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Head2Head: Video-based Neural Head Synthesis

arXiv 2005.10954 ↗First posted 22 May 2020cs.CV cs.LG eess.IVcited by 40

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Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we propose a novel machine learning architecture for facial reenactment. In particular, contrary to the model-based approaches or recent frame-based methods that use Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) to generate individual frames, we propose a novel method that (a) exploits the special structure of facial motion (paying particular attention to mouth motion) and (b) enforces temporal consistency. We demonstrate that the proposed method can transfer facial expressions, pose and gaze of a source actor to a target video in a photo-realistic fashion more accurately than state-of-the-art methods.

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  2. 2022RigNeRF: Fully Controllable Neural 3D Portraitscited by 126
  3. 2021M2TR: Multi-modal Multi-scale Transformers for Deepfake Detectioncited by 114
  4. 2022AvatarMAV: Fast 3D Head Avatar Reconstruction Using Motion-Aware Neural Voxelscited by 73
  5. 2024Deepfake Generation and Detection: A Benchmark and Surveycited by 66
  6. 2023StyleAvatar: Real-time Photo-realistic Portrait Avatar from a Single Videocited by 52
  7. 2023LatentAvatar: Learning Latent Expression Code for Expressive Neural Head Avatarcited by 50
  8. 2023Face Animation with an Attribute-Guided Diffusion Modelcited by 48
  9. 2023HyperReenact: One-Shot Reenactment via Jointly Learning to Refine and Retarget Facescited by 48
  10. 2022Voice-Face Homogeneity Tells Deepfakecited by 44
  11. 2022Delving into Sequential Patches for Deepfake Detectioncited by 41
  12. 2023HAvatar: High-fidelity Head Avatar via Facial Model Conditioned Neural Radiance Fieldcited by 37
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  3. 2022FNeVR: Neural Volume Rendering for Face Animationcited by 22
  4. 2021Deep Person Generation: A Survey from the Perspective of Face, Pose and Cloth Synthesiscited by 16
  5. 2024Tri2-plane: Thinking Head Avatar via Feature Pyramidcited by 16
  6. 2024Adaptive Super Resolution For One-Shot Talking-Head Generationcited by 15
  7. 20223DGazeNet: Generalizing Gaze Estimation with Weak-Supervision from Synthetic Viewscited by 11
  8. 2022Free-HeadGAN: Neural Talking Head Synthesis with Explicit Gaze Controlcited by 10
  9. 2023Text-image guided Diffusion Model for generating Deepfake celebrity interactionscited by 8
  10. 2024Efficient 3D Implicit Head Avatar with Mesh-anchored Hash Table Blendshapescited by 8
  11. 2024FacialFlowNet: Advancing Facial Optical Flow Estimation with a Diverse Dataset and a Decomposed Modelcited by 7
  12. 2021Deep Semantic Manipulation of Facial Videoscited by 6
  13. 2022CoNFies: Controllable Neural Face Avatarscited by 4
  14. 2024Gaussian Head & Shoulders: High Fidelity Neural Upper Body Avatars with Anchor Gaussian Guided Texture Warpingcited by 4
  15. 2023MyPortrait: Morphable Prior-Guided Personalized Portrait Generationcited by 3
  16. 2024JEAN: Joint Expression and Audio-guided NeRF-based Talking Face Generationcited by 3
  17. 2022Geometry Driven Progressive Warping for One-Shot Face Animationcited by 2
  18. 2025WMamba: Wavelet-based Mamba for Face Forgery Detectioncited by 2
  19. 2021Head2HeadFS: Video-based Head Reenactment with Few-shot Learningcited by 1
  20. 2022Dynamic Neural Portraitscited by 1
  21. 2023Controllable One-Shot Face Video Synthesis With Semantic Aware Priorcited by 1
  22. 2023Building an Invisible Shield for Your Portrait against Deepfakescited by 1
  23. 2024Low-Quality Image Detection by Hierarchical VAEcited by 1
  24. 2025Towards Real-World Deepfake Detection: A Diverse In-the-wild Dataset of Forgery Facescited by 1
  25. 2022Thinking the Fusion Strategy of Multi-reference Face Reenactmentcited by 0
  26. 2023Controllable Dynamic Appearance for Neural 3D Portraitscited by 0
  27. 2025DiffusionFF: A Diffusion-based Framework for Joint Face Forgery Detection and Fine-Grained Artifact Localizationcited by 0
  28. 2026Fusion-SSAT: Unleashing the Potential of Self-supervised Auxiliary Task by Feature Fusion for Generalized Deepfake Detectioncited by 0