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Video face re-aging deals with altering the apparent age of a person to the target age in videos. This problem is challenging due to the lack of paired video datasets maintaining temporal consistency in identity and age. Most re-aging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Abdul Muqeet , Kyuchul Lee , Bumsoo Kim , Yohan Hong , Hyungrae Lee , Woonggon Kim , KwangHee Lee

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

Portrait animation aims to generate photo-realistic videos from a single source image by reenacting the expression and pose from a driving video. While early methods relied on 3D morphable models or feature warping techniques, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mallikarjun B. R. , Fei Yin , Vikram Voleti , Nikita Drobyshev , Maksim Lapin , Aaryaman Vasishta , Varun Jampani

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

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

Facial aging is a complex process, highly dependent on multiple factors like gender, ethnicity, lifestyle, etc., making it extremely challenging to learn a global aging prior to predict aging for any individual accurately. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Luchao Qi , Jiaye Wu , Bang Gong , Annie N. Wang , David W. Jacobs , Roni Sengupta

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

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

Preserving face identity is a critical yet persistent challenge in diffusion-based image restoration. While reference faces offer a path forward, existing reference-based methods often fail to fully exploit their potential. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Mo Zhou , Keren Ye , Viraj Shah , Kangfu Mei , Mauricio Delbracio , Peyman Milanfar , Vishal M. Patel , Hossein Talebi

Recent advancements in video diffusion models have significantly enhanced audio-driven portrait animation. However, current methods still suffer from flickering, identity drift, and poor audio-visual synchronization. These issues primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Zhenjie Liu , Jianzhang Lu , Renjie Lu , Cong Liang , Shangfei Wang

Face swapping aims to transfer the identity of a source face onto a target face while preserving target-specific attributes such as pose, expression, lighting, skin tone, and makeup. However, since real ground truth for face swapping is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jiwon Kang , Yeji Choi , JoungBin Lee , Wooseok Jang , Jinhyeok Choi , Taekeun Kang , Yongjae Park , Myungin Kim , Seungryong Kim

Face anonymization aims to conceal identity information while preserving non-identity attributes. Mainstream diffusion models rely on inference-time interventions such as negative guidance or energy-based optimization, which are applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Haoxin Yang , Yihong Lin , Jingdan Kang , Xuemiao Xu , Yue Li , Cheng Xu , Shengfeng He

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

Despite the remarkable progress in face recognition related technologies, reliably recognizing faces across ages still remains a big challenge. The appearance of a human face changes substantially over time, resulting in significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Jian Zhao , Yu Cheng , Yi Cheng , Yang Yang , Haochong Lan , Fang Zhao , Lin Xiong , Yan Xu , Jianshu Li , Sugiri Pranata , Shengmei Shen , Junliang Xing , Hengzhu Liu , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Tharun Anand , Aryan Garg , Kaushik Mitra

Face aging has received continuous research attention over the past two decades. Although previous works on this topic have achieved impressive success, two longstanding problems remain unsettled: 1) generating diverse and plausible facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Jiu-Cheng Xie , Jun Yang , Wenqing Wang , Feng Xu , Jiang Xiong , Hao Gao

Structural and appearance changes in brain imaging over time are crucial indicators of neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration. The rapid advancement of large-scale generative models provides a promising backbone for modeling these complex…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Gexin Huang , Zhangsihao Yang , Yalin Wang , Guido Gerig , Mengwei Ren , Xiaoxiao Li

Face anti-spoofing (FAS) and adversarial detection (FAD) have been regarded as critical technologies to ensure the safety of face recognition systems. However, due to limited practicality, complex deployment, and the additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Jiawei Chen , Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Zhaoxia Yin

Human face synthesis involves transferring knowledge about the identity and identity-dependent face shape (IDFS) of a human face to target face images where the context (e.g., facial expressions, head poses, and other background factors)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Gege Gao , Huaibo Huang , Chaoyou Fu , Ran He

Despite promising progress in face swapping task, realistic swapped images remain elusive, often marred by artifacts, particularly in scenarios involving high pose variation, color differences, and occlusion. To address these issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Sanoojan Baliah , Qinliang Lin , Shengcai Liao , Xiaodan Liang , Muhammad Haris Khan