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StyleYourSmile: Cross-Domain Face Retargeting Without Paired Multi-Style Data

arXiv 2512.01895 ↗First posted 1 Dec 2025cs.CVcited by 0

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Cross-domain face retargeting requires disentangled control over identity, expressions, and domain-specific stylistic attributes. Existing methods, typically trained on real-world faces, either fail to generalize across domains, need test-time optimizations, or require fine-tuning with carefully curated multi-style datasets to achieve domain-invariant identity representations. In this work, we introduce textitStyleYourSmile, a novel one-shot cross-domain face retargeting method that eliminates the need for curated multi-style paired data. We propose an efficient data augmentation strategy alongside a dual-encoder framework, for extracting domain-invariant identity cues and capturing domain-specific stylistic variations. Leveraging these disentangled control signals, we condition a diffusion model to retarget facial expressions across domains. Extensive experiments demonstrate that textitStyleYourSmile achieves superior identity preservation and retargeting fidelity across a wide range of visual domains.

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