DreamID: High-Fidelity and Fast diffusion-based Face Swapping via Triplet ID Group Learning
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Abstract (arXiv)
In this paper, we introduce DreamID, a diffusion-based face swapping model that achieves high levels of ID similarity, attribute preservation, image fidelity, and fast inference speed. Unlike the typical face swapping training process, which often relies on implicit supervision and struggles to achieve satisfactory results. DreamID establishes explicit supervision for face swapping by constructing Triplet ID Group data, significantly enhancing identity similarity and attribute preservation. The iterative nature of diffusion models poses challenges for utilizing efficient image-space loss functions, as performing time-consuming multi-step sampling to obtain the generated image during training is impractical. To address this issue, we leverage the accelerated diffusion model SD Turbo, reducing the inference steps to a single iteration, enabling efficient pixel-level end-to-end training with explicit Triplet ID Group supervision. Additionally, we propose an improved diffusion-based model architecture comprising SwapNet, FaceNet, and ID Adapter. This robust architecture fully unlocks the power of the Triplet ID Group explicit supervision. Finally, to further extend our method, we explicitly modify the Triplet ID Group data during training to fine-tune and preserve specific attributes, such as glasses and face shape. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DreamID outperforms state-of-the-art methods in terms of identity similarity, pose and expression preservation, and image fidelity. Overall, DreamID achieves high-quality face swapping results at 512*512 resolution in just 0.6 seconds and performs exceptionally well in challenging scenarios such as complex lighting, large angles, and occlusions.
Key facts. Cited by 10 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Image generation, text-to-image and editing, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 28 of its 41 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 20 Apr 2025.
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- 2026Optimizing ID Consistency in Multimodal Large Models: Facial Restoration via Alignment, Entanglement, and Disentanglement21 Feb 2026
- 2026APPLE: Attribute-Preserving Pseudo-Labeling for Diffusion-Based Face Swapping21 Jan 2026
- 2026OmniTransfer: All-in-one Framework for Spatio-temporal Video Transfer20 Jan 2026
- 2026DreamID-V:Bridging the Image-to-Video Gap for High-Fidelity Face Swapping via Diffusion Transformer4 Jan 2026
- 2025DirectSwap: Paired, Mask-Free Video Head Swapping with Full-Reference Evaluation10 Dec 2025
- 2025Veritas: Generalizable Deepfake Detection via Pattern-Aware Reasoning28 Aug 2025
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