arXiv Open Access 2026

Learning Domain Agnostic Latent Embeddings of 3D Faces for Zero-shot Animal Expression Transfer

Yue Wang Lawrence Amadi Xiang Gao Yazheng Chen Yuanpeng Liu +2 lainnya

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We present a zero-shot framework for transferring human facial expressions to 3D animal face meshes. Our method combines intrinsic geometric descriptors (HKS/WKS) with a mesh-agnostic latent embedding that disentangles facial identity and expression. The ID latent space captures species-independent facial structure, while the expression latent space encodes deformation patterns that generalize across humans and animals. Trained only with human expression pairs, the model learns the embeddings, decoupling, and recoupling of cross-identity expressions, enabling expression transfer without requiring animal expression data. To enforce geometric consistency, we employ Jacobian loss together with vertex-position and Laplacian losses. Experiments show that our approach achieves plausible cross-species expression transfer, effectively narrowing the geometric gap between human and animal facial shapes.

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cs.CV cs.AI

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Yue Wang

Lawrence Amadi

Xiang Gao

Yazheng Chen

Yuanpeng Liu

Ning Lu

Xianfeng Gu

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Wang, Y., Amadi, L., Gao, X., Chen, Y., Liu, Y., Lu, N. et al. (2026). Learning Domain Agnostic Latent Embeddings of 3D Faces for Zero-shot Animal Expression Transfer. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06484

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Tahun Terbit: 2026
Bahasa: en
Sumber Database: arXiv
Akses: Open Access ✓