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Significant progress has been made for speech-driven 3D face animation, but most works focus on learning the motion of mesh/geometry, ignoring the impact of dynamic texture. In this work, we reveal that dynamic texture plays a key role in…

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Video-driven neural face reenactment aims to synthesize realistic facial images that successfully preserve the identity and appearance of a source face, while transferring the target head pose and facial expressions. Existing GAN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Stella Bounareli , Christos Tzelepis , Vasileios Argyriou , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Diffusion models have shown impressive potential on talking head generation. While plausible appearance and talking effect are achieved, these methods still suffer from temporal, 3D or expression inconsistency due to the error accumulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Haijie Yang , Zhenyu Zhang , Hao Tang , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang

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

Robust perception and dynamics modeling are fundamental to real-world robotic policy learning. Recent methods employ video diffusion models (VDMs) to enhance robotic policies, improving their understanding and modeling of the physical…

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…

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Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved the realism and generalizability of character-driven animation, enabling the synthesis of high-quality motion from just a single RGB image and a set of driving poses.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Alireza Javanmardi , Pragati Jaiswal , Tewodros Amberbir Habtegebrial , Christen Millerdurai , Shaoxiang Wang , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

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

The ability to generate diverse 3D articulated head avatars is vital to a plethora of applications, including augmented reality, cinematography, and education. Recent work on text-guided 3D object generation has shown great promise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Alexander W. Bergman , Wang Yifan , Gordon Wetzstein

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has been an attractive task in both academia and industry. Traditional methods mostly focus on learning a deterministic mapping from speech to animation. Recent approaches start to consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Peng Chen , Xiaobao Wei , Ming Lu , Yitong Zhu , Naiming Yao , Xingyu Xiao , Hui Chen

This paper focuses on the task of speech-driven 3D facial animation, which aims to generate realistic and synchronized facial motions driven by speech inputs. Recent methods have employed audio-conditioned diffusion models for 3D facial…

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The rising demand for creating lifelike avatars in the digital realm has led to an increased need for generating high-quality human videos guided by textual descriptions and poses. We propose Dancing Avatar, designed to fabricate human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Bosheng Qin , Wentao Ye , Qifan Yu , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Generating realistic human-human interactions is a challenging task that requires not only high-quality individual body and hand motions, but also coherent coordination among all interactants. Due to limitations in available data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Pablo Ruiz-Ponce , Sergio Escalera , José García-Rodríguez , Jiankang Deng , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias

Talking head generation creates lifelike avatars from static portraits for virtual communication and content creation. However, current models do not yet convey the feeling of truly interactive communication, often generating one-way…

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Recently, text-guided 3D generative methods have made remarkable advancements in producing high-quality textures and geometry, capitalizing on the proliferation of large vision-language and image diffusion models. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Xiao Han , Yukang Cao , Kai Han , Xiatian Zhu , Jiankang Deng , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

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

Real-time, streaming interactive avatars represent a critical yet challenging goal in digital human research. Although diffusion-based human avatar generation methods achieve remarkable success, their non-causal architecture and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhiyao Sun , Ziqiao Peng , Yifeng Ma , Yi Chen , Zhengguang Zhou , Zixiang Zhou , Guozhen Zhang , Youliang Zhang , Yuan Zhou , Qinglin Lu , Yong-Jin Liu

Diffusion-based models have gained wide adoption in the virtual human generation due to their outstanding expressiveness. However, their substantial computational requirements have constrained their deployment in real-time interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Haojie Yu , Zhaonian Wang , Yihan Pan , Meng Cheng , Hao Yang , Chao Wang , Tao Xie , Xiaoming Xu , Xiaoming Wei , Xunliang Cai

Creating a realistic animatable avatar from a single static portrait remains challenging. Existing approaches often struggle to capture subtle facial expressions, the associated global body movements, and the dynamic background. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mengchao Wang , Qiang Wang , Fan Jiang , Yaqi Fan , Yunpeng Zhang , Yonggang Qi , Kun Zhao , Mu Xu

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
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