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Recent advances in video generation have been remarkable, enabling models to produce visually compelling videos with synchronized audio. While existing video generation benchmarks provide comprehensive metrics for visual quality, they lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Daili Hua , Xizhi Wang , Bohan Zeng , Xinyi Huang , Hao Liang , Junbo Niu , Xinlong Chen , Quanqing Xu , Wentao Zhang

Recent advancements in conversational systems have significantly enhanced human-machine interactions across various domains. However, training these systems is challenging due to the scarcity of specialized dialogue data. Traditionally,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Heydar Soudani , Roxana Petcu , Evangelos Kanoulas , Faegheh Hasibi

Given an arbitrary face image and an arbitrary speech clip, the proposed work attempts to generating the talking face video with accurate lip synchronization while maintaining smooth transition of both lip and facial movement over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Yang Song , Jingwen Zhu , Dawei Li , Xiaolong Wang , Hairong Qi

Fact-based dialogue generation is a task of generating a human-like response based on both dialogue context and factual texts. Various methods were proposed to focus on generating informative words that contain facts effectively. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Ryota Tanaka , Akinobu Lee

In this work, we propose an ID-preserving talking head generation framework, which advances previous methods in two aspects. First, as opposed to interpolating from sparse flow, we claim that dense landmarks are crucial to achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Bowen Zhang , Chenyang Qi , Pan Zhang , Bo Zhang , HsiangTao Wu , Dong Chen , Qifeng Chen , Yong Wang , Fang Wen

In this paper we introduce a new synchronisation task, Gesture-Sync: determining if a person's gestures are correlated with their speech or not. In comparison to Lip-Sync, Gesture-Sync is far more challenging as there is a far looser…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Sindhu B Hegde , Andrew Zisserman

Recent works demonstrate that voice assistants do not perform equally well for everyone, but research on demographic robustness of speech technologies is still scarce. This is mainly due to the rarity of large datasets with controlled…

Progress in Machine Learning is often driven by the availability of large datasets, and consistent evaluation metrics for comparing modeling approaches. To this end, we present a repository of conversational datasets consisting of hundreds…

Social interactions play a crucial role in shaping human behavior, relationships, and societies. It encompasses various forms of communication, such as verbal conversation, non-verbal gestures, facial expressions, and body language. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Alice Zhang , Callihan Bertley , Dawei Liang , Edison Thomaz

The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) technology has propelled audio-driven talking head generation, gaining considerable research attention for practical applications. However, performance evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Weixia Zhang , Chengguang Zhu , Jingnan Gao , Yichao Yan , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang

As research on neural volumetric video reconstruction and compression flourishes, there is a need for diverse and realistic datasets, which can be used to develop and validate reconstruction and compression models. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Adrian Azzarelli , Ge Gao , Ho Man Kwan , Fan Zhang , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Ollie Moolan-Feroze , David Bull

Audio-driven talking-head generation has advanced rapidly with diffusion-based generative models, yet producing temporally coherent videos with fine-grained motion control remains challenging. We propose DEMO, a flow-matching generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Peiyin Chen , Zhuowei Yang , Hui Feng , Sheng Jiang , Rui Yan

Laughter is a unique expression, essential to affirmative social interactions of humans. Although current 3D talking head generation methods produce convincing verbal articulations, they often fail to capture the vitality and subtleties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Kim Sung-Bin , Lee Hyun , Da Hye Hong , Suekyeong Nam , Janghoon Ju , Tae-Hyun Oh

In crowded settings, the human brain can focus on speech from a target speaker, given prior knowledge of how they sound. We introduce a novel intelligent hearable system that achieves this capability, enabling target speech hearing to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Bandhav Veluri , Malek Itani , Tuochao Chen , Takuya Yoshioka , Shyamnath Gollakota

Recent advances in co-speech gesture and talking head generation have been impressive, yet most methods focus on only one of the two tasks. Those that attempt to generate both often rely on separate models or network modules, increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Steven Hogue , Chenxu Zhang , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo

Speech-driven facial video generation has been a complex problem due to its multi-modal aspects namely audio and video domain. The audio comprises lots of underlying features such as expression, pitch, loudness, prosody(speaking style) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Neeraj Kumar , Srishti Goel , Ankur Narang , Brejesh Lall

In this paper, we introduce an innovative task focused on human communication, aiming to generate 3D holistic human motions for both speakers and listeners. Central to our approach is the incorporation of factorization to decouple audio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Mingze Sun , Chao Xu , Xinyu Jiang , Yang Liu , Baigui Sun , Ruqi Huang

Talking face generation aims to create realistic videos with accurate lip synchronization and high visual quality, using given audio and reference video while preserving identity and visual characteristics. In this paper, we start by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Dogucan Yaman , Fevziye Irem Eyiokur , Leonard Bärmann , Hazim Kemal Ekenel , Alexander Waibel

The presence of a corresponding talking face has been shown to significantly improve speech intelligibility in noisy conditions and for hearing impaired population. In this paper, we present a system that can generate landmark points of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Sefik Emre Eskimez , Ross K Maddox , Chenliang Xu , Zhiyao Duan

We present VoiceDiT, a multi-modal generative model for producing environment-aware speech and audio from text and visual prompts. While aligning speech with text is crucial for intelligible speech, achieving this alignment in noisy…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Jaemin Jung , Junseok Ahn , Chaeyoung Jung , Tan Dat Nguyen , Youngjoon Jang , Joon Son Chung