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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…

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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…

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Speech-driven facial video generation has been a complex problem due to its multi-modal aspects namely audio and video domain. The audio comprises lots of underlying features such as expression, pitch, loudness, prosody(speaking style) and…

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Audio-driven talking head generation faces a fundamental trade-off between personalization and generalization, limiting its practical application. Implicit models often achieve generalization at the cost of structural incoherence, resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Shiyu Liu , Kui Jiang , Junjun Jiang , Xianming Liu , Xiaocheng Feng , Hongxun Yao , Qi Tian

Generating full-body human gestures encompassing face, body, hands, and global movements from audio is a valuable yet challenging task in virtual avatar creation. Previous systems focused on tokenizing the human gestures framewisely and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhizhuo Yin , Yuk Hang Tsui , Pan Hui

The generation of stylistic 3D facial animations driven by speech presents a significant challenge as it requires learning a many-to-many mapping between speech, style, and the corresponding natural facial motion. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Zhiyao Sun , Tian Lv , Sheng Ye , Matthieu Lin , Jenny Sheng , Yu-Hui Wen , Minjing Yu , Yong-Jin Liu

While recent research has made significant progress in speech-driven talking face generation, the quality of the generated video still lags behind that of real recordings. One reason for this is the use of handcrafted intermediate…

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We propose LiveGesture, the first fully streamable, speech-driven full-body gesture generation framework that operates with zero look-ahead and supports arbitrary sequence length. Unlike existing co-speech gesture methods, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Muhammad Usama Saleem , Mayur Jagdishbhai Patel , Ekkasit Pinyoanuntapong , Zhongxing Qin , Li Yang , Hongfei Xue , Ahmed Helmy , Chen Chen , Pu Wang

We introduce VASA, a framework for generating lifelike talking faces with appealing visual affective skills (VAS) given a single static image and a speech audio clip. Our premiere model, VASA-1, is capable of not only generating lip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Sicheng Xu , Guojun Chen , Yu-Xiao Guo , Jiaolong Yang , Chong Li , Zhenyu Zang , Yizhong Zhang , Xin Tong , Baining Guo

Recent advancements in video diffusion models have significantly enhanced audio-driven portrait animation. However, current methods still suffer from flickering, identity drift, and poor audio-visual synchronization. These issues primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Zhenjie Liu , Jianzhang Lu , Renjie Lu , Cong Liang , Shangfei Wang

Gestures that accompany speech are an essential part of natural and efficient embodied human communication. The automatic generation of such co-speech gestures is a long-standing problem in computer animation and is considered an enabling…

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The next step for In-vehicle Conversational Assistants (IVCAs) will be their capability to initiate and automate proactive system interactions throughout journeys. However, diverse drivers make it challenging to design voice interventions…

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Our research presents a novel motion generation framework designed to produce whole-body motion sequences conditioned on multiple modalities simultaneously, specifically text and audio inputs. Leveraging Vector Quantized Variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Sohan Anisetty , James Hays

Significant progress has been made in audio-driven human animation, while most existing methods focus mainly on facial movements, limiting their ability to create full-body animations with natural synchronization and fluidity. They also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Qijun Gan , Ruizi Yang , Jianke Zhu , Shaofei Xue , Steven Hoi

Recently, 2D speaking avatars have increasingly participated in everyday scenarios due to the fast development of facial animation techniques. However, most existing works neglect the explicit control of human bodies. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jiazhi Guan , Quanwei Yang , Kaisiyuan Wang , Hang Zhou , Shengyi He , Zhiliang Xu , Haocheng Feng , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang , Hongtao Xie , Youjian Zhao , Ziwei Liu

Talking head synthesis is a promising approach for the video production industry. Recently, a lot of effort has been devoted in this research area to improve the generation quality or enhance the model generalization. However, there are few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Shuai Shen , Wenliang Zhao , Zibin Meng , Wanhua Li , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Audio-driven co-speech human gesture generation has made remarkable advancements recently. However, most previous works only focus on single person audio-driven gesture generation. We aim at solving the problem of conversational co-speech…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Haiwei Xue , Sicheng Yang , Zhensong Zhang , Zhiyong Wu , Minglei Li , Zonghong Dai , Helen Meng

Video-to-audio (V2A) generation leverages visual-only video features to render plausible sounds that match the scene. Importantly, the generated sound onsets should match the visual actions that are aligned with them, otherwise unnatural…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Santiago Pascual , Chunghsin Yeh , Ioannis Tsiamas , Joan Serrà

The domain of 3D talking head generation has witnessed significant progress in recent years. A notable challenge in this field consists in blending speech-related motions with expression dynamics, which is primarily caused by the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Federico Nocentini , Claudio Ferrari , Stefano Berretti

Recent advances in audio-driven talking head generation have achieved impressive results in lip synchronization and emotional expression. However, they largely overlook the crucial task of facial attribute editing. This capability is…

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