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With the booming of virtual reality (VR) technology, there is a growing need for customized 3D avatars. However, traditional methods for 3D avatar modeling are either time-consuming or fail to retain similarity to the person being modeled.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Chuanyu Pan , Guowei Yang , Taijiang Mu , Yu-Kun Lai

Talking face generation has historically struggled to produce head movements and natural facial expressions without guidance from additional reference videos. Recent developments in diffusion-based generative models allow for more realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Michał Stypułkowski , Konstantinos Vougioukas , Sen He , Maciej Zięba , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Unsupervised video object segmentation has often been tackled by methods based on recurrent neural networks and optical flow. Despite their complexity, these kinds of approaches tend to favour short-term temporal dependencies and are thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Zhao Yang , Qiang Wang , Luca Bertinetto , Weiming Hu , Song Bai , Philip H. S. Torr

Current 4D generation methods have achieved noteworthy efficacy with the aid of advanced diffusion generative models. However, these methods lack multi-view spatial-temporal modeling and encounter challenges in integrating diverse prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Haiyu Zhang , Xinyuan Chen , Yaohui Wang , Xihui Liu , Yunhong Wang , Yu Qiao

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has been an attractive task in both academia and industry. Traditional methods mostly focus on learning a deterministic mapping from speech to animation. Recent approaches start to consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Peng Chen , Xiaobao Wei , Ming Lu , Yitong Zhu , Naiming Yao , Xingyu Xiao , Hui Chen

We present Follow-Your-Emoji, a diffusion-based framework for portrait animation, which animates a reference portrait with target landmark sequences. The main challenge of portrait animation is to preserve the identity of the reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yue Ma , Hongyu Liu , Hongfa Wang , Heng Pan , Yingqing He , Junkun Yuan , Ailing Zeng , Chengfei Cai , Heung-Yeung Shum , Wei Liu , Qifeng Chen

Recent years have witnessed the strong power of 3D generation models, which offer a new level of creative flexibility by allowing users to guide the 3D content generation process through a single image or natural language. However, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Fangfu Liu , Hanyang Wang , Weiliang Chen , Haowen Sun , Yueqi Duan

Photo-realistic and controllable 3D avatars are crucial for various applications such as virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR), telepresence, gaming, and film production. Traditional methods for avatar creation often involve time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Keqiang Sun , Amin Jourabloo , Riddhish Bhalodia , Moustafa Meshry , Yu Rong , Zhengyu Yang , Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Christian Haene , Jiu Xu , Sam Johnson , Hongsheng Li , Sofien Bouaziz

Current generative video models excel at producing novel content from text and image prompts, but leave a critical gap in editing existing pre-recorded videos, where minor alterations to the spoken script require preserving motion, temporal…

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With the increasing demand for 3D animation, generating high-fidelity, controllable 4D avatars from textual descriptions remains a significant challenge. Despite notable efforts in 4D generative modeling, existing methods exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Eddie Pokming Sheung , Qihao Liu , Wufei Ma , Prakhar Kaushik , Jianwen Xie , Alan Yuille

Talking head generation with arbitrary identities and speech audio remains a crucial problem in the realm of the virtual metaverse. Recently, diffusion models have become a popular generative technique in this field with their strong…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Xinyang Li , Gen Li , Zhihui Lin , Yichen Qian , GongXin Yao , Weinan Jia , Aowen Wang , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang

Face animation has achieved much progress in computer vision. However, prevailing GAN-based methods suffer from unnatural distortions and artifacts due to sophisticated motion deformation. In this paper, we propose a Face Animation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Bohan Zeng , Xuhui Liu , Sicheng Gao , Boyu Liu , Hong Li , Jianzhuang Liu , Baochang Zhang

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, remote conferencing and school-teaching have become important tools. The previous applications aim to save the commuting cost with real-time interactions. However, our application is going to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Aolan Sun , Xulong Zhang , Tiandong Ling , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Generating high-quality 3D characters from single images remains a significant challenge in digital content creation, particularly due to complex body poses and self-occlusion. In this paper, we present RCM (Rotate your Character Model), an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Jin Wang , Jianxiang Lu , Comi Chen , Guangzheng Xu , Haoyu Yang , Peng Chen , Na Zhang , Yifan Xu , Longhuang Wu , Shuai Shao , Qinglin Lu , Ping Luo

State-of-the-art Text-to-Video (T2V) diffusion models can generate visually impressive results, yet they still frequently fail to compose complex scenes or follow logical temporal instructions. In this paper, we argue that many errors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Mariam Hassan , Bastien Van Delft , Wuyang Li , Alexandre Alahi

This paper presents a novel framework to generate realistic face video of an anchor, who is reading certain news. This task is also known as Virtual Anchor. Given some paragraphs of words, we first utilize a pretrained Word2Vec model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Zipeng Wang , Zhaoxiang Liu , Zezhou Chen , Huan Hu , Shiguo Lian

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

Real-time portrait animation is essential for interactive applications such as virtual assistants and live avatars, requiring high visual fidelity, temporal coherence, ultra-low latency, and responsive control from dynamic inputs like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Steven Xiao , Xindi Zhang , Dechao Meng , Qi Wang , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang

We present a unified and generalizable framework for synthesizing view-consistent and temporally coherent avatars from a single image, addressing the challenging task of single-image avatar generation. Existing diffusion-based methods often…

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