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:2511.05575v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Diffusion-based approaches have recently achieved strong results in face swapping, offering improved visual quality over traditional GAN-based meth...
By Weston Bondurant, Arkaprava Sinha, Hieu Le, Srijan Das, Stephanie Schuckers
arXiv:2607. 22830v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In visual storytelling, human performances are central to creative intent and narrative meaning.
By Yuancheng Xu, Mingming He, Pablo Salamanca, Li Ma, Yash Kant, Emmett Steven, Paul Debevec, Ning Yu
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.
By Yanan Wang, Shengcai Liao, Panwen Hu, Xin Li, Fan Yang, Guangxi Liu, Xiaodan Liang
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.
By Jianjiang Yao, Ke Xian, Renxiang Dai, Robert Caiming Qiu
arXiv:2608. 20212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-fidelity removal of eyeglasses from video is a major challenge in facial attribute editing, as the underlying facial geometry is often obscured by complex refractive distortions and view-dependent specular reflections.
By Radim Spetlik, David Futschik, Radek Danecek, Feitong Tan, Ziqian Bai, Rohit Pandey, Yinda Zhang
arXiv:2608.23410v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Photorealistic novel view synthesis of people remains challenging at high spatial resolutions and across multiple target cameras, where preserving iden...
By Federico Stella, Fei Jiang, Zhongshi Jiang, Zohar Barzelay, Emanuel Garbin, Amin Jourabloo, Liuhao Ge
arXiv:2609.24158v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reconstructing expressive and relightable 3D head avatars from monocular videos remains challenging in computer vision, as it requires accurate modelin...
By Jiankuo Zhao, Xiangyu Zhu, Jijie Li, Baiqin Wang, Shukai Chen, Zhen Lei
arXiv:2601.01352v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Human identity-preserving text-to-video generation remains challenging under large changes in viewpoint, facial expression, illumination, and motio...
By Yixuan Lai, He Wang, Kun Zhou, Tianjia Shao
The paper introduces EC²Face, a multimodal face synthesis framework that enhances semantic alignment by combining Explicit Conditional Consistency Guidance (ECCG) and Long‑Tail Adaptive Flow Matching (LAFM). ECCG enforces pixel‑level consistency between generated faces, textual descriptions, and semantic masks, while a temporal dynamic modulation adjusts supervision strength over diffusion timesteps. LAFM reweights spatial optimization signals according to attribute frequency, improving rare attribute synthesis without adding inference overhead. Experiments demonstrate that EC²Face outperforms baselines, achieving a 29.38% improvement in mask accuracy for rare attributes.
By Yushe Cao, Xuechao Zou, Xing Xi, Dianxi Shi, Chun Yu, Junliang Xing
arXiv:2609.13264v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Generating human-centric videos that preserve both visual identity and person-specific expressive behavior remains a fundamental challenge. In additi...
By Pokrzywa Baptiste, Nabyl Quignon, Yara Bahram, Muhammad Osama Zeeshan, Antitza Dantcheva, Eric Granger
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.