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3D content generation has recently attracted significant research interest, driven by its critical applications in VR/AR and embodied AI. In this work, we tackle the challenging task of synthesizing multiple 3D assets within a single scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Yanxu Meng , Haoning Wu , Ya Zhang , Weidi Xie

Recently audio-driven talking face video generation has attracted considerable attention. However, very few researches address the issue of emotional editing of these talking face videos with continuously controllable expressions, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zhiyao Sun , Yu-Hui Wen , Tian Lv , Yanan Sun , Ziyang Zhang , Yaoyuan Wang , Yong-Jin Liu

Most existing text-to-image synthesis tasks are static single-turn generation, based on pre-defined textual descriptions of images. To explore more practical and interactive real-life applications, we introduce a new task - Interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Yu Cheng , Zhe Gan , Yitong Li , Jingjing Liu , Jianfeng Gao

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have recently found applications in image editing. However, most GAN based image editing methods often require large scale datasets with semantic segmentation annotations for training, only provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Huan Ling , Karsten Kreis , Daiqing Li , Seung Wook Kim , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

Most of the existing audio-driven 3D facial animation methods suffered from the lack of detailed facial expression and head pose, resulting in unsatisfactory experience of human-robot interaction. In this paper, a novel pose-controllable 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Bin Liu , Xiaolin Wei , Bo Li , Junjie Cao , Yu-Kun Lai

For realistic talking head generation, creating natural head motion while maintaining accurate lip synchronization is essential. To fulfill this challenging task, we propose DisCoHead, a novel method to disentangle and control head pose and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Geumbyeol Hwang , Sunwon Hong , Seunghyun Lee , Sungwoo Park , Gyeongsu Chae

The image synthesis technique is relatively well established which can generate facial images that are indistinguishable even by human beings. However, all of these approaches uses gradients to condition the output, resulting in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Feng Liu , HanYang Wang , Jiahao Zhang , Ziwang Fu , Aimin Zhou , Jiayin Qi , Zhibin Li

Portrait synthesis creates realistic digital avatars which enable users to interact with others in a compelling way. Recent advances in StyleGAN and its extensions have shown promising results in synthesizing photorealistic and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Kai-En Lin , Alex Trevithick , Keli Cheng , Michel Sarkis , Mohsen Ghafoorian , Ning Bi , Gerhard Reitmayr , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Creating personalized 3D animations with precise control and realistic head motions remains challenging for current speech-driven 3D facial animation methods. Editing these animations is especially complex and time consuming, requires…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Balamurugan Thambiraja , Malte Prinzler , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Darren Cosker , Justus Thies

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

Talking head synthesis is a practical technique with wide applications. Current Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) based approaches have shown their superiority on driving one-shot talking heads with videos or signals regressed from audio.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Dongze Li , Kang Zhao , Wei Wang , Yifeng Ma , Bo Peng , Yingya Zhang , Jing Dong

Over the past few years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have garnered increased interest among researchers in Computer Vision, with applications including, but not limited to, image generation, translation, imputation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Stylianos Moschoglou , Stylianos Ploumpis , Mihalis Nicolaou , Athanasios Papaioannou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

In face-related applications with a public available dataset, synthesizing non-linear facial variations (e.g., facial expression, head-pose, illumination, etc.) through a generative model is helpful in addressing the lack of training data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Geonmo Gu , Seong Tae Kim , Kihyun Kim , Wissam J. Baddar , Yong Man Ro

Formulated as a conditional generation problem, face animation aims at synthesizing continuous face images from a single source image driven by a set of conditional face motion. Previous works mainly model the face motion as conditions with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Xintian Wu , Qihang Zhang , Yiming Wu , Huanyu Wang , Songyuan Li , Lingyun Sun , Xi Li

In recent years, novel view synthesis from a single image has seen significant progress thanks to the rapid advancements in 3D scene representation and image inpainting techniques. While the current approaches are able to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Avinash Paliwal , Brandon Nguyen , Andrii Tsarov , Nima Khademi Kalantari

Our paper seeks to transfer the hairstyle of a reference image to an input photo for virtual hair try-on. We target a variety of challenges scenarios, such as transforming a long hairstyle with bangs to a pixie cut, which requires removing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Sasikarn Khwanmuang , Pakkapon Phongthawee , Patsorn Sangkloy , Supasorn Suwajanakorn

Face photo-sketch synthesis and recognition has many applications in digital entertainment and law enforcement. Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs) based methods have significantly improved the quality of image synthesis, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Yuke Fang , Jiani Hu , Weihong Deng

The generation of stylistic 3D facial animations driven by speech presents a significant challenge as it requires learning a many-to-many mapping between speech, style, and the corresponding natural facial motion. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Zhiyao Sun , Tian Lv , Sheng Ye , Matthieu Lin , Jenny Sheng , Yu-Hui Wen , Minjing Yu , Yong-Jin Liu

We introduce VOODOO XP: a 3D-aware one-shot head reenactment method that can generate highly expressive facial expressions from any input driver video and a single 2D portrait. Our solution is real-time, view-consistent, and can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Phong Tran , Egor Zakharov , Long-Nhat Ho , Liwen Hu , Adilbek Karmanov , Aviral Agarwal , McLean Goldwhite , Ariana Bermudez Venegas , Anh Tuan Tran , Hao Li

We present a method that reconstructs and animates a 3D head avatar from a single-view portrait image. Existing methods either involve time-consuming optimization for a specific person with multiple images, or they struggle to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Xueting Li , Shalini De Mello , Sifei Liu , Koki Nagano , Umar Iqbal , Jan Kautz