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Recent attempts to solve the problem of head reenactment using a single reference image have shown promising results. However, most of them either perform poorly in terms of photo-realism, or fail to meet the identity preservation problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Michail Christos Doukas , Stefanos Zafeiriou , Viktoriia Sharmanska

We address the challenge of generating 3D articulated objects in a controllable fashion. Currently, modeling articulated 3D objects is either achieved through laborious manual authoring, or using methods from prior work that are hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jiayi Liu , Hou In Ivan Tam , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri , Manolis Savva

The ability to accurately capture and express emotions is a critical aspect of creating believable characters in video games and other forms of entertainment. Traditionally, this animation has been achieved with artistic effort or…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jack Saunders , Steven Caulkin , Vinay Namboodiri

High quality facial image editing is a challenging problem in the movie post-production industry, requiring a high degree of control and identity preservation. Previous works that attempt to tackle this problem may suffer from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Xu Yao , Alasdair Newson , Yann Gousseau , Pierre Hellier

While current face animation methods can manipulate expressions individually, they suffer from several limitations. The expressions manipulated by some motion-based facial reenactment models are crude. Other ideas modeled with facial action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Tianxiang Ma , Bingchuan Li , Qian He , Jing Dong , Tieniu Tan

In recent years, there has been significant interest in creating 3D avatars and motions, driven by their diverse applications in areas like film-making, video games, AR/VR, and human-robot interaction. However, current efforts primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zeyu Zhang , Yiran Wang , Biao Wu , Shuo Chen , Zhiyuan Zhang , Shiya Huang , Wenbo Zhang , Meng Fang , Ling Chen , Yang Zhao

Generative models have surged in popularity recently due to their ability to produce high-quality images and video. However, steering these models to produce images with specific attributes and precise control remains challenging. Humans,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Tuomas Varanka , Huai-Qian Khor , Yante Li , Mengting Wei , Hanwei Kung , Nicu Sebe , Guoying Zhao

We present a novel learning-based framework for face reenactment. The proposed method, known as ReenactGAN, is capable of transferring facial movements and expressions from monocular video input of an arbitrary person to a target person.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Wayne Wu , Yunxuan Zhang , Cheng Li , Chen Qian , Chen Change Loy

The face reenactment is a popular facial animation method where the person's identity is taken from the source image and the facial motion from the driving image. Recent works have demonstrated high quality results by combining the facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Soumya Tripathy , Juho Kannala , Esa Rahtu

We present En3D, an enhanced generative scheme for sculpting high-quality 3D human avatars. Unlike previous works that rely on scarce 3D datasets or limited 2D collections with imbalanced viewing angles and imprecise pose priors, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Yifang Men , Biwen Lei , Yuan Yao , Miaomiao Cui , Zhouhui Lian , Xuansong Xie

In recent years, the role of image generative models in facial reenactment has been steadily increasing. Such models are usually subject-agnostic and trained on domain-wide datasets. The appearance of the reenacted individual is learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Ariel Elazary , Yotam Nitzan , Daniel Cohen-Or

In recent years, diffusion models have revolutionized visual generation, outperforming traditional frameworks like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). However, generating images of humans with realistic semantic parts, such as hands and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Benzhi Wang , Jingkai Zhou , Jingqi Bai , Yang Yang , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang , Zhen Lei

Existing 3D-aware facial generation methods face a dilemma in quality versus editability: they either generate editable results in low resolution or high-quality ones with no editing flexibility. In this work, we propose a new approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Jingxiang Sun , Xuan Wang , Yichun Shi , Lizhen Wang , Jue Wang , Yebin Liu

In this paper, we propose a novel audio-driven talking head method capable of simultaneously generating highly expressive facial expressions and hand gestures. Unlike existing methods that focus on generating full-body or half-body poses,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Linrui Tian , Siqi Hu , Qi Wang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Reconstructing photorealistic and topology-aware human avatars from monocular videos remains a significant challenge in the fields of computer vision and graphics. While existing 3D human avatar modeling approaches can effectively capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yuze Su , Hongsong Wang , Jie Gui , Liang Wang

This paper is on face/head reenactment where the goal is to transfer the facial pose (3D head orientation and expression) of a target face to a source face. Previous methods focus on learning embedding networks for identity and pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Stella Bounareli , Vasileios Argyriou , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Producing expressive facial animations from static images is a challenging task. Prior methods relying on explicit geometric priors (e.g., facial landmarks or 3DMM) often suffer from artifacts in cross reenactment and struggle to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Qiang Wang , Mengchao Wang , Fan Jiang , Yaqi Fan , Yonggang Qi , Mu Xu

Animatable clothing transfer, aiming at dressing and animating garments across characters, is a challenging problem. Most human avatar works entangle the representations of the human body and clothing together, which leads to difficulties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Siyou Lin , Zhe Li , Zhaoqi Su , Zerong Zheng , Hongwen Zhang , Yebin Liu

High-fidelity reconstruction of 3D human avatars has a wild application in visual reality. In this paper, we introduce FAGhead, a method that enables fully controllable human portraits from monocular videos. We explicit the traditional 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Yixin Xuan , Xinyang Li , Gongxin Yao , Shiwei Zhou , Donghui Sun , Xiaoxin Chen , Yu Pan

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