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Text-to-video generation has been dominated by diffusion-based or autoregressive models. These novel models provide plausible versatility, but are criticized for improper physical motion, shading and illumination, camera motion, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Liu He , Yizhi Song , Hejun Huang , Pinxin Liu , Yunlong Tang , Daniel Aliaga , Xin Zhou

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

Generating high-fidelity human video with specified identities has attracted significant attention in the content generation community. However, existing techniques struggle to strike a balance between training efficiency and identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Xuanhua He , Quande Liu , Shengju Qian , Xin Wang , Tao Hu , Ke Cao , Keyu Yan , Jie Zhang

Perpetual view generation aims to synthesize a long-term video corresponding to an arbitrary camera trajectory solely from a single input image. Recent methods commonly utilize a pre-trained text-to-image diffusion model to synthesize new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Bo Pan , Yang Chen , Yingwei Pan , Ting Yao , Wei Chen , Tao Mei

Video composition is the core task of video editing. Although image composition based on diffusion models has been highly successful, it is not straightforward to extend the achievement to video object composition tasks, which not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Wei Wang , Yaosen Chen , Yuegen Liu , Qi Yuan , Shubin Yang , Yanru Zhang

Existing methodologies for animating portrait images face significant challenges, particularly in handling non-frontal perspectives, rendering dynamic objects around the portrait, and generating immersive, realistic backgrounds. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Jiahao Cui , Hui Li , Yun Zhan , Hanlin Shang , Kaihui Cheng , Yuqi Ma , Shan Mu , Hang Zhou , Jingdong Wang , Siyu Zhu

We present X-Actor, a novel audio-driven portrait animation framework that generates lifelike, emotionally expressive talking head videos from a single reference image and an input audio clip. Unlike prior methods that emphasize lip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Chenxu Zhang , Zenan Li , Hongyi Xu , You Xie , Xiaochen Zhao , Tianpei Gu , Guoxian Song , Xin Chen , Chao Liang , Jianwen Jiang , Linjie Luo

Recent progress in diffusion models has significantly advanced the field of human image animation. While existing methods can generate temporally consistent results for short or regular motions, significant challenges remain, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Shen Zheng , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shenneng Huang , Xingpei Ma , Junjie Cao , Hanfeng Zhao , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang , Xiao-Ping Zhang

We propose VASA-3D, an audio-driven, single-shot 3D head avatar generator. This research tackles two major challenges: capturing the subtle expression details present in real human faces, and reconstructing an intricate 3D head avatar from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sicheng Xu , Guojun Chen , Jiaolong Yang , Yizhong Zhang , Yu Deng , Steve Lin , Baining Guo

Surgical video generation can enhance medical education and research, but existing methods lack fine-grained motion control and realism. We introduce SurgSora, a framework that generates high-fidelity, motion-controllable surgical videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Tong Chen , Shuya Yang , Junyi Wang , Long Bai , Hongliang Ren , Luping Zhou

Current talking avatars mostly generate co-speech gestures based on audio and text of the utterance, without considering the non-speaking motion of the speaker. Furthermore, previous works on co-speech gesture generation have designed…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Sicheng Yang , Zunnan Xu , Haiwei Xue , Yongkang Cheng , Shaoli Huang , Mingming Gong , Zhiyong Wu

The field of portrait image animation, driven by speech audio input, has experienced significant advancements in the generation of realistic and dynamic portraits. This research delves into the complexities of synchronizing facial movements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mingwang Xu , Hui Li , Qingkun Su , Hanlin Shang , Liwei Zhang , Ce Liu , Jingdong Wang , Yao Yao , Siyu Zhu

Despite tremendous recent progress in human video generation, generative video diffusion models still struggle to capture the dynamics and physics of human motions faithfully. In this paper, we propose a new framework for human video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Tao Hu , Varun Jampani

Portrait animation aims to generate photo-realistic videos from a single source image by reenacting the expression and pose from a driving video. While early methods relied on 3D morphable models or feature warping techniques, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mallikarjun B. R. , Fei Yin , Vikram Voleti , Nikita Drobyshev , Maksim Lapin , Aaryaman Vasishta , Varun Jampani

Recently, multi-person video generation has started to gain prominence. While a few preliminary works have explored audio-driven multi-person talking video generation, they often face challenges due to the high costs of diverse multi-person…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhizhou Zhong , Yicheng Ji , Zhe Kong , Yiying Liu , Jiarui Wang , Jiasun Feng , Lupeng Liu , Xiangyi Wang , Yanjia Li , Yuqing She , Ying Qin , Huan Li , Shuiyang Mao , Wei Liu , Wenhan Luo

Long video generation remains a challenging and compelling topic in computer vision. Diffusion based models, among the various approaches to video generation, have achieved state of the art quality with their iterative denoising procedures.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Siyang Zhang , Harry Yang , Ser-Nam Lim

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

Audio-driven portrait animation has made significant advances with diffusion-based models, improving video quality and lipsync accuracy. However, the increasing complexity of these models has led to inefficiencies in training and inference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Xuyang Cao , Guoxin Wang , Sheng Shi , Jun Zhao , Yang Yao , Jintao Fei , Minyu Gao , Pei Xie

Latent diffusion models have made great strides in generating expressive portrait videos with accurate lip-sync and natural motion from a single reference image and audio input. However, these models are far from real-time, often requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Hanzhong Guo , Hongwei Yi , Daquan Zhou , Alexander William Bergman , Michael Lingelbach , Yizhou Yu

Leveraging text, images, structure maps, or motion trajectories as conditional guidance, diffusion models have achieved great success in automated and high-quality video generation. However, generating smooth and rational transition videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zuhao Yang , Jiahui Zhang , Yingchen Yu , Shijian Lu , Song Bai