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FaceController: Controllable Attribute Editing for Face in the Wild

arXiv 2102.11464 ↗First posted 23 Feb 2021cs.CVcited by 22

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Abstract (arXiv)

Face attribute editing aims to generate faces with one or multiple desired face attributes manipulated while other details are preserved. Unlike prior works such as GAN inversion, which has an expensive reverse mapping process, we propose a simple feed-forward network to generate high-fidelity manipulated faces. By simply employing some existing and easy-obtainable prior information, our method can control, transfer, and edit diverse attributes of faces in the wild. The proposed method can consequently be applied to various applications such as face swapping, face relighting, and makeup transfer. In our method, we decouple identity, expression, pose, and illumination using 3D priors; separate texture and colors by using region-wise style codes. All the information is embedded into adversarial learning by our identity-style normalization module. Disentanglement losses are proposed to enhance the generator to extract information independently from each attribute. Comprehensive quantitative and qualitative evaluations have been conducted. In a single framework, our method achieves the best or competitive scores on a variety of face applications.

Key facts. Cited by 22 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 41 of its 52 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 23 Feb 2021.

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  1. 2022Region-Aware Face Swappingcited by 45
  2. 2022FaceDancer: Pose- and Occlusion-Aware High Fidelity Face Swappingcited by 44
  3. 2022MobileFaceSwap: A Lightweight Framework for Video Face Swappingcited by 39
  4. 2022StyleSwap: Style-Based Generator Empowers Robust Face Swappingcited by 39
  5. 2021Sparse to Dense Motion Transfer for Face Image Animationcited by 25
  6. 2024CharacterFactory: Sampling Consistent Characters with GANs for Diffusion Modelscited by 24
  7. 2022Few-Shot Head Swapping in the Wildcited by 20
  8. 2022UnGANable: Defending Against GAN-based Face Manipulationcited by 15
  9. 2022HS-Diffusion: Semantic-Mixing Diffusion for Head Swappingcited by 12
  10. 2023FIVA: Facial Image and Video Anonymization and Anonymization Defensecited by 12
  11. 2025DynamicFace: High-Quality and Consistent Face Swapping for Image and Video using Composable 3D Facial Priorscited by 10
  12. 2022FlowFace: Semantic Flow-guided Shape-aware Face Swappingcited by 6
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  2. 2021DFGC 2021: A DeepFake Game Competitioncited by 4
  3. 2023CapST: Leveraging Capsule Networks and Temporal Attention for Accurate Model Attribution in Deep-fake Videoscited by 3
  4. 2025FakeChain: Exposing Shallow Cues in Multi-Step Deepfake Detectioncited by 3
  5. 2023FlowFace++: Explicit Semantic Flow-supervised End-to-End Face Swappingcited by 2
  6. 2024Towards RGB-NIR Cross-modality Image Registration and Beyondcited by 2
  7. 2025FAME: A Lightweight Spatio-Temporal Network for Model Attribution of Face-Swap Deepfakescited by 2
  8. 2024LatentSwap: An Efficient Latent Code Mapping Framework for Face Swappingcited by 1
  9. 2023High-Fidelity Face Swapping with Style Blendingcited by 0
  10. 2025Towards Fair and Robust Face Parsing for Generative AI: A Multi-Objective Approachcited by 0