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This work focuses on full-body co-speech gesture generation. Existing methods typically employ an autoregressive model accompanied by vector-quantized tokens for gesture generation, which results in information loss and compromises the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Binjie Liu , Lina Liu , Sanyi Zhang , Songen Gu , Yihao Zhi , Tianyi Zhu , Lei Yang , Long Ye

Co-speech gesture generation is crucial for producing synchronized and realistic human gestures that accompany speech, enhancing the animation of lifelike avatars in virtual environments. While diffusion models have shown impressive…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Chencan Fu , Yabiao Wang , Jiangning Zhang , Zhengkai Jiang , Xiaofeng Mao , Jiafu Wu , Weijian Cao , Chengjie Wang , Yanhao Ge , Yong Liu

Recently, talking-face video generation has received considerable attention. So far most methods generate results with neutral expressions or expressions that are implicitly determined by neural networks in an uncontrollable way. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Zipeng Ye , Zhiyao Sun , Yu-Hui Wen , Yanan Sun , Tian Lv , Ran Yi , Yong-Jin Liu

Autoregressive language models dominate modern text generation, yet their sequential nature introduces fundamental limitations: decoding is slow, and maintaining global coherence remains challenging. Diffusion models offer a promising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Viacheslav Meshchaninov , Egor Chimbulatov , Alexander Shabalin , Aleksandr Abramov , Dmitry Vetrov

Recent advances in diffusion models have endowed talking head synthesis with subtle expressions and vivid head movements, but have also led to slow inference speed and insufficient control over generated results. To address these issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Tianqi Li , Ruobing Zheng , Minghui Yang , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang

Recent advances in diffusion models have made significant progress in digital human generation. However, most existing models still struggle to maintain 3D consistency, temporal coherence, and motion accuracy. A key reason for these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Xuan Gao , Jingtao Zhou , Dongyu Liu , Yuqi Zhou , Juyong Zhang

Custom Storyboard Generation (CSG) aims to produce high-quality, multi-character consistent storytelling. Current approaches based on static diffusion models, whether used in a one-shot manner or within multi-agent frameworks, face three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Hailong Yan , Shice Liu , Tao Wang , Xiangtao Zhang , Yijie Zhong , Jinwei Chen , Le Zhang , Bo Li

Natural language serves as a common and straightforward signal for humans to interact seamlessly with machines. Recognizing the importance of this interface, the machine learning community is investing considerable effort in generating data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Shiyu Wang , Yihao Feng , Tian Lan , Ning Yu , Yu Bai , Ran Xu , Huan Wang , Caiming Xiong , Silvio Savarese

We present Pix2Gif, a motion-guided diffusion model for image-to-GIF (video) generation. We tackle this problem differently by formulating the task as an image translation problem steered by text and motion magnitude prompts, as shown in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Hitesh Kandala , Jianfeng Gao , Jianwei Yang

We introduce EzAudio, a text-to-audio (T2A) generation framework designed to produce high-quality, natural-sounding sound effects. Core designs include: (1) We propose EzAudio-DiT, an optimized Diffusion Transformer (DiT) designed for audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Jiarui Hai , Yong Xu , Hao Zhang , Chenxing Li , Helin Wang , Mounya Elhilali , Dong Yu

Generating 3D human models directly from text helps reduce the cost and time of character modeling. However, achieving multi-attribute controllable and realistic 3D human avatar generation is still challenging due to feature coupling and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Chaoqun Gong , Yuqin Dai , Ronghui Li , Achun Bao , Jun Li , Jian Yang , Yachao Zhang , Xiu Li

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved text-to-face generation, but achieving fine-grained control over facial features remains a challenge. Existing methods often require training additional modules to handle…

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Speech-driven 3D facial animation technology has been developed for years, but its practical application still lacks expectations. The main challenges lie in data limitations, lip alignment, and the naturalness of facial expressions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xiangyu Liang , Wenlin Zhuang , Tianyong Wang , Guangxing Geng , Guangyue Geng , Haifeng Xia , Siyu Xia

Scaling text-to-speech (TTS) to large-scale, multi-speaker, and in-the-wild datasets is important to capture the diversity in human speech such as speaker identities, prosodies, and styles (e.g., singing). Current large TTS systems usually…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Kai Shen , Zeqian Ju , Xu Tan , Yanqing Liu , Yichong Leng , Lei He , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Jiang Bian

Generic generation and manipulation of text is challenging and has limited success compared to recent deep generative modeling in visual domain. This paper aims at generating plausible natural language sentences, whose attributes are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Zhiting Hu , Zichao Yang , Xiaodan Liang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Eric P. Xing

Human speech is often accompanied by hand and arm gestures. Given audio speech input, we generate plausible gestures to go along with the sound. Specifically, we perform cross-modal translation from "in-the-wild'' monologue speech of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Shiry Ginosar , Amir Bar , Gefen Kohavi , Caroline Chan , Andrew Owens , Jitendra Malik

Recent diffusion-based talking face generation models have demonstrated impressive potential in synthesizing videos that accurately match a speech audio clip with a given reference identity. However, existing approaches still encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xingpei Ma , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shenneng Huang , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang

Modeling the physical contacts between the hand and object is standard for refining inaccurate hand poses and generating novel human grasp in 3D hand-object reconstruction. However, existing methods rely on geometric constraints that cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Zhongqun Zhang , Hengfei Wang , Ziwei Yu , Yihua Cheng , Angela Yao , Hyung Jin Chang

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

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