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Diffusion Models are probabilistic models that create realistic samples by simulating the diffusion process, gradually adding and removing noise from data. These models have gained popularity in domains such as image processing, speech…

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Emotion serves as an essential component in daily human interactions. Existing human motion generation frameworks do not consider the impact of emotions, which reduces naturalness and limits their application in interactive tasks, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Chen Zhu , Buzhen Huang , Zijing Wu , Binghui Zuo , Yangang Wang

Deep learning-based image generation has seen significant advancements with diffusion models, notably improving the quality of generated images. Despite these developments, generating images with unseen characteristics beneficial for…

Human emotion synthesis is a crucial aspect of affective computing. It involves using computational methods to mimic and convey human emotions through various modalities, with the goal of enabling more natural and effective human-computer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Fei Ma , Yukan Li , Yifan Xie , Ying He , Yi Zhang , Hongwei Ren , Zhou Liu , Wei Yao , Fuji Ren , Fei Richard Yu , Shiguang Ni

Image editing aims to edit the given synthetic or real image to meet the specific requirements from users. It is widely studied in recent years as a promising and challenging field of Artificial Intelligence Generative Content (AIGC).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Xincheng Shuai , Henghui Ding , Xingjun Ma , Rongcheng Tu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Dacheng Tao

Human facial images encode a rich spectrum of information, encompassing both stable identity-related traits and mutable attributes such as pose, expression, and emotion. While recent advances in image generation have enabled high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kazuaki Mishima , Antoni Bigata Casademunt , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic , Kenji Suzuki

The task of audio-driven portrait animation involves generating a talking head video using an identity image and an audio track of speech. While many existing approaches focus on lip synchronization and video quality, few tackle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Jian Zhang , Weijian Mai , Zhijun Zhang

Emotional talking head synthesis aims to generate talking portrait videos with vivid expressions. Existing methods still exhibit limitations in control flexibility, motion naturalness, and expression quality. Moreover, currently available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yiguo Jiang , Xiaodong Cun , Yong Zhang , Yudian Zheng , Fan Tang , Chi-Man Pun

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Antoni Bigata Casademunt , Rodrigo Mira , Nikita Drobyshev , Konstantinos Vougioukas , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Art has long been a profound medium for expressing emotions. While existing image stylization methods effectively transform visual appearance, they often overlook the emotional impact carried by styles. To bridge this gap, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Jingyuan Yang , Zihuan Bai , Hui Huang

Generative models have been widely studied in computer vision. Recently, diffusion models have drawn substantial attention due to the high quality of their generated images. A key desired property of image generative models is the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Qiucheng Wu , Yujian Liu , Handong Zhao , Ajinkya Kale , Trung Bui , Tong Yu , Zhe Lin , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in the domain of text-guided image generation and, more recently, in text-guided image editing. A commonly adopted strategy for editing real images involves inverting the diffusion process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Wonjun Kang , Kevin Galim , Hyung Il Koo

Diffusion Handles is a novel approach to enabling 3D object edits on diffusion images. We accomplish these edits using existing pre-trained diffusion models, and 2D image depth estimation, without any fine-tuning or 3D object retrieval. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Karran Pandey , Paul Guerrero , Matheus Gadelha , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Karan Singh , Niloy Mitra

Generative AI systems are increasingly capable of expressing emotions via text and imagery. Effective emotional expression will likely play a major role in the efficacy of AI systems -- particularly those designed to support human mental…

Deepfake images are fast becoming a serious concern due to their realism. Diffusion models have recently demonstrated highly realistic visual content generation, which makes them an excellent potential tool for Deepfake generation. To curb…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Yunzhuo Chen , Nur Al Hasan Haldar , Naveed Akhtar , Ajmal Mian

Diffusion models, widely used in image generation, rely on iterative refinement to generate images from noise. Understanding this data evolution is important for model development and interpretability, yet challenging due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Vidya Prasad , Hans van Gorp , Christina Humer , Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Anna Vilanova , Nicola Pezzotti

Emotions are usually evoked in humans by images. Recently, extensive research efforts have been dedicated to understanding the emotions of images. In this chapter, we aim to introduce image emotion analysis (IEA) from a computational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Sicheng Zhao , Quanwei Huang , Youbao Tang , Xingxu Yao , Jufeng Yang , Guiguang Ding , Björn W. Schuller

While generative models produce high-quality images of concepts learned from a large-scale database, a user often wishes to synthesize instantiations of their own concepts (for example, their family, pets, or items). Can we teach a model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Nupur Kumari , Bingliang Zhang , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Jun-Yan Zhu

Diffusion models have gained increasing attention for their impressive generation abilities but currently struggle with rendering accurate and coherent text. To address this issue, we introduce TextDiffuser, focusing on generating images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jingye Chen , Yupan Huang , Tengchao Lv , Lei Cui , Qifeng Chen , Furu Wei

Images become an important and prevalent way to express users' activities, opinions and emotions. In a social network, individual emotions may be influenced by others, in particular by close friends. We focus on understanding how users…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-20 Xiaohui Wang , Jia Jia , Lianhong Cai , Jie Tang