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Gestures play a key role in human communication. Recent methods for co-speech gesture generation, while managing to generate beat-aligned motions, struggle generating gestures that are semantically aligned with the utterance. Compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Muhammad Hamza Mughal , Rishabh Dabral , Ikhsanul Habibie , Lucia Donatelli , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt

Controllable video generation (CVG) has advanced rapidly, yet current systems falter when more than one actor must move, interact, and exchange positions under noisy control signals. We address this gap with DanceTogether, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Junhao Chen , Mingjin Chen , Jianjin Xu , Xiang Li , Junting Dong , Mingze Sun , Puhua Jiang , Hongxiang Li , Yuhang Yang , Hao Zhao , Xiaoxiao Long , Ruqi Huang

Talking head generation intends to produce vivid and realistic talking head videos from a single portrait and speech audio clip. Although significant progress has been made in diffusion-based talking head generation, almost all methods rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Hanbo Cheng , Limin Lin , Chenyu Liu , Pengcheng Xia , Pengfei Hu , Jiefeng Ma , Jun Du , Jia Pan

Generating 3D-based body movements from speech shows great potential in extensive downstream applications, while it still suffers challenges in imitating realistic human movements. Predominant research efforts focus on end-to-end generation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xin Guo , Yifan Zhao , Jia Li

Text-to-video diffusion models have enabled high-quality video synthesis, yet often fail to generate temporally coherent and physically plausible motion. A key reason is the models' insufficient understanding of complex motions that natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Aritra Bhowmik , Denis Korzhenkov , Cees G. M. Snoek , Amirhossein Habibian , Mohsen Ghafoorian

State-of-the-art Text-to-Video (T2V) diffusion models can generate visually impressive results, yet they still frequently fail to compose complex scenes or follow logical temporal instructions. In this paper, we argue that many errors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Mariam Hassan , Bastien Van Delft , Wuyang Li , Alexandre Alahi

Humans can infer complete shapes and appearances of objects from limited visual cues, relying on extensive prior knowledge of the physical world. However, completing partially observable objects while ensuring consistency across video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ruijie Lu , Yixin Chen , Yu Liu , Jiaxiang Tang , Junfeng Ni , Diwen Wan , Gang Zeng , Siyuan Huang

Despite diffusion models having shown powerful abilities to generate photorealistic images, generating videos that are realistic and diverse still remains in its infancy. One of the key reasons is that current methods intertwine spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Zhiwu Qing , Shiwei Zhang , Jiayu Wang , Xiang Wang , Yujie Wei , Yingya Zhang , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

Talking face generation has historically struggled to produce head movements and natural facial expressions without guidance from additional reference videos. Recent developments in diffusion-based generative models allow for more realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Michał Stypułkowski , Konstantinos Vougioukas , Sen He , Maciej Zięba , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Co-speech gesture generation aims to synthesize realistic body movements that are semantically coherent with speech and faithful to a user-specified gestural style. Existing VQ-VAE based co-speech gesture generation methods improve…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Junchuan Zhao , Qifan Liang , Ye Wang

Co-speech gesture generation is crucial for automatic digital avatar animation. However, existing methods suffer from issues such as unstable training and temporal inconsistency, particularly in generating high-fidelity and comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Longbin Ji , Pengfei Wei , Yi Ren , Jinglin Liu , Chen Zhang , Xiang Yin

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mingwang Xu , Hui Li , Qingkun Su , Hanlin Shang , Liwei Zhang , Ce Liu , Jingdong Wang , Yao Yao , Siyu Zhu

Technological developments have produced methods that can generate educational videos from input text or sound. Recently, the use of deep learning techniques for image and video generation has been widely explored, particularly in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-27 M. E. ElAlami , S. M. Khater , M. El. R. Rehan

In recent years, with the realistic generation results and a wide range of personalized applications, diffusion-based generative models gain huge attention in both visual and audio generation areas. Compared to the considerable advancements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Shiqi Yang , Zhi Zhong , Mengjie Zhao , Shusuke Takahashi , Masato Ishii , Takashi Shibuya , Yuki Mitsufuji

The task of video generation requires synthesizing visually realistic and temporally coherent video frames. Existing methods primarily use asynchronous auto-regressive models or synchronous diffusion models to address this challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mingzhen Sun , Weining Wang , Gen Li , Jiawei Liu , Jiahui Sun , Wanquan Feng , Shanshan Lao , SiYu Zhou , Qian He , Jing Liu

Existing gesture generation methods primarily focus on upper body gestures based on audio features, neglecting speech content, emotion, and locomotion. These limitations result in stiff, mechanical gestures that fail to convey the true…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yongkang Cheng , Mingjiang Liang , Shaoli Huang , Gaoge Han , Jifeng Ning , Wei Liu

Large-scale Text-to-Video (T2V) diffusion models have recently demonstrated unprecedented capability to transform natural language descriptions into stunning and photorealistic videos. Despite the promising results, a significant challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xingyi Yang , Xinchao Wang

Diffusion models have achieved impressive performance in video generation, but their iterative denoising process remains computationally expensive due to the large number of tokens processed at each timestep. Recently, progressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shikang Zheng , Jingkai Huang , Jiacheng Liu , Guantao Chen , Lixuan , Yuqi Lin , Peiliang Cai , Linfeng Zhang

We devise a cascade GAN approach to generate talking face video, which is robust to different face shapes, view angles, facial characteristics, and noisy audio conditions. Instead of learning a direct mapping from audio to video frames, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Lele Chen , Ross K. Maddox , Zhiyao Duan , Chenliang Xu

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable synthesis quality and diversity in generating co-speech gestures. However, the computationally intensive sampling steps associated with diffusion models hinder their practicality in real-world…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yongkang Cheng , Shaoli Huang , Xuelin Chen , Jifeng Ning , Mingming Gong