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Audio-driven talking head generation has drawn growing attention. To produce talking head videos with desired facial expressions, previous methods rely on extra reference videos to provide expression information, which may be difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yifeng Ma , Suzhen Wang , Yu Ding , Bowen Ma , Tangjie Lv , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu , Zhidong Deng , Xin Yu

Full-body gestures play a pivotal role in natural interactions and are crucial for achieving effective communication. Nevertheless, most existing studies primarily focus on the gesture generation of speakers, overlooking the vital role of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Jinhe Huang , Yongkang Cheng , Yuming Hang , Gaoge Han , Jinewei Li , Jing Zhang , Xingjian Gu

Recent advances in generative AI have significantly enhanced image and video editing, particularly in the context of text prompt control. State-of-the-art approaches predominantly rely on diffusion models to accomplish these tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Haoyu Ma , Shahin Mahdizadehaghdam , Bichen Wu , Zhipeng Fan , Yuchao Gu , Wenliang Zhao , Lior Shapira , Xiaohui Xie

Text-based talking-head video editing aims to efficiently insert, delete, and substitute segments of talking videos through a user-friendly text editing approach. It is challenging because of \textbf{1)} generalizable talking-face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Bo Han , Heqing Zou , Haoyang Li , Guangcong Wang , Chng Eng Siong

Diffusion models offer unprecedented image generation power given just a text prompt. While emerging approaches for controlling diffusion models have enabled users to specify the desired spatial layouts of the generated content, they cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yunxiang Zhang , Nan Wu , Connor Z. Lin , Gordon Wetzstein , Qi Sun

In this paper, we present TalkingMachines -- an efficient framework that transforms pretrained video generation models into real-time, audio-driven character animators. TalkingMachines enables natural conversational experiences by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Chetwin Low , Weimin Wang

The task of video generation requires synthesizing visually realistic and temporally coherent video frames. Existing methods primarily use asynchronous auto-regressive models or synchronous diffusion models to address this challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mingzhen Sun , Weining Wang , Gen Li , Jiawei Liu , Jiahui Sun , Wanquan Feng , Shanshan Lao , SiYu Zhou , Qian He , Jing Liu

Recent years have seen significant progress in human image generation, particularly with the advancements in diffusion models. However, existing diffusion methods encounter challenges when producing consistent hand anatomy and the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Anton Pelykh , Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Richard Bowden

DiffusionAvatars synthesizes a high-fidelity 3D head avatar of a person, offering intuitive control over both pose and expression. We propose a diffusion-based neural renderer that leverages generic 2D priors to produce compelling images of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Tobias Kirschstein , Simon Giebenhain , Matthias Nießner

We propose a diffusion model designed to generate point-based shape representations with correspondences. Traditional statistical shape models have considered point correspondences extensively, but current deep learning methods do not take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Shen Zhu , Yinzhu Jin , Ifrah Zawar , P. Thomas Fletcher

Facial expression transfer and reenactment has been an important research problem given its applications in face editing, image manipulation, and fabricated videos generation. We present a novel method for image-based facial expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Chao Yang , Ser-Nam Lim

Inspired by the impressive performance of recent face image editing methods, several studies have been naturally proposed to extend these methods to the face video editing task. One of the main challenges here is temporal consistency among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Gyeongman Kim , Hajin Shim , Hyunsu Kim , Yunjey Choi , Junho Kim , Eunho Yang

Cross-Modal learning tasks have picked up pace in recent times. With plethora of applications in diverse areas, generation of novel content using multiple modalities of data has remained a challenging problem. To address the same, various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Nikhil Verma

Speech super-resolution (SR) is the task that restores high-resolution speech from low-resolution input. Existing models employ simulated data and constrained experimental settings, which limit generalization to real-world SR. Predictive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-26 Heming Wang , Eric W. Healy , DeLiang Wang

Diffusion generative models transform noise into data by inverting a process that progressively adds noise to data samples. Inspired by concepts from the renormalization group in physics, which analyzes systems across different scales, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mathis Gerdes , Max Welling , Miranda C. N. Cheng

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful generative method for synthesizing high-quality and diverse set of images. In this paper, we propose a video generation method based on diffusion models, where the effects of motion are modeled in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Kangfu Mei , Vishal M. Patel

Generating realistic talking faces is a complex and widely discussed task with numerous applications. In this paper, we present DiffTalker, a novel model designed to generate lifelike talking faces through audio and landmark co-driving.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Zipeng Qi , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

In real-life conversations, the content is diverse, and there exists the one-to-many problem that requires diverse generation. Previous studies attempted to introduce discrete or Gaussian-based continuous latent variables to address the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jianxiang Xiang , Zhenhua Liu , Haodong Liu , Yin Bai , Jia Cheng , Wenliang Chen

Audio-driven talking head animation is a challenging research topic with many real-world applications. Recent works have focused on creating photo-realistic 2D animation, while learning different talking or singing styles remains an open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Trong-Thang Pham , Nhat Le , Tuong Do , Hung Nguyen , Erman Tjiputra , Quang D. Tran , Anh Nguyen

Generative AI models have recently achieved astonishing results in quality and are consequently employed in a fast-growing number of applications. However, since they are highly data-driven, relying on billion-sized datasets randomly…