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Grasping the Arrow of Time from the Singularity: Decoding Micromotion in Low-dimensional Latent Spaces from StyleGAN

Authors :
Wu, Qiucheng
Jiang, Yifan
Wu, Junru
Wang, Kai
Zhang, Gong
Shi, Humphrey
Wang, Zhangyang
Chang, Shiyu
Publication Year :
2022

Abstract

The disentanglement of StyleGAN latent space has paved the way for realistic and controllable image editing, but does StyleGAN know anything about temporal motion, as it was only trained on static images? To study the motion features in the latent space of StyleGAN, in this paper, we hypothesize and demonstrate that a series of meaningful, natural, and versatile small, local movements (referred to as "micromotion", such as expression, head movement, and aging effect) can be represented in low-rank spaces extracted from the latent space of a conventionally pre-trained StyleGAN-v2 model for face generation, with the guidance of proper "anchors" in the form of either short text or video clips. Starting from one target face image, with the editing direction decoded from the low-rank space, its micromotion features can be represented as simple as an affine transformation over its latent feature. Perhaps more surprisingly, such micromotion subspace, even learned from just single target face, can be painlessly transferred to other unseen face images, even those from vastly different domains (such as oil painting, cartoon, and sculpture faces). It demonstrates that the local feature geometry corresponding to one type of micromotion is aligned across different face subjects, and hence that StyleGAN-v2 is indeed "secretly" aware of the subject-disentangled feature variations caused by that micromotion. We present various successful examples of applying our low-dimensional micromotion subspace technique to directly and effortlessly manipulate faces, showing high robustness, low computational overhead, and impressive domain transferability. Our codes are available at https://github.com/wuqiuche/micromotion-StyleGAN.<br />Comment: 13 pages, 8 figures

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2204.12696
Document Type :
Working Paper