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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

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

Facial expression transfer between two unpaired images is a challenging problem, as fine-grained expression is typically tangled with other facial attributes. Most existing methods treat expression transfer as an application of expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Zhiwen Shao , Hengliang Zhu , Junshu Tang , Xuequan Lu , Lizhuang Ma

Current face reenactment and swapping methods mainly rely on GAN frameworks, but recent focus has shifted to pre-trained diffusion models for their superior generation capabilities. However, training these models is resource-intensive, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Yue Han , Junwei Zhu , Keke He , Xu Chen , Yanhao Ge , Wei Li , Xiangtai Li , Jiangning Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Yong Liu

In this paper an accurate real-time sequence-based system for representation, recognition, interpretation, and analysis of the facial action units (AUs) and expressions is presented. Our system has the following characteristics: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-04-06 Mahmoud Khademi , Mohammad Hadi Kiapour , Mohammad T. Manzuri-Shalmani , Ali A. Kiaei

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

In this work, we focus on exploring explicit fine-grained control of generative facial image editing, all while generating faithful facial appearances and consistent semantic details, which however, is quite challenging and has not been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Haozhe Jia , Yan Li , Hengfei Cui , Di Xu , Yuwang Wang , Tao Yu

We present User-predictable Face Editing (UP-FacE) -- a novel method for predictable face shape editing. In stark contrast to existing methods for face editing using trial and error, edits with UP-FacE are predictable by the human user.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Florian Strohm , Mihai Bâce , Andreas Bulling

The face reenactment is a popular facial animation method where the person's identity is taken from the source image and the facial motion from the driving image. Recent works have demonstrated high quality results by combining the facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Soumya Tripathy , Juho Kannala , Esa Rahtu

The lack of large-scale, demographically diverse face images with precise Action Unit (AU) occurrence and intensity annotations has long been recognized as a fundamental bottleneck in developing generalizable AU recognition systems. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xiangdong Li , Ye Lou , Ao Gao , Wei Zhang , Siyang Song

Creating personalized 3D animations with precise control and realistic head motions remains challenging for current speech-driven 3D facial animation methods. Editing these animations is especially complex and time consuming, requires…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Balamurugan Thambiraja , Malte Prinzler , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Darren Cosker , Justus Thies

Facial Action Units (AU) is a vital concept in the realm of affective computing, and AU detection has always been a hot research topic. Existing methods suffer from overfitting issues due to the utilization of a large number of learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Kaishen Yuan , Zitong Yu , Xin Liu , Weicheng Xie , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

Inspired by the impressive performance of recent face image editing methods, several studies have been naturally proposed to extend these methods to the face video editing task. One of the main challenges here is temporal consistency among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Gyeongman Kim , Hajin Shim , Hyunsu Kim , Yunjey Choi , Junho Kim , Eunho Yang

We present MagicMirror, a framework for generating identity-preserved videos with cinematic-level quality and dynamic motion. While recent advances in video diffusion models have shown impressive capabilities in text-to-video generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yuechen Zhang , Yaoyang Liu , Bin Xia , Bohao Peng , Zexin Yan , Eric Lo , Jiaya Jia

Over recent years, diffusion models have facilitated significant advancements in video generation. Yet, the creation of face-related videos still confronts issues such as low facial fidelity, lack of frame consistency, limited editability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Linze Li , Sunqi Fan , Hengjun Pu , Zhaodong Bing , Yao Tang , Tianzhu Ye , Tong Yang , Liangyu Chen , Jiajun Liang

Detecting facial action units (AU) is one of the fundamental steps in automatic recognition of facial expression of emotions and cognitive states. Though there have been a variety of approaches proposed for this task, most of these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Mihee Lee , Ognjen Rudovic , Vladimir Pavlovic , Maja Pantic

We present 3DiFACE, a novel method for personalized speech-driven 3D facial animation and editing. While existing methods deterministically predict facial animations from speech, they overlook the inherent one-to-many relationship between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Balamurugan Thambiraja , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Darren Cosker , Justus Thies

Face swapping aims to seamlessly transfer a source facial identity onto a target while preserving target attributes such as pose and expression. Diffusion models, known for their superior generative capabilities, have recently shown promise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Dailan He , Xiahong Wang , Shulun Wang , Guanglu Song , Bingqi Ma , Hao Shao , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li

Facial expression analysis is an important tool for human-computer interaction. In this paper, we introduce LibreFace, an open-source toolkit for facial expression analysis. This open-source toolbox offers real-time and offline analysis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Di Chang , Yufeng Yin , Zongjian Li , Minh Tran , Mohammad Soleymani

With the advancement of generative models, facial image editing has made significant progress. However, achieving fine-grained age editing while preserving personal identity remains a challenging task. In this paper, we propose TimeMachine,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yilin Mi , Qixin Yan , Zheng-Peng Duan , Chunle Guo , Hubery Yin , Hao Liu , Chen Li , Chongyi Li