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Learned 3D representations of human faces are useful for computer vision problems such as 3D face tracking and reconstruction from images, as well as graphics applications such as character generation and animation. Traditional models learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Anurag Ranjan , Timo Bolkart , Soubhik Sanyal , Michael J. Black

Existing approaches to federated learning suffer from a communication bottleneck as well as convergence issues due to sparse client participation. In this paper we introduce a novel algorithm, called FetchSGD, to overcome these challenges.…

We present a novel system for sketch-based face image editing, enabling users to edit images intuitively by sketching a few strokes on a region of interest. Our interface features tools to express a desired image manipulation by providing…

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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

Although significant progress has been made in synthesizing high-quality and visually realistic face images by unconditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), there still lacks of control over the generation process in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Xianxu Hou , Xiaokang Zhang , Linlin Shen , Zhihui Lai , Jun Wan

Text-to-Face (TTF) synthesis is a challenging task with great potential for diverse computer vision applications. Compared to Text-to-Image (TTI) synthesis tasks, the textual description of faces can be much more complicated and detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Tianren Wang , Teng Zhang , Brian Lovell

Recently, multi-view diffusion-based 3D generation methods have gained significant attention. However, these methods often suffer from shape and texture misalignment across generated multi-view images, leading to low-quality 3D generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhuojiang Cai , Yiheng Zhang , Meitong Guo , Mingdao Wang , Yuwang Wang

Creating realistic animations of human faces with computer graphic models is still a challenging task. It is often solved either with tedious manual work or motion capture based techniques that require specialised and costly hardware.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Wolfgang Paier , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

Joint synthesis of images and segmentation masks with generative adversarial networks (GANs) is promising to reduce the effort needed for collecting image data with pixel-wise annotations. However, to learn high-fidelity image-mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Vadim Sushko , Dan Zhang , Juergen Gall , Anna Khoreva

We introduce a novel approach that takes a single semantic mask as input to synthesize multi-view consistent color images of natural scenes, trained with a collection of single images from the Internet. Prior works on 3D-aware image…

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Controllable speech synthesis aims to control the style of generated speech using reference input, which can be of various modalities. Existing face-based methods struggle with robustness and generalization due to data quality constraints,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Rui Niu , Weihao Wu , Jie Chen , Long Ma , Zhiyong Wu

Exemplar-based face sketch synthesis plays an important role in both digital entertainment and law enforcement. It generally consists of two parts: neighbor selection and reconstruction weight representation. The most time-consuming or main…

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Synthetic images created by generative models increase in quality and expressiveness as newer models utilize larger datasets and novel architectures. Although this photorealism is a positive side-effect from a creative standpoint, it…

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Although significant advances have been made in face recognition (FR), FR in unconstrained environments remains challenging due to the domain gap between the semi-constrained training datasets and unconstrained testing scenarios. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Feng Liu , Minchul Kim , Anil Jain , Xiaoming Liu

Imagining a colored realistic image from an arbitrarily drawn sketch is one of the human capabilities that we eager machines to mimic. Unlike previous methods that either requires the sketch-image pairs or utilize low-quantity detected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Bingchen Liu , Yizhe Zhu , Kunpeng Song , Ahmed Elgammal

Video creation has been an attractive yet challenging task for artists to explore. With the advancement of deep learning, recent works try to utilize deep convolutional neural networks to synthesize a video with the aid of a guiding video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Haichao Zhang , Gang Yu , Tao Chen , Guozhong Luo

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks have achieved impressive results in photorealistic image synthesis. This progress nurtures hopes that one day the classical rendering pipeline can be replaced by efficient models that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Yiyi Liao , Katja Schwarz , Lars Mescheder , Andreas Geiger

In this paper, we focus on semantically multi-modal image synthesis (SMIS) task, namely, generating multi-modal images at the semantic level. Previous work seeks to use multiple class-specific generators, constraining its usage in datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Zhen Zhu , Zhiliang Xu , Ansheng You , Xiang Bai

In specific scenarios, face sketch can be used to identify a person. However, drawing a face sketch often requires exceptional skill and is time-consuming, limiting its widespread applications in actual scenarios. The new framework of…

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