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We introduce InverseFaceNet, a deep convolutional inverse rendering framework for faces that jointly estimates facial pose, shape, expression, reflectance and illumination from a single input image. By estimating all parameters from just a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Hyeongwoo Kim , Michael Zollhöfer , Ayush Tewari , Justus Thies , Christian Richardt , Christian Theobalt

Face detection is a long-standing challenge in the field of computer vision, with the ultimate goal being to accurately localize human faces in an unconstrained environment. There are significant technical hurdles in making these systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Necdet Gurkan , Jordan W. Suchow

Face editing methods, essential for tasks like virtual avatars, digital human synthesis and identity preservation, have traditionally been built upon GAN-based techniques, while recent focus has shifted to diffusion-based models due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Mengting Wei , Tuomas Varanka , Yante Li , Xingxun Jiang , Huai-Qian Khor , Guoying Zhao

Deepfake detection refers to detecting artificially generated or edited faces in images or videos, which plays an essential role in visual information security. Despite promising progress in recent years, Deepfake detection remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Chunlei Peng , Huiqing Guo , Decheng Liu , Nannan Wang , Ruimin Hu , Xinbo Gao

Learning a dense 3D model with fine-scale details from a single facial image is highly challenging and ill-posed. To address this problem, many approaches fit smooth geometries through facial prior while learning details as additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Xingyu Ren , Alexandros Lattas , Baris Gecer , Jiankang Deng , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Diffusion-based approaches have recently driven remarkable progress in real-world image super-resolution (SR). However, existing methods still struggle to simultaneously preserve fine details and ensure high-fidelity reconstruction, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Aro Kim , Myeongjin Jang , Chaewon Moon , Youngjin Shin , Jinwoo Jeong , Sang-hyo Park

In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have significantly advanced face detection. In particular, lightweight CNNbased architectures have achieved great success due to their lowcomplexity structure facilitating real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Guangtao Wang , Jun Li , Zhijian Wu , Jianhua Xu , Jifeng Shen , Wankou Yang

Facial Aesthetics Enhancement (FAE) aims to improve facial attractiveness by adjusting the structure and appearance of a facial image while preserving its identity as much as possible. Most existing methods adopted deep feature-based or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Lisha Li , Jingwen Hou , Weide Liu , Yuming Fang , Jiebin Yan

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

The human face is one of the most crucial parts in interhuman communication. Even when parts of the face are hidden or obstructed the underlying facial movements can be understood. Machine learning approaches often fail in that regard due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Tim Büchner , Sven Sickert , Gerd Fabian Volk , Christoph Anders , Orlando Guntinas-Lichius , Joachim Denzler

We present a novel framework for real-time virtual makeup try-on that achieves high-fidelity, identity-preserving cosmetic transfer with robust temporal consistency. In live makeup transfer applications, it is critical to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Lydia Kin Ching Chau , Zhi Yu , Ruowei Jiang

Facial recognition systems rely on embeddings to represent facial images and determine identity by verifying if the distance between embeddings is below a pre-tuned threshold. While embeddings are not reversible to original images, they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Sefik Serengil , Alper Ozpinar

Recent advances in image editing with diffusion models have achieved impressive results, offering fine-grained control over the generation process. However, these methods are computationally intensive because of their iterative nature.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Ilia Beletskii , Andrey Kuznetsov , Aibek Alanov

With the advancement of face recognition (FR) systems, privacy-preserving face recognition (PPFR) systems have gained popularity for their accurate recognition, enhanced facial privacy protection, and robustness to various attacks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Dong Han , Yong Li , Joachim Denzler

The rapid evolution of deepfake technologies demands robust and reliable face forgery detection algorithms. While determining whether an image has been manipulated remains essential, the ability to precisely localize forgery clues is also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Siran Peng , Haoyuan Zhang , Li Gao , Tianshuo Zhang , Xiangyu Zhu , Bao Li , Weisong Zhao , Zhen Lei

Face frontalization refers to the process of synthesizing the frontal view of a face from a given profile. Due to self-occlusion and appearance distortion in the wild, it is extremely challenging to recover faithful results and preserve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Jie Cao , Yibo Hu , Hongwen Zhang , Ran He , Zhenan Sun

Recent facial texture generation methods prefer to use deep networks to synthesize image content and then fill in the UV map, thus generating a compelling full texture from a single image. Nevertheless, the synthesized texture UV map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Chengyang Li , Baoping Cheng , Yao Cheng , Haocheng Zhang , Renshuai Liu , Yinglin Zheng , Jing Liao , Xuan Cheng

Image restoration (IR) has been an indispensable and challenging task in the low-level vision field, which strives to improve the subjective quality of images distorted by various forms of degradation. Recently, the diffusion model has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xin Li , Yulin Ren , Xin Jin , Cuiling Lan , Xingrui Wang , Wenjun Zeng , Xinchao Wang , Zhibo Chen

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

In this paper, we present our method for neural face reenactment, called HyperReenact, that aims to generate realistic talking head images of a source identity, driven by a target facial pose. Existing state-of-the-art face reenactment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Stella Bounareli , Christos Tzelepis , Vasileios Argyriou , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos