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New framework enables realistic tongue synthesis for face reenactment

Researchers have developed TongueReenact, a novel framework for transferring tongue dynamics in face reenactment, addressing a gap in current systems that often neglect tongue movements. The system utilizes a foundation-model-assisted pipeline to create a specialized tongue segmentation model without requiring curated annotations. It also incorporates a spatially constrained latent masked diffusion model for realistic tongue synthesis, featuring adaptive mask dilation for smooth transitions at the mouth boundary. Experiments show significant improvements over existing methods, with a vision-language model-based evaluation protocol confirming its perceptual superiority. AI

IMPACT Enhances realism in face reenactment by addressing tongue dynamics, potentially improving applications in virtual avatars and digital communication.

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New framework enables realistic tongue synthesis for face reenactment

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · MD Wahiduzzaman Khan, Mingshan Jia, Xiaolin Zhang, En Yu, Kaska Musial-Gabrys ·

    TongueReenact: Geometry-Anchored Tongue Synthesis for Face Reenactment

    arXiv:2607.28039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern face reenactment systems achieve impressive pose and expression transfer using geometry-driven representations. However, they largely ignore tongue dynamics, leading to anatomically inconsistent mouth interiors during speech …