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Generating multi-view human images from a single view is a complex and significant challenge. Although recent advancements in multi-view object generation have shown impressive results with diffusion models, novel view synthesis for humans…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Yu Feng , Shunsi Zhang , Jian Shu , Hanfeng Zhao , Guoliang Pang , Chi Zhang , Hao Wang

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable synthesis quality and diversity in generating co-speech gestures. However, the computationally intensive sampling steps associated with diffusion models hinder their practicality in real-world…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yongkang Cheng , Shaoli Huang , Xuelin Chen , Jifeng Ning , Mingming Gong

Human motion generation is a challenging task due to its high dimensionality and the difficulty of generating fine-grained motions. Diffusion methods have been proposed due to their high sample quality and expressiveness. Early approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mirgahney Mohamed , Harry Jake Cunningham , Marc P. Deisenroth , Lourdes Agapito

All previous methods for audio-driven talking head generation assume the input audio to be clean with a neutral tone. As we show empirically, one can easily break these systems by simply adding certain background noise to the utterance or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Gaurav Mittal , Baoyuan Wang

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative frameworks by progressively adding noise to data through a forward process and then reversing this process to generate realistic samples. While these models have achieved strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xingzhuo Guo , Yu Zhang , Baixu Chen , Haoran Xu , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Current language models demonstrate remarkable proficiency in text generation. However, for many applications it is desirable to control attributes, such as sentiment, or toxicity, of the generated language -- ideally tailored towards each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Justin Lovelace , Varsha Kishore , Yiwei Chen , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Despite the recent strides in video generation, state-of-the-art methods still struggle with elements of visual detail. One particularly challenging case is the class of videos in which the intricate motion of the hand coupled with a mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yayuan Li , Zhi Cao , Jason J. Corso

Despite the recent progress of audio-driven video generation, existing methods mostly focus on driving facial movements, leading to non-coherent head and body dynamics. Moving forward, it is desirable yet challenging to generate holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jiazhi Guan , Kaisiyuan Wang , Zhiliang Xu , Quanwei Yang , Yasheng Sun , Shengyi He , Borong Liang , Yukang Cao , Yingying Li , Haocheng Feng , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang , Youjian Zhao , Hang Zhou , Ziwei Liu

The recent surge in popularity of diffusion models for image generation has brought new attention to the potential of these models in other areas of media generation. One area that has yet to be fully explored is the application of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Flavio Schneider

In this paper, we propose a novel diffusion-based multi-condition controllable framework for video head swapping, which seamlessly transplant a human head from a static image into a dynamic video, while preserving the original body and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Chaonan Ji , Jinwei Qi , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

In recent years, the field of talking faces generation has attracted considerable attention, with certain methods adept at generating virtual faces that convincingly imitate human expressions. However, existing methods face challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Bingyuan Zhang , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jun Yu , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

While generative models have seen significant adoption across a wide range of data modalities, including 3D data, a consensus on which model is best suited for which task has yet to be reached. Further, conditional information such as text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Matthias Humt , Ulrich Hillenbrand , Rudolph Triebel

We propose a new class of generative models that naturally handle data of varying dimensionality by jointly modeling the state and dimension of each datapoint. The generative process is formulated as a jump diffusion process that makes…

Text-guided diffusion models have shown superior performance in image/video generation and editing. While few explorations have been performed in 3D scenarios. In this paper, we discuss three fundamental and interesting problems on this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Gang Li , Heliang Zheng , Chaoyue Wang , Chang Li , Changwen Zheng , Dacheng Tao

Since 2023, Vector Quantization (VQ)-based discrete generation methods have rapidly dominated human motion generation, primarily surpassing diffusion-based continuous generation methods in standard performance metrics. However, VQ-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Zichong Meng , Yiming Xie , Xiaogang Peng , Zeyu Han , Huaizu Jiang

Recent advances in generative diffusion models have enabled the previously unfeasible capability of generating 3D assets from a single input image or a text prompt. In this work, we aim to enhance the quality and functionality of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Xiyi Chen , Marko Mihajlovic , Shaofei Wang , Sergey Prokudin , Siyu Tang

The generation of sounding videos has seen significant advancements with the advent of diffusion models. However, existing methods often lack the fine-grained control needed to generate viewpoint-specific content from larger, immersive…

Synthesizing synchronized and natural co-speech gesture videos remains a formidable challenge. Recent approaches have leveraged motion graphs to harness the potential of existing video data. To retrieve an appropriate trajectory from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yafei Song , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang

The introduction of diffusion models has brought significant advances to the field of audio-driven talking head generation. However, the extremely slow inference speed severely limits the practical implementation of diffusion-based talking…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Haotian Wang , Yuzhe Weng , Jun Du , Haoran Xu , Xiaoyan Wu , Shan He , Bing Yin , Cong Liu , Jianqing Gao , Qingfeng Liu

Generating realistic human-human interactions is a challenging task that requires not only high-quality individual body and hand motions, but also coherent coordination among all interactants. Due to limitations in available data and…

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