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Talking head synthesis, also known as speech-to-lip synthesis, reconstructs the facial motions that align with the given audio tracks. The synthesized videos are evaluated on mainly two aspects, lip-speech synchronization and image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Xulin Fan , Heting Gao , Ziyi Chen , Peng Chang , Mei Han , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

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

Recent methods for audio-driven talking head synthesis often optimize neural radiance fields (NeRF) on a monocular talking portrait video, leveraging its capability to render high-fidelity and 3D-consistent novel-view frames. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Jaehoon Ko , Kyusun Cho , Joungbin Lee , Heeji Yoon , Sangmin Lee , Sangjun Ahn , Seungryong Kim

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

Recent advancements in deep learning and computer vision have led to a surge of interest in generating realistic talking heads. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art methods for talking head generation. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Shreyank N Gowda , Dheeraj Pandey , Shashank Narayana Gowda

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image and video generation. In this work, we demonstrate that diffusion models can also \textit{generate high-performing neural network parameters}. Our approach is simple, utilizing an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Kai Wang , Dongwen Tang , Boya Zeng , Yida Yin , Zhaopan Xu , Yukun Zhou , Zelin Zang , Trevor Darrell , Zhuang Liu , Yang You

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Guanwen Feng , Zhiyuan Ma , Yunan Li , Jiahao Yang , Junwei Jing , Qiguang Miao

Generative models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) are widely utilized to model the generative process of user interactions. However, these generative models suffer from intrinsic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Wenjie Wang , Yiyan Xu , Fuli Feng , Xinyu Lin , Xiangnan He , Tat-Seng Chua

Diffusion and flow matching models have unlocked unprecedented capabilities for creative content creation, such as interactive image and streaming video generation. The growing demand for higher resolutions, frame rates, and context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Brian Chao , Lior Yariv , Howard Xiao , Gordon Wetzstein

All previous methods for audio-driven talking head generation assume the input audio to be clean with a neutral tone. As we show empirically, one can easily break these systems by simply adding certain background noise to the utterance or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Gaurav Mittal , Baoyuan Wang

Diffusion-based talking head models generate high-quality, photorealistic videos but suffer from slow inference, limiting practical applications. Existing acceleration methods for general diffusion models fail to exploit the temporal and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jianzhi Long , Wenhao Sun , Rongcheng Tu , Dacheng Tao

We introduce the Fixed Point Diffusion Model (FPDM), a novel approach to image generation that integrates the concept of fixed point solving into the framework of diffusion-based generative modeling. Our approach embeds an implicit fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Xingjian Bai , Luke Melas-Kyriazi

We propose a diffusion model designed to generate point-based shape representations with correspondences. Traditional statistical shape models have considered point correspondences extensively, but current deep learning methods do not take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Shen Zhu , Yinzhu Jin , Ifrah Zawar , P. Thomas Fletcher

This research focuses on the development and enhancement of text-to-image denoising diffusion models, addressing key challenges such as limited sample diversity and training instability. By incorporating Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Rajdeep Roshan Sahu

Audio-driven talking head generation is critical for applications such as virtual assistants, video games, and films, where natural lip movements are essential. Despite progress in this field, challenges remain in producing both consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yucheng Wang , Dan Xu

There has been a longstanding belief that generation can facilitate a true understanding of visual data. In line with this, we revisit generatively pre-training visual representations in light of recent interest in denoising diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Chen Wei , Karttikeya Mangalam , Po-Yao Huang , Yanghao Li , Haoqi Fan , Hu Xu , Huiyu Wang , Cihang Xie , Alan Yuille , Christoph Feichtenhofer

Blind face restoration is an important task in computer vision and has gained significant attention due to its wide-range applications. Previous works mainly exploit facial priors to restore face images and have demonstrated high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Xiaoxu Chen , Jingfan Tan , Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Xiaochun Cao

Generating high-quality and person-generic visual dubbing remains a challenge. Recent innovation has seen the advent of a two-stage paradigm, decoupling the rendering and lip synchronization process facilitated by intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Tao Liu , Chenpeng Du , Shuai Fan , Feilong Chen , Kai Yu

Detecting diffusion-generated images has recently grown into an emerging research area. Existing diffusion-based datasets predominantly focus on general image generation. However, facial forgeries, which pose a more severe social risk, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Harry Cheng , Yangyang Guo , Tianyi Wang , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

In recent advances of deep generative models, face reenactment -manipulating and controlling human face, including their head movement-has drawn much attention for its wide range of applicability. Despite its strong expressiveness, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Takuya Yashima , Takuya Narihira , Tamaki Kojima