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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Zhenzhen Weng , Zeyu Wang , Serena Yeung

SmartAvatar is a vision-language-agent-driven framework for generating fully rigged, animation-ready 3D human avatars from a single photo or textual prompt. While diffusion-based methods have made progress in general 3D object generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Alexander Huang-Menders , Xinhang Liu , Andy Xu , Yuyao Zhang , Chi-Keung Tang , Yu-Wing Tai

Audio-driven human video generation has achieved remarkable success in monologue scenarios, largely driven by advancements in powerful video generation foundation models. Moving beyond monologues, authentic human communication is inherently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yuzhe Weng , Haotian Wang , Xinyi Yu , Xiaoyan Wu , Haoran Xu , Shan He , Jun Du

We present AvatarPopUp, a method for fast, high quality 3D human avatar generation from different input modalities, such as images and text prompts and with control over the generated pose and shape. The common theme is the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Nikos Kolotouros , Thiemo Alldieck , Enric Corona , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Cristian Sminchisescu

Facial animation in virtual reality environments is essential for applications that necessitate clear visibility of the user's face and the ability to convey emotional signals. In our scenario, we animate the face of an operator who…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Andre Rochow , Max Schwarz , Sven Behnke

We present a target-aware video diffusion model that generates videos from an input image, in which an actor interacts with a specified target while performing a desired action. The target is defined by a segmentation mask, and the action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Taeksoo Kim , Hanbyul Joo

Existing methods for image-to-3D avatar generation struggle to produce highly detailed, animation-ready avatars suitable for real-world applications. We introduce AdaHuman, a novel framework that generates high-fidelity animatable 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yangyi Huang , Ye Yuan , Xueting Li , Jan Kautz , Umar Iqbal

Human image animation involves generating a video from a static image by following a specified pose sequence. Current approaches typically adopt a multi-stage pipeline that separately learns appearance and motion, which often leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Qilin Wang , Zhengkai Jiang , Chengming Xu , Jiangning Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Xinyi Zhang , Yun Cao , Weijian Cao , Chengjie Wang , Yanwei Fu

Audio-driven human animation technology is widely used in human-computer interaction, and the emergence of diffusion models has further advanced its development. Currently, most methods rely on multi-stage generation and intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 S. Z. Zhou , Y. B. Wang , J. F. Wu , T. Hu , J. N. Zhang

Despite the remarkable process of talking-head-based avatar-creating solutions, directly generating anchor-style videos with full-body motions remains challenging. In this study, we propose Make-Your-Anchor, a novel system necessitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Ziyao Huang , Fan Tang , Yong Zhang , Xiaodong Cun , Juan Cao , Jintao Li , Tong-Yee Lee

Audio-driven talking head generation necessitates seamless integration of audio and visual data amidst the challenges posed by diverse input portraits and intricate correlations between audio and facial motions. In response, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Ziqi Zhou , Weize Quan , Hailin Shi , Wei Li , Lili Wang , Dong-Ming Yan

Recent attempts to interleave autoregressive (AR) sketchers with diffusion-based refiners over continuous speech representations have shown promise, but they remain brittle under distribution shift and offer limited levers for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Yakun Song , Xiaobin Zhuang , Jiawei Chen , Zhikang Niu , Guanrou Yang , Chenpeng Du , Dongya Jia , Zhuo Chen , Yuping Wang , Yuxuan Wang , Xie Chen

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

With the development of large-scale diffusion-based and language-modeling-based generative models, impressive progress has been achieved in text-to-audio generation. Despite producing high-quality outputs, existing text-to-audio models…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yi Yuan , Xubo Liu , Haohe Liu , Xiyuan Kang , Zhuo Chen , Yuxuan Wang , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

This paper investigates the problem of the current HOI detection methods and introduces DiffHOI, a novel HOI detection scheme grounded on a pre-trained text-image diffusion model, which enhances the detector's performance via improved data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Jie Yang , Bingliang Li , Fengyu Yang , Ailing Zeng , Lei Zhang , Ruimao Zhang

Audio-driven talking video generation has advanced significantly, but existing methods often depend on video-to-video translation techniques and traditional generative networks like GANs and they typically generate taking heads and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Steven Hogue , Chenxu Zhang , Hamza Daruger , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo

Character Animation aims to generating character videos from still images through driving signals. Currently, diffusion models have become the mainstream in visual generation research, owing to their robust generative capabilities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Li Hu , Xin Gao , Peng Zhang , Ke Sun , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

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

Real-time video generation via diffusion is essential for building general-purpose multimodal interactive AI systems. However, the simultaneous denoising of all video frames with bidirectional attention via an iterative process in diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ethan Chern , Zhulin Hu , Bohao Tang , Jiadi Su , Steffi Chern , Zhijie Deng , Pengfei Liu

Gestures are essential for enhancing co-speech communication, offering visual emphasis and complementing verbal interactions. While prior work has concentrated on point-level motion or fully supervised data-driven methods, we focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Jiahui Chen , Yang Huan , Runhua Shi , Chanfan Ding , Xiaoqi Mo , Siyu Xiong , Yinong He