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We present X-Actor, a novel audio-driven portrait animation framework that generates lifelike, emotionally expressive talking head videos from a single reference image and an input audio clip. Unlike prior methods that emphasize lip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Chenxu Zhang , Zenan Li , Hongyi Xu , You Xie , Xiaochen Zhao , Tianpei Gu , Guoxian Song , Xin Chen , Chao Liang , Jianwen Jiang , Linjie Luo

Recent advances in text-to-image generation with diffusion models present transformative capabilities in image quality. However, user controllability of the generated image, and fast adaptation to new tasks still remains an open challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Omer Bar-Tal , Lior Yariv , Yaron Lipman , Tali Dekel

We present a cascaded diffusion model based on a part-level implicit 3D representation. Our model achieves state-of-the-art generation quality and also enables part-level shape editing and manipulation without any additional training in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Juil Koo , Seungwoo Yoo , Minh Hieu Nguyen , Minhyuk Sung

Diffusion models have demonstrated impressive performance in generating high-quality videos from text prompts or images. However, precise control over the video generation process, such as camera manipulation or content editing, remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Zekai Gu , Rui Yan , Jiahao Lu , Peng Li , Zhiyang Dou , Chenyang Si , Zhen Dong , Qifeng Liu , Cheng Lin , Ziwei Liu , Wenping Wang , Yuan Liu

In this work, we tackle the challenge of enhancing the realism and expressiveness in talking head video generation by focusing on the dynamic and nuanced relationship between audio cues and facial movements. We identify the limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Linrui Tian , Qi Wang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Current talking avatars mostly generate co-speech gestures based on audio and text of the utterance, without considering the non-speaking motion of the speaker. Furthermore, previous works on co-speech gesture generation have designed…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Sicheng Yang , Zunnan Xu , Haiwei Xue , Yongkang Cheng , Shaoli Huang , Mingming Gong , Zhiyong Wu

Speech-driven facial animation is the process which uses speech signals to automatically synthesize a talking character. The majority of work in this domain creates a mapping from audio features to visual features. This often requires…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-20 Konstantinos Vougioukas , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

When people deliver a speech, they naturally move heads, and this rhythmic head motion conveys prosodic information. However, generating a lip-synced video while moving head naturally is challenging. While remarkably successful, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Lele Chen , Guofeng Cui , Celong Liu , Zhong Li , Ziyi Kou , Yi Xu , Chenliang Xu

Recent methods for audio-driven talking head synthesis often optimize neural radiance fields (NeRF) on a monocular talking portrait video, leveraging its capability to render high-fidelity and 3D-consistent novel-view frames. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Jaehoon Ko , Kyusun Cho , Joungbin Lee , Heeji Yoon , Sangmin Lee , Sangjun Ahn , Seungryong Kim

Recent advances in talking face generation have significantly improved facial animation synthesis. However, existing approaches face fundamental limitations: 3DMM-based methods maintain temporal consistency but lack fine-grained regional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kangwei Liu , Junwu Liu , Yun Cao , Jinlin Guo , Xiaowei Yi

Digital human avatars aim to simulate the dynamic appearance of humans in virtual environments, enabling immersive experiences across gaming, film, virtual reality, and more. However, the conventional process for creating and animating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Felix Taubner , Ruihang Zhang , Mathieu Tuli , Sherwin Bahmani , David B. Lindell

Diffusion models have shown impressive potential on talking head generation. While plausible appearance and talking effect are achieved, these methods still suffer from temporal, 3D or expression inconsistency due to the error accumulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Haijie Yang , Zhenyu Zhang , Hao Tang , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang

Creating realistic avatars from a single RGB image is an attractive yet challenging problem. Due to its ill-posed nature, recent works leverage powerful prior from 2D diffusion models pretrained on large datasets. Although 2D diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yuxuan Xue , Xianghui Xie , Riccardo Marin , Gerard Pons-Moll

While accurate lip synchronization has been achieved for arbitrary-subject audio-driven talking face generation, the problem of how to efficiently drive the head pose remains. Previous methods rely on pre-estimated structural information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Hang Zhou , Yasheng Sun , Wayne Wu , Chen Change Loy , Xiaogang Wang , Ziwei Liu

Generating and editing dynamic 3D head avatars are crucial tasks in virtual reality and film production. However, existing methods often suffer from facial distortions, inaccurate head movements, and limited fine-grained editing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yangyang Qian , Yuan Sun , Yu Guo

Creating human avatars is a highly desirable yet challenging task. Recent advancements in radiance field rendering have achieved unprecedented photorealism and real-time performance for personalized dynamic human avatars. However, these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Dongliang Cao , Guoxing Sun , Marc Habermann , Florian Bernard

A diffusion probabilistic model (DPM), which constructs a forward diffusion process by gradually adding noise to data points and learns the reverse denoising process to generate new samples, has been shown to handle complex data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Zhengxiong Luo , Dayou Chen , Yingya Zhang , Yan Huang , Liang Wang , Yujun Shen , Deli Zhao , Jingren Zhou , Tieniu Tan

Similar to facial beautification in real life, 3D virtual avatars require personalized customization to enhance their visual appeal, yet this area remains insufficiently explored. Although current 3D Gaussian editing methods can be adapted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yiming Zhong , Xiaolin Zhang , Ligang Liu , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

In recent years, large-scale pre-trained diffusion transformer models have made significant progress in video generation. While current DiT models can produce high-definition, high-frame-rate, and highly diverse videos, there is a lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Changgu Chen , Xiaoyan Yang , Junwei Shu , Changbo Wang , Yang Li

The video generation field has witnessed rapid improvements with the introduction of recent diffusion models. While these models have successfully enhanced appearance quality, they still face challenges in generating coherent and natural…

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