Joint Learning of Depth and Appearance for Portrait Image Animation

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Hauptverfasser: Ji, Xinya, Zoss, Gaspard, Chandran, Prashanth, Yang, Lingchen, Cao, Xun, Solenthaler, Barbara, Bradley, Derek
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author Ji, Xinya
Zoss, Gaspard
Chandran, Prashanth
Yang, Lingchen
Cao, Xun
Solenthaler, Barbara
Bradley, Derek
author_facet Ji, Xinya
Zoss, Gaspard
Chandran, Prashanth
Yang, Lingchen
Cao, Xun
Solenthaler, Barbara
Bradley, Derek
contents 2D portrait animation has experienced significant advancements in recent years. Much research has utilized the prior knowledge embedded in large generative diffusion models to enhance high-quality image manipulation. However, most methods only focus on generating RGB images as output, and the co-generation of consistent visual plus 3D output remains largely under-explored. In our work, we propose to jointly learn the visual appearance and depth simultaneously in a diffusion-based portrait image generator. Our method embraces the end-to-end diffusion paradigm and introduces a new architecture suitable for learning this conditional joint distribution, consisting of a reference network and a channel-expanded diffusion backbone. Once trained, our framework can be efficiently adapted to various downstream applications, such as facial depth-to-image and image-to-depth generation, portrait relighting, and audio-driven talking head animation with consistent 3D output.
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spellingShingle Joint Learning of Depth and Appearance for Portrait Image Animation
Ji, Xinya
Zoss, Gaspard
Chandran, Prashanth
Yang, Lingchen
Cao, Xun
Solenthaler, Barbara
Bradley, Derek
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
2D portrait animation has experienced significant advancements in recent years. Much research has utilized the prior knowledge embedded in large generative diffusion models to enhance high-quality image manipulation. However, most methods only focus on generating RGB images as output, and the co-generation of consistent visual plus 3D output remains largely under-explored. In our work, we propose to jointly learn the visual appearance and depth simultaneously in a diffusion-based portrait image generator. Our method embraces the end-to-end diffusion paradigm and introduces a new architecture suitable for learning this conditional joint distribution, consisting of a reference network and a channel-expanded diffusion backbone. Once trained, our framework can be efficiently adapted to various downstream applications, such as facial depth-to-image and image-to-depth generation, portrait relighting, and audio-driven talking head animation with consistent 3D output.
title Joint Learning of Depth and Appearance for Portrait Image Animation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08649