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Dynamic facial expression generation from natural language is a crucial task in Computer Graphics, with applications in Animation, Virtual Avatars, and Human-Computer Interaction. However, current generative models suffer from datasets that…

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This paper considers neural representation through the lens of active inference, a normative framework for understanding brain function. It delves into how living organisms employ generative models to minimize the discrepancy between…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-24 Giovanni Pezzulo , Leo D'Amato , Francesco Mannella , Matteo Priorelli , Toon Van de Maele , Ivilin Peev Stoianov , Karl Friston

Human emotion synthesis is a crucial aspect of affective computing. It involves using computational methods to mimic and convey human emotions through various modalities, with the goal of enabling more natural and effective human-computer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Fei Ma , Yukan Li , Yifan Xie , Ying He , Yi Zhang , Hongwei Ren , Zhou Liu , Wei Yao , Fuji Ren , Fei Richard Yu , Shiguang Ni

Automated facial expression analysis has a variety of applications in human-computer interaction. Traditional methods mainly analyze prototypical facial expressions of no more than eight discrete emotions as a classification task. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Feng Zhou , Shu Kong , Charless Fowlkes , Tao Chen , Baiying Lei

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

Recently, emotional talking face generation has received considerable attention. However, existing methods only adopt one-hot coding, image, or audio as emotion conditions, thus lacking flexible control in practical applications and failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Chao Xu , Junwei Zhu , Jiangning Zhang , Yue Han , Wenqing Chu , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Zhifeng Xie , Yong Liu

Facial analysis models are increasingly used in applications that have serious impacts on people's lives, ranging from authentication to surveillance tracking. It is therefore critical to develop techniques that can reveal unintended biases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Remi Denton , Ben Hutchinson , Margaret Mitchell , Timnit Gebru , Andrew Zaldivar

With the broad use of face recognition, its weakness gradually emerges that it is able to be attacked. So, it is important to study how face recognition networks are subject to attacks. In this paper, we focus on a novel way to do attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Qing Song , Yingqi Wu , Lu Yang

In this paper, we proposed a generative model that learns to synthesize the 4D facial expression with the neutral landmark. Existing works mainly focus on the generation of sequences guided by expression labels, speech, etc, while they are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Xin Lu , Zhengda Lu , Yiqun Wang , Jun Xiao

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) provide a way to learn deep representations without extensively annotated training data. They achieve this through deriving backpropagation signals through a competitive process involving a pair of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Antonia Creswell , Tom White , Vincent Dumoulin , Kai Arulkumaran , Biswa Sengupta , Anil A Bharath

We introduce the GANformer, a novel and efficient type of transformer, and explore it for the task of visual generative modeling. The network employs a bipartite structure that enables long-range interactions across the image, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Drew A. Hudson , C. Lawrence Zitnick

Recent studies have shown remarkable success in face image generations. However, most of the existing methods only generate face images from random noise, and cannot generate face images according to the specific attributes. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Zheng Yuan , Jie Zhang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

To enable more natural face-to-face interactions, conversational agents need to adapt their behavior to their interlocutors. One key aspect of this is generation of appropriate non-verbal behavior for the agent, for example facial gestures,…

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An important goal in human-robot-interaction (HRI) is for machines to achieve a close to human level of face perception. One of the important differences between machine learning and human intelligence is the lack of compositionality. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Mahla Abdolahnejad , Peter Xiaoping Liu

Understanding the mental state of other people is an important skill for intelligent agents and robots to operate within social environments. However, the mental processes involved in `mind-reading' are complex. One explanation of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jonathan Vitale , Mary-Anne Williams , Benjamin Johnston , Giuseppe Boccignone

A recent Cell paper [Chang and Tsao, 2017] reports an interesting discovery. For the face stimuli generated by a pre-trained active appearance model (AAM), the responses of neurons in the areas of the primate brain that are responsible for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Tian Han , Jiawen Wu , Ying Nian Wu

Throughout the various ages, facial expressions have become one of the universal ways of non-verbal communication. The ability to recognize facial expressions would pave the path for many novel applications. Despite the success of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Raghu Vamshi. N , Bharathi Raja S

Image generation remains a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence in general and deep learning in specific. The generative adversarial network (GAN) was successful in generating high quality samples of natural images. We propose a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Hanock Kwak , Byoung-Tak Zhang

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

How to build a good model for image generation given an abstract concept is a fundamental problem in computer vision. In this paper, we explore a generative model for the task of generating unseen images with desired features. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Qiangeng Xu , Zengchang Qin , Tao Wan