🇨🇳 Chinese researchers brought deepfakes to the next level by changing the entire head

We have all seen deepfakes where faces are swapped. This paper went further, they substitute the driving head entirely. Miracles of Chinese engineering skills and a lot of losses do the job 🤓.

Compared to the usual "face swap", the new method exhibits better transfer of the personality from the target photo to the driving video, preserving the hair, eyebrows, and other important attributes. A slight improvement of the temporal stability is needed though - the edges of the head are a little twitchy. There is no code yet, but the authors promised to upload it soon.

❱❱ Few-Shot Head Swapping in the Wild CVPR 2022, Oral