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Facial Beauty Prediction (FBP) is a challenging computer vision task due to its subjective nature and the subtle, holistic features that influence human perception. Prevailing methods, often based on deep convolutional networks or standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Djamel Eddine Boukhari , Ali chemsa

Facial attribute editing aims to manipulate single or multiple attributes of a face image, i.e., to generate a new face with desired attributes while preserving other details. Recently, generative adversarial net (GAN) and encoder-decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Zhenliang He , Wangmeng Zuo , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Generating and manipulating human facial images using high-level attributal controls are important and interesting problems. The models proposed in previous work can solve one of these two problems (generation or manipulation), but not both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Weidong Yin , Yanwei Fu , Leonid Sigal , Xiangyang Xue

Synthesis of digital artifacts conditioned on user prompts has become an important paradigm facilitating an explosion of use cases with generative AI. However, such models often fail to connect the generated outputs and desired target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Melvin Wong , Yew-Soon Ong , Abhishek Gupta , Kavitesh K. Bali , Caishun Chen

Text-guided image generation aimed to generate desired images conditioned on given texts, while text-guided image manipulation refers to semantically edit parts of a given image based on specified texts. For these two similar tasks, the key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Xiaozhou You , Jian Zhang

Facial attributes are important since they provide a detailed description and determine the visual appearance of human faces. In this paper, we aim at converting a face image to a sketch while simultaneously generating facial attributes. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Hao Tang , Xinya Chen , Wei Wang , Dan Xu , Jason J. Corso , Nicu Sebe , Yan Yan

To detect bias in face recognition networks, it can be useful to probe a network under test using samples in which only specific attributes vary in some controlled way. However, capturing a sufficiently large dataset with specific control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Nataniel Ruiz , Barry-John Theobald , Anurag Ranjan , Ahmed Hussein Abdelaziz , Nicholas Apostoloff

We introduce ImageGem, a dataset for studying generative models that understand fine-grained individual preferences. We posit that a key challenge hindering the development of such a generative model is the lack of in-the-wild and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yuanhe Guo , Linxi Xie , Zhuoran Chen , Kangrui Yu , Ryan Po , Guandao Yang , Gordon Wetztein , Hongyi Wen

Different forms of customized 2D avatars are widely used in gaming applications, virtual communication, education, and content creation. However, existing approaches often fail to capture fine-grained facial expressions and struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Hao Yu , Rupayan Mallick , Margrit Betke , Sarah Adel Bargal

Facial attribute editing aims to manipulate attributes on the human face, e.g., adding a mustache or changing the hair color. Existing approaches suffer from a serious compromise between correct attribute generation and preservation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Zhenliang He , Meina Kan , Jichao Zhang , Shiguang Shan

With the advancement of neural generative capabilities, the art community has actively embraced GenAI (generative artificial intelligence) for creating painterly content. Large text-to-image models can quickly generate aesthetically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Aven-Le Zhou , Yu-Ao Wang , Wei Wu , Kang Zhang

Facial images have extensive practical applications. Although the current large-scale text-image diffusion models exhibit strong generation capabilities, it is challenging to generate the desired facial images using only text prompt. Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Dawei Dai , Mingming Jia , Yinxiu Zhou , Hang Xing , Chenghang Li

Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved widespread popularity due to their unprecedented image generation capability. In particular, their ability to synthesize and modify human faces has spurred research into using generated face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Harrison Rosenberg , Shimaa Ahmed , Guruprasad V Ramesh , Ramya Korlakai Vinayak , Kassem Fawaz

We introduce PortraitGen, a powerful portrait video editing method that achieves consistent and expressive stylization with multimodal prompts. Traditional portrait video editing methods often struggle with 3D and temporal consistency, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Xuan Gao , Haiyao Xiao , Chenglai Zhong , Shimin Hu , Yudong Guo , Juyong Zhang

Text-to-image generative models often reflect the biases of the training data, leading to unequal representations of underrepresented groups. This study investigates inclusive text-to-image generative models that generate images based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Cheng Zhang , Xuanbai Chen , Siqi Chai , Chen Henry Wu , Dmitry Lagun , Thabo Beeler , Fernando De la Torre

The emergence of generative models enables the creation of texts and images tailored to users' preferences. Existing personalized generative models have two critical limitations: lacking a dedicated paradigm for accurate preference…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yuting Zhang , Ying Sun , Dazhong Shen , Ziwei Xie , Feng Liu , Changwang Zhang , Xiang Liu , Jun Wang , Hui Xiong

We present Mask-guided Generative Adversarial Network (MagGAN) for high-resolution face attribute editing, in which semantic facial masks from a pre-trained face parser are used to guide the fine-grained image editing process. With the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yi Wei , Zhe Gan , Wenbo Li , Siwei Lyu , Ming-Ching Chang , Lei Zhang , Jianfeng Gao , Pengchuan Zhang

In this paper, we propose a multi-stage and high-resolution model for image synthesis that uses fine-grained attributes and masks as input. With a fine-grained attribute, the proposed model can detailedly constrain the features of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Pengyang Li , Donghui Wang

While recent advances in image editing have enabled impressive visual synthesis capabilities, current methods remain constrained by explicit textual instructions and limited editing operations, lacking deep comprehension of implicit user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Dong Zhang , Lingfeng He , Rui Yan , Fei Shen , Jinhui Tang

The task of image generation started to receive some attention from artists and designers to inspire them in new creations. However, exploiting the results of deep generative models such as Generative Adversarial Networks can be long and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Baptiste Rozière , Morgane Riviere , Olivier Teytaud , Jérémy Rapin , Yann LeCun , Camille Couprie