The paper introduces DirectSwap, a mask‑free video head‑swapping method that leverages a newly created cross‑identity paired dataset, HeadSwapBench. By synthesizing expression‑synchronized video pairs from real footage, the authors provide frame‑aligned ground truth for full‑reference evaluation of identity, expression, pose, reconstruction fidelity, and temporal stability. DirectSwap outperforms traditional same‑identity masked reconstruction, especially when head silhouettes change, and can restore non‑head content without external segmentation.
arXiv:2606. 11670v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Subject-preserving video generation is not solved by frontal-face similarity alone: a generated person must remain recognizable across motion, large viewpoint changes, expression shifts, occlusion, scale variation, and conflicts among text, first-frame, and identity references.
arXiv:2607. 22830v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In visual storytelling, human performances are central to creative intent and narrative meaning.
arXiv:2607. 21434v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video face swapping has no natural paired supervision: no real footage exists of one person's face performing another person's video.
arXiv:2606. 06903v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human image animation aims to generate a video from a static reference image, guided by pose information extracted from a driving video.
arXiv:2607. 16287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have enabled photorealistic novel-view synthesis of 3D scenes and, in the facial domain, have been extended to reconstruct and animate 3D face models from a small number of images.
EditaLive! is a new real‑time framework for character video editing in live streaming, built on a pretrained image animation model (Wan‑Animate) that separates appearance from motion. It uses the CharEdit‑50K dataset for reference‑frame editing and video reconstruction, and adapts the model from offline bidirectional to causal streaming generation. A self‑rollout distillation strategy compresses the model into a two‑step sampler, employing fixed RoPE, alignment forcing, and first‑frame preserved sparse attention to reduce appearance drift and achieve low‑latency inference while preserving facial expressions.
Current identity customized video generation methodologies are predominantly limited to single-identity scenarios, as the lack of explicit identity separation mechanisms often leads to identity confusion in multi-identity settings. Existing multi-identity approaches, which directly extend single-identity frameworks by concatenating face images as input conditions, frequently result in unnatural facial expressions and motions, manifesting as the "copy-paste" phenomenon.
Face Video Restoration (FVR) aims to recover high-fidelity facial videos from degraded input while preserving identity and semantic consistency across frames. Existing methods often struggle to simultaneously address three key challenges: identity shift, viewpoint-entangled guidance, and perceptual realism.
arXiv:2606. 30347v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present FFAvatar, a Transformer-based 3D Gaussian framework for fast construction of high-quality and animatable 4D head avatars from one or more reference portrait images.
Accurate monocular 4D hand reconstruction remains challenging. Per-frame discriminative regressors lack temporal context and often produce jittery predictions.
arXiv:2607. 11221v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate monocular 4D hand reconstruction remains challenging.
The paper introduces a framework for generating multi‑view images of a person within a natural scene, addressing the scarcity of paired multi‑view datasets for human subjects. It evaluates existing diffusion‑based image‑editing models and finds they often hallucinate head‑turn angles, leading to inconsistent backgrounds. To overcome this, the authors propose the Head Scene Rotation Difference (HSRD) metric, which separates camera movement from head pose changes and enables reliable assessment of 3D spatial parallax for constructing high‑quality synthetic datasets.