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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

We introduce a novel method for joint expression and audio-guided talking face generation. Recent approaches either struggle to preserve the speaker identity or fail to produce faithful facial expressions. To address these challenges, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Sai Tanmay Reddy Chakkera , Aggelina Chatziagapi , Dimitris Samaras

Existing gesture generation methods primarily focus on upper body gestures based on audio features, neglecting speech content, emotion, and locomotion. These limitations result in stiff, mechanical gestures that fail to convey the true…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yongkang Cheng , Mingjiang Liang , Shaoli Huang , Gaoge Han , Jifeng Ning , Wei Liu

Gestures are essential for enhancing co-speech communication, offering visual emphasis and complementing verbal interactions. While prior work has concentrated on point-level motion or fully supervised data-driven methods, we focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Jiahui Chen , Yang Huan , Runhua Shi , Chanfan Ding , Xiaoqi Mo , Siyu Xiong , Yinong He

The art of communication beyond speech there are gestures. The automatic co-speech gesture generation draws much attention in computer animation. It is a challenging task due to the diversity of gestures and the difficulty of matching the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Sicheng Yang , Zhiyong Wu , Minglei Li , Zhensong Zhang , Lei Hao , Weihong Bao , Ming Cheng , Long Xiao

People naturally conduct spontaneous body motions to enhance their speeches while giving talks. Body motion generation from speech is inherently difficult due to the non-deterministic mapping from speech to body motions. Most existing works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Jing Xu , Wei Zhang , Yalong Bai , Qibin Sun , Tao Mei

Co-speech gesture generation is crucial for creating lifelike avatars and enhancing human-computer interactions by synchronizing gestures with speech. Despite recent advancements, existing methods struggle with accurately identifying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Pinxin Liu , Pengfei Zhang , Hyeongwoo Kim , Pablo Garrido , Ari Shapiro , Kyle Olszewski

Co-speech gesture generation has significantly advanced human-computer interaction, yet speaker movements remain constrained due to the omission of text-driven non-spontaneous gestures (e.g., bowing while talking). Existing methods face two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Fengyi Fang , Sicheng Yang , Wenming Yang

Current co-speech motion generation approaches usually focus on upper body gestures following speech contents only, while lacking supporting the elaborate control of synergistic full-body motion based on text prompts, such as talking while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Bohong Chen , Yumeng Li , Yao-Xiang Ding , Tianjia Shao , Kun Zhou

Recent advances in generative motion synthesis have enabled the production of realistic human motions from diverse input modalities. However, synthesizing compound actions from texts, which integrate multiple concurrent actions into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yue Jiang , Mingyu Yang , Liuyuxin Yang , Yang Xu , Bingxin Yun , Yuhe Zhang

Talking face generation has historically struggled to produce head movements and natural facial expressions without guidance from additional reference videos. Recent developments in diffusion-based generative models allow for more realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Michał Stypułkowski , Konstantinos Vougioukas , Sen He , Maciej Zięba , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

In this paper, we introduce a simple and novel framework for one-shot audio-driven talking head generation. Unlike prior works that require additional driving sources for controlled synthesis in a deterministic manner, we instead…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Zhentao Yu , Zixin Yin , Deyu Zhou , Duomin Wang , Finn Wong , Baoyuan Wang

We propose DiffSHEG, a Diffusion-based approach for Speech-driven Holistic 3D Expression and Gesture generation with arbitrary length. While previous works focused on co-speech gesture or expression generation individually, the joint…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Junming Chen , Yunfei Liu , Jianan Wang , Ailing Zeng , Yu Li , Qifeng Chen

Body and face motion play an integral role in communication. They convey crucial information on the participants. Advances in generative modeling and multi-modal learning have enabled motion generation from signals such as speech,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Lownish Rai Sookha , Nikhil Pakhale , Mudasir Ganaie , Abhinav Dhall

When virtual agents interact with humans, gestures are crucial to delivering their intentions with speech. Previous multimodal co-speech gesture generation models required encoded features of all modalities to generate gestures. If some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Gwantae Kim , Seonghyeok Noh , Insung Ham , Hanseok Ko

Generating gestures from human speech has gained tremendous progress in animating virtual avatars. While the existing methods enable synthesizing gestures cooperated by individual self-talking, they overlook the practicality of concurrent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xingqun Qi , Yatian Wang , Hengyuan Zhang , Jiahao Pan , Wei Xue , Shanghang Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

Talking head generation with arbitrary identities and speech audio remains a crucial problem in the realm of the virtual metaverse. Recently, diffusion models have become a popular generative technique in this field with their strong…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Xinyang Li , Gen Li , Zhihui Lin , Yichen Qian , GongXin Yao , Weinan Jia , Aowen Wang , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang

Talking head video generation aims to generate a realistic talking head video that preserves the person's identity from a source image and the motion from a driving video. Despite the promising progress made in the field, it remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Shuling Zhao , Fa-Ting Hong , Xiaoshui Huang , Dan Xu

Talking face generation aims to synthesize a sequence of face images that correspond to a clip of speech. This is a challenging task because face appearance variation and semantics of speech are coupled together in the subtle movements of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Hang Zhou , Yu Liu , Ziwei Liu , Ping Luo , Xiaogang Wang

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