DiffStyle360: Diffusion-Based 360° Head Stylization via Style Fusion Attention

Furkan Güzelant  ·  Arda Göktoğan  ·  Tarık Kaya  ·  Ayşegül Dündar
Bilkent University

Stylized Results

Our method's stylized results across different styles and identities are shown below, summarizing our main qualitative findings.

Input Joker Pixar Werewolf Anime Avatar Hulk Sketch Statue Zombie
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Abstract

3D head stylization has emerged as a key technique for reimagining realistic human heads in various artistic forms, enabling expressive character design and creative visual experiences in digital media. Despite the progress in 3D-aware generation, existing 3D head stylization methods often rely on computationally expensive optimization or domain-specific fine-tuning to adapt to new styles. To address these limitations, we propose DiffStyle360, a diffusion-based framework capable of producing multi-view consistent, identity-preserving 3D head stylizations across diverse artistic domains given a single style reference image, without requiring per-style training. Building upon the 3D-aware DiffPortrait360 architecture, our approach introduces two key components: the Style Appearance Module, which disentangles style from content, and the Style Fusion Attention mechanism, which adaptively balances structure preservation and stylization fidelity in the latent space. Furthermore, we employ a 3D GAN-generated multi-view dataset for robust fine-tuning and introduce a temperature-based key scaling strategy to control stylization intensity during inference. Extensive experiments on FFHQ and RenderMe360 demonstrate that DiffStyle360 achieves superior style quality, outperforming state-of-the-art GAN- and diffusion-based stylization methods across challenging style domains.

Qualitative Results and Comparisons

Qualitative comparisons across methods and styles.

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DiffusionGAN3D IP2P IdentityPreserving InstantID StyleGANFusion StyleGANNADA StyleCLIP Ours
Joker Pixar Sketch Statue Werewolf
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