English
Related papers

Related papers: PixelSmile: Toward Fine-Grained Facial Expression …

200 papers

In this paper, we propose a scalable image compression scheme, including the base layer for feature representation and enhancement layer for texture representation. More specifically, the base layer is designed as the deep learning feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Shurun Wang , Shiqi Wang , Xinfeng Zhang , Shanshe Wang , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

Facial attribute editing aims to modify target attributes while preserving attribute-irrelevant content and overall image fidelity. Existing GAN-based methods provide favorable controllability, but often suffer from weak alignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Wenmin Huang , Weiqi Luo , Xiaochun Cao , Jiwu Huang

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

Attribute image manipulation has been a very active topic since the introduction of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Exploring the disentangled attribute space within a transformation is a very challenging task due to the multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Andrés Romero , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Facial Expression Recognition is an active area of research in computer vision with a wide range of applications. Several approaches have been developed to solve this problem for different benchmark datasets. However, Facial Expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Abubakrelsedik Karali , Ahmad Bassiouny , Motaz El-Saban

Diffusion-based image editing models have achieved significant progress in real world applications. However, conventional models typically rely on natural language prompts, which often lack the precision required to localize target objects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Haohang Xu , Lin Liu , Zhibo Zhang , Rong Cong , Xiaopeng Zhang , Qi Tian

Recent advances in text-guided image synthesis has dramatically changed how creative professionals generate artistic and aesthetically pleasing visual assets. To fully support such creative endeavors, the process should possess the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 K J Joseph , Prateksha Udhayanan , Tripti Shukla , Aishwarya Agarwal , Srikrishna Karanam , Koustava Goswami , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan

Recently, we have seen a surge of personalization methods for text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models to learn a concept using a few images. Existing approaches, when used for face personalization, suffer to achieve convincing inversion with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Rishubh Parihar , Sachidanand VS , Sabariswaran Mani , Tejan Karmali , R. Venkatesh Babu

Smile detection from unconstrained facial images is a specialized and challenging problem. As one of the most informative expressions, smiles convey basic underlying emotions, such as happiness and satisfaction, which lead to multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Xin Guo , Luisa F. Polanía , Kenneth E. Barner

This paper presents SPIE: a novel approach for semantic and structural post-training of instruction-based image editing diffusion models, addressing key challenges in alignment with user prompts and consistency with input images. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Elior Benarous , Yilun Du , Heng Yang

Reward Feedback Learning (ReFL) has recently shown great potential in aligning model outputs with human preferences across various generative tasks. In this work, we introduce a ReFL framework, named DiffusionReward, to the Blind Face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Bin Wu , Wei Wang , Yahui Liu , Zixiang Li , Yao Zhao

With the increasing deployment of facial image data across a wide range of applications, efficient compression tailored to facial semantics has become critical for both storage and transmission. While recent learning-based face image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yimin Zhou , Yichong Xia , Bin Chen , Mingyao Hong , Jiawei Li , Zhi Wang , Yaowei Wang

Recent facial image synthesis methods have been mainly based on conditional generative models. Sketch-based conditions can effectively describe the geometry of faces, including the contours of facial components, hair structures, as well as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Shu-Yu Chen , Feng-Lin Liu , Yu-Kun Lai , Paul L. Rosin , Chunpeng Li , Hongbo Fu , Lin Gao

Facial attribute analysis has received considerable attention when deep learning techniques made remarkable breakthroughs in this field over the past few years. Deep learning based facial attribute analysis consists of two basic sub-issues:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Xin Zheng , Yanqing Guo , Huaibo Huang , Yi Li , Ran He

Instruction-based image editing models have recently achieved impressive performance, enabling complex edits to an input image from a multi-instruction prompt. However, these models apply each instruction in the prompt with a fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Arman Zarei , Samyadeep Basu , Mobina Pournemat , Sayan Nag , Ryan Rossi , Soheil Feizi

Diffusion models represent the state-of-the-art in generative modeling. Due to their high training costs, many works leverage pre-trained diffusion models' powerful representations for downstream tasks, such as face super-resolution (FSR),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jiarui Yang , Tao Dai , Yufei Zhu , Naiqi Li , Jinmin Li , Shutao Xia

Facial action unit (AU) detection and facial expression (FE) recognition can be jointly viewed as affective facial behavior tasks, representing fine-grained muscular activations and coarse-grained holistic affective states, respectively.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jia Li , Yu Zhang , Yin Chen , Zhenzhen Hu , Yong Li , Richang Hong , Shiguang Shan , Meng Wang

Micro expression recognition (MER) is crucial for inferring genuine emotion. Applying a multimodal large language model (MLLM) to this task enables spatio-temporal analysis of facial motion and provides interpretable descriptions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ren Zhang , Huilai Li , Chao qi , Guoliang Xu , Tianyu Zhou , Wei wei , Jianqin Yin

Face anti-spoofing plays a critical role in safeguarding facial recognition systems against presentation attacks. While existing deep learning methods show promising results, they still suffer from the lack of fine-grained annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Xu Chen , Yunde Jia , Yuwei Wu

Previous methods have dealt with discrete manipulation of facial attributes such as smile, sad, angry, surprise etc, out of canonical expressions and they are not scalable, operating in single modality. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Jiali Duan , Xiaoyuan Guo , Yuhang Song , Chao Yang , C. -C. Jay Kuo