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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

Conditional diffusion probabilistic models can model the distribution of natural images and can generate diverse and realistic samples based on given conditions. However, oftentimes their results can be unrealistic with observable color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Kangfu Mei , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Vishal M. Patel

Current semantic segmentation models typically require a substantial amount of manually annotated data, a process that is both time-consuming and resource-intensive. Alternatively, leveraging advanced text-to-image models such as Midjourney…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Bo Gao , Jianhui Wang , Xinyuan Song , Yangfan He , Fangxu Xing , Tianyu Shi

Diffusion models are becoming increasingly popular in synthetic data generation and image editing applications. However, these models can amplify existing biases and propagate them to downstream applications. Therefore, it is crucial to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Malsha V. Perera , Vishal M. Patel

Creating large-scale datasets for training high-performance generative models is often prohibitively expensive, especially when associated attributes or annotations must be provided. As a result, merging existing datasets has become a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-31 Yanfeng Yang , Kenji Fukumizu

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

Image tiling -- the seamless connection of disparate images to create a coherent visual field -- is crucial for applications such as texture creation, video game asset development, and digital art. Traditionally, tiles have been constructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Or Madar , Ohad Fried

A lifespan face synthesis (LFS) model aims to generate a set of photo-realistic face images of a person's whole life, given only one snapshot as reference. The generated face image given a target age code is expected to be age-sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Sen He , Wentong Liao , Michael Ying Yang , Yi-Zhe Song , Bodo Rosenhahn , Tao Xiang

Generative models have advanced significantly in realistic image synthesis, with diffusion models excelling in quality and stability. Recent multi-view diffusion models improve 3D-aware street view generation, but they struggle to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Ji Li , Zhiwei Li , Shihao Li , Zhenjiang Yu , Boyang Wang , Haiou Liu

Face age progression, which aims to predict the future looks, is important for various applications and has been received considerable attentions. Existing methods and datasets are limited in exploring the effects of occupations which may…

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We present a novel framework to generate images of different age while preserving identity information, which is known as face aging. Different from most recent popular face aging networks utilizing Generative Adversarial Networks(GANs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Zipeng Wang , Zhaoxiang Liu , Jianfeng Huang , Shiguo Lian , Yimin Lin

This paper demonstrates how to use generative models trained for image synthesis as tools for visual data mining. Our insight is that since contemporary generative models learn an accurate representation of their training data, we can use…

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Recent progress in face restoration has shifted from visual fidelity to identity fidelity, driving a transition from reference-free to reference-based paradigms that condition restoration on reference images of the same person. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Teer Song , Yue Zhang , Yu Tian , Ziyang Wang , Xianlin Zhang , Guixuan Zhang , Xuan Liu , Xueming Li , Yasen Zhang

In recent years, diffusion models have gained popularity for their ability to generate higher-quality images in comparison to GAN models. However, like any other large generative models, these models require a huge amount of data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Rajesh Shrestha , Bowen Xie

Automatically generating multiview illusions is a compelling challenge, where a single piece of visual content offers distinct interpretations from different viewing perspectives. Traditional methods, such as shadow art and wire art, create…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yue Feng , Vaibhav Sanjay , Spencer Lutz , Badour AlBahar , Songwei Ge , Jia-Bin Huang

To better preserve an individual's identity, face restoration has evolved from reference-free to reference-based approaches, which leverage high-quality reference images of the same identity to enhance identity fidelity in the restored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Teer Song , Yue Zhang , Yu Tian , Ziyang Wang , Xianlin Zhang , Guixuan Zhang , Xuan Liu , Xueming Li , Yasen Zhang

This paper attempts to explore human identity by utilizing neural networks in an indirect manner. For this exploration, we adopt diffusion models, state-of-the-art AI generative models trained to create human face images. By relating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yunha Yeo , Daeho Um

Digital modeling and reconstruction of human faces serve various applications. However, its availability is often hindered by the requirements of data capturing devices, manual labor, and suitable actors. This situation restricts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yunxuan Cai , Sitao Xiang , Zongjian Li , Haiwei Chen , Yajie Zhao

2D portrait animation has experienced significant advancements in recent years. Much research has utilized the prior knowledge embedded in large generative diffusion models to enhance high-quality image manipulation. However, most methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Xinya Ji , Gaspard Zoss , Prashanth Chandran , Lingchen Yang , Xun Cao , Barbara Solenthaler , Derek Bradley