  We propose a novel high-fidelity face swapping method called "Arithmetic Face
Swapping" (AFS) that explicitly disentangles the intermediate latent space W+
of a pretrained StyleGAN into the "identity" and "style" subspaces so that a
latent code in W+ is the sum of an "identity" code and a "style" code in the
corresponding subspaces. Via our disentanglement, face swapping (FS) can be
regarded as a simple arithmetic operation in W+, i.e., the summation of a
source "identity" code and a target "style" code. This makes AFS more intuitive
and elegant than other FS methods. In addition, our method can generalize over
the standard face swapping to support other interesting operations, e.g.,
combining the identity of one source with styles of multiple targets and vice
versa. We implement our identity-style disentanglement by learning a neural
network that maps a latent code to a "style" code. We provide a condition for
this network which theoretically guarantees identity preservation of the source
face even after a sequence of face swapping operations. Extensive experiments
demonstrate the advantage of our method over state-of-the-art FS methods in
producing high-quality swapped faces. Our source code was made public at
https://github.com/truongvu2000nd/AFS

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition;Artificial Intelligence