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. 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.
By Zijie Meng, Jiwen Liu, Yufei Liu, Chengzhuo Tong, Xiaoqiang Liu, Yuanxing Zhang, Yulong Xu, Pengfei Wan
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
arXiv:2609.38019v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present RGOR (Reference-Grounded Oral Refinement), an audio-driven lip-sync framework that renders the mouth of the specific person being dubbed rat...
By Bangxun Tang
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.
By Minh Tran
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.
By Yuan Zeng, Yujia Shi, Yuhao Yang, Dongxia Liu, Zongqing Lu, Wenming Yang, Qingmin Liao
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.
By Zhiyuan Li, Chi-Man Pun, Peng-Tao Jiang, Bo Li, Xiaodong Cun
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
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
Instruction-Based Video Editing by Repurposing an Image Editing Model demonstrates that a strong image‑editing model can be adapted to edit videos by operating on video‑VAE latents. The authors tile latent frames into a large virtual image, reuse the editor’s positional encoding, and bridge latent spaces with lightweight projections, fine‑tuning on Ditto‑1M editing triplets. Their experiments show that per‑frame video latents are close enough to the image domain that mature image‑editing priors transfer with minimal adaptation.
By Yunpeng Bai, Yossi Gandelsman, Micha\"el Gharbi, Qixing Huang
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:2608.22300v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Co-registration underlies nearly every multi-temporal and multi-sensor use of optical satellite imagery, and operational products still carry documente...
By Shoukun Sun, Zhe Wang, Sanaz Salati, Jiyin Zhang, Hui Wang, Xiaogang Ma