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Although diffusion models are rising as a powerful solution for blind face restoration, they are criticized for two problems: 1) slow training and inference speed, and 2) failure in preserving identity and recovering fine-grained facial…

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We present TimeWalker, a novel framework that models realistic, full-scale 3D head avatars of a person on lifelong scale. Unlike current human head avatar pipelines that capture identity at the momentary level(e.g., instant photography or…

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Facial attribute editing plays a crucial role in synthesizing realistic faces with specific characteristics while maintaining realistic appearances. Despite advancements, challenges persist in achieving precise, 3D-aware attribute…

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This paper presents a novel approach to synthesize automatically age-progressed facial images in video sequences using Deep Reinforcement Learning. The proposed method models facial structures and the longitudinal face-aging process of…

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Deepfakes generated by advanced generative models have rapidly posed serious threats, yet existing audiovisual deepfake detection approaches struggle to generalize to unseen manipulation methods. To address this, we propose a novel…

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Blind face restoration (BFR) has attracted increasing attention with the rise of generative methods. Most existing approaches integrate generative priors into the restoration pro- cess, aiming to jointly address facial detail generation and…

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For person re-identification, existing deep networks often focus on representation learning. However, without transfer learning, the learned model is fixed as is, which is not adaptable for handling various unseen scenarios. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Shengcai Liao , Ling Shao

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

Existing talking avatar methods typically adopt an image-to-video pipeline conditioned on a static reference image within the same scene as the target generation. This restricted, single-view perspective lacks sufficient temporal and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Zujin Guo , Zhenhui Ye , Yi Ren , Yuanming Li , Ce Chen , Zhibin Hong , Chen Change Loy

Facial aging and facial rejuvenation analyze a given face photograph to predict a future look or estimate a past look of the person. To achieve this, it is critical to preserve human identity and the corresponding aging progression and…

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Video personalization aims to generate videos that faithfully reflect a user-provided subject while following a text prompt. However, existing approaches often rely on heavy video-based finetuning or large-scale video datasets, which impose…

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Face swapping transfers the identity of a source face to a target face while retaining the attributes like expression, pose, hair, and background of the target face. Advanced face swapping methods have achieved attractive results. However,…

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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…

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Age progression and regression aim to synthesize photorealistic appearance of a given face image with aging and rejuvenation effects, respectively. Existing generative adversarial networks (GANs) based methods suffer from the following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Zhizhong Huang , Shouzhen Chen , Junping Zhang , Hongming Shan

In this paper, we propose a diffusion-based face swapping framework for the first time, called DiffFace, composed of training ID conditional DDPM, sampling with facial guidance, and a target-preserving blending. In specific, in the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Kihong Kim , Yunho Kim , Seokju Cho , Junyoung Seo , Jisu Nam , Kychul Lee , Seungryong Kim , KwangHee Lee

Blind facial image restoration is highly challenging due to unknown complex degradations and the sensitivity of humans to faces. Although existing methods introduce auxiliary information from generative priors or high-quality reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zhicun Yin , Junjie Chen , Ming Liu , Zhixin Wang , Fan Li , Renjing Pei , Xiaoming Li , Rynson W. H. Lau , Wangmeng Zuo

Recovering high-quality 3D facial textures from single-view 2D images is a challenging task, especially under constraints of limited data and complex facial details such as makeup, wrinkles, and occlusions. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Xingchao Yang , Takafumi Taketomi , Yuki Endo , Yoshihiro Kanamori

We introduce the Aging Multiverse, a framework for generating multiple plausible facial aging trajectories from a single image, each conditioned on external factors such as environment, health, and lifestyle. Unlike prior methods that model…

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Recent text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable generation of realistic facial images conditioned on textual prompts and human identities, enabling creating personalized facial imagery. However, existing prompt-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Han-Wei Kung , Tuomas Varanka , Nicu Sebe

Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) database has been widely utilized as the benchmark of unconstrained face verification and due to big data driven machine learning methods, the performance on the database approaches nearly 100%. However, we…

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