arXiv:2610.35682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Face morphing attacks, in which the biometric traits of two or more identities are blended into a single face image, pose a severe threat to identity d...
HonestFace is a one‑step diffusion model designed for honest face restoration, preserving identity and realistic textures. It introduces an identity embedder that captures key identity features from low‑quality inputs and reference faces, and a masked face alignment method to enhance fine‑grained details. The authors also release a new real‑world dataset, MultiRefCeleb‑Test, and demonstrate that HonestFace outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods in both visual quality and quantitative metrics.
ICAO-compliant machine readable travel documents enable automated biometric face verification. The biometric reference is stored on an RFID chip included in form of a JPEG or JPEG 2000 compressed facial image.
arXiv:2608.23984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in single-image 3D Gaussian head reconstruction have enabled highly realistic and freely renderable digital heads from a single portrai...
arXiv:2606. 20094v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Makeup transfer models enable fun augmented reality (AR) experiences as well as virtual try-on (VTO) for online makeup shopping.
arXiv:2608.31053v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models have achieved strong results in high-fidelity image synthesis, but their iterative sampling process makes large-scale generation compu...
arXiv:2607. 26742v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) clones a voice from a short audio prompt, but this reliance on reference audio is a barrier when only visual information is available, e.
arXiv:2610.20278v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Facial image watermarking can support traceability and certification in biometric pipelines, but provenance or manipulation detection alone does not gu...
The study audits four image aesthetic scorers—LAION-Aesthetics, PickScore, ImageReward, and HPSv2—using pixel‑level interventions on skin tone and body type in both synthetic and real images. It finds that most scorers exhibit a fidelity preference: unaltered images receive the highest scores, while perturbations in either direction are penalized in an inverted‑U pattern, and this effect is largely independent of the skin operator. Synthetic‑only audits are misleading, as the apparent preference for darker skin in synthetic faces reverses or weakens when evaluated on real faces, and cross‑scorer results vary widely, underscoring the need for real‑data, within‑image causal isolation to accurately assess demographic bias.
arXiv:2605. 09089v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Digital onboarding and eKYC systems used by banks, fintech platforms, telecom providers, and other third-party services commonly verify users by comparing an uploaded identity document with a selfie or live facial capture.
arXiv:2608.28802v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Facial appearance editing powers popular applications like FaceApp and Photoshop. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and 3D Morphable Models (3DM...
arXiv:2609.13617v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We evaluate whether the improvements advertised for ChatGPT Images 2.5 translate into better performance on forgery tasks with predetermined answers. W...