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Generating realistic animated videos from static images is an important area of research in computer vision. Methods based on physical simulation and motion prediction have achieved notable advances, but they are often limited to specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Qiang Wang , Minghua Liu , Junjun Hu , Fan Jiang , Mu Xu

Animating virtual avatars to make co-speech gestures facilitates various applications in human-machine interaction. The existing methods mainly rely on generative adversarial networks (GANs), which typically suffer from notorious mode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Lingting Zhu , Xian Liu , Xuanyu Liu , Rui Qian , Ziwei Liu , Lequan Yu

Current diffusion-based portrait animation models predominantly focus on enhancing visual quality and expression realism, while overlooking generation latency and real-time performance, which restricts their application range in the live…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Zhiyuan Li , Chi-Man Pun , Chen Fang , Jue Wang , Xiaodong Cun

Generating realistic talking-head videos remains challenging due to persistent issues such as imperfect lip synchronization, unnatural motion, and evaluation metrics that correlate poorly with human perception. We propose FlowPortrait, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Weiting Tan , Andy T. Liu , Ming Tu , Xinghua Qu , Philipp Koehn , Lu Lu

In this work, we tackle the challenge of enhancing the realism and expressiveness in talking head video generation by focusing on the dynamic and nuanced relationship between audio cues and facial movements. We identify the limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Linrui Tian , Qi Wang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Audio-driven talking face generation is a challenging task in digital communication. Despite significant progress in the area, most existing methods concentrate on audio-lip synchronization, often overlooking aspects such as visual quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Fatemeh Nazarieh , Zhenhua Feng , Diptesh Kanojia , Muhammad Awais , Josef Kittler

Video and audio content creation serves as the core technique for the movie industry and professional users. Recently, existing diffusion-based methods tackle video and audio generation separately, which hinders the technique transfer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Yazhou Xing , Yingqing He , Zeyue Tian , Xintao Wang , Qifeng Chen

Audio-Visual Foundation Models, which are pretrained to jointly generate sound and visual content, have recently shown an unprecedented ability to model multi-modal generation and editing, opening new opportunities for downstream tasks.…

In this paper, we present TalkingMachines -- an efficient framework that transforms pretrained video generation models into real-time, audio-driven character animators. TalkingMachines enables natural conversational experiences by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Chetwin Low , Weimin Wang

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

Dancing with music is always an essential human art form to express emotion. Due to the high temporal-spacial complexity, long-term 3D realist dance generation synchronized with music is challenging. Existing methods suffer from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Siqi Yang , Zejun Yang , Zhisheng Wang

Recent advances in diffusion models have led to significant progress in audio-driven lip synchronization. However, existing methods typically rely on constrained audio-visual alignment priors or multi-stage learning of intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Junxian Ma , Shiwen Wang , Jian Yang , Junyi Hu , Jian Liang , Guosheng Lin , Jingbo chen , Kai Li , Yu Meng

Foley sound generation, the art of creating audio for multimedia, has recently seen notable advancements through text-conditioned latent diffusion models. These systems use multimodal text-audio representation models, such as Contrastive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Tornike Karchkhadze , Hassan Salami Kavaki , Mohammad Rasool Izadi , Bryce Irvin , Mikolaj Kegler , Ari Hertz , Shuo Zhang , Marko Stamenovic

Latent video diffusion models generate videos by progressively transforming Gaussian noise into realistic samples conditioned on text or visual inputs. However, existing conditioning methods often require additional training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ofir Abramovich , Nadav Z. Cohen , Adi Rosenthal , Ariel Shamir

Foley is a term commonly used in filmmaking, referring to the addition of daily sound effects to silent films or videos to enhance the auditory experience. Video-to-Audio (V2A), as a particular type of automatic foley task, presents…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Qi Yang , Binjie Mao , Zili Wang , Xing Nie , Pengfei Gao , Ying Guo , Cheng Zhen , Pengfei Yan , Shiming Xiang

Recent diffusion-based talking face generation models have demonstrated impressive potential in synthesizing videos that accurately match a speech audio clip with a given reference identity. However, existing approaches still encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xingpei Ma , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shenneng Huang , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang

While current research predominantly focuses on image-based colorization, the domain of video-based colorization remains relatively unexplored. Most existing video colorization techniques operate on a frame-by-frame basis, often overlooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Rory Ward , Dan Bigioi , Shubhajit Basak , John G. Breslin , Peter Corcoran

The generation of sounding videos has seen significant advancements with the advent of diffusion models. However, existing methods often lack the fine-grained control needed to generate viewpoint-specific content from larger, immersive…

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 John Flynn , Wolfgang Paier , Dimitar Dinev , Sam Nhut Nguyen , Hayk Poghosyan , Manuel Toribio , Sandipan Banerjee , Guy Gafni

Audio-driven talking face video generation has attracted increasing attention due to its huge industrial potential. Some previous methods focus on learning a direct mapping from audio to visual content. Despite progress, they often struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Weizhi Zhong , Junfan Lin , Peixin Chen , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li