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This paper presents a motion data augmentation scheme incorporating motion synthesis encouraging diversity and motion correction imposing physical plausibility. This motion synthesis consists of our modified Variational AutoEncoder (VAE)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Takahiro Maeda , Norimichi Ukita

When virtual agents interact with humans, gestures are crucial to delivering their intentions with speech. Previous multimodal co-speech gesture generation models required encoded features of all modalities to generate gestures. If some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Gwantae Kim , Seonghyeok Noh , Insung Ham , Hanseok Ko

We propose EMAGE, a framework to generate full-body human gestures from audio and masked gestures, encompassing facial, local body, hands, and global movements. To achieve this, we first introduce BEAT2 (BEAT-SMPLX-FLAME), a new mesh-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Haiyang Liu , Zihao Zhu , Giorgio Becherini , Yichen Peng , Mingyang Su , You Zhou , Xuefei Zhe , Naoya Iwamoto , Bo Zheng , Michael J. Black

We present a novel one-shot talking head synthesis method that achieves disentangled and fine-grained control over lip motion, eye gaze&blink, head pose, and emotional expression. We represent different motions via disentangled latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Duomin Wang , Yu Deng , Zixin Yin , Heung-Yeung Shum , Baoyuan Wang

Co-speech gestures, if presented in the lively form of videos, can achieve superior visual effects in human-machine interaction. While previous works mostly generate structural human skeletons, resulting in the omission of appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Xu He , Qiaochu Huang , Zhensong Zhang , Zhiwei Lin , Zhiyong Wu , Sicheng Yang , Minglei Li , Zhiyi Chen , Songcen Xu , Xiaofei Wu

Due to the increasing demand in films and games, synthesizing 3D avatar animation has attracted much attention recently. In this work, we present a production-ready text/speech-driven full-body animation synthesis system. Given the text and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Wenlin Zhuang , Jinwei Qi , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Ping Tan

We propose LiveGesture, the first fully streamable, speech-driven full-body gesture generation framework that operates with zero look-ahead and supports arbitrary sequence length. Unlike existing co-speech gesture methods, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Muhammad Usama Saleem , Mayur Jagdishbhai Patel , Ekkasit Pinyoanuntapong , Zhongxing Qin , Li Yang , Hongfei Xue , Ahmed Helmy , Chen Chen , Pu Wang

Recent advances in generative motion synthesis have enabled the production of realistic human motions from diverse input modalities. However, synthesizing compound actions from texts, which integrate multiple concurrent actions into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yue Jiang , Mingyu Yang , Liuyuxin Yang , Yang Xu , Bingxin Yun , Yuhe Zhang

Body and face motion play an integral role in communication. They convey crucial information on the participants. Advances in generative modeling and multi-modal learning have enabled motion generation from signals such as speech,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Lownish Rai Sookha , Nikhil Pakhale , Mudasir Ganaie , Abhinav Dhall

The automatic co-speech gesture generation draws much attention in computer animation. Previous works designed network structures on individual datasets, which resulted in a lack of data volume and generalizability across different motion…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sicheng Yang , Zilin Wang , Zhiyong Wu , Minglei Li , Zhensong Zhang , Qiaochu Huang , Lei Hao , Songcen Xu , Xiaofei Wu , changpeng yang , Zonghong Dai

Audio-driven talking head generation has drawn much attention in recent years, and many efforts have been made in lip-sync, expressive facial expressions, natural head pose generation, and high video quality. However, no model has yet led…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Xusen Sun , Longhao Zhang , Hao Zhu , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Xinya Ji , Kangneng Zhou , Daiheng Gao , Liefeng Bo , Xun Cao

Audio to Video generation is an interesting problem that has numerous applications across industry verticals including film making, multi-media, marketing, education and others. High-quality video generation with expressive facial movements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Neeraj Kumar , Srishti Goel , Ankur Narang , Mujtaba Hasan

Speech-driven gesture generation is highly challenging due to the random jitters of human motion. In addition, there is an inherent asynchronous relationship between human speech and gestures. To tackle these challenges, we introduce a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Sicheng Yang , Zhiyong Wu , Minglei Li , Zhensong Zhang , Lei Hao , Weihong Bao , Haolin Zhuang

Stylized motion generation is actively studied in computer graphics, especially benefiting from the rapid advances in diffusion models. The goal of this task is to produce a novel motion respecting both the motion content and the desired…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Lei Zhong , Yi Yang , Changjian Li

Masked modeling framework has shown promise in co-speech motion generation. However, it struggles to identify semantically significant frames for effective motion masking. In this work, we propose a speech-queried attention-based mask…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Xiangyue Zhang , Jianfang Li , Jiaxu Zhang , Jianqiang Ren , Liefeng Bo , Zhigang Tu

Unsupervised representation learning has shown remarkable achievement by reducing the performance gap with supervised feature learning, especially in the image domain. In this study, to extend the technique of unsupervised learning to the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Jangho Lee , Jaihyun Koh , Sungroh Yoon

Human speech is often accompanied by body gestures including arm and hand gestures. We present a method that reenacts a high-quality video with gestures matching a target speech audio. The key idea of our method is to split and re-assemble…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Yang Zhou , Jimei Yang , Dingzeyu Li , Jun Saito , Deepali Aneja , Evangelos Kalogerakis

For realistic talking head generation, creating natural head motion while maintaining accurate lip synchronization is essential. To fulfill this challenging task, we propose DisCoHead, a novel method to disentangle and control head pose and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Geumbyeol Hwang , Sunwon Hong , Seunghyun Lee , Sungwoo Park , Gyeongsu Chae

Generating 3D human motion based on textual descriptions has been a research focus in recent years. It requires the generated motion to be diverse, natural, and conform to the textual description. Due to the complex spatio-temporal nature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Chongyang Zhong , Lei Hu , Zihao Zhang , Shihong Xia

We present a generative model that learns to synthesize human motion from limited training sequences. Our framework provides conditional generation and blending across multiple temporal resolutions. The model adeptly captures human motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 David Eduardo Moreno-Villamarín , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert