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Facial video editing has become increasingly important for content creators, enabling the manipulation of facial expressions and attributes. However, existing models encounter challenges such as poor editing quality, high computational…

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The field of portrait image animation, driven by speech audio input, has experienced significant advancements in the generation of realistic and dynamic portraits. This research delves into the complexities of synchronizing facial movements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mingwang Xu , Hui Li , Qingkun Su , Hanlin Shang , Liwei Zhang , Ce Liu , Jingdong Wang , Yao Yao , Siyu Zhu

Despite remarkable achievements in video synthesis, achieving granular control over complex dynamics, such as nuanced movement among multiple interacting objects, still presents a significant hurdle for dynamic world modeling, compounded by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Pengxiang Li , Kai Chen , Zhili Liu , Ruiyuan Gao , Lanqing Hong , Guo Zhou , Hua Yao , Dit-Yan Yeung , Huchuan Lu , Xu Jia

Current audio-driven facial animation methods achieve impressive results for short videos but suffer from error accumulation and identity drift when extended to longer durations. Existing methods attempt to mitigate this through external…

Portrait animation transfers a driver clip's facial expression and head pose onto a single reference image while preserving the reference's identity. State-of-the-art diffusion systems address this by stacking trained modules for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Pouyan Navard , Sernam Lim

Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved the realism and generalizability of character-driven animation, enabling the synthesis of high-quality motion from just a single RGB image and a set of driving poses.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Alireza Javanmardi , Pragati Jaiswal , Tewodros Amberbir Habtegebrial , Christen Millerdurai , Shaoxiang Wang , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

Video face restoration aims to enhance degraded face videos into high-quality results with realistic facial details, stable identity, and temporal coherence. Recent diffusion-based methods have brought strong generative priors to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zheng Chen , Bowen Chai , Rongjun Gao , Mingtao Nie , Xi Li , Bingnan Duan , Jianping Fang , Xiaohong Liu , Linghe Kong , Yulun Zhang

Generating highly dynamic and photorealistic portrait animations driven by audio and skeletal motion remains challenging due to the need for precise lip synchronization, natural facial expressions, and high-fidelity body motion dynamics. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jiahao Cui , Yan Chen , Mingwang Xu , Hanlin Shang , Yuxuan Chen , Yun Zhan , Zilong Dong , Yao Yao , Jingdong Wang , Siyu Zhu

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

We present a novel framework for free-viewpoint facial performance relighting using diffusion-based image-to-image translation. Leveraging a subject-specific dataset containing diverse facial expressions captured under various lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Mingming He , Pascal Clausen , Ahmet Levent Taşel , Li Ma , Oliver Pilarski , Wenqi Xian , Laszlo Rikker , Xueming Yu , Ryan Burgert , Ning Yu , Paul Debevec

Recent advances in generative diffusion models have enabled the previously unfeasible capability of generating 3D assets from a single input image or a text prompt. In this work, we aim to enhance the quality and functionality of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Xiyi Chen , Marko Mihajlovic , Shaofei Wang , Sergey Prokudin , Siyu Tang

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

Recent diffusion-based human image animation techniques have demonstrated impressive success in synthesizing videos that faithfully follow a given reference identity and a sequence of desired movement poses. Despite this, there are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Changxin Gao , Jiayu Wang , Xiaoqiang Zhou , Yingya Zhang , Luxin Yan , Nong Sang

Facial expressions, vital in non-verbal human communication, have found applications in various computer vision fields like virtual reality, gaming, and emotional AI assistants. Despite advancements, many facial expression generation models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Hamza Bouzid , Lahoucine Ballihi

We present DiffPortrait3D, a conditional diffusion model that is capable of synthesizing 3D-consistent photo-realistic novel views from as few as a single in-the-wild portrait. Specifically, given a single RGB input, we aim to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Yuming Gu , You Xie , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , Yichun Shi , Di Chang , Jing Yang , Linjie Luo

Facial appearance editing is crucial for digital avatars, AR/VR, and personalized content creation, driving realistic user experiences. However, preserving identity with generative models is challenging, especially in scenarios with limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 MD Wahiduzzaman Khan , Mingshan Jia , Xiaolin Zhang , En Yu , Caifeng Shan , Kaska Musial-Gabrys

Character Animation aims to generating character videos from still images through driving signals. Currently, diffusion models have become the mainstream in visual generation research, owing to their robust generative capabilities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Li Hu , Xin Gao , Peng Zhang , Ke Sun , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) excel at generation, but their global self-attention makes controllable, reference-image-based editing a distinct challenge. Unlike U-Nets, naively injecting local appearance into a DiT can disrupt its holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shengrong Gu , Ye Wang , Song Wu , Rui Ma , Qian Wang , Lanjun Wang , Zili Yi

Video Face Swapping (VFS) requires seamlessly injecting a source identity into a target video while meticulously preserving the original pose, expression, lighting, background, and dynamic information. Existing methods struggle to maintain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Xu Guo , Fulong Ye , Xinghui Li , Pengqi Tu , Pengze Zhang , Qichao Sun , Songtao Zhao , Xiangwang Hou , Qian He

Audio-driven emotional 3D facial animation encounters two significant challenges: (1) reliance on single-modal control signals (videos, text, or emotion labels) without leveraging their complementary strengths for comprehensive emotion…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Kangwei Liu , Junwu Liu , Xiaowei Yi , Jinlin Guo , Yun Cao