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Human motion copy is an intriguing yet challenging task in artificial intelligence and computer vision, which strives to generate a fake video of a target person performing the motion of a source person. The problem is inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Sifan Wu , Zhenguang Liu , Beibei Zhang , Roger Zimmermann , Zhongjie Ba , Xiaosong Zhang , Kui Ren

The body movements accompanying speech aid speakers in expressing their ideas. Co-speech motion generation is one of the important approaches for synthesizing realistic avatars. Due to the intricate correspondence between speech and motion,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Sen Wang , Jiangning Zhang , Xin Tan , Zhifeng Xie , Chengjie Wang , Lizhuang Ma

We propose a neural talking-head video synthesis model and demonstrate its application to video conferencing. Our model learns to synthesize a talking-head video using a source image containing the target person's appearance and a driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Ting-Chun Wang , Arun Mallya , Ming-Yu Liu

Speech-driven three-dimensional (3D) facial animation synthesis aims to build a mapping from one-dimensional (1D) speech signals to time-varying 3D facial motion signals. Current methods still face challenges in maintaining lip-sync…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Bin Liu , Zhixiang Xiong , Zhifen He , Bo Li

Recently, emotional talking face generation has received considerable attention. However, existing methods only adopt one-hot coding, image, or audio as emotion conditions, thus lacking flexible control in practical applications and failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Chao Xu , Junwei Zhu , Jiangning Zhang , Yue Han , Wenqing Chu , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Zhifeng Xie , Yong Liu

Motion transfer of talking-head videos involves generating a new video with the appearance of a subject video and the motion pattern of a driving video. Current methodologies primarily depend on a limited number of subject images and 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Haomiao Ni , Jiachen Liu , Yuan Xue , Sharon X. Huang

Recent studies in speech-driven talking face generation achieve promising results, but their reliance on fixed-driven speech limits further applications (e.g., face-voice mismatch). Thus, we extend the task to a more challenging setting:…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Fang Kang , Yin Cao , Haoyu Chen

Formulated as a conditional generation problem, face animation aims at synthesizing continuous face images from a single source image driven by a set of conditional face motion. Previous works mainly model the face motion as conditions with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Xintian Wu , Qihang Zhang , Yiming Wu , Huanyu Wang , Songyuan Li , Lingyun Sun , Xi Li

Audio-Driven Talking Face Generation aims at generating realistic videos of talking faces, focusing on accurate audio-lip synchronization without deteriorating any identity-related visual details. Recent state-of-the-art methods are based…

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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

Generating videos of complex human motions such as flips, cartwheels, and martial arts remains challenging for current video diffusion models. Text-only conditioning is temporally ambiguous for fine-grained motion control, while explicit…

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Recent advances in conditional diffusion models have shown promise for generating realistic TalkingFace videos, yet challenges persist in achieving consistent head movement, synchronized facial expressions, and accurate lip synchronization…

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Automatically generating videos in which synthesized speech is synchronized with lip movements in a talking head has great potential in many human-computer interaction scenarios. In this paper, we present an automatic method to generate…

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Recent advances in diffusion models bring new vitality to visual content creation. However, current text-to-video generation models still face significant challenges such as high training costs, substantial data requirements, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Sicong Feng , Jielong Yang , Li Peng

The objective of this paper is to jointly synthesize interactive videos and conversational speech from text and reference images. With the ultimate goal of building human-like conversational systems, recent studies have explored talking or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Ji-Hoon Kim , Junseok Ahn , Doyeop Kwak , Joon Son Chung , Shinji Watanabe

Talking face generation (TFG) allows for producing lifelike talking videos of any character using only facial images and accompanying text. Abuse of this technology could pose significant risks to society, creating the urgent need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Xiaocan Chen , Qilin Yin , Jiarui Liu , Wei Lu , Xiangyang Luo , Jiantao Zhou

While recent text-to-video models excel at generating diverse scenes, they struggle with precise motion control, particularly for complex, multi-subject motions. Although methods for single-motion customization have been developed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Youcan Xu , Zhen Wang , Jiaxin Shi , Kexin Li , Feifei Shao , Jun Xiao , Yi Yang , Jun Yu , Long Chen

The field has made significant progress in synthesizing realistic human motion driven by various modalities. Yet, the need for different methods to animate various body parts according to different control signals limits the scalability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zixiang Zhou , Yu Wan , Baoyuan Wang

Audio-driven talking head generation necessitates seamless integration of audio and visual data amidst the challenges posed by diverse input portraits and intricate correlations between audio and facial motions. In response, we propose a…

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