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DiffMagicFace: Identity Consistent Facial Editing of Real Videos

arXiv 2604.13841 ↗First posted 15 Apr 2026cs.CVcited by 0

On the map: Diffusion models → Image generation, text-to-image and editing

Abstract (arXiv)

Text-conditioned image editing has greatly benefitted from the advancements in Image Diffusion Models. However, extending these techniques to facial video editing introduces challenges in preserving facial identity throughout the source video and ensuring consistency of the edited subject across frames. In this paper, we introduce DiffMagicFace, a unique video editing framework that integrates two fine-tuned models for text and image control. These models operate concurrently during inference to produce video frames that maintain identity features while seamlessly aligning with the editing semantics. To ensure the consistency of the edited videos, we develop a dataset comprising images showcasing various facial perspectives for each edited subject. The creation of a data set is achieved through rendering techniques and the subsequent application of optimization algorithms. Remarkably, our approach does not depend on video datasets but still delivers high-quality results in both consistency and content. The excellent effect holds even for complex tasks like talking head videos and distinguishing closely related categories. The videos edited using our framework exhibit parity with videos that are made using traditional rendering software. Through comparative analysis with current state-of-the-art methods, our framework demonstrates superior performance in both visual appeal and quantitative metrics.

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  2. 2023ChatFace: Chat-Guided Real Face Editing via Diffusion Latent Space Manipulation24 May
  3. 2022SINE: SINgle Image Editing with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models8 Dec
  4. 2022InstructPix2Pix: Learning to Follow Image Editing Instructions17 Nov
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  6. 2022DiffEdit: Diffusion-based semantic image editing with mask guidance20 Oct
  7. 2022DreamBooth: Fine Tuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Subject-Driven Generation25 Aug
  8. 2022Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding23 May
  9. 2022Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents13 Apr
  10. 2021GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models20 Dec
  11. 2021Blended Diffusion for Text-driven Editing of Natural Images29 Nov
  12. 2021Palette: Image-to-Image Diffusion Models10 Nov

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