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FSGAN: Subject Agnostic Face Swapping and Reenactment

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Nirkin, Yuval, Keller, Yosi, Hassner, Tal·2019·2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

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We present Face Swapping GAN (FSGAN) for face swapping and reenactment. Unlike previous work, FSGAN is subject agnostic and can be applied to pairs of faces without requiring training on those faces. To this end, we describe a number of technical contributions. We derive a novel recurrent neural network (RNN)-based approach for face reenactment which adjusts for both pose and expression variations and can be applied to a single image or a video sequence. For video sequences, we introduce continuous interpolation of the face views based on reenactment, Delaunay Triangulation, and barycentric coordinates. Occluded face regions are handled by a face completion network. Finally, we use a face blending network for seamless blending of the two faces while preserving target skin color and lighting conditions. This network uses a novel Poisson blending loss which combines Poisson optimization with perceptual loss. We compare our approach to existing state-of-the-art systems and show our results to be both qualitatively and quantitatively superior.

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  • FSGAN is the first to simultaneously adjust the pose, expression, and identity variations for both a single image and a video sequence.

    “It is also the first to simultaneously adjust the pose, expression, and identity variations for both a single image and a video sequence.”

    From Countering Malicious DeepFakes: Survey, Battleground, and Horizon (2022) · cites this paper as Nirkin et al. 2019

    The Introduction says FSGAN works in images and videos and claims it is the first to simultaneously manipulate pose, expression, and identity *without requiring person-specific or pair-specific training*. The citing sentence omits that condition, making the priority claim broader than the paper's. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • FSGAN is a subject agnostic method that doesn't rely on the training of pairs of faces.

    “Face swapping GAN (FSGAN) (Nirkin et al. 2019) is a subject agnostic method that doesn't rely on the training of pairs of faces.”

    From Countering Malicious DeepFakes: Survey, Battleground, and Horizon (2022) · cites this paper as Nirkin et al. 2019

  • Subject-agnostic methods can apply the trained model to any new face pairs without retraining on a specific subject.

    “the subjectagnostic methods can apply the trained model to any new face pairs without retraining on a speciic subject”
  • Subject-agnostic methods only need a source face image to generate near photo-realistic fake data based on different driving faces.

    “the subject-agnostic methods only need a source face image to generate near photo-realistic fake data based on diferent driving faces”
  • In ForgeryNet, fake images are manipulated using 15 different manipulations while videos are manipulated using only 8 of them.

    “The fake images are manipulated using 15 different manipulations while the videos are manipulated using only 8 of them [27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36].”

    From On the Generalization of Deep Learning Models in Video Deepfake Detection (2023) · cites this paper as [33]

    The Datasets and processing section describes FaceForensics++ videos, not ForgeryNet. Searches for ForgeryNet and for the claimed counts of 15 image manipulations and 8 video manipulations found no passage addressing those counts in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.76)

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Authors
Nirkin, Y., Keller, Y., & Hassner, T.
Affiliations
  • Bar-Ilan University (IL)
  • Open University of Israel (IL)
Venue
2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2019-10
Pages
7183-7192
OpenAlex
W2966880194
Cited by
706
References
57
Citations by year
2026: 66 · 2025: 108 · 2024: 119 · 2023: 113 · 2022: 123 · 2021: 116 · 2020: 54 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 1
FWCI
24.39
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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Locations
  • IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Face recognition and analysis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Digital Media Forensic Detection
Keywords
face swapping, face reenactment, recurrent neural networks, pose and expression variation, video interpolation, Delaunay triangulation, barycentric coordinates, face completion, perceptual loss

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