English
Related papers

Related papers: Language-Guided Face Animation by Recurrent StyleG…

200 papers

Audio-driven talking head animation is a challenging research topic with many real-world applications. Recent works have focused on creating photo-realistic 2D animation, while learning different talking or singing styles remains an open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Trong-Thang Pham , Nhat Le , Tuong Do , Hung Nguyen , Erman Tjiputra , Quang D. Tran , Anh Nguyen

In this work, we propose TediGAN, a novel framework for multi-modal image generation and manipulation with textual descriptions. The proposed method consists of three components: StyleGAN inversion module, visual-linguistic similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Weihao Xia , Yujiu Yang , Jing-Hao Xue , Baoyuan Wu

We propose Fast text2StyleGAN, a natural language interface that adapts pre-trained GANs for text-guided human face synthesis. Leveraging the recent advances in Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), no text data is required during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Xiaodan Du , Raymond A. Yeh , Nicholas Kolkin , Eli Shechtman , Greg Shakhnarovich

While recent research has progressively overcome the low-resolution constraint of one-shot face video re-enactment with the help of StyleGAN's high-fidelity portrait generation, these approaches rely on at least one of the following:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Trevine Oorloff , Yaser Yacoob

The face reenactment is a popular facial animation method where the person's identity is taken from the source image and the facial motion from the driving image. Recent works have demonstrated high quality results by combining the facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Soumya Tripathy , Juho Kannala , Esa Rahtu

This paper presents an innovative approach to achieve face cartoonisation while preserving the original identity and accommodating various poses. Unlike previous methods in this field that relied on conditional-GANs, which posed challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Kushal Jain , Ankith Varun J , Anoop Namboodiri

StyleGAN generates photorealistic portrait images of faces with eyes, teeth, hair and context (neck, shoulders, background), but lacks a rig-like control over semantic face parameters that are interpretable in 3D, such as face pose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Ayush Tewari , Mohamed Elgharib , Gaurav Bharaj , Florian Bernard , Hans-Peter Seidel , Patrick Pérez , Michael Zollhöfer , Christian Theobalt

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has recently garnered attention due to its cost-effective usability in multimedia production. However, most current advances overlook the intelligibility of lip movements, limiting the realism of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Han EunGi , Oh Hyun-Bin , Kim Sung-Bin , Corentin Nivelet Etcheberry , Suekyeong Nam , Janghoon Joo , Tae-Hyun Oh

We propose a novel model named Multi-Channel Attention Selection Generative Adversarial Network (SelectionGAN) for guided image-to-image translation, where we translate an input image into another while respecting an external semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Hao Tang , Philip H. S. Torr , Nicu Sebe

Videos show continuous events, yet most $-$ if not all $-$ video synthesis frameworks treat them discretely in time. In this work, we think of videos of what they should be $-$ time-continuous signals, and extend the paradigm of neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Ivan Skorokhodov , Sergey Tulyakov , Mohamed Elhoseiny

Audio-Driven Talking Face Generation aims at generating realistic videos of talking faces, focusing on accurate audio-lip synchronization without deteriorating any identity-related visual details. Recent state-of-the-art methods are based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Dogucan Yaman , Fevziye Irem Eyiokur , Leonard Bärmann , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Alexander Waibel

Talking face generation aims to synthesize a sequence of face images that correspond to a clip of speech. This is a challenging task because face appearance variation and semantics of speech are coupled together in the subtle movements of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Hang Zhou , Yu Liu , Ziwei Liu , Ping Luo , Xiaogang Wang

Creating a realistic animatable avatar from a single static portrait remains challenging. Existing approaches often struggle to capture subtle facial expressions, the associated global body movements, and the dynamic background. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mengchao Wang , Qiang Wang , Fan Jiang , Yaqi Fan , Yunpeng Zhang , Yonggang Qi , Kun Zhao , Mu Xu

Text-to-image diffusion models have remarkably excelled in producing diverse, high-quality, and photo-realistic images. This advancement has spurred a growing interest in incorporating specific identities into generated content. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Xiaoming Li , Xinyu Hou , Chen Change Loy

In this paper, we propose a talking face generation method that takes an audio signal as input and a short target video clip as reference, and synthesizes a photo-realistic video of the target face with natural lip motions, head poses, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Chenxu Zhang , Yifan Zhao , Yifei Huang , Ming Zeng , Saifeng Ni , Madhukar Budagavi , Xiaohu Guo

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

Interactive facial image manipulation attempts to edit single and multiple face attributes using a photo-realistic face and/or semantic mask as input. In the absence of the photo-realistic image (only sketch/mask available), previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Yan Yang , Md Zakir Hossain , Tom Gedeon , Shafin Rahman

Recent advances in diffusion models bring new vitality to visual content creation. However, current text-to-video generation models still face significant challenges such as high training costs, substantial data requirements, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Sicong Feng , Jielong Yang , Li Peng

Recent studies have shown that StyleGANs provide promising prior models for downstream tasks on image synthesis and editing. However, since the latent codes of StyleGANs are designed to control global styles, it is hard to achieve a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yichun Shi , Xiao Yang , Yangyue Wan , Xiaohui Shen

Giving machines the ability to imagine possible new objects or scenes from linguistic descriptions and produce their realistic renderings is arguably one of the most challenging problems in computer vision. Recent advances in deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Levent Karacan , Tolga Kerimoğlu , İsmail İnan , Tolga Birdal , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem