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Singing voice synthesis has been paid rising attention with the rapid development of speech synthesis area. In general, a studio-level singing corpus is usually necessary to produce a natural singing voice from lyrics and music-related…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Heyang Xue , Shan Yang , Yi Lei , Lei Xie , Xiulin Li

Diffusion models have recently advanced photorealistic human synthesis, although practical talking-head generation (THG) remains constrained by high inference latency, temporal instability such as flicker and identity drift, and imperfect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Soumya Mazumdar , Vineet Kumar Rakesh

Humans can obtain the knowledge of novel visual concepts from language descriptions, and we thus use the few-shot image classification task to investigate whether a machine learning model can have this capability. Our proposed model, LIDE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Kosuke Nishida , Kyosuke Nishida , Shuichi Nishioka

Despite exhibiting impressive performance in synthesizing lifelike personalized 3D talking heads, prevailing methods based on radiance fields suffer from high demands for training data and time for each new identity. This paper introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jiahe Li , Jiawei Zhang , Xiao Bai , Jin Zheng , Jun Zhou , Lin Gu

Synthesizing images from a given text description involves engaging two types of information: the content, which includes information explicitly described in the text (e.g., color, composition, etc.), and the style, which is usually not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Qicheng Lao , Mohammad Havaei , Ahmad Pesaranghader , Francis Dutil , Lisa Di Jorio , Thomas Fevens

Image classification models tend to make decisions based on peripheral attributes of data items that have strong correlation with a target variable (i.e., dataset bias). These biased models suffer from the poor generalization capability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jungsoo Lee , Eungyeup Kim , Juyoung Lee , Jihyeon Lee , Jaegul Choo

This work proposes a novel method to generate realistic talking head videos using audio and visual streams. We animate a source image by transferring head motion from a driving video using a dense motion field generated using learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Madhav Agarwal , Rudrabha Mukhopadhyay , Vinay Namboodiri , C V Jawahar

Attribute guided face image synthesis aims to manipulate attributes on a face image. Most existing methods for image-to-image translation can either perform a fixed translation between any two image domains using a single attribute or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Behzad Bozorgtabar , Mohammad Saeed Rad , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Jean-Philippe Thiran

We present a new model DrNET that learns disentangled image representations from video. Our approach leverages the temporal coherence of video and a novel adversarial loss to learn a representation that factorizes each frame into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Remi Denton , Vighnesh Birodkar

StyleGAN has demonstrated the ability of GANs to synthesize highly-realistic faces of imaginary people from random noise. One limitation of GAN-based image generation is the difficulty of controlling the features of the generated image, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Zhuo He , Paul Henderson , Nicolas Pugeault

Subject-driven text-to-image generation still struggles to preserve high-frequency identity details such as logos, patterns, and text. Existing methods typically operate directly in RGB space, which often leads to detail degradation under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Hanzhong Guo , Yizhou Yu

Achieving disentangled control over multiple facial motions and accommodating diverse input modalities greatly enhances the application and entertainment of the talking head generation. This necessitates a deep exploration of the decoupling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Shuai Tan , Bin Ji , Mengxiao Bi , Ye Pan

Talking head generation is a significant research topic that still faces numerous challenges. Previous works often adopt generative adversarial networks or regression models, which are plagued by generation quality and average facial shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ziyu Yao , Xuxin Cheng , Zhiqi Huang

We present a deep learning-based framework for portrait reenactment from a single picture of a target (one-shot) and a video of a driving subject. Existing facial reenactment methods suffer from identity mismatch and produce inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Sitao Xiang , Yuming Gu , Pengda Xiang , Mingming He , Koki Nagano , Haiwei Chen , Hao Li

We propose a visually grounded speech model that acquires new words and their visual depictions from just a few word-image example pairs. Given a set of test images and a spoken query, we ask the model which image depicts the query word.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Leanne Nortje , Benjamin van Niekerk , Herman Kamper

Recent advances in talking face generation have significantly improved facial animation synthesis. However, existing approaches face fundamental limitations: 3DMM-based methods maintain temporal consistency but lack fine-grained regional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kangwei Liu , Junwu Liu , Yun Cao , Jinlin Guo , Xiaowei Yi

One-shot voice conversion (VC) with only a single target speaker's speech for reference has become a hot research topic. Existing works generally disentangle timbre, while information about pitch, rhythm and content is still mixed together.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-24 SiCheng Yang , Methawee Tantrawenith , Haolin Zhuang , Zhiyong Wu , Aolan Sun , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Huaizhen Tang , Xintao Zhao , Jie Wang , Helen Meng

Self-supervised representation learning targets to learn convnet-based image representations from unlabeled data. Inspired by the success of NLP methods in this area, in this work we propose a self-supervised approach based on spatially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Spyros Gidaris , Andrei Bursuc , Nikos Komodakis , Patrick Pérez , Matthieu Cord

Modeling virtual agents with behavior style is one factor for personalizing human agent interaction. We propose an efficient yet effective machine learning approach to synthesize gestures driven by prosodic features and text in the style of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Mireille Fares , Michele Grimaldi , Catherine Pelachaud , Nicolas Obin

The goal of this paper is to synthesise talking faces with controllable facial motions. To achieve this goal, we propose two key ideas. The first is to establish a canonical space where every face has the same motion patterns but different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Youngjoon Jang , Kyeongha Rho , Jong-Bin Woo , Hyeongkeun Lee , Jihwan Park , Youshin Lim , Byeong-Yeol Kim , Joon Son Chung