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HeadGAN: One-shot Neural Head Synthesis and Editing

arXiv 2012.08261 ↗First posted 15 Dec 2020cs.CVcited by 105

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Recent attempts to solve the problem of head reenactment using a single reference image have shown promising results. However, most of them either perform poorly in terms of photo-realism, or fail to meet the identity preservation problem, or do not fully transfer the driving pose and expression. We propose HeadGAN, a novel system that conditions synthesis on 3D face representations, which can be extracted from any driving video and adapted to the facial geometry of any reference image, disentangling identity from expression. We further improve mouth movements, by utilising audio features as a complementary input. The 3D face representation enables HeadGAN to be further used as an efficient method for compression and reconstruction and a tool for expression and pose editing.

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Citing papers per year: 2022: 20; 2023: 33; 2024: 26; 2025: 17; 2026: 9.

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  1. 2022SadTalker: Learning Realistic 3D Motion Coefficients for Stylized Audio-Driven Single Image Talking Face Animationcited by 380
  2. 2022Thin-Plate Spline Motion Model for Image Animationcited by 209
  3. 2022StyleHEAT: One-Shot High-Resolution Editable Talking Face Generation via Pre-trained StyleGANcited by 169
  4. 2022MegaPortraits: One-shot Megapixel Neural Head Avatarscited by 131
  5. 2022Next3D: Generative Neural Texture Rasterization for 3D-Aware Head Avatarscited by 124
  6. 2024SMIRK: 3D Facial Expressions through Analysis-by-Neural-Synthesiscited by 81
  7. 2022AvatarMAV: Fast 3D Head Avatar Reconstruction Using Motion-Aware Neural Voxelscited by 73
  8. 2023DINet: Deformation Inpainting Network for Realistic Face Visually Dubbing on High Resolution Videocited by 73
  9. 2023OTAvatar: One-shot Talking Face Avatar with Controllable Tri-plane Renderingcited by 67
  10. 2024Deepfake Generation and Detection: A Benchmark and Surveycited by 66
  11. 2023Real-Time Radiance Fields for Single-Image Portrait View Synthesiscited by 64
  12. 2023FaceTalk: Audio-Driven Motion Diffusion for Neural Parametric Head Modelscited by 55
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  1. 2023StyleAvatar: Real-time Photo-realistic Portrait Avatar from a Single Videocited by 52
  2. 2024CAP4D: Creating Animatable 4D Portrait Avatars with Morphable Multi-View Diffusion Modelscited by 52
  3. 2023LatentAvatar: Learning Latent Expression Code for Expressive Neural Head Avatarcited by 50
  4. 2023Face Animation with an Attribute-Guided Diffusion Modelcited by 48
  5. 2023HyperReenact: One-Shot Reenactment via Jointly Learning to Refine and Retarget Facescited by 48
  6. 2024VLOGGER: Multimodal Diffusion for Embodied Avatar Synthesiscited by 48
  7. 2022Implicit Warping for Animation with Image Setscited by 45
  8. 2023DPE: Disentanglement of Pose and Expression for General Video Portrait Editingcited by 45
  9. 2023GAIA: Zero-shot Talking Avatar Generationcited by 43
  10. 2023High-Fidelity and Freely Controllable Talking Head Video Generationcited by 42
  11. 2025DreamActor-M1: Holistic, Expressive and Robust Human Image Animation with Hybrid Guidancecited by 36
  12. 2023VOODOO 3D: Volumetric Portrait Disentanglement for One-Shot 3D Head Reenactmentcited by 33
  13. 2025MoCha: Towards Movie-Grade Talking Character Synthesiscited by 31
  14. 2025X-NeMo: Expressive Neural Motion Reenactment via Disentangled Latent Attentioncited by 26
  15. 2023CVTHead: One-shot Controllable Head Avatar with Vertex-feature Transformercited by 24
  16. 2022PV3D: A 3D Generative Model for Portrait Video Generationcited by 23
  17. 20233D Cinemagraphy from a Single Imagecited by 23
  18. 2022FNeVR: Neural Volume Rendering for Face Animationcited by 22
  19. 2023InvertAvatar: Incremental GAN Inversion for Generalized Head Avatarscited by 19
  20. 2024VOODOO XP: Expressive One-Shot Head Reenactment for VR Telepresencecited by 19
  21. 2022StyleMask: Disentangling the Style Space of StyleGAN2 for Neural Face Reenactmentcited by 17
  22. 2023Interactive Face Video Coding: A Generative Compression Frameworkcited by 17
  23. 2024Joker: Conditional 3D Head Synthesis with Extreme Facial Expressionscited by 17
  24. 2023AniPortraitGAN: Animatable 3D Portrait Generation from 2D Image Collectionscited by 16
  25. 2024PersonaTalk: Bring Attention to Your Persona in Visual Dubbingcited by 15
  26. 2024Beyond Talking -- Generating Holistic 3D Human Dyadic Motion for Communicationcited by 14
  27. 20223DGazeNet: Generalizing Gaze Estimation with Weak-Supervision from Synthetic Viewscited by 11
  28. 2022Free-HeadGAN: Neural Talking Head Synthesis with Explicit Gaze Controlcited by 10
  29. 2024DEGAS: Detailed Expressions on Full-Body Gaussian Avatarscited by 10
  30. 2024Deepfake Media Generation and Detection in the Generative AI Era: A Survey and Outlookcited by 10
  31. 2022StableFace: Analyzing and Improving Motion Stability for Talking Face Generationcited by 9
  32. 2023Multimodal-driven Talking Face Generation via a Unified Diffusion-based Generatorcited by 9
  33. 2023From Pixels to Portraits: A Comprehensive Survey of Talking Head Generation Techniques and Applicationscited by 9
  34. 2024Continuous Piecewise-Affine Based Motion Model for Image Animationcited by 8
  35. 2022Learning Detailed Radiance Manifolds for High-Fidelity and 3D-Consistent Portrait Synthesis from Monocular Imagecited by 7
  36. 2023Learning Motion Refinement for Unsupervised Face Animationcited by 7
  37. 2024A Review of Human Emotion Synthesis Based on Generative Technologycited by 7
  38. 2023Perceptual Quality Improvement in Videoconferencing using Keyframes-based GANcited by 6

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