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Age progression and regression aim to synthesize photorealistic appearance of a given face image with aging and rejuvenation effects, respectively. Existing generative adversarial networks (GANs) based methods suffer from the following…

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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

Recent advances in image generation have made diffusion models powerful tools for creating high-quality images. However, their iterative denoising process makes understanding and interpreting their semantic latent spaces more challenging…

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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) with style-based generators (e.g. StyleGAN) successfully enable semantic control over image synthesis, and recent studies have also revealed that interpretable image translations could be obtained by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Yunfan Liu , Qi Li , Zhenan Sun , Tieniu Tan

Disentangling factors of variation within data has become a very challenging problem for image generation tasks. Current frameworks for training a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), learn to disentangle the representations of the data in…

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In this work, we introduce a new approach for face stylization. Despite existing methods achieving impressive results in this task, there is still room for improvement in generating high-quality artistic faces with diverse styles and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Mengtian Li , Yi Dong , Minxuan Lin , Haibin Huang , Pengfei Wan , Chongyang Ma

Many recent works have been proposed for face image editing by leveraging the latent space of pretrained GANs. However, few attempts have been made to directly apply them to videos, because 1) they do not guarantee temporal consistency, 2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Jiyang Yu , Jingen Liu , Jing Huang , Wei Zhang , Tao Mei

Disentangled representation learning aims to capture the underlying explanatory factors of observed data, enabling a principled understanding of the data-generating process. Recent advances in generative modeling have introduced new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jinjin Chi , Taoping Liu , Mengtao Yin , Ximing Li , Yongcheng Jing , Jialie Shen , Leszek Rutkowski , Dacheng Tao

The semantically disentangled latent subspace in GAN provides rich interpretable controls in image generation. This paper includes two contributions on semantic latent subspace analysis in the scenario of face generation using StyleGAN2.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Bo Li , Qiulin Wang , Jiquan Pei , Yu Yang , Xiangyang Ji

StyleGAN has shown strong potential for disentangled semantic control, thanks to its special design of multi-layer intermediate latent variables. However, existing semantic discovery methods on StyleGAN rely on manual selection of modified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Xinqi Zhu , Chang Xu , Dacheng Tao

Latent space-based facial attribute editing methods have gained popularity in applications such as digital entertainment, virtual avatar creation, and human-computer interaction systems due to their potential for efficient and flexible…

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We propose LatentSwap, a simple face swapping framework generating a face swap latent code of a given generator. Utilizing randomly sampled latent codes, our framework is light and does not require datasets besides employing the pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Changho Choi , Minho Kim , Junhyeok Lee , Hyoung-Kyu Song , Younggeun Kim , Seungryong Kim

This paper describes a new technique for finding disentangled semantic directions in the latent space of StyleGAN. Our method identifies meaningful orthogonal subspaces that allow editing of one human face attribute, while minimizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Chen Naveh , Yacov Hel-Or

StyleGAN models show editing capabilities via their semantically interpretable latent organizations which require successful GAN inversion methods to edit real images. Many works have been proposed for inverting images into StyleGAN's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ahmet Burak Yildirim , Hamza Pehlivan , Aysegul Dundar

Facial stylization aims to transform facial images into appealing, high-quality stylized portraits, with the critical challenge of accurately learning the target style while maintaining content consistency with the original image. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhanyi Lu , Yue Zhou

We present a novel high-resolution face swapping method using the inherent prior knowledge of a pre-trained GAN model. Although previous research can leverage generative priors to produce high-resolution results, their quality can suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Yangyang Xu , Bailin Deng , Junle Wang , Yanqing Jing , Jia Pan , Shengfeng He

Normalizing flow is a generative modeling approach with efficient sampling. However, Flow-based models suffer two issues: 1) If the target distribution is manifold, due to the unmatch between the dimensions of the latent target distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Qinglong Meng , Chongkun Xia , Xueqian Wang

Despite the groundbreaking success of diffusion models in generating high-fidelity images, their latent space remains relatively under-explored, even though it holds significant promise for enabling versatile and interpretable image editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Li Wang , Boyan Gao , Yanran Li , Zhao Wang , Xiaosong Yang , David A. Clifton , Jun Xiao

Recent works have shown that a rich set of semantic directions exist in the latent space of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), which enables various facial attribute editing applications. However, existing methods may suffer poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Yuxuan Han , Jiaolong Yang , Ying Fu