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Portrait Animation aims to synthesize a lifelike video from a single source image, using it as an appearance reference, with motion (i.e., facial expressions and head pose) derived from a driving video, audio, text, or generation. Instead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Jianzhu Guo , Dingyun Zhang , Xiaoqiang Liu , Zhizhou Zhong , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang

Benefiting from the significant advancements in text-to-image diffusion models, research in personalized image generation, particularly customized portrait generation, has also made great strides recently. However, existing methods either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Benxiang Zhai , Yifang Xu , Guofeng Zhang , Yang Li , Sidan Du

We propose X-Portrait, an innovative conditional diffusion model tailored for generating expressive and temporally coherent portrait animation. Specifically, given a single portrait as appearance reference, we aim to animate it with motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 You Xie , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , Chao Wang , Yichun Shi , Linjie Luo

Drawing on recent advancements in diffusion models for text-to-image generation, identity-preserved personalization has made significant progress in accurately capturing specific identities with just a single reference image. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yi Wu , Ziqiang Li , Heliang Zheng , Chaoyue Wang , Bin Li

Current diffusion-based acceleration methods for long-portrait animation struggle to ensure identity (ID) consistency. This paper presents FlashPortrait, an end-to-end video diffusion transformer capable of synthesizing ID-preserving,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Shuyuan Tu , Yueming Pan , Yinming Huang , Xintong Han , Zhen Xing , Qi Dai , Kai Qiu , Chong Luo , Zuxuan Wu

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

We present PersonaCraft, a framework for controllable and occlusion-robust full-body personalized image synthesis of multiple individuals in complex scenes. Current methods struggle with occlusion-heavy scenarios and complete body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Gwanghyun Kim , Suh Yoon Jeon , Seunggyu Lee , Se Young Chun

Audio-driven talking face generation is a challenging task in digital communication. Despite significant progress in the area, most existing methods concentrate on audio-lip synchronization, often overlooking aspects such as visual quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Fatemeh Nazarieh , Zhenhua Feng , Diptesh Kanojia , Muhammad Awais , Josef Kittler

Leveraging Stable Diffusion for the generation of personalized portraits has emerged as a powerful and noteworthy tool, enabling users to create high-fidelity, custom character avatars based on their specific prompts. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Siying Cui , Jia Guo , Xiang An , Jiankang Deng , Yongle Zhao , Xinyu Wei , Ziyong Feng

Personalization has emerged as a prominent aspect within the field of generative AI, enabling the synthesis of individuals in diverse contexts and styles, while retaining high-fidelity to their identities. However, the process of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Nataniel Ruiz , Yuanzhen Li , Varun Jampani , Wei Wei , Tingbo Hou , Yael Pritch , Neal Wadhwa , Michael Rubinstein , Kfir Aberman

In human-centric content generation, the pre-trained text-to-image models struggle to produce user-wanted portrait images, which retain the identity of individuals while exhibiting diverse expressions. This paper introduces our efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Renshuai Liu , Bowen Ma , Wei Zhang , Zhipeng Hu , Changjie Fan , Tangjie Lv , Yu Ding , Xuan Cheng

Person re-identification is a problem of identifying individuals across non-overlapping cameras. Although remarkable progress has been made in the re-identification problem, it is still a challenging problem due to appearance variations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Seongyeop Yang , Byeongkeun Kang , Yeejin Lee

While modern text-to-image diffusion models generate high-fidelity images, they offer limited control over the spatial and geometric structure of the output. To address this, we introduce and evaluate two ControlNets specialized for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Julien Boudier , Hugo Caselles-Dupré

Manipulation of facial images to meet specific controls such as pose, expression, and lighting, also known as face rigging, is a complex task in computer vision. Existing methods are limited by their reliance on image datasets, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Wooseok Jang , Youngjun Hong , Geonho Cha , Seungryong Kim

Person re-identification (re-ID) aims to recognize a person-of-interest across different cameras with notable appearance variance. Existing research works focused on the capability and robustness of visual representation. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Shiyang Yan , Jun Xu , Yuai Liu , Lin Xu

Diffusion models have emerged as frontrunners in text-to-image generation, but their fixed image resolution during training often leads to challenges in high-resolution image generation, such as semantic deviations and object replication.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Haoning Wu , Shaocheng Shen , Qiang Hu , Xiaoyun Zhang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

While diffusion models have shown great potential in portrait generation, generating expressive, coherent, and controllable cinematic portrait videos remains a significant challenge. Existing intermediate signals for portrait generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Junyi Wang , Yudong Guo , Boyang Guo , Shengming Yang , Juyong Zhang

De-identification of face data has drawn increasing attention in recent years. It is important to protect people's identities meanwhile keeping the utility of the data in many computer vision tasks. We propose a Controllable Face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tianxiang Ma , Dongze Li , Wei Wang , Jing Dong

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

In this work, we advance the neural head avatar technology to the megapixel resolution while focusing on the particularly challenging task of cross-driving synthesis, i.e., when the appearance of the driving image is substantially different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Nikita Drobyshev , Jenya Chelishev , Taras Khakhulin , Aleksei Ivakhnenko , Victor Lempitsky , Egor Zakharov