English
Related papers

Related papers: Sonic: Shifting Focus to Global Audio Perception i…

200 papers

Contrastively pretrained audio-language models (e.g., CLAP) excel at clip-level understanding but struggle with frame-level tasks. Existing extensions fail to exploit the varying granularity of real-world audio-text data, where massive…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xiquan Li , Xuenan Xu , Ziyang Ma , Wenxi Chen , Haolin He , Qiuqiang Kong , Xie Chen

When watching videos, the occurrence of a visual event is often accompanied by an audio event, e.g., the voice of lip motion, the music of playing instruments. There is an underlying correlation between audio and visual events, which can be…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Ying Cheng , Ruize Wang , Zhihao Pan , Rui Feng , Yuejie Zhang

The one-shot talking-head synthesis task aims to animate a source image to another pose and expression, which is dictated by a driving frame. Recent methods rely on warping the appearance feature extracted from the source, by using motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Kangning Liu , Yu-Chuan Su , Wei , Hong , Ruijin Cang , Xuhui Jia

Lip synchronization aims to generate realistic talking videos that match given audio, which is essential for high-quality video dubbing. However, current methods have fundamental drawbacks: mask-based approaches suffer from local color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Ruidi Fan , Yang Zhou , Siyuan Wang , Tian Yu , Yutong Jiang , Xusheng Liu

Computing practice today depends on visual output to drive almost all user interaction. Other senses, such as audition, may be totally neglected, or used tangentially, or used in highly restricted specialized ways. We have excellent audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Michael J. O'Donnell , Ilia Bisnovatyi

Binaural stereo audio is recorded by imitating the way the human ear receives sound, which provides people with an immersive listening experience. Existing approaches leverage autoencoders and directly exploit visual spatial information to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Zhaojian Li , Bin Zhao , Yuan Yuan

Current visual generation methods can produce high quality videos guided by texts. However, effectively controlling object dynamics remains a challenge. This work explores audio as a cue to generate temporally synchronized image animations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Lin Zhang , Shentong Mo , Yijing Zhang , Pedro Morgado

End-to-end audio-conditioned latent diffusion models (LDMs) have been widely adopted for audio-driven portrait animation, demonstrating their effectiveness in generating lifelike and high-resolution talking videos. However, direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Chunyu Li , Chao Zhang , Weikai Xu , Jingyu Lin , Jinghui Xie , Weiguo Feng , Bingyue Peng , Cunjian Chen , Weiwei Xing

End-to-end human animation with rich multi-modal conditions, e.g., text, image and audio has achieved remarkable advancements in recent years. However, most existing methods could only animate a single subject and inject conditions in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Zhenzhi Wang , Jiaqi Yang , Jianwen Jiang , Chao Liang , Gaojie Lin , Zerong Zheng , Ceyuan Yang , Yuan Zhang , Mingyuan Gao , Dahua Lin

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has been widely studied, yet there is still a gap to achieving realism and vividness due to the highly ill-posed nature and scarcity of audio-visual data. Existing works typically formulate the cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jinbo Xing , Menghan Xia , Yuechen Zhang , Xiaodong Cun , Jue Wang , Tien-Tsin Wong

We present MagicInfinite, a novel diffusion Transformer (DiT) framework that overcomes traditional portrait animation limitations, delivering high-fidelity results across diverse character types-realistic humans, full-body figures, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hongwei Yi , Tian Ye , Shitong Shao , Xuancheng Yang , Jiantong Zhao , Hanzhong Guo , Terrance Wang , Qingyu Yin , Zeke Xie , Lei Zhu , Wei Li , Michael Lingelbach , Daquan Zhou

Audio-driven video generation aims to synthesize realistic videos that align with input audio recordings, akin to the human ability to visualize scenes from auditory input. However, existing approaches predominantly focus on exploring…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Kien T. Pham , Yingqing He , Yazhou Xing , Qifeng Chen , Long Chen

Audio-driven emotional 3D facial animation aims to generate synchronized lip movements and vivid facial expressions. However, most existing approaches focus on static and predefined emotion labels, limiting their diversity and naturalness.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Chang Liu , Ye Pan , Chenyang Ding , Susanto Rahardja , Xiaokang Yang

Generating highly dynamic and photorealistic portrait animations driven by audio and skeletal motion remains challenging due to the need for precise lip synchronization, natural facial expressions, and high-fidelity body motion dynamics. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jiahao Cui , Yan Chen , Mingwang Xu , Hanlin Shang , Yuxuan Chen , Yun Zhan , Zilong Dong , Yao Yao , Jingdong Wang , Siyu Zhu

Audio-driven visual scene editing endeavors to manipulate the visual background while leaving the foreground content unchanged, according to the given audio signals. Unlike current efforts focusing primarily on image editing, audio-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Kaixin Shen , Ruijie Quan , Linchao Zhu , Jun Xiao , Yi Yang

The recent success of the generative model shows that leveraging the multi-modal embedding space can manipulate an image using text information. However, manipulating an image with other sources rather than text, such as sound, is not easy…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Seung Hyun Lee , Wonseok Roh , Wonmin Byeon , Sang Ho Yoon , Chan Young Kim , Jinkyu Kim , Sangpil Kim

We present a novel audio-driven facial animation approach that can generate realistic lip-synchronized 3D facial animations from the input audio. Our approach learns viseme dynamics from speech videos, produces animator-friendly viseme…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Linchao Bao , Haoxian Zhang , Yue Qian , Tangli Xue , Changhai Chen , Xuefei Zhe , Di Kang

If a picture paints a thousand words, sound may voice a million. While recent robotic painting and image synthesis methods have achieved progress in generating visuals from text inputs, the translation of sound into images is vastly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Vihaan Misra , Peter Schaldenbrand , Jean Oh

Talking head generation is to synthesize a lip-synchronized talking head video by inputting an arbitrary face image and corresponding audio clips. Existing methods ignore not only the interaction and relationship of cross-modal information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Sen Chen , Zhilei Liu , Jiaxing Liu , Longbiao Wang

Talking face generation is the challenging task of synthesizing a natural and realistic face that requires accurate synchronization with a given audio. Due to co-articulation, where an isolated phone is influenced by the preceding or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Se Jin Park , Minsu Kim , Jeongsoo Choi , Yong Man Ro