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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

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved 3D generation, enabling the use of assets generated from an image for embodied AI simulations. However, the one-to-many nature of the image-to-3D problem limits their use due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Onat Şahin , Mohammad Altillawi , George Eskandar , Carlos Carbone , Ziyuan Liu

Audio-driven talking video generation has advanced significantly, but existing methods often depend on video-to-video translation techniques and traditional generative networks like GANs and they typically generate taking heads and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Steven Hogue , Chenxu Zhang , Hamza Daruger , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo

Reconstructing photorealistic and animatable 4D head avatars from a single portrait image remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. While diffusion models have enabled remarkable progress in image and video generation for avatar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Chao Xu , Xiaochen Zhao , Xiang Deng , Jingxiang Sun , Donglin Di , Zhuo Su , Yebin Liu

Diffusion-based methods can generate realistic images and videos, but they struggle to edit existing objects in a video while preserving their appearance over time. This prevents diffusion models from being applied to natural video editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Wenhao Chai , Xun Guo , Gaoang Wang , Yan Lu

Animating stylized avatars with dynamic poses and expressions has attracted increasing attention for its broad range of applications. Previous research has made significant progress by training controllable generative models to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Ken Chen , Sachith Seneviratne , Wei Wang , Dongting Hu , Sanjay Saha , Md. Tarek Hasan , Sanka Rasnayaka , Tamasha Malepathirana , Mingming Gong , Saman Halgamuge

Inspired by the impressive performance of recent face image editing methods, several studies have been naturally proposed to extend these methods to the face video editing task. One of the main challenges here is temporal consistency among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Gyeongman Kim , Hajin Shim , Hyunsu Kim , Yunjey Choi , Junho Kim , Eunho Yang

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

Recent video inpainting algorithms integrate flow-based pixel propagation with transformer-based generation to leverage optical flow for restoring textures and objects using information from neighboring frames, while completing masked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Xiaowen Li , Haolan Xue , Peiran Ren , Liefeng Bo

Speech-driven 3D facial animation synthesis has been a challenging task both in industry and research. Recent methods mostly focus on deterministic deep learning methods meaning that given a speech input, the output is always the same.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Stefan Stan , Kazi Injamamul Haque , Zerrin Yumak

Current hair transfer methods struggle to handle diverse and intricate hairstyles, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel diffusion-based hair transfer framework, named \textit{Stable-Hair},…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yuxuan Zhang , Qing Zhang , Yiren Song , Jichao Zhang , Hao Tang , Jiaming Liu

This paper presents STARCaster, an identity-aware spatio-temporal video diffusion model that addresses both speech-driven portrait animation and free-viewpoint talking portrait synthesis, given an identity embedding or reference image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou , Stathis Galanakis , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Bernhard Kainz , Stefanos Zafeiriou

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

We present a diffusion-based video editing framework, namely DiffusionAtlas, which can achieve both frame consistency and high fidelity in editing video object appearance. Despite the success in image editing, diffusion models still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Shao-Yu Chang , Hwann-Tzong Chen , Tyng-Luh Liu

Speech-driven 3D facial animation plays a key role in applications such as virtual avatars, gaming, and digital content creation. While existing methods have made significant progress in achieving accurate lip synchronization and generating…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yifang Pan , Karan Singh , Luiz Gustavo Hafemann

This paper presents a 3D generative model that uses diffusion models to automatically generate 3D digital avatars represented as neural radiance fields. A significant challenge in generating such avatars is that the memory and processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Tengfei Wang , Bo Zhang , Ting Zhang , Shuyang Gu , Jianmin Bao , Tadas Baltrusaitis , Jingjing Shen , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Qifeng Chen , Baining Guo

Speech-driven talking head generation is a critical yet challenging task with applications in augmented reality and virtual human modeling. While recent approaches using autoregressive and diffusion-based models have achieved notable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Yihong Lin , Zhaoxin Fan , Xianjia Wu , Lingyu Xiong , Liang Peng , Xiandong Li , Wenxiong Kang , Songju Lei , Huang Xu

Talking head generation is a significant research topic that still faces numerous challenges. Previous works often adopt generative adversarial networks or regression models, which are plagued by generation quality and average facial shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ziyu Yao , Xuxin Cheng , Zhiqi Huang

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

While modern diffusion models excel at generating diverse single images, extending this to sequential generation reveals a fundamental challenge: balancing narrative dynamism with multi-character coherence. Existing methods often falter at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Qi Zhao , Jun Chen , Ivor Tsang , Guang Dai