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In this work, we present a new single-stage method for subject agnostic face swapping and identity transfer, named FaceDancer. We have two major contributions: Adaptive Feature Fusion Attention (AFFA) and Interpreted Feature Similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Felix Rosberg , Eren Erdal Aksoy , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Cristofer Englund

Reward Feedback Learning (ReFL) has recently shown great potential in aligning model outputs with human preferences across various generative tasks. In this work, we introduce a ReFL framework, named DiffusionReward, to the Blind Face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Bin Wu , Wei Wang , Yahui Liu , Zixiang Li , Yao Zhao

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

Although diffusion models are rising as a powerful solution for blind face restoration, they are criticized for two problems: 1) slow training and inference speed, and 2) failure in preserving identity and recovering fine-grained facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yunqi Miao , Jiankang Deng , Jungong Han

In this work, we propose a semantic flow-guided two-stage framework for shape-aware face swapping, namely FlowFace. Unlike most previous methods that focus on transferring the source inner facial features but neglect facial contours, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Hao Zeng , Wei Zhang , Changjie Fan , Tangjie Lv , Suzhen Wang , Zhimeng Zhang , Bowen Ma , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Xin Yu

Face swapping aims to generate swapped images that fuse the identity of source faces and the attributes of target faces. Most existing works address this challenging task through 3D modelling or generation using generative adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Kaiwen Cui , Rongliang Wu , Fangneng Zhan , Shijian Lu

Recent facial texture generation methods prefer to use deep networks to synthesize image content and then fill in the UV map, thus generating a compelling full texture from a single image. Nevertheless, the synthesized texture UV map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Chengyang Li , Baoping Cheng , Yao Cheng , Haocheng Zhang , Renshuai Liu , Yinglin Zheng , Jing Liao , Xuan Cheng

Full surround monodepth (FSM) methods can learn from multiple camera views simultaneously in a self-supervised manner to predict the scale-aware depth, which is more practical for real-world applications in contrast to scale-ambiguous depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yuchen Yang , Xinyi Wang , Dong Li , Lu Tian , Ashish Sirasao , Xun Yang

The performance of time series forecasting has recently been greatly improved by the introduction of transformers. In this paper, we propose a general multi-scale framework that can be applied to the state-of-the-art transformer-based time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Amin Shabani , Amir Abdi , Lili Meng , Tristan Sylvain

In this paper, we present Uformer, an effective and efficient Transformer-based architecture for image restoration, in which we build a hierarchical encoder-decoder network using the Transformer block. In Uformer, there are two core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Zhendong Wang , Xiaodong Cun , Jianmin Bao , Wengang Zhou , Jianzhuang Liu , Houqiang Li

Face fill-light enhancement (FFE) brightens underexposed faces by adding virtual fill light while keeping the original scene illumination and background unchanged. Most face relighting methods aim to reshape overall lighting, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jue Gong , Zihan Zhou , Jingkai Wang , Xiaohong Liu , Yulun Zhang , Xiaokang Yang

Blind face restoration (BFR) aims to recover high-quality facial images from degraded inputs, yet its inherently ill-posed nature leads to ambiguous and uncontrollable solutions. Recent diffusion-based BFR methods improve perceptual quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Chenxin Zhu , Yushun Fang , Lu Liu , Shibo Yin , Xiaohong Liu , Xiaoyun Zhang , Qiang Hu , Guangtao Zhai

Face clustering is a useful tool for applications like automatic face annotation and retrieval. The main challenge is that it is difficult to cluster images from the same identity with different face poses, occlusions, and image quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Jinxing Ye , Xioajiang Peng , Baigui Sun , Kai Wang , Xiuyu Sun , Hao Li , Hanqing Wu

In this paper, we share our experience in designing a convolutional network-based face detector that could handle faces of an extremely wide range of scales. We show that faces with different scales can be modeled through a specialized set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Shuo Yang , Yuanjun Xiong , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

Real world images often have highly imbalanced content density. Some areas are very uniform, e.g., large patches of blue sky, while other areas are scattered with many small objects. Yet, the commonly used successive grid downsampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Chen Ziwen , Kaushik Patnaik , Shuangfei Zhai , Alvin Wan , Zhile Ren , Alex Schwing , Alex Colburn , Li Fuxin

Currently, many face forgery detection methods aggregate spatial and frequency features to enhance the generalization ability and gain promising performance under the cross-dataset scenario. However, these methods only leverage one level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Jie Liu , Jingjing Wang , Peng Zhang , Chunmao Wang , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

The pre-trained transformer demonstrates remarkable generalization ability in natural image processing. However, directly transferring it to magnetic resonance images faces two key challenges: the inability to adapt to the specificity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jingkai Li , Xiaoze Tian , Yuhang Shen , Jia Wang , Dianjie Lu , Guijuan Zhang , Zhuoran Zheng

Vision Transformer and its variants have demonstrated great potential in various computer vision tasks. But conventional vision transformers often focus on global dependency at a coarse level, which suffer from a learning challenge on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yunhao Wang , Huixin Sun , Xiaodi Wang , Bin Zhang , Chao Li , Ying Xin , Baochang Zhang , Errui Ding , Shumin Han

While Transformer has achieved remarkable performance in various high-level vision tasks, it is still challenging to exploit the full potential of Transformer in image restoration. The crux lies in the limited depth of applying Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Haobo Ji , Xin Feng , Wenjie Pei , Jinxing Li , Guangming Lu