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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

Storyboard synthesis plays a crucial role in visual storytelling, aiming to generate coherent shot sequences that visually narrate cinematic events with consistent characters, scenes, and transitions. However, existing approaches are mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Junjia Huang , Binbin Yang , Pengxiang Yan , Jiyang Liu , Bin Xia , Zhao Wang , Yitong Wang , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

Sequential identity consistency under precise transient attribute control remains a long-standing challenge in controllable visual storytelling. Existing datasets lack sufficient fidelity and fail to disentangle stable identities from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Xingxi Yin , Yicheng Li , Gong Yan , Chenglin Li , Jian Zhao , Cong Huang , Yue Deng , Yin Zhang

Generating a short story out of an image is arduous. Unlike image captioning, story generation from an image poses multiple challenges: preserving the story coherence, appropriately assessing the quality of the story, steering the generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Holy Lovenia , Bryan Wilie , Romain Barraud , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Willy Chung , Pascale Fung

Training-free consistent text-to-image generation depicting the same subjects across different images is a topic of widespread recent interest. Existing works in this direction predominantly rely on cross-frame self-attention; which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Jaskirat Singh , Junshen Kevin Chen , Jonas Kohler , Michael Cohen

We propose a data-driven approach for context-aware person image generation. Specifically, we attempt to generate a person image such that the synthesized instance can blend into a complex scene. In our method, the position, scale, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Prasun Roy , Saumik Bhattacharya , Subhankar Ghosh , Umapada Pal , Michael Blumenstein

Most real-world image editing tasks require multiple sequential edits to achieve desired results. Current editing approaches, primarily designed for single-object modifications, struggle with sequential editing: especially with maintaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Daneul Kim , Jaeah Lee , Jaesik Park

Animating virtual characters has always been a fundamental research problem in virtual reality (VR). Facial animations play a crucial role as they effectively convey emotions and attitudes of virtual humans. However, creating such facial…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Zechen Bai , Peng Chen , Xiaolan Peng , Lu Liu , Hui Chen , Mike Zheng Shou , Feng Tian

Personalized image generation requires text-to-image generative models that capture the core features of a reference subject to allow for controlled generation across different contexts. Existing methods face challenges due to complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Emanuele Aiello , Umberto Michieli , Diego Valsesia , Mete Ozay , Enrico Magli

Generating high-fidelity images of humans with fine-grained control over attributes such as hairstyle and clothing remains a core challenge in personalized text-to-image synthesis. While prior methods emphasize identity preservation from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Guocheng Gordon Qian , Daniil Ostashev , Egor Nemchinov , Avihay Assouline , Sergey Tulyakov , Kuan-Chieh Jackson Wang , Kfir Aberman

Speech-driven 3D facial animation aims to synthesize realistic facial motion sequences from given audio, matching the speaker's speaking style. However, previous works often require priors such as class labels of a speaker or additional 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Hyung Kyu Kim , Sangmin Lee , Hak Gu Kim

Pre-trained large text-to-image (T2I) models with an appropriate text prompt has attracted growing interests in customized images generation field. However, catastrophic forgetting issue make it hard to continually synthesize new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Chenxi Liu , Gan Sun , Wenqi Liang , Jiahua Dong , Can Qin , Yang Cong

The paper introduces AniTalker, an innovative framework designed to generate lifelike talking faces from a single portrait. Unlike existing models that primarily focus on verbal cues such as lip synchronization and fail to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Tao Liu , Feilong Chen , Shuai Fan , Chenpeng Du , Qi Chen , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

Accurate Story visualization requires several necessary elements, such as identity consistency across frames, the alignment between plain text and visual content, and a reasonable layout of objects in images. Most previous works endeavor to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Yuan Gong , Youxin Pang , Xiaodong Cun , Menghan Xia , Yingqing He , Haoxin Chen , Longyue Wang , Yong Zhang , Xintao Wang , Ying Shan , Yujiu Yang

Unified multimodal understanding and generation models enable richer human-AI interaction. Yet jointly customizing a character's persona, dialogue style, and visual identity while maintaining output consistency across modalities remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chao Tang , Jianzong Wu , Qingyu Shi , Ye Tian , Aixi Zhang , Hao Jiang , Jiangning Zhang , Yunhai Tong

Story visualization has gained increasing attention in computer vision. However, current methods often fail to achieve a synergy between accurate character customization, semantic alignment, and continuous integration of new identities. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jinlu Zhang , Qiyun Wang , Baoxiang Du , Jiayi Ji , Jing He , Rongsheng Zhang , Tangjie Lv , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

Personalized text-to-image generation has emerged as a powerful and sought-after tool, empowering users to create customized images based on their specific concepts and prompts. However, existing approaches to personalization encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Li Chen , Mengyi Zhao , Yiheng Liu , Mingxu Ding , Yangyang Song , Shizun Wang , Xu Wang , Hao Yang , Jing Liu , Kang Du , Min Zheng

Talking head video generation aims to generate a realistic talking head video that preserves the person's identity from a source image and the motion from a driving video. Despite the promising progress made in the field, it remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Shuling Zhao , Fa-Ting Hong , Xiaoshui Huang , Dan Xu

In recent years, the role of image generative models in facial reenactment has been steadily increasing. Such models are usually subject-agnostic and trained on domain-wide datasets. The appearance of the reenacted individual is learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Ariel Elazary , Yotam Nitzan , Daniel Cohen-Or

Synthesis of face images from visual attributes is an important problem in computer vision and biometrics due to its applications in law enforcement and entertainment. Recent advances in deep generative networks have made it possible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Xing Di , Vishal M. Patel