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Rapid advances in the field of generative AI and text-to-image methods in particular have transformed the way we interact with and perceive computer-generated imagery today. In parallel, much progress has been made in 3D face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Mirela Ostrek , Justus Thies

Building realistic and animatable avatars still requires minutes of multi-view or monocular self-rotating videos, and most methods lack precise control over gestures and expressions. To push this boundary, we address the challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jun Xiang , Yudong Guo , Leipeng Hu , Boyang Guo , Yancheng Yuan , Juyong Zhang

Recent advances in diffusion models have showcased promising results in the text-to-video (T2V) synthesis task. However, as these T2V models solely employ text as the guidance, they tend to struggle in modeling detailed temporal dynamics.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Seungwoo Lee , Chaerin Kong , Donghyeon Jeon , Nojun Kwak

Talking head synthesis is a promising approach for the video production industry. Recently, a lot of effort has been devoted in this research area to improve the generation quality or enhance the model generalization. However, there are few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Shuai Shen , Wenliang Zhao , Zibin Meng , Wanhua Li , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

We present DreamHuman, a method to generate realistic animatable 3D human avatar models solely from textual descriptions. Recent text-to-3D methods have made considerable strides in generation, but are still lacking in important aspects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Nikos Kolotouros , Thiemo Alldieck , Andrei Zanfir , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Mihai Fieraru , Cristian Sminchisescu

Audio-driven talking-head generation has advanced rapidly with diffusion-based generative models, yet producing temporally coherent videos with fine-grained motion control remains challenging. We propose DEMO, a flow-matching generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Peiyin Chen , Zhuowei Yang , Hui Feng , Sheng Jiang , Rui Yan

SmartAvatar is a vision-language-agent-driven framework for generating fully rigged, animation-ready 3D human avatars from a single photo or textual prompt. While diffusion-based methods have made progress in general 3D object generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Alexander Huang-Menders , Xinhang Liu , Andy Xu , Yuyao Zhang , Chi-Keung Tang , Yu-Wing Tai

In this paper, we formulate a novel task to synthesize speech in sync with a silent pre-recorded video, denoted as automatic voice over (AVO). Unlike traditional speech synthesis, AVO seeks to generate not only human-sounding speech, but…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-03 Junchen Lu , Berrak Sisman , Rui Liu , Mingyang Zhang , Haizhou Li

Generating realistic talking faces is a complex and widely discussed task with numerous applications. In this paper, we present DiffTalker, a novel model designed to generate lifelike talking faces through audio and landmark co-driving.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Zipeng Qi , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

Existing video avatar models can produce fluid human animations, yet they struggle to move beyond mere physical likeness to capture a character's authentic essence. Their motions typically synchronize with low-level cues like audio rhythm,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jianwen Jiang , Weihong Zeng , Zerong Zheng , Jiaqi Yang , Chao Liang , Wang Liao , Han Liang , Yuan Zhang , Mingyuan Gao

In this paper, we propose a talking face generation method that takes an audio signal as input and a short target video clip as reference, and synthesizes a photo-realistic video of the target face with natural lip motions, head poses, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Chenxu Zhang , Yifan Zhao , Yifei Huang , Ming Zeng , Saifeng Ni , Madhukar Budagavi , Xiaohu Guo

Speech-driven 3D facial animation with accurate lip synchronization has been widely studied. However, synthesizing realistic motions for the entire face during speech has rarely been explored. In this work, we present a joint audio-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yingruo Fan , Zhaojiang Lin , Jun Saito , Wenping Wang , Taku Komura

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

Co-speech gesture video synthesis is a challenging task that requires both probabilistic modeling of human gestures and the synthesis of realistic images that align with the rhythmic nuances of speech. To address these challenges, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Yasheng Sun , Zhiliang Xu , Hang Zhou , Jiazhi Guan , Quanwei Yang , Kaisiyuan Wang , Borong Liang , Yingying Li , Haocheng Feng , Jingdong Wang , Ziwei Liu , Koike Hideki

Audio-driven 3D facial animation has several virtual humans applications for content creation and editing. While several existing methods provide solutions for speech-driven animation, precise control over content (what) and style (how) of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Qingju Liu , Hyeongwoo Kim , Gaurav Bharaj

Neural face avatars that are trained from multi-view data captured in camera domes can produce photo-realistic 3D reconstructions. However, at inference time, they must be driven by limited inputs such as partial views recorded by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Emre Aksan , Shugao Ma , Akin Caliskan , Stanislav Pidhorskyi , Alexander Richard , Shih-En Wei , Jason Saragih , Otmar Hilliges

Text animation serves as an expressive medium, transforming static communication into dynamic experiences by infusing words with motion to evoke emotions, emphasize meanings, and construct compelling narratives. Crafting animations that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Zichen Liu , Yihao Meng , Hao Ouyang , Yue Yu , Bolin Zhao , Daniel Cohen-Or , Huamin Qu

Recent Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have shown impressive capabilities in generating high-quality single-modality content, including images, videos, and audio. However, it is still under-explored whether the transformer-based diffuser can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Kai Wang , Shijian Deng , Jing Shi , Dimitrios Hatzinakos , Yapeng Tian

Embodied human communication encompasses both verbal (speech) and non-verbal information (e.g., gesture and head movements). Recent advances in machine learning have substantially improved the technologies for generating synthetic versions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Simon Alexanderson , Éva Székely , Gustav Eje Henter , Taras Kucherenko , Jonas Beskow

Audio-driven facial animation presents an effective solution for animating digital avatars. In this paper, we detail the technical aspects of NVIDIA Audio2Face-3D, including data acquisition, network architecture, retargeting methodology,…