Gan-based realistic face pose synthesis

Abstract

In computer vision, processing face images are accompanied by a series of complexities. Examples include variation of pose, light, face expression, and make up. Although all aspects are considered important, the one that impacts the most face-related computer vision systems is pose. In face recognition, for example, it has been long desired to have a method capable of bringing faces to the same pose, usually a frontal view, in order to ease recognition. Synthesizing different views of a face is a great challenge, mostly because in non-frontal face images there are loss of information when one side of the face occludes the other (also known as self-occlusion). Several methods to address face pose synthesis were proposed, but the results usually miss a realistic finish. In this work, we present novel methods that improve on the previous ones, showing higher synthesis quality.