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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

One-shot video-driven talking face generation aims at producing a synthetic talking video by transferring the facial motion from a video to an arbitrary portrait image. Head pose and facial expression are always entangled in facial motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Youxin Pang , Yong Zhang , Weize Quan , Yanbo Fan , Xiaodong Cun , Ying Shan , Dong-ming Yan

Face editing modifies the appearance of face, which plays a key role in customization and enhancement of personal images. Although much work have achieved remarkable success in text-driven face editing, they still face significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xin Zhang , Siting Huang , Xiangyang Luo , Yifan Xie , Weijiang Yu , Heng Chang , Fei Ma , Fei Yu

Human facial images encode a rich spectrum of information, encompassing both stable identity-related traits and mutable attributes such as pose, expression, and emotion. While recent advances in image generation have enabled high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kazuaki Mishima , Antoni Bigata Casademunt , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic , Kenji Suzuki

Our goal is to develop fine-grained real-image editing methods suitable for real-world applications. In this paper, we first summarize four requirements for these methods and propose a novel diffusion-based image editing framework with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Naoki Matsunaga , Masato Ishii , Akio Hayakawa , Kenji Suzuki , Takuya Narihira

Recent diffusion-based talking face generation models have demonstrated impressive potential in synthesizing videos that accurately match a speech audio clip with a given reference identity. However, existing approaches still encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xingpei Ma , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shenneng Huang , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang

Facial expression editing methods can be mainly categorized into two types based on their architectures: 2D-based and 3D-based methods. The former lacks 3D face modeling capabilities, making it difficult to edit 3D factors effectively. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yikang He , Jichao Zhang , Wei Wang , Nicu Sebe , Yao Zhao

One of the key issues in facial expression recognition in the wild (FER-W) is that curating large-scale labeled facial images is challenging due to the inherent complexity and ambiguity of facial images. Therefore, in this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Jiyong Moon , Seongsik Park

We propose ClipFace, a novel self-supervised approach for text-guided editing of textured 3D morphable model of faces. Specifically, we employ user-friendly language prompts to enable control of the expressions as well as appearance of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Shivangi Aneja , Justus Thies , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

We present a method for fine-grained face manipulation. Given a face image with an arbitrary expression, our method can synthesize another arbitrary expression by the same person. This is achieved by first fitting a 3D face model and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Zhenglin Geng , Chen Cao , Sergey Tulyakov

Recent advances in deep generative models have demonstrated impressive results in photo-realistic facial image synthesis and editing. Facial expressions are inherently the result of muscle movement. However, existing neural network-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-07 ShahRukh Athar , Zhixin Shu , Dimitris Samaras

Recently audio-driven talking face video generation has attracted considerable attention. However, very few researches address the issue of emotional editing of these talking face videos with continuously controllable expressions, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zhiyao Sun , Yu-Hui Wen , Tian Lv , Yanan Sun , Ziyang Zhang , Yaoyuan Wang , Yong-Jin Liu

Generating faithful visualizations of human faces requires capturing both coarse and fine-level details of the face geometry and appearance. Existing methods are either data-driven, requiring an extensive corpus of data not publicly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Kacper Kania , Stephan J. Garbin , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Virginia Estellers , Kwang Moo Yi , Julien Valentin , Tomasz Trzciński , Marek Kowalski

Studying facial expressions is a notoriously difficult endeavor. Recent advances in the field of affective computing have yielded impressive progress in automatically detecting facial expressions from pictures and videos. However, much of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Jin Hyun Cheong , Eshin Jolly , Tiankang Xie , Sophie Byrne , Matthew Kenney , Luke J. Chang

Facial expression transfer between two unpaired images is a challenging problem, as fine-grained expression is typically tangled with other facial attributes. Most existing methods treat expression transfer as an application of expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Zhiwen Shao , Hengliang Zhu , Junshu Tang , Xuequan Lu , Lizhuang Ma

Recent advancements in language-guided diffusion models for image editing are often bottle-necked by cumbersome prompt engineering to precisely articulate desired changes. An intuitive alternative calls on guidance from in-the-wild image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Shristi Das Biswas , Matthew Shreve , Xuelu Li , Prateek Singhal , Kaushik Roy

Humans modify their facial expressions in order to communicate their internal states and sometimes to mislead observers regarding their true emotional states. Evidence in experimental psychology shows that discriminative facial responses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Kaustubh Kulkarni , Ciprian Adrian Corneanu , Ikechukwu Ofodile , Sergio Escalera , Xavier Baro , Sylwia Hyniewska , Juri Allik , Gholamreza Anbarjafari

Face personalization aims to insert specific faces, taken from images, into pretrained text-to-image diffusion models. However, it is still challenging for previous methods to preserve both the identity similarity and editability due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Kaede Shiohara , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Despite recent advancements in Instruct-based Image Editing models for generating high-quality images, they are known as black boxes and a significant barrier to transparency and user trust. To solve this issue, we introduce SMILE…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zeinab Dehghani , Koorosh Aslansefat , Adil Khan , Adín Ramírez Rivera , Franky George , Muhammad Khalid

Facial image manipulation has achieved great progress in recent years. However, previous methods either operate on a predefined set of face attributes or leave users little freedom to interactively manipulate images. To overcome these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Cheng-Han Lee , Ziwei Liu , Lingyun Wu , Ping Luo