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| author | Kang, Taewoong Jang, Hyojin Jeong, Sohyun Moon, Seunggi Kim, Gihwi Jung, Hoon Jin choo, Jaegul |
| author_facet | Kang, Taewoong Jang, Hyojin Jeong, Sohyun Moon, Seunggi Kim, Gihwi Jung, Hoon Jin choo, Jaegul |
| contents | Recent digital media advancements have created increasing demands for sophisticated portrait manipulation techniques, particularly head swapping, where one's head is seamlessly integrated with another's body. However, current approaches predominantly rely on face-centered cropped data with limited view angles, significantly restricting their real-world applicability. They struggle with diverse head expressions, varying hairstyles, and natural blending beyond facial regions. To address these limitations, we propose Adaptive Head Synthesis (AHS), which effectively handles full upper-body images with varied head poses and expressions. AHS incorporates a novel head reenacted synthetic data augmentation strategy to overcome self-supervised training constraints, enhancing generalization across diverse facial expressions and orientations without requiring paired training data. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that AHS achieves superior performance in challenging real-world scenarios, producing visually coherent results that preserve identity and expression fidelity across various head orientations and hairstyles. Notably, AHS shows exceptional robustness in maintaining facial identity while drastic expression changes and faithfully preserving accessories while significant head pose variations. |
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| spellingShingle | AHS: Adaptive Head Synthesis via Synthetic Data Augmentations Kang, Taewoong Jang, Hyojin Jeong, Sohyun Moon, Seunggi Kim, Gihwi Jung, Hoon Jin choo, Jaegul Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Recent digital media advancements have created increasing demands for sophisticated portrait manipulation techniques, particularly head swapping, where one's head is seamlessly integrated with another's body. However, current approaches predominantly rely on face-centered cropped data with limited view angles, significantly restricting their real-world applicability. They struggle with diverse head expressions, varying hairstyles, and natural blending beyond facial regions. To address these limitations, we propose Adaptive Head Synthesis (AHS), which effectively handles full upper-body images with varied head poses and expressions. AHS incorporates a novel head reenacted synthetic data augmentation strategy to overcome self-supervised training constraints, enhancing generalization across diverse facial expressions and orientations without requiring paired training data. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that AHS achieves superior performance in challenging real-world scenarios, producing visually coherent results that preserve identity and expression fidelity across various head orientations and hairstyles. Notably, AHS shows exceptional robustness in maintaining facial identity while drastic expression changes and faithfully preserving accessories while significant head pose variations. |
| title | AHS: Adaptive Head Synthesis via Synthetic Data Augmentations |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15857 |