5 papers
Gen-AFFECT: Generation of Avatar Fine-grained Facial Expressions with Consistent identiTy
Hao Yu, Rupayan Mallick, Margrit Betke +1
Different forms of customized 2D avatars are widely used in gaming applications, virtual communication, education, and content creation. However, existing approaches often fail to…
GIFT: Gradient-aware Immunization of diffusion models against malicious Fine-Tuning with safe concepts retention
Amro Abdalla, Ismail Shaheen, Dan DeGenaro +3
We present GIFT: a {G}radient-aware {I}mmunization technique to defend diffusion models against malicious {F}ine-{T}uning while preserving their ability to generate safe content. E…
A Manually Annotated Image-Caption Dataset for Detecting Children in the Wild
Klim Kireev, Ana-Maria Creţu, Raphael Meier +3
Platforms and the law regulate digital content depicting minors (defined as individuals under 18 years of age) differently from other types of content. Given the sheer amount of co…
ViSTA: Visual Storytelling using Multi-modal Adapters for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Sibo Dong, Ismail Shaheen, Maggie Shen +2
Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable success, yet generating coherent image sequences for visual storytelling remains challenging. A key challenge is effectively…
GenEAva: Generating Cartoon Avatars with Fine-Grained Facial Expressions from Realistic Diffusion-based Faces
Hao Yu, Rupayan Mallick, Margrit Betke +1
Cartoon avatars have been widely used in various applications, including social media, online tutoring, and gaming. However, existing cartoon avatar datasets and generation methods…