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Recent advances in motion generation show remarkable progress. However, several limitations remain: (1) Existing pose-guided character motion transfer methods merely replicate motion without learning its style characteristics, resulting in…

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Audio-driven talking face generation has gained significant attention for applications in digital media and virtual avatars. While recent methods improve audio-lip synchronization, they often struggle with temporal consistency, identity…

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We present I2V3D, a novel framework for animating static images into dynamic videos with precise 3D control, leveraging the strengths of both 3D geometry guidance and advanced generative models. Our approach combines the precision of a…

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Creating high-fidelity 3D head avatars has always been a research hotspot, but it remains a great challenge under lightweight sparse view setups. In this paper, we propose HHAvatar represented by controllable 3D Gaussians for high-fidelity…

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Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved audio-driven human video generation, surpassing traditional methods in both quality and controllability. However, existing approaches still face challenges in lip-sync…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xingpei Ma , Shenneng Huang , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shen Zheng , Hanfeng Zhao , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang

In this demo, we present VirtualConductor, a system that can generate conducting video from any given music and a single user's image. First, a large-scale conductor motion dataset is collected and constructed. Then, we propose Audio Motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Delong Chen , Fan Liu , Zewen Li , Feng Xu

We present a framework for generating full-bodied photorealistic avatars that gesture according to the conversational dynamics of a dyadic interaction. Given speech audio, we output multiple possibilities of gestural motion for an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Evonne Ng , Javier Romero , Timur Bagautdinov , Shaojie Bai , Trevor Darrell , Angjoo Kanazawa , Alexander Richard

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

Video-based human motion transfer creates video animations of humans following a source motion. Current methods show remarkable results for tightly-clad subjects. However, the lack of temporally consistent handling of plausible clothing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Moritz Kappel , Vladislav Golyanik , Mohamed Elgharib , Jann-Ole Henningson , Hans-Peter Seidel , Susana Castillo , Christian Theobalt , Marcus Magnor

In this paper, we propose a novel text-based talking-head video generation framework that synthesizes high-fidelity facial expressions and head motions in accordance with contextual sentiments as well as speech rhythm and pauses. To be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Lincheng Li , Suzhen Wang , Zhimeng Zhang , Yu Ding , Yixing Zheng , Xin Yu , Changjie Fan

Controllability, generalizability and efficiency are the major objectives of constructing face avatars represented by neural implicit field. However, existing methods have not managed to accommodate the three requirements simultaneously.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zhiyuan Ma , Xiangyu Zhu , Guojun Qi , Zhen Lei , Lei Zhang

The capacity to create realistic virtual humans has progressed significantly, and such characters can be found in many applications across entertainment, education and health. As an essential element of interactive virtual humans,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Haoyang Du , Yinghan Xu , John Dingliana , Brian Keegan , Rachel McDonnell , Cathy Ennis

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has been widely explored, with applications in gaming, character animation, virtual reality, and telepresence systems. State-of-the-art methods deform the face topology of the target actor to sync the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Balamurugan Thambiraja , Ikhsanul Habibie , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Darren Cosker , Christian Theobalt , Justus Thies

Creating hand-drawn animation sequences is labor-intensive and demands professional expertise. We introduce PhysAnimator, a novel approach for generating physically plausible meanwhile anime-stylized animation from static anime…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Tianyi Xie , Yiwei Zhao , Ying Jiang , Chenfanfu Jiang

We introduce RMAvatar, a novel human avatar representation with Gaussian splatting embedded on mesh to learn clothed avatar from a monocular video. We utilize the explicit mesh geometry to represent motion and shape of a virtual human and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sen Peng , Weixing Xie , Zilong Wang , Xiaohu Guo , Zhonggui Chen , Baorong Yang , Xiao Dong

In line with the human capacity to perceive the world by simultaneously processing and integrating high-dimensional inputs from multiple modalities like vision and audio, we propose a novel model, MAiVAR-T (Multimodal Audio-Image to Video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Muhammad Bilal Shaikh , Douglas Chai , Syed Mohammed Shamsul Islam , Naveed Akhtar

We propose VASA-3D, an audio-driven, single-shot 3D head avatar generator. This research tackles two major challenges: capturing the subtle expression details present in real human faces, and reconstructing an intricate 3D head avatar from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sicheng Xu , Guojun Chen , Jiaolong Yang , Yizhong Zhang , Yu Deng , Steve Lin , Baining Guo

Avatars on displays lack the ability to engage with the physical environment through gaze. To address this limitation, we propose a gaze synthesis method that enables animated avatars to establish gaze communication with the physical…

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An ideal digital telepresence experience requires accurate replication of a person's body, clothing, and movements. To capture and transfer these movements into virtual reality, the egocentric (first-person) perspective can be adopted,…

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