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While previous audio-driven talking head generation (THG) methods generate head poses from driving audio, the generated poses or lips cannot match the audio well or are not editable. In this study, we propose \textbf{PoseTalk}, a THG system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Jun Ling , Yiwen Wang , Han Xue , Rong Xie , Li Song

Vivid talking face generation holds immense potential applications across diverse multimedia domains, such as film and game production. While existing methods accurately synchronize lip movements with input audio, they typically ignore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Jiadong Liang , Feng Lu

Generating speech-consistent body and gesture movements is a long-standing problem in virtual avatar creation. Previous studies often synthesize pose movement in a holistic manner, where poses of all joints are generated simultaneously.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Xian Liu , Qianyi Wu , Hang Zhou , Yinghao Xu , Rui Qian , Xinyi Lin , Xiaowei Zhou , Wayne Wu , Bo Dai , Bolei Zhou

Talking face generation aims to synthesize a face video with precise lip synchronization as well as a smooth transition of facial motion over the entire video via the given speech clip and facial image. Most existing methods mainly focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Hao Zhu , Huaibo Huang , Yi Li , Aihua Zheng , Ran He

Animating virtual characters with holistic co-speech gestures is a challenging but critical task. Previous systems have primarily focused on the weak correlation between audio and gestures, leading to physically unnatural outcomes that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yongkang Cheng , Shaoli Huang

Generating vivid and diverse 3D co-speech gestures is crucial for various applications in animating virtual avatars. While most existing methods can generate gestures from audio directly, they usually overlook that emotion is one of the key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Xingqun Qi , Chen Liu , Lincheng Li , Jie Hou , Haoran Xin , Xin Yu

Speech-driven gesture generation aims at synthesizing a gesture sequence synchronized with the input speech signal. Previous methods leverage neural networks to directly map a compact audio representation to the gesture sequence, ignoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Fengqi Liu , Hexiang Wang , Jingyu Gong , Ran Yi , Qianyu Zhou , Xuequan Lu , Jiangbo Lu , Lizhuang Ma

This paper presents a novel framework for speech-driven gesture production, applicable to virtual agents to enhance human-computer interaction. Specifically, we extend recent deep-learning-based, data-driven methods for speech-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Taras Kucherenko , Dai Hasegawa , Naoshi Kaneko , Gustav Eje Henter , Hedvig Kjellström

Co-speech gestures, if presented in the lively form of videos, can achieve superior visual effects in human-machine interaction. While previous works mostly generate structural human skeletons, resulting in the omission of appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Xu He , Qiaochu Huang , Zhensong Zhang , Zhiwei Lin , Zhiyong Wu , Sicheng Yang , Minglei Li , Zhiyi Chen , Songcen Xu , Xiaofei Wu

In this paper, we propose a novel text-based talking-head video generation framework that synthesizes high-fidelity facial expressions and head motions in accordance with contextual sentiments as well as speech rhythm and pauses. To be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Lincheng Li , Suzhen Wang , Zhimeng Zhang , Yu Ding , Yixing Zheng , Xin Yu , Changjie Fan

Capturing and preserving motion semantics is essential to motion retargeting between animation characters. However, most of the previous works neglect the semantic information or rely on human-designed joint-level representations. Here, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Haodong Zhang , ZhiKe Chen , Haocheng Xu , Lei Hao , Xiaofei Wu , Songcen Xu , Zhensong Zhang , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

Audio-driven co-speech human gesture generation has made remarkable advancements recently. However, most previous works only focus on single person audio-driven gesture generation. We aim at solving the problem of conversational co-speech…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Haiwei Xue , Sicheng Yang , Zhensong Zhang , Zhiyong Wu , Minglei Li , Zonghong Dai , Helen Meng

Generating reasonable and high-quality human interactive motions in a given dynamic environment is crucial for understanding, modeling, transferring, and applying human behaviors to both virtual and physical robots. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Peishan Cong , Ziyi Wang , Yuexin Ma , Xiangyu Yue

Recent breakthroughs in video AIGC have ushered in a transformative era for audio-driven human animation. However, conventional video dubbing techniques remain constrained to mouth region editing, resulting in discordant facial expressions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Shaoshu Yang , Zhe Kong , Feng Gao , Meng Cheng , Xiangyu Liu , Yong Zhang , Zhuoliang Kang , Wenhan Luo , Xunliang Cai , Ran He , Xiaoming Wei

Temporal modeling and spatio-temporal collaboration are pivotal techniques for video-based human pose estimation. Most state-of-the-art methods adopt optical flow or temporal difference, learning local visual content correspondence across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Runyang Feng , Haoming Chen

The automatic generation of controllable co-speech gestures has recently gained growing attention. While existing systems typically achieve gesture control through predefined categorical labels or implicit pseudo-labels derived from motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Bohong Chen , Yumeng Li , Youyi Zheng , Yao-Xiang Ding , Kun Zhou

In this work, we propose TextIM, a novel framework for synthesizing TEXT-driven human Interactive Motions, with a focus on the precise alignment of part-level semantics. Existing methods often overlook the critical roles of interactive body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Siyuan Fan , Bo Du , Xiantao Cai , Bo Peng , Longling Sun

Our research presents a novel motion generation framework designed to produce whole-body motion sequences conditioned on multiple modalities simultaneously, specifically text and audio inputs. Leveraging Vector Quantized Variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Sohan Anisetty , James Hays

Talking face generation aims to synthesize realistic speaking portraits from a single image, yet existing methods often rely on explicit optical flow and local warping, which fail to model complex global motions and cause identity drift. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Bo Chen , Tao Liu , Qi Chen , Xie Chen , Zilong Zheng

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