SynergyWarpNet: Attention-Guided Cooperative Warping for Neural Portrait Animation

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Autores principales: Li, Shihang, Gong, Zhiqiang, Ye, Minming, Gao, Yue, Yao, Wen
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author Li, Shihang
Gong, Zhiqiang
Ye, Minming
Gao, Yue
Yao, Wen
author_facet Li, Shihang
Gong, Zhiqiang
Ye, Minming
Gao, Yue
Yao, Wen
contents Recent advances in neural portrait animation have demonstrated remarked potential for applications in virtual avatars, telepresence, and digital content creation. However, traditional explicit warping approaches often struggle with accurate motion transfer or recovering missing regions, while recent attention-based warping methods, though effective, frequently suffer from high complexity and weak geometric grounding. To address these issues, we propose SynergyWarpNet, an attention-guided cooperative warping framework designed for high-fidelity talking head synthesis. Given a source portrait, a driving image, and a set of reference images, our model progressively refines the animation in three stages. First, an explicit warping module performs coarse spatial alignment between the source and driving image using 3D dense optical flow. Next, a reference-augmented correction module leverages cross-attention across 3D keypoints and texture features from multiple reference images to semantically complete occluded or distorted regions. Finally, a confidence-guided fusion module integrates the warped outputs with spatially-adaptive fusing, using a learned confidence map to balance structural alignment and visual consistency. Comprehensive evaluations on benchmark datasets demonstrate state-of-the-art performance.
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spellingShingle SynergyWarpNet: Attention-Guided Cooperative Warping for Neural Portrait Animation
Li, Shihang
Gong, Zhiqiang
Ye, Minming
Gao, Yue
Yao, Wen
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Recent advances in neural portrait animation have demonstrated remarked potential for applications in virtual avatars, telepresence, and digital content creation. However, traditional explicit warping approaches often struggle with accurate motion transfer or recovering missing regions, while recent attention-based warping methods, though effective, frequently suffer from high complexity and weak geometric grounding. To address these issues, we propose SynergyWarpNet, an attention-guided cooperative warping framework designed for high-fidelity talking head synthesis. Given a source portrait, a driving image, and a set of reference images, our model progressively refines the animation in three stages. First, an explicit warping module performs coarse spatial alignment between the source and driving image using 3D dense optical flow. Next, a reference-augmented correction module leverages cross-attention across 3D keypoints and texture features from multiple reference images to semantically complete occluded or distorted regions. Finally, a confidence-guided fusion module integrates the warped outputs with spatially-adaptive fusing, using a learned confidence map to balance structural alignment and visual consistency. Comprehensive evaluations on benchmark datasets demonstrate state-of-the-art performance.
title SynergyWarpNet: Attention-Guided Cooperative Warping for Neural Portrait Animation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17331