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Extracting individual elements from music mixtures is a valuable tool for music production and practice. While neural networks optimized to mask or transform mixture spectrograms into the individual source(s) have been the leading approach,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Genís Plaja-Roglans , Yun-Ning Hung , Xavier Serra , Igor Pereira

Multimodal-driven talking face generation refers to animating a portrait with the given pose, expression, and gaze transferred from the driving image and video, or estimated from the text and audio. However, existing methods ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Chao Xu , Shaoting Zhu , Junwei Zhu , Tianxin Huang , Jiangning Zhang , Ying Tai , Yong Liu

Electromyography-to-Speech (ETS) conversion has demonstrated its potential for silent speech interfaces by generating audible speech from Electromyography (EMG) signals during silent articulations. ETS models usually consist of an EMG…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Zhao Ren , Kevin Scheck , Qinhan Hou , Stefano van Gogh , Michael Wand , Tanja Schultz

The listener head generation (LHG) task aims to generate natural nonverbal listener responses based on the speaker's multimodal cues. While prior work either rely on limited modalities (e.g. audio and facial information) or employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Siyeol Jung , Taehwan Kim

Creating a virtual avatar with semantically coherent gestures that are aligned with speech is a challenging task. Existing gesture generation research mainly focused on generating rhythmic beat gestures, neglecting the semantic context of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Lanmiao Liu , Esam Ghaleb , Aslı Özyürek , Zerrin Yumak

Generating holistic co-speech gestures that integrate full-body motion with facial expressions suffers from semantically incoherent coordination on body motion and spatially unstable meaningless movements due to existing part-decomposed or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xuanmeng Sha , Liyun Zhang , Tomohiro Mashita , Naoya Chiba , Yuki Uranishi

Whole-body audio-driven avatar pose and expression generation is a critical task for creating lifelike digital humans and enhancing the capabilities of interactive virtual agents, with wide-ranging applications in virtual reality, digital…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Tianbao Zhang , Jian Zhao , Yuer Li , Zheng Zhu , Ping Hu , Zhaoxin Fan , Wenjun Wu , Xuelong Li

We propose a new framework for gesture generation, aiming to allow data-driven approaches to produce more semantically rich gestures. Our approach first predicts whether to gesture, followed by a prediction of the gesture properties. Those…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Taras Kucherenko , Rajmund Nagy , Patrik Jonell , Michael Neff , Hedvig Kjellström , Gustav Eje Henter

We propose PersonaGesture, a diffusion-based pipeline for single-reference co-speech gesture personalization of unseen speakers. Given target speech and one motion clip from a new speaker, the model must synthesize gestures that follow the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xiangyue Zhang , Yiyi Cai , Kunhang Li , Kaixing Yang , You Zhou , Zhengqing Li , Xuangeng Chu , Jiaxu Zhang , Haiyang Liu

Articulated object generation has seen increasing advancements, yet existing models often lack the ability to be conditioned on text prompts. To address the significant gap between textual descriptions and 3D articulated object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Hao Sun , Lei Fan , Donglin Di , Shaohui Liu

Diffusion Models represent a significant advancement in generative modeling, employing a dual-phase process that first degrades domain-specific information via Gaussian noise and restores it through a trainable model. This framework enables…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Benedikt Hartl , Yanbo Zhang , Hananel Hazan , Michael Levin

Embodied conversational agents benefit from being able to accompany their speech with gestures. Although many data-driven approaches to gesture generation have been proposed in recent years, it is still unclear whether such systems can…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Taras Kucherenko , Rajmund Nagy , Michael Neff , Hedvig Kjellström , Gustav Eje Henter

Audio-driven simultaneous gesture generation is vital for human-computer communication, AI games, and film production. While previous research has shown promise, there are still limitations. Methods based on VAEs are accompanied by issues…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yongkang Cheng , Mingjiang Liang , Shaoli Huang , Gaoge Han , Jifeng Ning , Wei Liu

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for generation, obtaining strong performance in various continuous domains. However, applying continuous diffusion models to natural language remains challenging due to its discrete…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Rabeeh Karimi Mahabadi , Hamish Ivison , Jaesung Tae , James Henderson , Iz Beltagy , Matthew E. Peters , Arman Cohan

The generation of stylistic 3D facial animations driven by speech presents a significant challenge as it requires learning a many-to-many mapping between speech, style, and the corresponding natural facial motion. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Zhiyao Sun , Tian Lv , Sheng Ye , Matthieu Lin , Jenny Sheng , Yu-Hui Wen , Minjing Yu , Yong-Jin Liu

Autoregressive language models dominate modern text generation, yet their sequential nature introduces fundamental limitations: decoding is slow, and maintaining global coherence remains challenging. Diffusion models offer a promising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Viacheslav Meshchaninov , Egor Chimbulatov , Alexander Shabalin , Aleksandr Abramov , Dmitry Vetrov

Diffusion generative models transform noise into data by inverting a process that progressively adds noise to data samples. Inspired by concepts from the renormalization group in physics, which analyzes systems across different scales, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mathis Gerdes , Max Welling , Miranda C. N. Cheng

We propose LiveGesture, the first fully streamable, speech-driven full-body gesture generation framework that operates with zero look-ahead and supports arbitrary sequence length. Unlike existing co-speech gesture methods, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Muhammad Usama Saleem , Mayur Jagdishbhai Patel , Ekkasit Pinyoanuntapong , Zhongxing Qin , Li Yang , Hongfei Xue , Ahmed Helmy , Chen Chen , Pu Wang

Speech-driven animation has gained significant traction in recent years, with current methods achieving near-photorealistic results. However, the field remains underexplored regarding non-verbal communication despite evidence demonstrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Antoni Bigata Casademunt , Rodrigo Mira , Nikita Drobyshev , Konstantinos Vougioukas , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Diffusion models have significantly advanced the field of talking head generation (THG). However, slow inference speeds and prevalent non-autoregressive paradigms severely constrain the application of diffusion-based THG models. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Haotian Wang , Yuzhe Weng , Jun Du , Haoran Xu , Xiaoyan Wu , Shan He , Bing Yin , Cong Liu , Qingfeng Liu
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