HiFiVFS: High Fidelity Video Face Swapping
On the map: Diffusion models → Image generation, text-to-image and editing
Abstract (arXiv)
Face swapping aims to generate results that combine the identity from the source with attributes from the target. Existing methods primarily focus on image-based face swapping. When processing videos, each frame is handled independently, making it difficult to ensure temporal stability. From a model perspective, face swapping is gradually shifting from generative adversarial networks (GANs) to diffusion models (DMs), as DMs have been shown to possess stronger generative capabilities. Current diffusion-based approaches often employ inpainting techniques, which struggle to preserve fine-grained attributes like lighting and makeup. To address these challenges, we propose a high fidelity video face swapping (HiFiVFS) framework, which leverages the strong generative capability and temporal prior of Stable Video Diffusion (SVD). We build a fine-grained attribute module to extract identity-disentangled and fine-grained attribute features through identity desensitization and adversarial learning. Additionally, We introduce detailed identity injection to further enhance identity similarity. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) in video face swapping, both qualitatively and quantitatively.
Key facts. Cited by 9 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Image generation, text-to-image and editing, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 38 of its 48 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 27 Nov 2024.
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38 of 48 references.
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- 2024InstantID: Zero-shot Identity-Preserving Generation in Seconds15 Jan
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- 2023IP-Adapter: Text Compatible Image Prompt Adapter for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models13 Aug
- 2023FastComposer: Tuning-Free Multi-Subject Image Generation with Localized Attention17 May
Other references · 32
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- 2021StyleGAN-V: A Continuous Video Generator with the Price, Image Quality and Perks of StyleGAN2cited by 300
- 2021SimSwap: An Efficient Framework For High Fidelity Face Swappingcited by 243
- 2019FaceShifter: Towards High Fidelity And Occlusion Aware Face Swappingcited by 221
- 2022VFHQ: A High-Quality Dataset and Benchmark for Video Face Super-Resolutioncited by 174
- 2021One Shot Face Swapping on Megapixelscited by 105
- 2023CelebV-Text: A Large-Scale Facial Text-Video Datasetcited by 103
- 2021HifiFace: 3D Shape and Semantic Prior Guided High Fidelity Face Swappingcited by 92
- 2022Fine-Grained Face Swapping via Regional GAN Inversioncited by 67
- 2023BlendFace: Re-designing Identity Encoders for Face-Swappingcited by 66
- 2022High-resolution Face Swapping via Latent Semantics Disentanglementcited by 57
- 2022Region-Aware Face Swappingcited by 45
- 2022FaceDancer: Pose- and Occlusion-Aware High Fidelity Face Swappingcited by 44
- 2022MobileFaceSwap: A Lightweight Framework for Video Face Swappingcited by 39
- 2022StyleSwap: Style-Based Generator Empowers Robust Face Swappingcited by 39
- 2021Smooth-Swap: A Simple Enhancement for Face-Swapping with Smoothnesscited by 30
- 2022Few-Shot Head Swapping in the Wildcited by 20
- 2024Towards Real-world Video Face Restoration: A New Benchmarkcited by 6
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Citing papers per year: 2025: 3; 2026: 6.
9 papers.
- 2026DreamID-Omni: Unified Framework for Controllable Human-Centric Audio-Video Generationcited by 19
- 2025CanonSwap: High-Fidelity and Consistent Video Face Swapping via Canonical Space Modulationcited by 16
- 2026DreamID-V:Bridging the Image-to-Video Gap for High-Fidelity Face Swapping via Diffusion Transformercited by 9
- 2025Meta-LoRA: Meta-Learning LoRA Components for Domain-Aware ID Personalizationcited by 1
- 2025Preserving Source Video Realism: High-Fidelity Face Swapping for Cinematic Qualitycited by 1
- 2026Towards High Fidelity Face Swapping: A Comprehensive Survey and New Benchmarkcited by 1
- 2026GaussianSwap: Animatable Video Face Swapping with 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 0
- 2026UniBioTransfer: A Unified Framework for Multiple Biometrics Transfercited by 0
- 2026Adaptive Identity Anchoring: Closed-Loop Keyframe Placement for Synthetic Paired Supervision in Video Face Swappingcited by 0
- 2026Adaptive Identity Anchoring: Closed-Loop Keyframe Placement for Synthetic Paired Supervision in Video Face Swapping23 Jul 2026
- 2026Towards High Fidelity Face Swapping: A Comprehensive Survey and New Benchmark27 Apr 2026
- 2026UniBioTransfer: A Unified Framework for Multiple Biometrics Transfer20 Mar 2026
- 2026DreamID-Omni: Unified Framework for Controllable Human-Centric Audio-Video Generation12 Feb 2026
- 2026GaussianSwap: Animatable Video Face Swapping with 3D Gaussian Splatting9 Jan 2026
- 2026DreamID-V:Bridging the Image-to-Video Gap for High-Fidelity Face Swapping via Diffusion Transformer4 Jan 2026
- 2025Preserving Source Video Realism: High-Fidelity Face Swapping for Cinematic Quality8 Dec 2025
- 2025CanonSwap: High-Fidelity and Consistent Video Face Swapping via Canonical Space Modulation3 Jul 2025
- 2025Meta-LoRA: Meta-Learning LoRA Components for Domain-Aware ID Personalization28 Mar 2025
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- 2025DynamicFace: High-Quality and Consistent Face Swapping for Image and Video using Composable 3D Facial Priors
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