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.
Makeup-transfer applies the reference makeup to the source face while preserving the source identity. Despite advances in full-face editing by diffusion-based methods, strong regional controllability, makeup fidelity, and identity preservation remain challenging.
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...
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: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.
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. 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:2607. 22830v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In visual storytelling, human performances are central to creative intent and narrative meaning.
The paper introduces a geometry‑driven shadow harmonisation pipeline for composited faces that preserves albedo by applying a per‑pixel gain field derived from a rasterised 3D face proxy. The method estimates key‑light direction from host cues, computes surface normals and cast shadows, and applies a controlled, monotonic darkening operation that never alters chromaticity or identity. Experiments on analytic face heightfields show that the default parameters modify over half the face pixels while maintaining hue invariance and avoiding repainting the donor face.
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:2609.36400v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning classifiers for dermoscopic skin lesions often reach high in-distribution accuracy while quietly relying on spurious background cues su...
Video face restoration (VFR) aims to recover high-quality and temporally consistent facial details from severely degraded video sequences; however, existing methods still struggle to balance spatial fidelity and temporal coherence under complex degradations. To address this, we propose FADRA, a frequency-aware diffusion framework with iterative residual adaptation specifically tailored for robust VFR.
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...