ArtNeRF: A Stylized Neural Field for 3D-Aware Artistic Face Synthesis

  • Zichen Tang
  • , Hongyu Yang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Recent advances in generative visual models and neural radiance fields have greatly boosted 3D-aware image synthesis and stylization tasks. However, previous NeRF-based work is limited to single scene stylization, training a model to generate 3D-aware artistic faces with arbitrary styles remains unsolved. We propose ArtNeRF, a novel face stylization framework derived from 3D-aware GAN to tackle this problem. In this framework, we utilize an expressive generator to synthesize stylized faces and a triple-branch discriminator module to improve the visual quality and style consistency of the generated faces. Specifically, a style encoder based on contrastive learning is leveraged to extract robust low-dimensional embeddings of style images, empowering the generator with the knowledge of various styles. To smooth the training process of cross-domain transfer learning, we propose an adaptive style blending module which helps inject style information and allows users to freely tune the level of stylization. We further introduce a neural rendering module to achieve efficient real-time rendering of images with higher resolutions. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ArtNeRF is versatile in generating high-quality 3D-aware artistic faces with arbitrary styles. Code is available at: https://github.com/silence-tang/ArtNeRF.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPattern Recognition - 27th International Conference, ICPR 2024, Proceedings
EditorsApostolos Antonacopoulos, Subhasis Chaudhuri, Rama Chellappa, Cheng-Lin Liu, Saumik Bhattacharya, Umapada Pal
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages217-232
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783031783883
DOIs
StatePublished - 2025
Event27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2024 - Kolkata, India
Duration: 1 Dec 20245 Dec 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume15325 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2024
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityKolkata
Period1/12/245/12/24

Keywords

  • 3D-Aware Image Synthesis
  • Generative Adversarial Network
  • Neural Radiance Field
  • Neural Style Transfer

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