arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

Large-Scale High-Quality 3D Gaussian Head Reconstruction from Multi-View Captures

arXiv:2605. 04035v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose HeadsUp, a scalable feed-forward method for reconstructing high-quality 3D Gaussian heads from large-scale multi-camera setups.

By Evangelos Ntavelis, Sean Wu, Mohamad Shahbazi, Fabio Maninchedda, Dmitry Kostiaev, Artem Sevastopolsky, Vittorio Megaro, Trevor Phillips, Alejandro Blumentals, Shridhar Ravikumar, Mehak Gupta, Reinhard Knothe, Jeronimo Bayer, Matthias Vestner, Simon Schaefer, Thomas Etterlin, Christian Zimmermann, Alexey Artemov, Mathias Deschler, Peter Kaufmann, Stefan Brugger, Sebastian Martin, Brian Amberg, Tom Runia
arXiv AI
Aug 28

High-Fidelity Face Content Recovery via Tamper-Resilient Versatile Watermarking

The paper introduces VeriFi, a watermarking framework that protects face images from AI‑generated manipulation. It embeds a compact semantic latent watermark to preserve content, localizes pixel‑level edits without explicit payloads, and simulates realistic deepfake attacks to improve robustness. Experiments on CelebA‑HQ and FFHQ show that VeriFi outperforms existing methods in robustness, localization accuracy, and recovery quality.

By Peipeng Yu, Jinfeng Xie, Chengfu Ou, Xiaoyu Zhou, Jianwei Fei, Yunshu Dai, Zhihua Xia, Chip Hong Chang
arXiv AI
1d ago

Swin Meets EfficientNet: Lightweight Architectures for GAN-Based Face Forensics

The paper presents lightweight architectures for detecting GAN-generated synthetic faces, comparing a compact Swin Transformer, pre‑trained Swin‑Tiny and Swin‑Small models, and a hybrid EfficientNet‑B0 + Swin Transformer. Using the 140K Real and Fake Faces dataset, the hybrid model achieved 99% accuracy and 99.44% recall on 5,000 test images, outperforming both pure Swin variants and a CNN‑only baseline. The study demonstrates that combining hierarchical CNN features with shifted‑window self‑attention yields an efficient, computationally lightweight detection method.

By Sejuti Basu, Ashima Sood, Vijay Kumar, Sahil Sharma