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Object swapping aims to replace a source object in a scene with a reference object while preserving object fidelity, scene fidelity, and object-scene harmony. Existing methods either require per-object finetuning and slow inference or rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiahui Zhan , Xianbing Sun , Xiangnan Zhu , Yikun Ji , Ruitong Liu , Liqing Zhang , Jianfu Zhang

Face swapping transfers the identity of a source face to a target face while retaining the attributes like expression, pose, hair, and background of the target face. Advanced face swapping methods have achieved attractive results. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Runqi Wang , Yang Chen , Sijie Xu , Tianyao He , Wei Zhu , Dejia Song , Nemo Chen , Xu Tang , Yao Hu

Combining face swapping with lip synchronization technology offers a cost-effective solution for customized talking face generation. However, directly cascading existing models together tends to introduce significant interference between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Zeren Zhang , Haibo Qin , Jiayu Huang , Yixin Li , Hui Lin , Yitao Duan , Jinwen Ma

Diffusion-based approaches have recently achieved strong results in face swapping, offering improved visual quality over traditional GAN-based methods. However, even state-of-the-art models often suffer from fine-grained artifacts and poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Weston Bondurant , Arkaprava Sinha , Hieu Le , Srijan Das , Stephanie Schuckers

Existing face-swapping methods often deliver competitive results in constrained settings but exhibit substantial quality degradation when handling extreme facial poses. To improve facial pose robustness, explicit geometric features are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Jongmin Yu , Hyeontaek Oh , Zhongtian Sun , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero , Moongu Jeon , Jinhong Yang

In this work, we propose a high fidelity face swapping method, called HifiFace, which can well preserve the face shape of the source face and generate photo-realistic results. Unlike other existing face swapping works that only use face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Yuhan Wang , Xu Chen , Junwei Zhu , Wenqing Chu , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Jilin Li , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang , Rongrong Ji

Video head swapping aims to replace the entire head of a video subject, including facial identity, head shape, and hairstyle, with that of a reference image, while preserving the target body, background, and motion dynamics. Due to the lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yanan Wang , Shengcai Liao , Panwen Hu , Xin Li , Fan Yang , Xiaodan Liang

Maliciously-manipulated images or videos - so-called deep fakes - especially face-swap images and videos have attracted more and more malicious attackers to discredit some key figures. Previous pixel-level artifacts based detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Weinan Guan , Wei Wang , Jing Dong , Bo Peng , Tieniu Tan

Face swapping is a task that changes a facial identity of a given image to that of another person. In this work, we propose a novel face-swapping framework called Megapixel Facial Identity Manipulation (MFIM). The face-swapping model should…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Sanghyeon Na

Nowadays, it is possible to scan faces and automatically register them with high quality. However, the resulting face meshes often need further processing: we need to stabilize them to remove unwanted head movement. Stabilization is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Jan Bednarik , Erroll Wood , Vasileios Choutas , Timo Bolkart , Daoye Wang , Chenglei Wu , Thabo Beeler

Recent advances in Customized Concept Swapping (CCS) enable a text-to-image model to swap a concept in the source image with a customized target concept. However, the existing methods still face the challenges of inconsistency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Chenyang Zhu , Kai Li , Yue Ma , Longxiang Tang , Chengyu Fang , Chubin Chen , Qifeng Chen , Xiu Li

We present a training-free, plug-and-play method, namely VFace, for high-quality face swapping in videos. It can be seamlessly integrated with image-based face swapping approaches built on diffusion models. First, we introduce a Frequency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Sanoojan Baliah , Yohan Abeysinghe , Rusiru Thushara , Khan Muhammad , Abhinav Dhall , Karthik Nandakumar , Muhammad Haris Khan

With growing demand in media and social networks for personalized images, the need for advanced head-swapping techniques, integrating an entire head from the head image with the body from the body image, has increased. However, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Taewoong Kang , Sohyun Jeong , Hyojin Jang , Jaegul Choo

This technical report presents a diffusion model based framework for face swapping between two portrait images. The basic framework consists of three components, i.e., IP-Adapter, ControlNet, and Stable Diffusion's inpainting pipeline, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Feifei Wang

We propose LatentSwap, a simple face swapping framework generating a face swap latent code of a given generator. Utilizing randomly sampled latent codes, our framework is light and does not require datasets besides employing the pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Changho Choi , Minho Kim , Junhyeok Lee , Hyoung-Kyu Song , Younggeun Kim , Seungryong Kim

Face swapping has both positive applications such as entertainment, human-computer interaction, etc., and negative applications such as DeepFake threats to politics, economics, etc. Nevertheless, it is necessary to understand the scheme of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yuhao Zhu , Qi Li , Jian Wang , Chengzhong Xu , Zhenan Sun

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

We present GSwap, a novel consistent and realistic video head-swapping system empowered by dynamic neural Gaussian portrait priors, which significantly advances the state of the art in face and head replacement. Unlike previous methods that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jingtao Zhou , Xuan Gao , Dongyu Liu , Junhui Hou , Yudong Guo , Juyong Zhang

We show that even when face images are unconstrained and arbitrarily paired, face swapping between them is actually quite simple. To this end, we make the following contributions. (a) Instead of tailoring systems for face segmentation, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Yuval Nirkin , Iacopo Masi , Anh Tuan Tran , Tal Hassner , Gerard Medioni

In this paper, we propose a diffusion-based face swapping framework for the first time, called DiffFace, composed of training ID conditional DDPM, sampling with facial guidance, and a target-preserving blending. In specific, in the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Kihong Kim , Yunho Kim , Seokju Cho , Junyoung Seo , Jisu Nam , Kychul Lee , Seungryong Kim , KwangHee Lee