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Few-Shot Head Swapping in the Wild

arXiv 2204.13100 ↗First posted 27 Apr 2022cs.CV cs.GRcited by 21

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Abstract (arXiv)

The head swapping task aims at flawlessly placing a source head onto a target body, which is of great importance to various entertainment scenarios. While face swapping has drawn much attention, the task of head swapping has rarely been explored, particularly under the few-shot setting. It is inherently challenging due to its unique needs in head modeling and background blending. In this paper, we present the Head Swapper (HeSer), which achieves few-shot head swapping in the wild through two delicately designed modules. Firstly, a Head2Head Aligner is devised to holistically migrate pose and expression information from the target to the source head by examining multi-scale information. Secondly, to tackle the challenges of skin color variations and head-background mismatches in the swapping procedure, a Head2Scene Blender is introduced to simultaneously modify facial skin color and fill mismatched gaps in the background around the head. Particularly, seamless blending is achieved with the help of a Semantic-Guided Color Reference Creation procedure and a Blending UNet. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method produces superior head swapping results in a variety of scenes.

Key facts. Cited by 21 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 39 of its 51 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 27 Apr 2022.

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Citing papers per year: 2022: 2; 2023: 4; 2024: 6; 2025: 4; 2026: 5.

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  1. 2024Deepfake Generation and Detection: A Benchmark and Surveycited by 67
  2. 2022StyleSwap: Style-Based Generator Empowers Robust Face Swappingcited by 39
  3. 2024Realistic and Efficient Face Swapping: A Unified Approach with Diffusion Modelscited by 36
  4. 2024CharacterFactory: Sampling Consistent Characters with GANs for Diffusion Modelscited by 24
  5. 2023A Generalist FaceX via Learning Unified Facial Representationcited by 14
  6. 2022HS-Diffusion: Semantic-Mixing Diffusion for Head Swappingcited by 13
  7. 2024HiFiVFS: High Fidelity Video Face Swappingcited by 9
  8. 2023E4S: Fine-grained Face Swapping via Editing With Regional GAN Inversioncited by 8
  9. 2023Diff-ID: An Explainable Identity Difference Quantification Framework for DeepFake Detectioncited by 6
  10. 2025GHOST 2.0: generative high-fidelity one shot transfer of headscited by 5
  11. 2025Controllable and Expressive One-Shot Video Head Swappingcited by 2
  12. 2025Stable-Hair v2: Real-World Hair Transfer via Multiple-View Diffusion Modelcited by 2
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  1. 2023Controllable One-Shot Face Video Synthesis With Semantic Aware Priorcited by 1
  2. 2024Towards High-fidelity Head Blending with Chroma Keying for Industrial Applicationscited by 1
  3. 2026Towards High Fidelity Face Swapping: A Comprehensive Survey and New Benchmarkcited by 1
  4. 2024In Anticipation of Perfect Deepfake: Identity-anchored Artifact-agnostic Detection under Rebalanced Deepfake Detection Protocolcited by 0
  5. 2025DirectSwap: Paired, Mask-Free Video Head Swapping with Full-Reference Evaluationcited by 0
  6. 2026UniBioTransfer: A Unified Framework for Multiple Biometrics Transfercited by 0
  7. 2026GSwap: Realistic Head Swapping with Dynamic Neural Gaussian Fieldcited by 0
  8. 2026AHS: Adaptive Head Synthesis via Synthetic Data Augmentationscited by 0
  9. 2026HairPort: In-context 3D-aware Hair Import and Transfer for Imagescited by 0