Summary of Caphuman: Capture Your Moments in Parallel Universes, by Chao Liang et al.
CapHuman: Capture Your Moments in Parallel Universes
by Chao Liang, Fan Ma, Linchao Zhu, Yingying Deng, Yi Yang
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents CapHuman, a novel framework for generating realistic human portraits with diverse head positions, poses, facial expressions, and illuminations. The model is trained using pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models and is designed to preserve identity while allowing fine-grained control over the human head. CapHuman achieves this by encoding identity features and aligning them in the latent space. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of their approach through extensive qualitative and quantitative analyses, showing that CapHuman produces photo-realistic portraits with high-fidelity representations and various head renditions, outperforming established baselines. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper makes it possible to create realistic pictures of people with different facial expressions and head positions. The goal is to generate these images from a single reference picture of someone’s face. To do this, the researchers developed a new framework called CapHuman. This framework uses pre-trained models that are good at generating images based on text descriptions. The new model can preserve someone’s identity while also allowing for more control over the head and facial expressions. The results show that CapHuman is better than current methods at creating realistic portraits with different poses and lighting. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Latent space
