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Current talking avatars mostly generate co-speech gestures based on audio and text of the utterance, without considering the non-speaking motion of the speaker. Furthermore, previous works on co-speech gesture generation have designed…

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We present EasyGen, an efficient model designed to enhance multimodal understanding and generation by harnessing the capabilities of diffusion models and large language models (LLMs), Unlike existing multimodal models that predominately…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Xiangyu Zhao , Bo Liu , Qijiong Liu , Guangyuan Shi , Xiao-Ming Wu

Generative models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) are widely utilized to model the generative process of user interactions. However, these generative models suffer from intrinsic…

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Audio-driven emotional 3D facial animation encounters two significant challenges: (1) reliance on single-modal control signals (videos, text, or emotion labels) without leveraging their complementary strengths for comprehensive emotion…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Kangwei Liu , Junwu Liu , Xiaowei Yi , Jinlin Guo , Yun Cao

Due to their significance in human communication, the automatic generation of co-speech gestures in artificial embodied agents has received a lot of attention. Although modern deep learning approaches can generate realistic-looking…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Hendric Voß , Stefan Kopp

Within cardiovascular disease detection using deep learning applied to ECG signals, the complexities of handling physiological signals have sparked growing interest in leveraging deep generative models for effective data augmentation. In…

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Generative models have attracted considerable attention for speech separation tasks, and among these, diffusion-based methods are being explored. Despite the notable success of diffusion techniques in generation tasks, their adaptation to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Jinwei Dong , Xinsheng Wang , Qirong Mao

Co-speech gesture is crucial for human-machine interaction and digital entertainment. While previous works mostly map speech audio to human skeletons (e.g., 2D keypoints), directly generating speakers' gestures in the image domain remains…

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Image generation based on diffusion models has demonstrated impressive capability, motivating exploration into diverse and specialized applications. Owing to the importance of emotion in advertising, emotion-oriented image generation has…

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Deriving co-speech 3D gestures has seen tremendous progress in virtual avatar animation. Yet, the existing methods often produce stiff and unreasonable gestures with unseen human speech inputs due to the limited 3D speech-gesture data. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Xingqun Qi , Hengyuan Zhang , Yatian Wang , Jiahao Pan , Chen Liu , Peng Li , Xiaowei Chi , Mengfei Li , Wei Xue , Shanghang Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

Text-to-motion generation has gained increasing attention, but most existing methods are limited to generating short-term motions that correspond to a single sentence describing a single action. However, when a text stream describes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Zhao Yang , Bing Su , Ji-Rong Wen

People naturally conduct spontaneous body motions to enhance their speeches while giving talks. Body motion generation from speech is inherently difficult due to the non-deterministic mapping from speech to body motions. Most existing works…

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Large-scale diffusion-based generative models have led to breakthroughs in text-conditioned high-resolution image synthesis. Starting from random noise, such text-to-image diffusion models gradually synthesize images in an iterative fashion…

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Despite the rapid progress in image generation, emotional image editing remains under-explored. The semantics, context, and structure of an image can evoke emotional responses, making emotional image editing techniques valuable for various…

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Understanding and generating multi-person interactions is a fundamental challenge with broad implications for robotics and social computing. While humans naturally coordinate in groups, modeling such interactions remains difficult due to…

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Exo-to-Ego video generation aims to synthesize a first-person video from a synchronized third-person view and corresponding camera poses. While paired supervision is available, synchronized exo-ego data inherently introduces substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Mohammad Mahdi , Nedko Savov , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

Emotional talking head generation has attracted growing attention. Previous methods, which are mainly GAN-based, still struggle to consistently produce satisfactory results across diverse emotions and cannot conveniently specify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yifeng Ma , Shiwei Zhang , Jiayu Wang , Xiang Wang , Yingya Zhang , Zhidong Deng

The automatic generation of controllable co-speech gestures has recently gained growing attention. While existing systems typically achieve gesture control through predefined categorical labels or implicit pseudo-labels derived from motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Bohong Chen , Yumeng Li , Youyi Zheng , Yao-Xiang Ding , Kun Zhou

Co-speech gesture generation is a critical area of research aimed at synthesizing speech-synchronized human-like gestures. Existing methods often suffer from issues such as rhythmic inconsistency, motion jitter, foot sliding and limited…

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Thanks to the powerful generative capacity of diffusion models, recent years have witnessed rapid progress in human motion generation. Existing diffusion-based methods employ disparate network architectures and training strategies. The…

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