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arXiv Computer Vision By Yanan Wang, Shengcai Liao, Panwen Hu, Xin Li, Fan Yang, Guangxi Liu, Xiaodan Liang

DirectSwap: Paired, Mask-Free Video Head Swapping with Full-Reference Evaluation

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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.

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