Partial makeup trasnfer (lip, skin, eye) Source Reference Result Light makeup Heavy makeup Large poses and expressions differences Figure 1. Our model allows users to control both the shade of makeup and facial parts to transfer. The first row on the left shows the results of only transferring partial makeup style from the reference. The second row shows the results with controllable shades. Moreover, our method can perform makeup transfer between images that have different poses and expressions, as shown on the right part of the figure. Best viewed in color.
In this paper, we address the makeup transfer and removal tasks simultaneously, which aim to transfer the makeup from a reference image to a source image and remove the makeup from the with-makeup image respectively. Existing methods have achieved much advancement in constrained scenarios, but it is still very challenging for them to transfer makeup between images with large pose and expression differences, or handle makeup details like blush on cheeks or highlight on the nose. In addition, they are hardly able to control the degree of makeup during transferring or to transfer a specified part in the input face. These defects limit the application of previous makeup transfer methods to real-world scenarios. In this work, we propose a Pose and expression robust Spatial-aware GAN (abbreviated as PSGAN++). PSGAN++ is capable of performing both detail-preserving makeup transfer and effective makeup removal. For makeup transfer, PSGAN++ uses a Makeup Distill Network (MDNet) to extract makeup information, which is embedded into spatial-aware makeup matrices. We also devise an Attentive Makeup Morphing (AMM) module that specifies how the makeup in the source image is morphed from the reference image, and a makeup detail loss to supervise the model within the selected makeup detail area. On the other hand, for makeup removal, PSGAN++ applies an Identity Distill Network (IDNet) to embed the identity information from with-makeup images into identity matrices. Finally, the obtained makeup/identity matrices are fed to a Style Transfer Network (STNet) that is able to edit the feature maps to achieve makeup transfer or removal. To evaluate the effectiveness of our PSGAN++, we collect a Makeup Transfer In the Wild (MT-Wild) dataset that contains images with diverse poses and expressions and a Makeup Transfer High-Resolution (MT-HR) dataset that contains high-resolution images. Experiments demonstrate that PSGAN++ not only achieves state-of-the-art results with fine makeup details even in cases of large pose/expression differences but also can perform partial or degree-controllable makeup transfer. Both the code and the newly collected datasets will be released at https://github.com/wtjiang98/PSGAN.
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