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Talking head video generation aims to generate a realistic talking head video that preserves the person's identity from a source image and the motion from a driving video. Despite the promising progress made in the field, it remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Shuling Zhao , Fa-Ting Hong , Xiaoshui Huang , Dan Xu

With rapid advancements in image generation technology, face swapping for privacy protection has emerged as an active area of research. The ultimate benefit is improved access to video datasets, e.g. in healthcare settings. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Ethan Wilson , Frederick Shic , Jenny Skytta , Eakta Jain

Text-conditioned image editing has greatly benefitted from the advancements in Image Diffusion Models. However, extending these techniques to facial video editing introduces challenges in preserving facial identity throughout the source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Huanghao Yin , Shenkun Xu , Kanle Shi , Junhai Yong , Bin Wang

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

We consider the problem of face swapping in images, where an input identity is transformed into a target identity while preserving pose, facial expression, and lighting. To perform this mapping, we use convolutional neural networks trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Iryna Korshunova , Wenzhe Shi , Joni Dambre , Lucas Theis

Although face swapping has attracted much attention in recent years, it remains a challenging problem. Existing methods leverage a large number of data samples to explore the intrinsic properties of face swapping without considering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Qi Li , Weining Wang , Chengzhong Xu , Zhenan Sun , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Face swapping technology has gained significant attention in both academic research and commercial applications. This paper presents our implementation and enhancement of SimSwap, an efficient framework for high fidelity face swapping. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Om Patil , Jinesh Modi , Suryabha Mukhopadhyay , Meghaditya Giri , Chhavi Malhotra

Controllable video generation (CVG) has advanced rapidly, yet current systems falter when more than one actor must move, interact, and exchange positions under noisy control signals. We address this gap with DanceTogether, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Junhao Chen , Mingjin Chen , Jianjin Xu , Xiang Li , Junting Dong , Mingze Sun , Puhua Jiang , Hongxiang Li , Yuhang Yang , Hao Zhao , Xiaoxiao Long , Ruqi Huang

High-quality AI-powered video dubbing demands precise audio-lip synchronization, high-fidelity visual generation, and faithful preservation of identity and background. Most existing methods rely on a mask-based training strategy, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Xindi Zhang , Dechao Meng , Steven Xiao , Qi Wang , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang

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

Many vision applications require identity consistency beyond strict biometric recognition, especially under non-frontal views or when facial cues are missing. However, conventional face recognition models enforce intra-identity invariance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yingfeng Wang , Yuxuan Xiao , Shengcai Liao

Recent advances in Customized Concept Swapping (CCS) enable a text-to-image model to swap a concept in the source image with a customized target concept. However, the existing methods still face the challenges of inconsistency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Chenyang Zhu , Kai Li , Yue Ma , Longxiang Tang , Chengyu Fang , Chubin Chen , Qifeng Chen , Xiu Li

Conventional voice conversion modifies voice characteristics from a source speaker to a target speaker, relying on audio input from both sides. However, this process becomes infeasible when clean audio is unavailable, such as in silent…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yifan Liu , Yu Fang , Zhouhan Lin

Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly enhanced content-based retrieval methods, notably through models like CLIP that map images and texts into a shared embedding space. However, these methods often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Nicola Messina , Lucia Vadicamo , Leo Maltese , Claudio Gennaro

Face swapping combines one face's identity with another face's non-appearance attributes (expression, head pose, lighting) to generate a synthetic face. This technology is rapidly improving, but falls flat when reconstructing some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Ethan Wilson , Frederick Shic , Eakta Jain

Face swapping has gained significant traction, driven by the plethora of human face synthesis facilitated by deep learning methods. However, previous face swapping methods that used generative adversarial networks (GANs) as backbones have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Xinyu Yang , Hongbo Bo

We present a training-free, plug-and-play method, namely VFace, for high-quality face swapping in videos. It can be seamlessly integrated with image-based face swapping approaches built on diffusion models. First, we introduce a Frequency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Sanoojan Baliah , Yohan Abeysinghe , Rusiru Thushara , Khan Muhammad , Abhinav Dhall , Karthik Nandakumar , Muhammad Haris Khan

Deep fake technology became a hot field of research in the last few years. Researchers investigate sophisticated Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), autoencoders, and other approaches to establish precise and robust algorithms for face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Daniil Chesakov , Anastasia Maltseva , Alexander Groshev , Andrey Kuznetsov , Denis Dimitrov

Face swapping aims to generate results that combine the identity from the source with attributes from the target. Existing methods primarily focus on image-based face swapping. When processing videos, each frame is handled independently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Xu Chen , Keke He , Junwei Zhu , Yanhao Ge , Wei Li , Chengjie Wang

Almost all advanced face swapping approaches use reconstruction as the proxy task, i.e., supervision only exists when the target and source belong to the same person. Otherwise, lacking pixel-level supervision, these methods struggle for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Ge Yuan , Maomao Li , Yong Zhang , Huicheng Zheng