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Existing approaches and datasets for face aging produce results skewed towards the mean, with individual variations and expression wrinkles often invisible or overlooked in favor of global patterns such as the fattening of the face.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Julien Despois , Frederic Flament , Matthieu Perrot

Recently, a surge of face editing techniques have been proposed to employ the pretrained StyleGAN for semantic manipulation. To successfully edit a real image, one must first convert the input image into StyleGAN's latent variables.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yin Yu , Ghasedi Kamran , Wu HsiangTao , Yang Jiaolong , Tong Xi , Fu Yun

The exploration of the latent space in StyleGANs and GAN inversion exemplify impressive real-world image editing, yet the trade-off between reconstruction quality and editing quality remains an open problem. In this study, we revisit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Kai Katsumata , Duc Minh Vo , Bei Liu , Hideki Nakayama

Many existing facial expression recognition (FER) systems encounter substantial performance degradation when faced with variations in head pose. Numerous frontalization methods have been proposed to enhance these systems' performance under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Omar Ikne , Benjamin Allaert , Ioan Marius Bilasco , Hazem Wannous

Face swapping technology has gained significant attention in both academic research and commercial applications. This paper presents our implementation and enhancement of SimSwap, an efficient framework for high fidelity face swapping. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Om Patil , Jinesh Modi , Suryabha Mukhopadhyay , Meghaditya Giri , Chhavi Malhotra

Facial attractiveness enhancement has been an interesting application in Computer Vision and Graphics over these years. It aims to generate a more attractive face via manipulations on image and geometry structure while preserving face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Jingwu He , Chuan Wang , Yang Zhang , Jie Guo , Yanwen Guo

Facial video inpainting plays a crucial role in a wide range of applications, including but not limited to the removal of obstructions in video conferencing and telemedicine, enhancement of facial expression analysis, privacy protection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Fatemeh Ghorbani Lohesara , Karen Egiazarian , Sebastian Knorr

Automatic 3D facial texture generation has gained significant interest recently. Existing approaches may not support the traditional physically based rendering pipeline or rely on 3D data captured by Light Stage. Our key contribution is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Chi Wang , Junming Huang , Rong Zhang , Qi Wang , Haotian Yang , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Weiwei Xu

3D-controllable portrait synthesis has significantly advanced, thanks to breakthroughs in generative adversarial networks (GANs). However, it is still challenging to manipulate existing face images with precise 3D control. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Yuchen Liu , Zhixin Shu , Yijun Li , Zhe Lin , Richard Zhang , S. Y. Kung

Facial appearance editing is crucial for digital avatars, AR/VR, and personalized content creation, driving realistic user experiences. However, preserving identity with generative models is challenging, especially in scenarios with limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 MD Wahiduzzaman Khan , Mingshan Jia , Xiaolin Zhang , En Yu , Caifeng Shan , Kaska Musial-Gabrys

Facial expression synthesis has drawn much attention in the field of computer graphics and pattern recognition. It has been widely used in face animation and recognition. However, it is still challenging due to the high-level semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Lingxiao Song , Zhihe Lu , Ran He , Zhenan Sun , Tieniu Tan

While high fidelity and efficiency are central to the creation of digital head avatars, recent methods relying on 2D or 3D generative models often experience limitations such as shape distortion, expression inaccuracy, and identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xiaochen Zhao , Jingxiang Sun , Lizhen Wang , Jinli Suo , Yebin Liu

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bo Liu , Xuan Cui , Run Zeng , Wei Duan , Chongwen Liu , Jinrui Qian , Lianggui Tang , Hongping Gan

We present GSwap, a novel consistent and realistic video head-swapping system empowered by dynamic neural Gaussian portrait priors, which significantly advances the state of the art in face and head replacement. Unlike previous methods that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jingtao Zhou , Xuan Gao , Dongyu Liu , Junhui Hou , Yudong Guo , Juyong Zhang

Generative Adversarial Network approaches such as StyleGAN/2 provide two key benefits: the ability to generate photo-realistic face images and possessing a semantically structured latent space from which these images are created. Many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jingrui He , Andrew Stephen McGough

StyleGAN2 was demonstrated to be a powerful image generation engine that supports semantic editing. However, in order to manipulate a real-world image, one first needs to be able to retrieve its corresponding latent representation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Erez Sheffi , Michael Rotman , Lior Wolf

Adaptive and flexible image editing is a desirable function of modern generative models. In this work, we present a generative model with auto-encoder architecture for per-region style manipulation. We apply a code consistency loss to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Ansheng You , Chenglin Zhou , Qixuan Zhang , Lan Xu

Image inversion is a fundamental task in generative models, aiming to map images back to their latent representations to enable downstream applications such as editing, restoration, and style transfer. This paper provides a comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yinan Chen , Jiangning Zhang , Yali Bi , Xiaobin Hu , Teng Hu , Zhucun Xue , Ran Yi , Yong Liu , Ying Tai

3D GAN inversion projects a single image into the latent space of a pre-trained 3D GAN to achieve single-shot novel view synthesis, which requires visible regions with high fidelity and occluded regions with realism and multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Kaitao Huang , Yan Yan , Jing-Hao Xue , Hanzi Wang

Face super-resolution aims to reconstruct a high-resolution face image from a low-resolution face image. Previous methods typically employ an encoder-decoder structure to extract facial structural features, where the direct downsampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Wenjie Li , Heng Guo , Xuannan Liu , Kongming Liang , Jiani Hu , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo