computer graphics, and it is often solved using linear heuristics like blend-shape rigging. More expressive approaches like physical simulation have emerged, but these methods are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Yeara Kozlov , Hongyi Xu , Moritz Bächer , Derek Bradley , Markus Gross , Thabo Beeler

We propose a method for synthesizing photo-realistic digital avatars from only one portrait as the reference. Given a portrait, our method synthesizes a coarse talking head video using driving keypoints features. And with the coarse video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Shaoxu Li

We present a novel learning-based framework for face reenactment. The proposed method, known as ReenactGAN, is capable of transferring facial movements and expressions from monocular video input of an arbitrary person to a target person.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Wayne Wu , Yunxuan Zhang , Cheng Li , Chen Qian , Chen Change Loy

Performing facial expression transfer under one-shot setting has been increasing in popularity among research community with a focus on precise control of expressions. Existing techniques showcase compelling results in perceiving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Siddharth Nijhawan , Takuya Yashima , Tamaki Kojima

This work proposes a novel method to generate realistic talking head videos using audio and visual streams. We animate a source image by transferring head motion from a driving video using a dense motion field generated using learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Madhav Agarwal , Rudrabha Mukhopadhyay , Vinay Namboodiri , C V Jawahar

Face reenactment aims to animate a source face image to a different pose and expression provided by a driving image. Existing approaches are either designed for a specific identity, or suffer from the identity preservation problem in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Guangming Yao , Yi Yuan , Tianjia Shao , Kun Zhou

Audio-guided face reenactment aims to generate a photorealistic face that has matched facial expression with the input audio. However, current methods can only reenact a special person once the model is trained or need extra operations such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Jiangning Zhang , Xianfang Zeng , Chao Xu , Jun Chen , Yong Liu , Yunliang Jiang

Real-time rendering of human head avatars is a cornerstone of many computer graphics applications, such as augmented reality, video games, and films, to name a few. Recent approaches address this challenge with computationally efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Kartik Teotia , Hyeongwoo Kim , Pablo Garrido , Marc Habermann , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

3D facial avatar reconstruction has been a significant research topic in computer graphics and computer vision, where photo-realistic rendering and flexible controls over poses and expressions are necessary for many related applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Wangbo Yu , Yanbo Fan , Yong Zhang , Xuan Wang , Fei Yin , Yunpeng Bai , Yan-Pei Cao , Ying Shan , Yang Wu , Zhongqian Sun , Baoyuan Wu

In recent years, the role of image generative models in facial reenactment has been steadily increasing. Such models are usually subject-agnostic and trained on domain-wide datasets. The appearance of the reenacted individual is learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Ariel Elazary , Yotam Nitzan , Daniel Cohen-Or

We present Dynamic Neural Portraits, a novel approach to the problem of full-head reenactment. Our method generates photo-realistic video portraits by explicitly controlling head pose, facial expressions and eye gaze. Our proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Michail Christos Doukas , Stylianos Ploumpis , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Video-to-video synthesis (vid2vid) aims at converting an input semantic video, such as videos of human poses or segmentation masks, to an output photorealistic video. While the state-of-the-art of vid2vid has advanced significantly,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Ting-Chun Wang , Ming-Yu Liu , Andrew Tao , Guilin Liu , Jan Kautz , Bryan Catanzaro

We propose a novel approach for few-shot talking-head synthesis. While recent works in neural talking heads have produced promising results, they can still produce images that do not preserve the identity of the subject in source images. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Moustafa Meshry , Saksham Suri , Larry S. Davis , Abhinav Shrivastava

Talking head synthesis is an emerging technology with wide applications in film dubbing, virtual avatars and online education. Recent NeRF-based methods generate more natural talking videos, as they better capture the 3D structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Shuai Shen , Wanhua Li , Zheng Zhu , Yueqi Duan , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

The task of few-shot visual dubbing focuses on synchronizing the lip movements with arbitrary speech input for any talking head video. Albeit moderate improvements in current approaches, they commonly require high-quality homologous data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Tianyi Xie , Liucheng Liao , Cheng Bi , Benlai Tang , Xiang Yin , Jianfei Yang , Mingjie Wang , Jiali Yao , Yang Zhang , Zejun Ma

The paper proposes a novel generative adversarial network for one-shot face reenactment, which can animate a single face image to a different pose-and-expression (provided by a driving image) while keeping its original appearance. The core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Guangming Yao , Yi Yuan , Tianjia Shao , Shuang Li , Shanqi Liu , Yong Liu , Mengmeng Wang , Kun Zhou

This paper proposes a new end-to-end neural rendering architecture to transfer appearance and reenact human actors. Our method leverages a carefully designed graph convolutional network (GCN) to model the human body manifold structure,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Thiago L. Gomes , Thiago M. Coutinho , Rafael Azevedo , Renato Martins , Erickson R. Nascimento

Face personalization aims to insert specific faces, taken from images, into pretrained text-to-image diffusion models. However, it is still challenging for previous methods to preserve both the identity similarity and editability due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Kaede Shiohara , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Head avatar reconstruction, crucial for applications in virtual reality, online meetings, gaming, and film industries, has garnered substantial attention within the computer vision community. The fundamental objective of this field is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Xuangeng Chu , Yu Li , Ailing Zeng , Tianyu Yang , Lijian Lin , Yunfei Liu , Tatsuya Harada