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Diffusion models have shown great success in generating high-quality co-speech gestures for interactive humanoid robots or digital avatars from noisy input with the speech audio or text as conditions. However, they rarely focus on providing…

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Co-speech gesture video generation aims to synthesize realistic, audio-aligned videos of speakers, complete with synchronized facial expressions and body gestures. This task presents challenges due to the significant one-to-many mapping…

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Generating realistic conversational gestures are essential for achieving natural, socially engaging interactions with digital humans. However, existing methods typically map a single audio stream to a single speaker's motion, without…

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Synthesizing human--object interaction (HOI) videos has broad practical value in e-commerce, digital advertising, and virtual marketing. However, current diffusion models, despite their photorealistic rendering capability, still frequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Xiangyang Luo , Xiaozhe Xin , Tao Feng , Xu Guo , Meiguang Jin , Junfeng Ma

Movie dubbing aims to synthesize speech that preserves the vocal identity of a reference audio while synchronizing with the lip movements in a target video. Existing methods fail to achieve precise lip-sync and lack naturalness due to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Gaoxiang Cong , Liang Li , Jiaxin Ye , Zhedong Zhang , Hongming Shan , Yuankai Qi , Qingming Huang

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

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…

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Along with the explosion of large language models, improvements in speech synthesis, advancements in hardware, and the evolution of computer graphics, the current bottleneck in creating digital humans lies in generating character movements…

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We propose a novel talking head synthesis pipeline called "DiT-Head", which is based on diffusion transformers and uses audio as a condition to drive the denoising process of a diffusion model. Our method is scalable and can generalise to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Aaron Mir , Eduardo Alonso , Esther Mondragón

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…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Tianbao Zhang , Jian Zhao , Yuer Li , Zheng Zhu , Ping Hu , Zhaoxin Fan , Wenjun Wu , Xuelong Li

Diffusion models can synthesize realistic co-speech video from audio for various applications, such as video creation and virtual agents. However, existing diffusion-based methods are slow due to numerous denoising steps and costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Beijia Lu , Ziyi Chen , Jing Xiao , Jun-Yan Zhu

Gestures are pivotal in enhancing co-speech communication. While recent works have mostly focused on point-level motion transformation or fully supervised motion representations through data-driven approaches, we explore the representation…

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Gestures that accompany speech are an essential part of natural and efficient embodied human communication. The automatic generation of such co-speech gestures is a long-standing problem in computer animation and is considered an enabling…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Simbarashe Nyatsanga , Taras Kucherenko , Chaitanya Ahuja , Gustav Eje Henter , Michael Neff

Generating co-speech gestures in real time requires both temporal coherence and efficient sampling. We introduce a novel framework for streaming gesture generation that extends Rolling Diffusion models with structured progressive noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Evgeniia Vu , Andrei Boiarov , Dmitry Vetrov

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

Audio-driven talking head generation is critical for applications such as virtual assistants, video games, and films, where natural lip movements are essential. Despite progress in this field, challenges remain in producing both consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yucheng Wang , Dan Xu

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

The automated synthesis of high-quality 3D gestures from speech is of significant value in virtual humans and gaming. Previous methods focus on synthesizing gestures that are synchronized with speech rhythm, yet they frequently overlook the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Qingrong Cheng , Xu Li , Xinghui Fu , Fei Xia , Zhongqian Sun

Co-speech gesture generation is a critical area of research aimed at synthesizing speech-synchronized human-like gestures. Existing methods often suffer from issues such as rhythmic inconsistency, motion jitter, foot sliding and limited…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yujiao Jiang , Qingmin Liao , Zongqing Lu

We present VoiceDiT, a multi-modal generative model for producing environment-aware speech and audio from text and visual prompts. While aligning speech with text is crucial for intelligible speech, achieving this alignment in noisy…

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