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We present Dynamic Neural Portraits, a novel approach to the problem of full-head reenactment. Our method generates photo-realistic video portraits by explicitly controlling head pose, facial expressions and eye gaze. Our proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Michail Christos Doukas , Stylianos Ploumpis , Stefanos Zafeiriou

In medical imaging, the diffusion models have shown great potential for synthetic image generation tasks. However, these approaches often lack the interpretable connections between the generated and real images and can create anatomically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Jian-Qing Zheng , Yuanhan Mo , Yang Sun , Jiahua Li , Fuping Wu , Ziyang Wang , Tonia Vincent , Bartłomiej W. Papież

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

In the accelerating era of human-instructed visual content creation, diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable generative potential. Yet their deployment is constrained by a dual bottleneck: semantic ambiguity in diverse prompts and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jie Qin , Jie Wu , Weifeng Chen , Yueming Lyu

Human facial images encode a rich spectrum of information, encompassing both stable identity-related traits and mutable attributes such as pose, expression, and emotion. While recent advances in image generation have enabled high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kazuaki Mishima , Antoni Bigata Casademunt , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic , Kenji Suzuki

Diffusion-based Image Editing (DIE) is an emerging research hot-spot, which often applies a semantic mask to control the target area for diffusion-based editing. However, most existing solutions obtain these masks via manual operations or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Siyu Zou , Jiji Tang , Yiyi Zhou , Jing He , Chaoyi Zhao , Rongsheng Zhang , Zhipeng Hu , Xiaoshuai Sun

Animating a static face image with target facial expressions and movements is important in the area of image editing and movie production. This face reenactment process is challenging due to the complex geometry and movement of human faces.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Hanxiang Hao , Sriram Baireddy , Amy R. Reibman , Edward J. Delp

We present a novel approach to face aging that addresses the limitations of current methods which treat aging as a global, homogeneous process. Existing techniques using GANs and diffusion models often condition generation on a reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Lais Isabelle Alves dos Santos , Julien Despois , Thibaut Chauffier , Sileye O. Ba , Giovanni Palma

Recent works have shown how realistic talking face images can be obtained under the supervision of geometry guidance, e.g., facial landmark or boundary. To alleviate the demand for manual annotations, in this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Xianfang Zeng , Yusu Pan , Mengmeng Wang , Jiangning Zhang , Yong Liu

Despite promising progress in face swapping task, realistic swapped images remain elusive, often marred by artifacts, particularly in scenarios involving high pose variation, color differences, and occlusion. To address these issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Sanoojan Baliah , Qinliang Lin , Shengcai Liao , Xiaodan Liang , Muhammad Haris Khan

In recent advances of deep generative models, face reenactment -manipulating and controlling human face, including their head movement-has drawn much attention for its wide range of applicability. Despite its strong expressiveness, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Takuya Yashima , Takuya Narihira , Tamaki Kojima

The exponential growth of the global makeup market has paralleled advancements in virtual makeup simulation technology. Despite the progress led by GANs, their application still encounters significant challenges, including training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Geon Yeong Park , Inhwa Han , Serin Yang , Yeobin Hong , Seongmin Jeong , Heechan Jeon , Myeongjin Goh , Sung Won Yi , Jin Nam , Jong Chul Ye

Pose and body shape editing in a human image has received increasing attention. However, current methods often struggle with dataset biases and deteriorate realism and the person's identity when users make large edits. We propose a one-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yuta Okuyama , Yuki Endo , Yoshihiro Kanamori

Semantic Image Synthesis (SIS) is among the most popular and effective techniques in the field of face generation and editing, thanks to its good generation quality and the versatility is brings along. Recent works attempted to go beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Alex Ergasti , Claudio Ferrari , Tomaso Fontanini , Massimo Bertozzi , Andrea Prati

The ability to create high-quality 3D faces from a single image has become increasingly important with wide applications in video conferencing, AR/VR, and advanced video editing in movie industries. In this paper, we propose Face Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Hao Zhang , Yanbo Xu , Tianyuan Dai , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Face reenactment aims to animate a source face image to a different pose and expression provided by a driving image. Existing approaches are either designed for a specific identity, or suffer from the identity preservation problem in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Guangming Yao , Yi Yuan , Tianjia Shao , Kun Zhou

We propose an image-based, facial reenactment system that replaces the face of an actor in an existing target video with the face of a user from a source video, while preserving the original target performance. Our system is fully automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Pablo Garrido , Levi Valgaerts , Ole Rehmsen , Thorsten Thormaehlen , Patrick Perez , Christian Theobalt

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have achieved remarkable quality in image generation that rivals GANs'. But unlike GANs, DPMs use a set of latent variables that lack semantic meaning and cannot serve as a useful representation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Konpat Preechakul , Nattanat Chatthee , Suttisak Wizadwongsa , Supasorn Suwajanakorn

The goal of face reenactment is to transfer a target expression and head pose to a source face while preserving the source identity. With the popularity of face-related applications, there has been much research on this topic. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Wonjun Kang , Geonsu Lee , Hyung Il Koo , Nam Ik Cho

Diffusion models have recently become the de-facto approach for generative modeling in the 2D domain. However, extending diffusion models to 3D is challenging due to the difficulties in acquiring 3D ground truth data for training. On the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Jiatao Gu , Qingzhe Gao , Shuangfei Zhai , Baoquan Chen , Lingjie Liu , Josh Susskind