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It is in high demand to generate facial animation with high realism, but it remains a challenging task. Existing approaches of speech-driven facial animation can produce satisfactory mouth movement and lip synchronization, but show weakness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Yutong Chen , Junhong Zhao , Wei-Qiang Zhang

The rapid development of photo-realistic face generation methods has raised significant concerns in society and academia, highlighting the urgent need for robust and generalizable face forgery detection (FFD) techniques. Although existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yaning Zhang , Tianyi Wang , Zitong Yu , Zan Gao , Linlin Shen , Shengyong Chen

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have shown remarkable results on various image synthesis tasks such as text-to-image generation and image inpainting. However, compared to other generative methods like VAEs and GANs, DPMs lack a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yipeng Leng , Qiangjuan Huang , Zhiyuan Wang , Yangyang Liu , Haoyu Zhang

This paper presents a novel Expressive Facial Control (ExFace) method based on Diffusion Transformers, which achieves precise mapping from human facial blendshapes to bionic robot motor control. By incorporating an innovative model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Dong Zhang , Jingwei Peng , Yuyang Jiao , Jiayuan Gu , Jingyi Yu , Jiahao Chen

Facial expression plays an important role in understanding human emotions. Most recently, deep learning based methods have shown promising for facial expression recognition. However, the performance of the current state-of-the-art facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Ping Liu , Yunchao Wei , Zibo Meng , Weihong Deng , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Yi Yang

Facial editing is an important task in vision and graphics with numerous applications. However, existing works are incapable to deliver a continuous and fine-grained editing mode (e.g., editing a slightly smiling face to a big laughing one)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Yuming Jiang , Ziqi Huang , Xingang Pan , Chen Change Loy , Ziwei Liu

Automated facial expression analysis has a variety of applications in human-computer interaction. Traditional methods mainly analyze prototypical facial expressions of no more than eight discrete emotions as a classification task. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Feng Zhou , Shu Kong , Charless Fowlkes , Tao Chen , Baiying Lei

Facial expression datasets remain limited in scale due to the subjectivity of annotations and the labor-intensive nature of data collection. This limitation poses a significant challenge for developing modern deep learning-based facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Xilin He , Cheng Luo , Xiaole Xian , Bing Li , Muhammad Haris Khan , Zongyuan Ge , Weicheng Xie , Siyang Song , Linlin Shen , Bernard Ghanem , Xiangyu Yue

Pre-trained conditional diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable potential in image editing. However, they often face challenges with temporal consistency, particularly in the talking head domain, where continuous changes in facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Haijie Yang , Zhenyu Zhang , Hao Tang , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang

Accurately retargeting facial expressions to a face mesh while enabling manipulation is a key challenge in facial animation retargeting. Recent deep-learning methods address this by encoding facial expressions into a global latent code, but…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Sihun Cha , Serin Yoon , Kwanggyoon Seo , Junyong Noh

We present 3DiFACE, a novel method for personalized speech-driven 3D facial animation and editing. While existing methods deterministically predict facial animations from speech, they overlook the inherent one-to-many relationship between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Balamurugan Thambiraja , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Darren Cosker , Justus Thies

Affective computing and cognitive theory are widely used in modern human-computer interaction scenarios. Human faces, as the most prominent and easily accessible features, have attracted great attention from researchers. Since humans have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Wenxuan Wang , Yanwei Fu , Qiang Sun , Tao Chen , Chenjie Cao , Ziqi Zheng , Guoqiang Xu , Han Qiu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Xiangyang Xue

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across various natural language processing tasks but often struggle to excel uniformly in diverse or complex domains. We propose a novel ensemble method - Diverse Fingerprint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Seffi Cohen , Niv Goldshlager , Nurit Cohen-Inger , Bracha Shapira , Lior Rokach

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 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

We present User-predictable Face Editing (UP-FacE) -- a novel method for predictable face shape editing. In stark contrast to existing methods for face editing using trial and error, edits with UP-FacE are predictable by the human user.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Florian Strohm , Mihai Bâce , Andreas Bulling

Facial expressions are the most common universal forms of body language. In the past few years, automatic facial expression recognition (FER) has been an active field of research. However, it is still a challenging task due to different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Rauf Momin , Ali Shan Momin , Khalid Rasheed , Muhammad Saqib

Face fill-light enhancement (FFE) brightens underexposed faces by adding virtual fill light while keeping the original scene illumination and background unchanged. Most face relighting methods aim to reshape overall lighting, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jue Gong , Zihan Zhou , Jingkai Wang , Xiaohong Liu , Yulun Zhang , Xiaokang Yang

We address the problem of facial expression editing by controling the relative variation of facial action-unit (AU) from the same person. This enables us to edit this specific person's expression in a fine-grained, continuous and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Mengting Wei , Tuomas Varanka , Xingxun Jiang , Huai-Qian Khor , Guoying Zhao

The human face is a silent communicator, expressing emotions and thoughts through its facial expressions. With the advancements in computer vision in recent years, facial emotion recognition technology has made significant strides, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Arnab Kumar Roy , Hemant Kumar Kathania , Adhitiya Sharma , Abhishek Dey , Md. Sarfaraj Alam Ansari