MagPlus: Bridging Micro-to-Regular Facial Expressions through Learnable Magnification
Researchers have developed MagPlus, a novel pipeline designed to enhance the generation of facial micro-expressions. This system learns to magnify subtle facial movements into a range compatible with standard facial animation models, allowing these models to synthesize micro-expressions without direct training on micro-expression data. A complementary DeMagPlus module then scales the synthesized motion back to realistic micro-expression intensity levels. AI
IMPACT Enables standard facial animation models to generate realistic micro-expressions without specific training data.