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Animating stylized avatars with dynamic poses and expressions has attracted increasing attention for its broad range of applications. Previous research has made significant progress by training controllable generative models to synthesize…

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Current diffusion-based portrait animation models predominantly focus on enhancing visual quality and expression realism, while overlooking generation latency and real-time performance, which restricts their application range in the live…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Zhiyuan Li , Chi-Man Pun , Chen Fang , Jue Wang , Xiaodong Cun

Audio-driven talking face generation is a challenging task in digital communication. Despite significant progress in the area, most existing methods concentrate on audio-lip synchronization, often overlooking aspects such as visual quality,…

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With advancements in video generative AI models (e.g., SORA), creators are increasingly using these techniques to enhance video previsualization. However, they face challenges with incomplete and mismatched AI workflows. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Yiran Chen , Anyi Rao , Xuekun Jiang , Shishi Xiao , Ruiqing Ma , Zeyu Wang , Hui Xiong , Bo Dai

DiffusionAvatars synthesizes a high-fidelity 3D head avatar of a person, offering intuitive control over both pose and expression. We propose a diffusion-based neural renderer that leverages generic 2D priors to produce compelling images of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Tobias Kirschstein , Simon Giebenhain , Matthias Nießner

Speech-driven 3D facial animation is important for many multimedia applications. Recent work has shown promise in using either Diffusion models or Transformer architectures for this task. However, their mere aggregation does not lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Zhiyuan Ma , Xiangyu Zhu , Guojun Qi , Chen Qian , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Zhen Lei

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) are a dominant backbone for high-fidelity text-to-image generation due to strong scalability and alignment at high resolutions. However, quadratic self-attention over dense spatial tokens leads to high…

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Human facial images encode a rich spectrum of information, encompassing both stable identity-related traits and mutable attributes such as pose, expression, and emotion. While recent advances in image generation have enabled high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kazuaki Mishima , Antoni Bigata Casademunt , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic , Kenji Suzuki

Portrait animation from a single source image and a driving video is a long-standing problem. Recent approaches tend to adopt diffusion-based image/video generation models for realistic and expressive animation. However, none of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Yuxiang Shi , Zhe Li , Yanwen Wang , Hao Zhu , Xun Cao , Ligang Liu

Portrait animation aims to synthesize talking videos from a static reference face, conditioned on audio and style frame cues (e.g., emotion and head poses), while ensuring precise lip synchronization and faithful reproduction of speaking…

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Video face swapping is becoming increasingly popular across various applications, yet existing methods primarily focus on static images and struggle with video face swapping because of temporal consistency and complex scenarios. In this…

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Video identity customization seeks to synthesize realistic, temporally coherent videos of a specific subject, given a single reference image and a text prompt. This task presents two core challenges: (1) maintaining identity consistency…

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We present Follow-Your-Emoji-Faster, an efficient diffusion-based framework for freestyle portrait animation driven by facial landmarks. The main challenges in this task are preserving the identity of the reference portrait, accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yue Ma , Zexuan Yan , Hongyu Liu , Hongfa Wang , Heng Pan , Yingqing He , Junkun Yuan , Ailing Zeng , Chengfei Cai , Heung-Yeung Shum , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Linfeng Zhang , Qifeng Chen

In this paper, we propose a novel diffusion-based multi-condition controllable framework for video head swapping, which seamlessly transplant a human head from a static image into a dynamic video, while preserving the original body and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Chaonan Ji , Jinwei Qi , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

SkyReels V4 is a unified multi modal video foundation model for joint video audio generation, inpainting, and editing. The model adopts a dual stream Multimodal Diffusion Transformer (MMDiT) architecture, where one branch synthesizes video…

Animatable head avatar generation typically requires extensive data for training. To reduce the data requirements, a natural solution is to leverage existing data-free static avatar generation methods, such as pre-trained diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Zhenglin Zhou , Fan Ma , Hehe Fan , Tat-Seng Chua

Video generation has drawn significant interest recently, pushing the development of large-scale models capable of producing realistic videos with coherent motion. Due to memory constraints, these models typically generate short video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Idan Kligvasser , Regev Cohen , George Leifman , Ehud Rivlin , Michael Elad

Whole-body audio-driven avatar pose and expression generation is a critical task for creating lifelike digital humans and enhancing the capabilities of interactive virtual agents, with wide-ranging applications in virtual reality, digital…

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Human-centric generative models designed for AI-driven storytelling must bring together two core capabilities: identity consistency and precise control over human performance. While recent diffusion-based approaches have made significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

This study delves into the intricacies of synchronizing facial dynamics with multilingual audio inputs, focusing on the creation of visually compelling, time-synchronized animations through diffusion-based techniques. Diverging from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Rui Zhang , Yixiao Fang , Zhengnan Lu , Pei Cheng , Zebiao Huang , Bin Fu