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With read-aloud speech synthesis achieving high naturalness scores, there is a growing research interest in synthesising spontaneous speech. However, human spontaneous face-to-face conversation has both spoken and non-verbal aspects (here,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Shivam Mehta , Siyang Wang , Simon Alexanderson , Jonas Beskow , Éva Székely , Gustav Eje Henter

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

Speech-driven animation has gained significant traction in recent years, with current methods achieving near-photorealistic results. However, the field remains underexplored regarding non-verbal communication despite evidence demonstrating…

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In this paper, we propose a novel audio-driven talking head method capable of simultaneously generating highly expressive facial expressions and hand gestures. Unlike existing methods that focus on generating full-body or half-body poses,…

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This paper introduces Stereo-Talker, a novel one-shot audio-driven human video synthesis system that generates 3D talking videos with precise lip synchronization, expressive body gestures, temporally consistent photo-realistic quality, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Xiang Deng , Youxin Pang , Xiaochen Zhao , Chao Xu , Lizhen Wang , Hongjiang Xiao , Shi Yan , Hongwen Zhang , Yebin Liu

Speech-driven gesture generation is an emerging field within virtual human creation. However, a significant challenge lies in accurately determining and processing the multitude of input features (such as acoustic, semantic, emotional,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Fan Zhang , Zhaohan Wang , Xin Lyu , Siyuan Zhao , Mengjian Li , Weidong Geng , Naye Ji , Hui Du , Fuxing Gao , Hao Wu , Shunman Li

We propose PersonaGesture, a diffusion-based pipeline for single-reference co-speech gesture personalization of unseen speakers. Given target speech and one motion clip from a new speaker, the model must synthesize gestures that follow the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xiangyue Zhang , Yiyi Cai , Kunhang Li , Kaixing Yang , You Zhou , Zhengqing Li , Xuangeng Chu , Jiaxu Zhang , Haiyang Liu

Recently, text-guided content generation has received extensive attention. In this work, we explore the possibility of text description-based speaker generation, i.e., using text prompts to control the speaker generation process.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yongmao Zhang , Guanghou Liu , Yi Lei , Yunlin Chen , Hao Yin , Lei Xie , Zhifei Li

The generation of co-speech gestures for digital humans is an emerging area in the field of virtual human creation. Prior research has made progress by using acoustic and semantic information as input and adopting classify method to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Fan Zhang , Naye Ji , Fuxing Gao , Siyuan Zhao , Zhaohan Wang , Shunman Li

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Xian Liu , Qianyi Wu , Hang Zhou , Yuanqi Du , Wayne Wu , Dahua Lin , Ziwei Liu

The automated synthesis of high-quality 3D gestures from speech is of significant value in virtual humans and gaming. Previous methods focus on synthesizing gestures that are synchronized with speech rhythm, yet they frequently overlook the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Qingrong Cheng , Xu Li , Xinghui Fu , Fei Xia , Zhongqian Sun

Generating gestures from human speech has gained tremendous progress in animating virtual avatars. While the existing methods enable synthesizing gestures cooperated by individual self-talking, they overlook the practicality of concurrent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xingqun Qi , Yatian Wang , Hengyuan Zhang , Jiahao Pan , Wei Xue , Shanghang Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved the realism and generalizability of character-driven animation, enabling the synthesis of high-quality motion from just a single RGB image and a set of driving poses.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Alireza Javanmardi , Pragati Jaiswal , Tewodros Amberbir Habtegebrial , Christen Millerdurai , Shaoxiang Wang , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

This paper addresses the challenge of text-conditioned streaming motion generation, which requires us to predict the next-step human pose based on variable-length historical motions and incoming texts. Existing methods struggle to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Lixing Xiao , Shunlin Lu , Huaijin Pi , Ke Fan , Liang Pan , Yueer Zhou , Ziyong Feng , Xiaowei Zhou , Sida Peng , Jingbo Wang

This paper presents a novel framework for speech-driven gesture production, applicable to virtual agents to enhance human-computer interaction. Specifically, we extend recent deep-learning-based, data-driven methods for speech-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Taras Kucherenko , Dai Hasegawa , Naoshi Kaneko , Gustav Eje Henter , Hedvig Kjellström

This study delves into the intricacies of synchronizing facial dynamics with multilingual audio inputs, focusing on the creation of visually compelling, time-synchronized animations through diffusion-based techniques. Diverging from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Rui Zhang , Yixiao Fang , Zhengnan Lu , Pei Cheng , Zebiao Huang , Bin Fu

Audio-driven talking head generation has drawn growing attention. To produce talking head videos with desired facial expressions, previous methods rely on extra reference videos to provide expression information, which may be difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yifeng Ma , Suzhen Wang , Yu Ding , Bowen Ma , Tangjie Lv , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu , Zhidong Deng , Xin Yu

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

Co-speech gesture generation aims to synthesize realistic body movements that are semantically coherent with speech and faithful to a user-specified gestural style. Existing VQ-VAE based co-speech gesture generation methods improve…

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