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Generative AI models have revolutionized various fields by enabling the creation of realistic and diverse data samples. Among these models, diffusion models have emerged as a powerful approach for generating high-quality images, text, and…

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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…

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Recent progress in generative AI, especially diffusion models, has demonstrated significant utility in text-to-image synthesis. Particularly in healthcare, these models offer immense potential in generating synthetic datasets and training…

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Detecting diffusion-generated images has recently grown into an emerging research area. Existing diffusion-based datasets predominantly focus on general image generation. However, facial forgeries, which pose a more severe social risk, have…

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Facial attribute editing aims to modify target attributes while preserving attribute-irrelevant content and overall image fidelity. Existing GAN-based methods provide favorable controllability, but often suffer from weak alignment between…

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Text-to-image generative AI models such as Stable Diffusion are used daily by millions worldwide. However, the extent to which these models exhibit racial and gender stereotypes is not yet fully understood. Here, we document significant…

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Face editing methods, essential for tasks like virtual avatars, digital human synthesis and identity preservation, have traditionally been built upon GAN-based techniques, while recent focus has shifted to diffusion-based models due to…

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Recent advances in text-to-image generation with diffusion models present transformative capabilities in image quality. However, user controllability of the generated image, and fast adaptation to new tasks still remains an open challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Omer Bar-Tal , Lior Yariv , Yaron Lipman , Tali Dekel

Recent advances in talking face generation have significantly improved facial animation synthesis. However, existing approaches face fundamental limitations: 3DMM-based methods maintain temporal consistency but lack fine-grained regional…

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The appearances of children are inherited from their parents, which makes it feasible to predict them. Predicting realistic children's faces may help settle many social problems, such as age-invariant face recognition, kinship verification,…

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This technical report presents a diffusion model based framework for face swapping between two portrait images. The basic framework consists of three components, i.e., IP-Adapter, ControlNet, and Stable Diffusion's inpainting pipeline, for…

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Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved text-to-face generation, but achieving fine-grained control over facial features remains a challenge. Existing methods often require training additional modules to handle…

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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…

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Blind face restoration is an important task in computer vision and has gained significant attention due to its wide-range applications. Previous works mainly exploit facial priors to restore face images and have demonstrated high-quality…

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AI systems rely on extensive training on large datasets to address various tasks. However, image-based systems, particularly those used for demographic attribute prediction, face significant challenges. Many current face image datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Georgia Baltsou , Ioannis Sarridis , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos

The increasing reliance on large-scale datasets in machine learning poses significant privacy and ethical challenges, particularly in sensitive domains such as face recognition. Synthetic data generation offers a promising alternative;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Parsa Rahimi , Damien Teney , Sebastien Marcel

Face personalization aims to insert specific faces, taken from images, into pretrained text-to-image diffusion models. However, it is still challenging for previous methods to preserve both the identity similarity and editability due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Kaede Shiohara , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Low-field to high-field MRI synthesis has emerged as a cost-effective strategy to enhance image quality under hardware and acquisition constraints, particularly in scenarios where access to high-field scanners is limited or impractical.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Zhenxuan Zhang , Peiyuan Jing , Ruicheng Yuan , Liwei Hu , Anbang Wang , Fanwen Wang , Yinzhe Wu , Kh Tohidul Islam , Zhaolin Chen , Zi Wang , Peter Lally , Guang Yang

We address the need for a large-scale database of children's faces by using generative adversarial networks (GANs) and face age progression (FAP) models to synthesize a realistic dataset referred to as HDA-SynChildFaces. To this end, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Magnus Falkenberg , Anders Bensen Ottsen , Mathias Ibsen , Christian Rathgeb

Text-driven person image generation is an emerging and challenging task in cross-modality image generation. Controllable person image generation promotes a wide range of applications such as digital human interaction and virtual try-on.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Kaiduo Zhang , Muyi Sun , Jianxin Sun , Binghao Zhao , Kunbo Zhang , Zhenan Sun , Tieniu Tan