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This paper proposes learning disentangled but complementary face features with minimal supervision by face identification. Specifically, we construct an identity Distilling and Dispelling Autoencoder (D2AE) framework that adversarially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Yu Liu , Fangyin Wei , Jing Shao , Lu Sheng , Junjie Yan , Xiaogang Wang

We propose DiscoFaceGAN, an approach for face image generation of virtual people with disentangled, precisely-controllable latent representations for identity of non-existing people, expression, pose, and illumination. We embed 3D priors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Yu Deng , Jiaolong Yang , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Xin Tong

We present a benchmark of diffusion models for human face generation on a small-scale CelebAMask-HQ dataset, evaluating both unconditional and conditional pipelines. Our study compares UNet and DiT architectures for unconditional generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Dhruvraj Singh Rawat , Enggen Sherpa , Rishikesan Kirupanantha , Tin Hoang

Facial recognition has become a widely used method for authentication and identification, with applications for secure access and locating missing persons. Its success is largely attributed to deep learning, which leverages large datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Pedro Vidal , Bernardo Biesseck , Luiz E. L. Coelho , Roger Granada , David Menotti

Deep generative models come with the promise to learn an explainable representation for visual objects that allows image sampling, synthesis, and selective modification. The main challenge is to learn to properly model the independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Patrick Esser , Johannes Haux , Björn Ommer

We present a new multi-modal face image generation method that converts a text prompt and a visual input, such as a semantic mask or scribble map, into a photo-realistic face image. To do this, we combine the strengths of Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Jihyun Kim , Changjae Oh , Hoseok Do , Soohyun Kim , Kwanghoon Sohn

Reconstructing 3D face models from a single image is an inherently ill-posed problem, which becomes even more challenging in the presence of occlusions. In addition to fewer available observations, occlusions introduce an extra source of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Pratheba Selvaraju , Victoria Fernandez Abrevaya , Timo Bolkart , Rick Akkerman , Tianyu Ding , Faezeh Amjadi , Ilya Zharkov

Face reenactment aims to generate realistic talking head videos by transferring motion from a driving video to a static source image while preserving the source identity. Although existing methods based on either implicit or explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Mingtao Guo , Guanyu Xing , Yanci Zhang , Yanli Liu

We present a novel approach to the generation of static and articulated 3D assets that has a 3D autodecoder at its core. The 3D autodecoder framework embeds properties learned from the target dataset in the latent space, which can then be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Evangelos Ntavelis , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Kyle Olszewski , Chaoyang Wang , Luc Van Gool , Sergey Tulyakov

Latent space is one of the key concepts in generative AI, offering powerful means for creative exploration through vector manipulation. However, diffusion models like Stable Diffusion lack the intuitive latent vector control found in GANs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zhihua Zhong , Xuanyang Huang

Creating accurate and geologically realistic reservoir facies based on limited measurements is crucial for field development and reservoir management, especially in the oil and gas sector. Traditional two-point geostatistics, while…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-11-08 Daesoo Lee , Oscar Ovanger , Jo Eidsvik , Erlend Aune , Jacob Skauvold , Ragnar Hauge

Recently, deep learning based facial expression recognition (FER) methods have attracted considerable attention and they usually require large-scale labelled training data. Nonetheless, the publicly available facial expression databases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Yan Yan , Ying Huang , Si Chen , Chunhua Shen , Hanzi Wang

NeRF provides unparalleled fidelity of novel view synthesis: rendering a 3D scene from an arbitrary viewpoint. NeRF requires training on a large number of views that fully cover a scene, which limits its applicability. While these issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Pol Moreno , Adam R. Kosiorek , Heiko Strathmann , Daniel Zoran , Rosalia G. Schneider , Björn Winckler , Larisa Markeeva , Théophane Weber , Danilo J. Rezende

The success of most advanced facial expression recognition works relies heavily on large-scale annotated datasets. However, it poses great challenges in acquiring clean and consistent annotations for facial expression datasets. On the other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yuxuan Shu , Xiao Gu , Guang-Zhong Yang , Benny Lo

Face animation has achieved much progress in computer vision. However, prevailing GAN-based methods suffer from unnatural distortions and artifacts due to sophisticated motion deformation. In this paper, we propose a Face Animation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Bohan Zeng , Xuhui Liu , Sicheng Gao , Boyu Liu , Hong Li , Jianzhuang Liu , Baochang Zhang

Facial expression generation is one of the most challenging and long-sought aspects of character animation, with many interesting applications. The challenging task, traditionally having relied heavily on digital craftspersons, remains yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Kaifeng Zou , Sylvain Faisan , Boyang Yu , Sébastien Valette , Hyewon Seo

Face-to-face communication is a common scenario including roles of speakers and listeners. Most existing research methods focus on producing speaker videos, while the generation of listener heads remains largely overlooked. Responsive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Jin Liu , Xi Wang , Xiaomeng Fu , Yesheng Chai , Cai Yu , Jiao Dai , Jizhong Han

Learning a disentangled, interpretable, and structured latent representation in 3D generative models of faces and bodies is still an open problem. The problem is particularly acute when control over identity features is required. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Simone Foti , Bongjin Koo , Danail Stoyanov , Matthew J. Clarkson

Dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) in the wild is an extremely challenging task, due to a large number of noisy frames in the video sequences. Previous works focus on extracting more discriminative features, but ignore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Hanting Li , Mingzhe Sui , Zhaoqing Zhu , Feng zhao

Existing facial expression recognition (FER) methods typically fine-tune a pre-trained visual encoder using discrete labels. However, this form of supervision limits to specify the emotional concept of different facial expressions. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Hangyu Li , Yihan Xu , Jiangchao Yao , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao , Bo Han