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Acquisition and rendering of photo-realistic human heads is a highly challenging research problem of particular importance for virtual telepresence. Currently, the highest quality is achieved by volumetric approaches trained in a person…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Amit Raj , Michael Zollhoefer , Tomas Simon , Jason Saragih , Shunsuke Saito , James Hays , Stephen Lombardi

Generative models have enabled intuitive image creation and manipulation using natural language. In particular, diffusion models have recently shown remarkable results for natural image editing. In this work, we propose to apply diffusion…

Autoregressive (AR) image generation has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for image synthesis. Leveraging the generation principle of large language models, they allow for efficiently generating deceptively real-looking images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Simon Damm , Jonas Ricker , Henning Petzka , Asja Fischer

Structural and appearance changes in brain imaging over time are crucial indicators of neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration. The rapid advancement of large-scale generative models provides a promising backbone for modeling these complex…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Gexin Huang , Zhangsihao Yang , Yalin Wang , Guido Gerig , Mengwei Ren , Xiaoxiao Li

Automated facial age estimation has diverse real-world applications in multimedia analysis, e.g., video surveillance, and human-computer interaction. However, due to the randomness and ambiguity of the aging process, age assessment is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Ziyuan Zhao , Peisheng Qian , Yubo Hou , Zeng Zeng

Facial aging is a complex process, highly dependent on multiple factors like gender, ethnicity, lifestyle, etc., making it extremely challenging to learn a global aging prior to predict aging for any individual accurately. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Luchao Qi , Jiaye Wu , Bang Gong , Annie N. Wang , David W. Jacobs , Roni Sengupta

We introduce a general framework for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) using generative diffusion models. In particular, we focus on the scenarios where we do not have the full knowledge of the scene necessary to apply classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Jiahe Huang , Guandao Yang , Zichen Wang , Jeong Joon Park

Combining data from different sources can improve data analysis tasks such as clustering. However, most of the current multi-view clustering methods are limited to specific domains or rely on a suboptimal and computationally intensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Ran Eisenberg , Jonathan Svirsky , Ofir Lindenbaum

Existing image generation models face critical challenges regarding the trade-off between computation and fidelity. Specifically, models relying on a pretrained Variational Autoencoder (VAE) suffer from information loss, limited detail, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Chenrui Ma , Xi Xiao , Tianyang Wang , Xiao Wang , Yanning Shen

Multimodal regression aims to predict a continuous target from heterogeneous input sources and typically relies on fusion strategies such as early or late fusion. However, existing methods lack principled tools to disentangle and quantify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Zhaozhao Ma , Shujian Yu

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

Audio-driven single-image talking portrait generation plays a crucial role in virtual reality, digital human creation, and filmmaking. Existing approaches are generally categorized into keypoint-based and image-based methods. Keypoint-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Chaolong Yang , Kai Yao , Yuyao Yan , Chenru Jiang , Weiguang Zhao , Jie Sun , Guangliang Cheng , Yifei Zhang , Bin Dong , Kaizhu Huang

Age progression/regression is a challenging task due to the complicated and non-linear transformation in human aging process. Many researches have shown that both global and local facial features are essential for face representation, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Peipei Li , Yibo Hu , Qi Li , Ran He , Zhenan Sun

Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition (DFER) is crucial for understanding human behavior. However, current methods exhibit limited performance mainly due to the scarcity of high-quality data, the insufficient utilization of facial dynamics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Haodong Chen , Haojian Huang , Junhao Dong , Mingzhe Zheng , Dian Shao

Age estimation technology is a part of facial recognition and has been applied to identity authentication. This technology achieves the development and application of a juvenile anti-addiction system by authenticating users in the game.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Miaomiao Yang , Changwei Yao , Shijin Yan

Recent progress in panoramic image generation has underscored two critical limitations in existing approaches. First, most methods are built upon diffusion models, which are inherently ill-suited for equirectangular projection (ERP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chaoyang Wang , Xiangtai Li , Lu Qi , Xiaofan Lin , Jinbin Bai , Qianyu Zhou , Yunhai Tong

This paper is focused on the automatic extraction of persons and their attributes (gender, year of born) from album of photos and videos. We propose the two-stage approach, in which, firstly, the convolutional neural network simultaneously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Andrey V. Savchenko

We explore the task of recognizing peoples' identities in photo albums in an unconstrained setting. To facilitate this, we introduce the new People In Photo Albums (PIPA) dataset, consisting of over 60000 instances of 2000 individuals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Ning Zhang , Manohar Paluri , Yaniv Taigman , Rob Fergus , Lubomir Bourdev

Multimodal-driven talking face generation refers to animating a portrait with the given pose, expression, and gaze transferred from the driving image and video, or estimated from the text and audio. However, existing methods ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Chao Xu , Shaoting Zhu , Junwei Zhu , Tianxin Huang , Jiangning Zhang , Ying Tai , Yong Liu

Old-photo face restoration poses significant challenges due to compounded degradations such as breakage, fading, and severe blur. Existing pre-trained diffusion-guided methods either rely on explicit degradation priors or global statistical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Wenjie Li , Xiangyi Wang , Heng Guo , Guangwei Gao , Zhanyu Ma