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In this research work we have proposed high-level ChildDiffusion framework capable of generating photorealistic child facial samples and further embedding several intelligent augmentations on child facial data using short text prompts,…

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The rapid progress of Deepfake technology has made face swapping highly realistic, raising concerns about the malicious use of fabricated facial content. Existing methods often struggle to generalize to unseen domains due to the diverse…

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We propose a novel talking head synthesis pipeline called "DiT-Head", which is based on diffusion transformers and uses audio as a condition to drive the denoising process of a diffusion model. Our method is scalable and can generalise to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Aaron Mir , Eduardo Alonso , Esther Mondragón

A diffusion probabilistic model (DPM), which constructs a forward diffusion process by gradually adding noise to data points and learns the reverse denoising process to generate new samples, has been shown to handle complex data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Zhengxiong Luo , Dayou Chen , Yingya Zhang , Yan Huang , Liang Wang , Yujun Shen , Deli Zhao , Jingren Zhou , Tieniu Tan

Diffusion-based Deep Generative Models (DDGMs) offer state-of-the-art performance in generative modeling. Their main strength comes from their unique setup in which a model (the backward diffusion process) is trained to reverse the forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Kamil Deja , Anna Kuzina , Tomasz Trzciński , Jakub M. Tomczak

The rapid progress in deep learning has given rise to hyper-realistic facial forgery methods, leading to concerns related to misinformation and security risks. Existing face forgery datasets have limitations in generating high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Zhongxi Chen , Ke Sun , Ziyin Zhou , Xianming Lin , Xiaoshuai Sun , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

Generating synthetic datasets for training face recognition models is challenging because dataset generation entails more than creating high fidelity images. It involves generating multiple images of same subjects under different factors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Minchul Kim , Feng Liu , Anil Jain , Xiaoming Liu

An authentic face restoration system is becoming increasingly demanding in many computer vision applications, e.g., image enhancement, video communication, and taking portrait. Most of the advanced face restoration models can recover…

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Human-centric generative models designed for AI-driven storytelling must bring together two core capabilities: identity consistency and precise control over human performance. While recent diffusion-based approaches have made significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Recent advances in generative modeling have enabled the generation of high-quality synthetic data that is applicable in a variety of domains, including face recognition. Here, state-of-the-art generative models typically rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Darian Tomašević , Fadi Boutros , Chenhao Lin , Naser Damer , Vitomir Štruc , Peter Peer

Audio-driven talking face video generation has attracted increasing attention due to its huge industrial potential. Some previous methods focus on learning a direct mapping from audio to visual content. Despite progress, they often struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Weizhi Zhong , Junfan Lin , Peixin Chen , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

Audio-driven talking face generation has garnered significant interest within the domain of digital human research. Existing methods are encumbered by intricate model architectures that are intricately dependent on each other, complicating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Dong Zhao , Jiaying Shi , Wenjun Li , Shudong Wang , Shenghui Xu , Zhaoming Pan

We propose a two-stage framework for audio-driven talking head generation with fine-grained expression control via facial Action Units (AUs). Unlike prior methods relying on emotion labels or implicit AU conditioning, our model explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Shao-Yu Chang , Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

Advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning have significantly improved synthetic speech generation. This paper explores diffusion models, a novel method for creating realistic synthetic speech. We create a diffusion…

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While recent advances in deep neural networks have made it possible to render high-quality images, generating photo-realistic and personalized talking head remains challenging. With given audio, the key to tackling this task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Shunyu Yao , RuiZhe Zhong , Yichao Yan , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang

Talking head generation is to generate video based on a given source identity and target motion. However, current methods face several challenges that limit the quality and controllability of the generated videos. First, the generated face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yue Gao , Yuan Zhou , Jinglu Wang , Xiao Li , Xiang Ming , Yan Lu

Talking head generation is to synthesize a lip-synchronized talking head video by inputting an arbitrary face image and corresponding audio clips. Existing methods ignore not only the interaction and relationship of cross-modal information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Sen Chen , Zhilei Liu , Jiaxing Liu , Longbiao Wang

In real-life conversations, the content is diverse, and there exists the one-to-many problem that requires diverse generation. Previous studies attempted to introduce discrete or Gaussian-based continuous latent variables to address the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jianxiang Xiang , Zhenhua Liu , Haodong Liu , Yin Bai , Jia Cheng , Wenliang Chen

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…

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