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All previous methods for audio-driven talking head generation assume the input audio to be clean with a neutral tone. As we show empirically, one can easily break these systems by simply adding certain background noise to the utterance or…

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We propose an audio-driven talking-head method to generate photo-realistic talking-head videos from a single reference image. In this work, we tackle two key challenges: (i) producing natural head motions that match speech prosody, and (ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Suzhen Wang , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Changjie Fan , Xin Yu

Video generation models, as one form of world models, have emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers in AI, promising agents the ability to imagine the future by modeling the temporal evolution of complex scenes. In autonomous driving,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yang Zhou , Hao Shao , Letian Wang , Zhuofan Zong , Hongsheng Li , Steven L. Waslander

Despite rapid advances in video generative models, robust metrics for evaluating visual and temporal correctness of complex human actions remain elusive. Critically, existing pure-vision encoders and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Xavier Thomas , Youngsun Lim , Ananya Srinivasan , Audrey Zheng , Deepti Ghadiyaram

High-quality benchmarks are crucial for driving progress in machine learning research. However, despite the growing interest in video generation, there is no comprehensive dataset to evaluate human generation. Humans can perform a wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Emanuele Bugliarello , Anurag Arnab , Roni Paiss , Pieter-Jan Kindermans , Cordelia Schmid

Generating emotion-specific talking head videos from audio input is an important and complex challenge for human-machine interaction. However, emotion is highly abstract concept with ambiguous boundaries, and it necessitates disentangled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Xuli Shen , Hua Cai , Dingding Yu , Weilin Shen , Qing Xu , Xiangyang Xue

A reliable and comprehensive evaluation metric that aligns with manual preference assessments is crucial for conversational head video synthesis methods development. Existing quantitative evaluations often fail to capture the full…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Mohan Zhou , Yalong Bai , Wei Zhang , Ting Yao , Tiejun Zhao , Tao Mei

Recent studies in speech-driven 3D talking head generation have achieved convincing results in verbal articulations. However, generating accurate lip-syncs degrades when applied to input speech in other languages, possibly due to the lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Kim Sung-Bin , Lee Chae-Yeon , Gihun Son , Oh Hyun-Bin , Janghoon Ju , Suekyeong Nam , Tae-Hyun Oh

Video generation has witnessed significant advancements, yet evaluating these models remains a challenge. A comprehensive evaluation benchmark for video generation is indispensable for two reasons: 1) Existing metrics do not fully align…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Ziqi Huang , Fan Zhang , Xiaojie Xu , Yinan He , Jiashuo Yu , Ziyue Dong , Qianli Ma , Nattapol Chanpaisit , Chenyang Si , Yuming Jiang , Yaohui Wang , Xinyuan Chen , Ying-Cong Chen , Limin Wang , Dahua Lin , Yu Qiao , Ziwei Liu

In recent years, large-scale models have achieved significant advancements, accompanied by the emergence of numerous high-quality benchmarks for evaluating various aspects of their comprehension abilities. However, most existing benchmarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Kangning Li , Zheyang Jia , Anyu Ying

The rapid advancement of video generation has rendered existing evaluation systems inadequate for assessing state-of-the-art models, primarily due to simple prompts that cannot showcase the model's capabilities, fixed evaluation operators…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yuhang Yang , Ke Fan , Shangkun Sun , Hongxiang Li , Ailing Zeng , FeiLin Han , Wei Zhai , Wei Liu , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Although current state-of-the-art language models have achieved impressive results in numerous natural language processing tasks, still they could not solve the problem of producing repetitive, dull and sometimes inconsistent text in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-10 An Nguyen

Recent advances in video generation have enabled the synthesis of videos with strong temporal consistency and impressive visual quality, marking a crucial step toward vision foundation models. To evaluate these video generation models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Xuming He , Zehao Fan , Hengjia Li , Fan Zhuo , Hankun Xu , Senlin Cheng , Di Weng , Haifeng Liu , Can Ye , Boxi Wu

Text-to-video (T2V) models have shown remarkable performance in generating visually reasonable scenes, while their capability to leverage world knowledge for ensuring semantic consistency and factual accuracy remains largely understudied.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yubin Chen , Xuyang Guo , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Jiahao Zhang

Different people speak with diverse personalized speaking styles. Although existing one-shot talking head methods have made significant progress in lip sync, natural facial expressions, and stable head motions, they still cannot generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Yifeng Ma , Suzhen Wang , Zhipeng Hu , Changjie Fan , Tangjie Lv , Yu Ding , Zhidong Deng , Xin Yu

Given an audio clip and a reference face image, the goal of the talking head generation is to generate a high-fidelity talking head video. Although some audio-driven methods of generating talking head videos have made some achievements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Jianrong Wang , Yaxin Zhao , Li Liu , Tianyi Xu , Qi Li , Sen Li

The inherent complexity of video understanding makes it difficult to attribute whether performance gains stem from visual perception, linguistic reasoning, or knowledge priors. While many benchmarks have emerged to assess high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Geuntaek Lim , Minho Shim , Sungjune Park , Jaeyun Lee , Inwoong Lee , Taeoh Kim , Dongyoon Wee , Yukyung Choi

We review human evaluation practices in automatic, speech-driven 3D gesture generation and find a lack of standardisation and frequent use of flawed experimental setups. This leads to a situation where it is impossible to know how different…

Recent advances in text-to-video generation have produced increasingly realistic and diverse content, yet evaluating such videos remains a fundamental challenge due to their multi-faceted nature encompassing visual quality, semantic…