RIGID: Recurrent GAN Inversion and Editing of Real Face Videos and Beyond

Abstract

GAN inversion is essential for harnessing the editability of GANs in real images, yet existing methods that invert video frames individually often yield temporally inconsistent results. To address this issue, we present a unified recurrent framework, Recurrent vIdeo GAN Inversion and eDiting (RIGID), designed to enforce temporally coherent GAN inversion and facial editing in real videos explicitly and simultaneously. Our approach models temporal relations between current and previous frames in three ways: (1) by maximizing inversion fidelity and consistency through learning a temporally compensated latent code and spatial features, (2) by disentangling high-frequency incoherent noises from the latent space, and (3) by introducing an in-between frame composition constraint to eliminate inconsistency after attribute manipulation, ensuring that each frame is a direct composite of its neighbors. Compared to existing video- and attribute-specific works, RIGID eliminates the need for expensive re-training of the model, resulting in approximately 60\(\times \) faster performance. Furthermore, RIGID can be easily extended to other face domains, showcasing its versatility and adaptability. Extensive experiments demonstrate that RIGID outperforms state-of-the-art methods in inversion and editing tasks both qualitatively and quantitatively.