Facial Expression Video Generation Based-On Spatio-temporal Convolutional GAN: FEV-GAN

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11182v1
• Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:54:32 GMT
• Title: Facial Expression Video Generation Based-On Spatio-temporal Convolutional GAN: FEV-GAN
• Authors: Hamza Bouzid, Lahoucine Ballihi
• Abstract summary: We present a novel approach for generating videos of the six basic facial expressions. Our approach is based on Spatio-temporal Conal GANs, that are known to model both content and motion in the same network. The code and the pre-trained model will soon be made publicly available.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Facial expression generation has always been an intriguing task for scientists and researchers all over the globe. In this context, we present our novel approach for generating videos of the six basic facial expressions. Starting from a single neutral facial image and a label indicating the desired facial expression, we aim to synthesize a video of the given identity performing the specified facial expression. Our approach, referred to as FEV-GAN (Facial Expression Video GAN), is based on Spatio-temporal Convolutional GANs, that are known to model both content and motion in the same network. Previous methods based on such a network have shown a good ability to generate coherent videos with smooth temporal evolution. However, they still suffer from low image quality and low identity preservation capability. In this work, we address this problem by using a generator composed of two image encoders. The first one is pre-trained for facial identity feature extraction and the second for spatial feature extraction. We have qualitatively and quantitatively evaluated our model on two international facial expression benchmark databases: MUG and Oulu-CASIA NIR&VIS. The experimental results analysis demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach in generating videos of the six basic facial expressions while preserving the input identity. The analysis also proves that the use of both identity and spatial features enhances the decoder ability to better preserve the identity and generate high-quality videos. The code and the pre-trained model will soon be made publicly available.

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