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One-shot Face Reenactment Using Appearance Adaptive Normalization

Yao Guangming, Yi Yuan, Tianjia Shao, Shuang Li, Shanqi Liu, Yong Liu, Mengmeng Wang, Kun Zhou

2021Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence23 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

The paper proposes a novel generative adversarial network for one-shot face reenactment, which can animate a single face image to a different pose-and-expression (provided by a driving image) while keeping its original appearance. The core of our network is a novel mechanism called appearance adaptive normalization, which can effectively integrate the appearance information from the input image into our face generator by modulating the feature maps of the generator using the learned adaptive parameters. Furthermore, we specially design a local net to reenact the local facial components (i.e., eyes, nose and mouth) first, which is a much easier task for the network to learn and can in turn provide explicit anchors to guide our face generator to learn the global appearance and pose-and-expression. Extensive quantitative and qualitative experiments demonstrate the significant efficacy of our model compared with prior one-shot methods.

Topics & Concepts

Normalization (sociology)Computer scienceArtificial intelligenceFacial expressionComputer visionFace (sociological concept)Generator (circuit theory)Image (mathematics)Pattern recognition (psychology)Feature extractionSocial scienceAnthropologyQuantum mechanicsSociologyPower (physics)PhysicsFace recognition and analysisGenerative Adversarial Networks and Image SynthesisAdvanced Image Processing Techniques
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