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Video generation has advanced rapidly, producing photorealistic videos from text or image prompts. Meanwhile, film production and social robotics increasingly demand multi-person videos with rich social interactions, including…

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Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, particularly those leveraging large language models (LLMs), have significantly improved expressiveness and naturalness. However, generating human-like, interactive dialogue speech remains…

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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…

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In this paper, we introduce a new task, Reactive Listener Motion Generation from Speaker Utterance, which aims to generate naturalistic listener body motions that appropriately respond to a speaker's utterance. However, modeling such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Cheng Luo , Bizhu Wu , Bing Li , Jianfeng Ren , Ruibin Bai , Rong Qu , Linlin Shen , Bernard Ghanem

Generating full-body human gestures based on speech signals remains challenges on quality and speed. Existing approaches model different body regions such as body, legs and hands separately, which fail to capture the spatial interactions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Pinxin Liu , Luchuan Song , Junhua Huang , Haiyang Liu , Chenliang Xu

Speech-driven 3D facial animation aims to generate realistic lip movements and facial expressions for 3D head models from arbitrary audio clips. Although existing diffusion-based methods are capable of producing natural motions, their slow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Xuangeng Chu , Nabarun Goswami , Ziteng Cui , Hanqin Wang , Tatsuya Harada

Although previous co-speech gesture generation methods are able to synthesize motions in line with speech content, it is still not enough to handle diverse and complicated motion distribution. The key challenges are: 1) the one-to-many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Lianying Yin , Yijun Wang , Tianyu He , Jinming Liu , Wei Zhao , Bohan Li , Xin Jin , Jianxin Lin

With the availability of large-scale video datasets and the advances of diffusion models, text-driven video generation has achieved substantial progress. However, existing video generation models are typically trained on a limited number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Haonan Qiu , Menghan Xia , Yong Zhang , Yingqing He , Xintao Wang , Ying Shan , Ziwei Liu

Automatic gesture synthesis from speech is a topic that has attracted researchers for applications in remote communication, video games and Metaverse. Learning the mapping between speech and 3D full-body gestures is difficult due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Kunkun Pang , Dafei Qin , Yingruo Fan , Julian Habekost , Takaaki Shiratori , Junichi Yamagishi , Taku Komura

Most earlier researches on talking face generation have focused on the synchronization of lip motion and speech content. However, head pose and facial emotions are equally important characteristics of natural faces. While audio-driven…

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Implementing fine-grained emotion control is crucial for emotion generation tasks because it enhances the expressive capability of the generative model, allowing it to accurately and comprehensively capture and express various nuanced…

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Recent advancements in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) modeling have led to significant strides in generating high-fidelity and diverse speech. However, dialogue generation, along with achieving human-like naturalness in speech, continues to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Leying Zhang , Yao Qian , Long Zhou , Shujie Liu , Dongmei Wang , Xiaofei Wang , Midia Yousefi , Yanmin Qian , Jinyu Li , Lei He , Sheng Zhao , Michael Zeng

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

Individuals have unique facial expression and head pose styles that reflect their personalized speaking styles. Existing one-shot talking head methods cannot capture such personalized characteristics and therefore fail to produce diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Suzhen Wang , Yifeng Ma , Yu Ding , Zhipeng Hu , Changjie Fan , Tangjie Lv , Zhidong Deng , Xin Yu

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

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

Generating realistic conversational gestures are essential for achieving natural, socially engaging interactions with digital humans. However, existing methods typically map a single audio stream to a single speaker's motion, without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yichen Peng , Jyun-Ting Song , Siyeol Jung , Ruofan Liu , Haiyang Liu , Xuangeng Chu , Ruicong Liu , Erwin Wu , Hideki Koike , Kris Kitani

We introduce a novel diffusion-based video generation method, generating a video showing multiple events given multiple individual sentences from the user. Our method does not require a large-scale video dataset since our method uses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Gyeongrok Oh , Jaehwan Jeong , Sieun Kim , Wonmin Byeon , Jinkyu Kim , Sungwoong Kim , Sangpil Kim

Automatically generating videos in which synthesized speech is synchronized with lip movements in a talking head has great potential in many human-computer interaction scenarios. In this paper, we present an automatic method to generate…

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