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The study of ancient writings has great value for archaeology and philology. Essential forms of material are photographic characters, but manual photographic character recognition is extremely time-consuming and expertise-dependent.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Hongxiang Huang , Daihui Yang , Gang Dai , Zhen Han , Yuyi Wang , Kin-Man Lam , Fan Yang , Shuangping Huang , Yongge Liu , Mengchao He

Large text-to-image models achieved a remarkable leap in the evolution of AI, enabling high-quality and diverse synthesis of images from a given text prompt. However, these models lack the ability to mimic the appearance of subjects in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Nataniel Ruiz , Yuanzhen Li , Varun Jampani , Yael Pritch , Michael Rubinstein , Kfir Aberman

This paper describes a new model which generates images in novel poses e.g. by altering face expression and orientation, from just a few instances of a human subject. Unlike previous approaches which require large datasets of a specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Andrei-Timotei Ardelean , Lucian Mircea Sasu

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have improved steadily towards generating increasingly impressive real-world images. It is useful to steer the image generation process for purposes such as content creation. This can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 David Stap , Maurits Bleeker , Sarah Ibrahimi , Maartje ter Hoeve

In the past decades, the excessive use of the last-generation GAN (Generative Adversarial Networks) models in computer vision has enabled the creation of artificial face images that are visually indistinguishable from genuine ones. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Ehsan Nowroozi , Mauro Conti , Yassine Mekdad

Generating an image from a given text description has two goals: visual realism and semantic consistency. Although significant progress has been made in generating high-quality and visually realistic images using generative adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Tingting Qiao , Jing Zhang , Duanqing Xu , Dacheng Tao

This paper presents Arc2Face, an identity-conditioned face foundation model, which, given the ArcFace embedding of a person, can generate diverse photo-realistic images with an unparalleled degree of face similarity than existing models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou , Alexandros Lattas , Stylianos Moschoglou , Jiankang Deng , Bernhard Kainz , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Digital characters are central to modern media, yet generating character videos with long-duration, consistent multi-view appearance and expressive identity remains challenging. Existing approaches either provide insufficient context to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yuhang Yang , Fan Zhang , Huaijin Pi , Shuai Guo , Guowei Xu , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

StyleGAN has demonstrated the ability of GANs to synthesize highly-realistic faces of imaginary people from random noise. One limitation of GAN-based image generation is the difficulty of controlling the features of the generated image, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Zhuo He , Paul Henderson , Nicolas Pugeault

Recent text-to-image diffusion models are able to learn and synthesize images containing novel, personalized concepts (e.g., their own pets or specific items) with just a few examples for training. This paper tackles two interconnected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Chun-Hsiao Yeh , Ta-Ying Cheng , He-Yen Hsieh , Chuan-En Lin , Yi Ma , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni , H. T. Kung , Yubei Chen

Generating temporally coherent high fidelity video is an important milestone in generative modeling research. We make progress towards this milestone by proposing a diffusion model for video generation that shows very promising initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Jonathan Ho , Tim Salimans , Alexey Gritsenko , William Chan , Mohammad Norouzi , David J. Fleet

Portrait stylization is a long-standing task enabling extensive applications. Although 2D-based methods have made great progress in recent years, real-world applications such as metaverse and games often demand 3D content. On the other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Zhuo Chen , Xudong Xu , Yichao Yan , Ye Pan , Wenhan Zhu , Wayne Wu , Bo Dai , Xiaokang Yang

Token-based masked generative models are gaining popularity for their fast inference time with parallel decoding. While recent token-based approaches achieve competitive performance to diffusion-based models, their generation performance is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Jaewoong Lee , Sangwon Jang , Jaehyeong Jo , Jaehong Yoon , Yunji Kim , Jin-Hwa Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Sung Ju Hwang

We propose Context Diffusion, a diffusion-based framework that enables image generation models to learn from visual examples presented in context. Recent work tackles such in-context learning for image generation, where a query image is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Ivona Najdenkoska , Animesh Sinha , Abhimanyu Dubey , Dhruv Mahajan , Vignesh Ramanathan , Filip Radenovic

Subject-driven image generation aims to synthesize novel depictions of a specific subject across diverse contexts while preserving its core identity features. Achieving both strong identity consistency and high prompt diversity presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Aditi Singhania , Arushi Jain , Krutik Malani , Riddhi Dhawan , Souymodip Chakraborty , Vineet Batra , Ankit Phogat

Diffusion models have shown impressive potential on talking head generation. While plausible appearance and talking effect are achieved, these methods still suffer from temporal, 3D or expression inconsistency due to the error accumulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Haijie Yang , Zhenyu Zhang , Hao Tang , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang

Disentangling factors of variation has become a very challenging problem on representation learning. Existing algorithms suffer from many limitations, such as unpredictable disentangling factors, poor quality of generated images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Taihong Xiao , Jiapeng Hong , Jinwen Ma

Deep generative models have shown impressive results in generating realistic images of faces. GANs managed to generate high-quality, high-fidelity images when conditioned on semantic masks, but they still lack the ability to diversify their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Nico Giambi , Giuseppe Lisanti

Generating high-quality 3D characters from single images remains a significant challenge in digital content creation, particularly due to complex body poses and self-occlusion. In this paper, we present RCM (Rotate your Character Model), an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Jin Wang , Jianxiang Lu , Comi Chen , Guangzheng Xu , Haoyu Yang , Peng Chen , Na Zhang , Yifan Xu , Longhuang Wu , Shuai Shao , Qinglin Lu , Ping Luo

The generative adversarial network (GAN) exhibits great superiority in the face attribute synthesis task. However, existing methods have very limited effects on the expansion of new attributes. To overcome the limitations of a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Xin Ning , Shaohui Xu , Xiaoli Dong , Weijun Li , Fangzhe Nan , Yuanzhou Yao