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The emergence of text-driven motion synthesis technique provides animators with great potential to create efficiently. However, in most cases, textual expressions only contain general and qualitative motion descriptions, while lack fine…

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Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) enable high-quality image synthesis while avoiding excessive compute demands by training a diffusion model in a compressed lower-dimensional latent space. Here, we apply the LDM paradigm to high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Andreas Blattmann , Robin Rombach , Huan Ling , Tim Dockhorn , Seung Wook Kim , Sanja Fidler , Karsten Kreis

In this paper, we present TalkingMachines -- an efficient framework that transforms pretrained video generation models into real-time, audio-driven character animators. TalkingMachines enables natural conversational experiences by…

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Video diffusion models have recently made great progress in generation quality, but are still limited by the high memory and computational requirements. This is because current video diffusion models often attempt to process…

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Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) provide an efficient non-causal alternative to autoregressive generation but often struggle with token dependencies and semantic incoherence due to their reliance on discrete marginal distributions. We address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Roy Uziel , Omer Belhasin , Itay Levy , Akhiad Bercovich , Ran El-Yaniv , Ran Zilberstein , Michael Elad

Video diffusion models (VDMs) have advanced significantly in recent years, enabling the generation of highly realistic videos and drawing the attention of the community in their potential as world simulators. However, despite their…

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Recently, human motion analysis has experienced great improvement due to inspiring generative models such as the denoising diffusion model and large language model. While the existing approaches mainly focus on generating motions with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yiming Wu , Wei Ji , Kecheng Zheng , Zicheng Wang , Dong Xu

Diffusion models have achieved great success in modeling continuous data modalities such as images, audio, and video, but have seen limited use in discrete domains such as language. Recent attempts to adapt diffusion to language have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Justin Lovelace , Varsha Kishore , Chao Wan , Eliot Shekhtman , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Text-to-motion generation is a formidable task, aiming to produce human motions that align with the input text while also adhering to human capabilities and physical laws. While there have been advancements in diffusion models, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Hanyang Kong , Kehong Gong , Dongze Lian , Michael Bi Mi , Xinchao Wang

The intrinsic link between facial motion and speech is often overlooked in generative modeling, where talking head synthesis and text-to-speech (TTS) are typically addressed as separate tasks. This paper introduces JAM-Flow, a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Mingi Kwon , Joonghyuk Shin , Jaeseok Jung , Jaesik Park , Youngjung Uh

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…

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In this paper, we consider a novel and practical case for talking face video generation. Specifically, we focus on the scenarios involving multi-people interactions, where the talking context, such as audience or surroundings, is present.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Meidai Xuanyuan , Yuwang Wang , Honglei Guo , Qionghai Dai

Recent work has showcased the significant potential of diffusion models in pose-guided person image synthesis. However, owing to the inconsistency in pose between the source and target images, synthesizing an image with a distinct pose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Fei Shen , Hu Ye , Jun Zhang , Cong Wang , Xiao Han , Wei Yang

The dyadic reaction generation task involves synthesizing responsive facial reactions that align closely with the behaviors of a conversational partner, enhancing the naturalness and effectiveness of human-like interaction simulations. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Minh-Duc Nguyen , Hyung-Jeong Yang , Soo-Hyung Kim , Ji-Eun Shin , Seung-Won Kim

There has been a significant progress in text conditional image generation models. Recent advancements in this field depend not only on improvements in model structures, but also vast quantities of text-image paired datasets. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Seungdae Han , Joohee Kim

Individuals have unique facial expression and head pose styles that reflect their personalized speaking styles. Existing one-shot talking head methods cannot capture such personalized characteristics and therefore fail to produce diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Suzhen Wang , Yifeng Ma , Yu Ding , Zhipeng Hu , Changjie Fan , Tangjie Lv , Zhidong Deng , Xin Yu

We introduce FaceTalk, a novel generative approach designed for synthesizing high-fidelity 3D motion sequences of talking human heads from input audio signal. To capture the expressive, detailed nature of human heads, including hair, ears,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Shivangi Aneja , Justus Thies , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

Emotionally talking head video generation aims to generate expressive portrait videos with accurate lip synchronization and emotional facial expressions. Current methods rely on simple emotional labels, leading to insufficient semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yahui Li , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang , Shengjie Shen

This paper introduces a Multi-modal Diffusion model for Motion Prediction (MDMP) that integrates and synchronizes skeletal data and textual descriptions of actions to generate refined long-term motion predictions with quantifiable…

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This study introduces an efficient and effective method, MeDM, that utilizes pre-trained image Diffusion Models for video-to-video translation with consistent temporal flow. The proposed framework can render videos from scene position…

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