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We present 3DiFACE, a novel method for personalized speech-driven 3D facial animation and editing. While existing methods deterministically predict facial animations from speech, they overlook the inherent one-to-many relationship between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Balamurugan Thambiraja , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Darren Cosker , Justus Thies

Over the past years, significant progress has been made in creating photorealistic and drivable 3D avatars solely from videos of real humans. However, a core remaining challenge is the fine-grained and user-friendly editing of clothing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Basavaraj Sunagad , Heming Zhu , Mohit Mendiratta , Adam Kortylewski , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann

Visual emotion expression plays an important role in audiovisual speech communication. In this work, we propose a novel approach to rendering visual emotion expression in speech-driven talking face generation. Specifically, we design an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-23 Sefik Emre Eskimez , You Zhang , Zhiyao Duan

Recent large-scale text-to-image generation models have made significant improvements in the quality, realism, and diversity of the synthesized images and enable users to control the created content through language. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Samaneh Azadi , Thomas Hayes , Akbar Shah , Guan Pang , Devi Parikh , Sonal Gupta

SmartAvatar is a vision-language-agent-driven framework for generating fully rigged, animation-ready 3D human avatars from a single photo or textual prompt. While diffusion-based methods have made progress in general 3D object generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Alexander Huang-Menders , Xinhang Liu , Andy Xu , Yuyao Zhang , Chi-Keung Tang , Yu-Wing Tai

Generating high-quality and diverse human images is an important yet challenging task in vision and graphics. However, existing generative models often fall short under the high diversity of clothing shapes and textures. Furthermore, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Yuming Jiang , Shuai Yang , Haonan Qiu , Wayne Wu , Chen Change Loy , Ziwei Liu

Audio-driven 3D talking avatar generation is increasingly important in virtual communication, digital humans, and interactive media, where avatars must preserve identity, synchronize lip motion with speech, express emotion, and exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zhongju Wang , Zhenhong Sun , Beier Wang , Yifu Wang , Daoyi Dong , Huadong Mo , Hongdong Li

Text-guided human motion generation has drawn significant interest because of its impactful applications spanning animation and robotics. Recently, application of diffusion models for motion generation has enabled improvements in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Samaneh Azadi , Akbar Shah , Thomas Hayes , Devi Parikh , Sonal Gupta

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

With the rapid advancement of 3D representation techniques and generative models, substantial progress has been made in reconstructing full-body 3D avatars from a single image. However, this task remains fundamentally ill-posedness due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Gaofeng Liu , Hengsen Li , Ruoyu Gao , Xuetong Li , Zhiyuan Ma , Tao Fang

This paper proposes a novel application system for the generation of three-dimensional (3D) character animation driven by markerless human body motion capturing. The entire pipeline of the system consists of five stages: 1) the capturing of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jinbao Wang , Ke Lu , Jian Xue

Speech-driven visual speech synthesis involves mapping features extracted from acoustic speech to the corresponding lip animation controls for a face model. This mapping can take many forms, but a powerful approach is to use deep neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-17 Ahmed Hussen Abdelaziz , Barry-John Theobald , Justin Binder , Gabriele Fanelli , Paul Dixon , Nicholas Apostoloff , Thibaut Weise , Sachin Kajareker

In video understanding tasks, particularly those involving human motion, synthetic data generation often suffers from uncanny features, diminishing its effectiveness for training. Tasks such as sign language translation, gesture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Vaclav Knapp , Matyas Bohacek

We propose a method for generating video-realistic animations of real humans under user control. In contrast to conventional human character rendering, we do not require the availability of a production-quality photo-realistic 3D model of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Lingjie Liu , Weipeng Xu , Michael Zollhoefer , Hyeongwoo Kim , Florian Bernard , Marc Habermann , Wenping Wang , Christian Theobalt

Existing video avatar models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in scenarios such as talking, public speaking, and singing. However, the majority of these methods exhibit limited alignment with respect to text instructions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ruikui Wang , Jinheng Feng , Lang Tian , Huaishao Luo , Chaochao Li , Liangbo Zhou , Huan Zhang , Youzheng Wu , Xiaodong He

As text-to-speech technologies achieve remarkable naturalness in read-aloud tasks, there is growing interest in multimodal synthesis of verbal and non-verbal communicative behaviour, such as spontaneous speech and associated body gestures.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-11 Shivam Mehta , Ruibo Tu , Simon Alexanderson , Jonas Beskow , Éva Székely , Gustav Eje Henter

The emergence of commercial tools for real-time performance-based 2D animation has enabled 2D characters to appear on live broadcasts and streaming platforms. A key requirement for live animation is fast and accurate lip sync that allows…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Deepali Aneja , Wilmot Li

Generating coherent and useful image/video scenes from a free-form textual description is technically a very difficult problem to handle. Textual description of the same scene can vary greatly from person to person, or sometimes even for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Faria Huq , Nafees Ahmed , Anindya Iqbal

Our research presents a novel motion generation framework designed to produce whole-body motion sequences conditioned on multiple modalities simultaneously, specifically text and audio inputs. Leveraging Vector Quantized Variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Sohan Anisetty , James Hays

Video-driven 3D facial animation transfer aims to drive avatars to reproduce the expressions of actors. Existing methods have achieved remarkable results by constraining both geometric and perceptual consistency. However, geometric…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Feng Qiu , Wei Zhang , Chen Liu , Rudong An , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu , Xin Yu