Towards Consistent and Controllable Image Synthesis for Face Editing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02465v2
• Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2025 14:09:32 GMT
• Title: Towards Consistent and Controllable Image Synthesis for Face Editing
• Authors: Mengting Wei, Tuomas Varanka, Yante Li, Xingxun Jiang, Huai-Qian Khor, Guoying Zhao,
• Abstract summary: RigFace is a novel approach to control the lighting, facial expression and head pose of a portrait photo.<n>Our model achieves comparable or even superior performance in both identity preservation and photorealism compared to existing face editing models.
• Score: 18.646961062736207
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Face editing methods, essential for tasks like virtual avatars, digital human synthesis and identity preservation, have traditionally been built upon GAN-based techniques, while recent focus has shifted to diffusion-based models due to their success in image reconstruction. However, diffusion models still face challenges in controlling specific attributes and preserving the consistency of other unchanged attributes especially the identity characteristics. To address these issues and facilitate more convenient editing of face images, we propose a novel approach that leverages the power of Stable-Diffusion (SD) models and crude 3D face models to control the lighting, facial expression and head pose of a portrait photo. We observe that this task essentially involves the combinations of target background, identity and face attributes aimed to edit. We strive to sufficiently disentangle the control of these factors to enable consistency of face editing. Specifically, our method, coined as RigFace, contains: 1) A Spatial Attribute Encoder that provides presise and decoupled conditions of background, pose, expression and lighting; 2) A high-consistency FaceFusion method that transfers identity features from the Identity Encoder to the denoising UNet of a pre-trained SD model; 3) An Attribute Rigger that injects those conditions into the denoising UNet. Our model achieves comparable or even superior performance in both identity preservation and photorealism compared to existing face editing models. Code is publicly available at https://github.com/weimengting/RigFace.

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