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We present a method for generating a full 360{\deg} orbit video around a person from a single input image. Existing methods typically adapt image-based diffusion models for multi-view synthesis, but yield inconsistent results across views…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Keito Suzuki , Kunyao Chen , Lei Wang , Bang Du , Runfa Blark Li , Peng Liu , Ning Bi , Truong Nguyen

Realistic talking-head video generation is critical for virtual avatars, film production, and interactive systems. Current methods struggle with nuanced emotional expressions due to the lack of fine-grained emotion control. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiayi Lyu , Leigang Qu , Wenjing Zhang , Hanyu Jiang , Kai Liu , Zhenglin Zhou , Xiaobo Xia , Jian Xue , Tat-Seng Chua

Co-speech gesture is crucial for human-machine interaction and digital entertainment. While previous works mostly map speech audio to human skeletons (e.g., 2D keypoints), directly generating speakers' gestures in the image domain remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Xian Liu , Qianyi Wu , Hang Zhou , Yuanqi Du , Wayne Wu , Dahua Lin , Ziwei Liu

The generation of stylistic 3D facial animations driven by speech presents a significant challenge as it requires learning a many-to-many mapping between speech, style, and the corresponding natural facial motion. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Zhiyao Sun , Tian Lv , Sheng Ye , Matthieu Lin , Jenny Sheng , Yu-Hui Wen , Minjing Yu , Yong-Jin Liu

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), digital humans have attracted more and more attention and are expected to achieve a wide range of applications in several industries. Then, most of the existing digital humans…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Yingjie Zhou , Yaodong Chen , Kaiyue Bi , Lian Xiong , Hui Liu

Generating high-quality and person-generic visual dubbing remains a challenge. Recent innovation has seen the advent of a two-stage paradigm, decoupling the rendering and lip synchronization process facilitated by intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Tao Liu , Chenpeng Du , Shuai Fan , Feilong Chen , Kai Yu

Significant progress has been made in audio-driven human animation, while most existing methods focus mainly on facial movements, limiting their ability to create full-body animations with natural synchronization and fluidity. They also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Qijun Gan , Ruizi Yang , Jianke Zhu , Shaofei Xue , Steven Hoi

Creating personalized 3D animations with precise control and realistic head motions remains challenging for current speech-driven 3D facial animation methods. Editing these animations is especially complex and time consuming, requires…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Balamurugan Thambiraja , Malte Prinzler , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Darren Cosker , Justus Thies

Text-based talking-head video editing aims to efficiently insert, delete, and substitute segments of talking videos through a user-friendly text editing approach. It is challenging because of \textbf{1)} generalizable talking-face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Bo Han , Heqing Zou , Haoyang Li , Guangcong Wang , Chng Eng Siong

Gestures are essential for enhancing co-speech communication, offering visual emphasis and complementing verbal interactions. While prior work has concentrated on point-level motion or fully supervised data-driven methods, we focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Jiahui Chen , Yang Huan , Runhua Shi , Chanfan Ding , Xiaoqi Mo , Siyu Xiong , Yinong He

Diffusion based video generation has received extensive attention and achieved considerable success within both the academic and industrial communities. However, current efforts are mainly concentrated on single-objective or single-task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Ludan Ruan , Lei Tian , Chuanwei Huang , Xu Zhang , Xinyan Xiao

Audio-driven one-shot talking face generation methods are usually trained on video resources of various persons. However, their created videos often suffer unnatural mouth shapes and asynchronous lips because those methods struggle to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Suzhen Wang , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Xin Yu

Controllable text-to-audio generation aims to synthesize audio from textual descriptions while satisfying user-specified constraints, including event types, temporal sequences, and onset and offset timestamps. This enables precise control…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yisu Liu , Chenxing Li , Wanqian Zhang , Wenfu Wang , Meng Yu , Ruibo Fu , Zheng Lin , Weiping Wang , Dong Yu

Recent advancements in video generation have seen a shift towards unified, transformer-based foundation models that can handle multiple conditional inputs in-context. However, these models have primarily focused on modalities like text,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Wenze Liu , Weicai Ye , Minghong Cai , Quande Liu , Xintao Wang , Xiangyu Yue

We propose an audio-driven talking-head method to generate photo-realistic talking-head videos from a single reference image. In this work, we tackle two key challenges: (i) producing natural head motions that match speech prosody, and (ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Suzhen Wang , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Changjie Fan , Xin Yu

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 advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved the realism and generalizability of character-driven animation, enabling the synthesis of high-quality motion from just a single RGB image and a set of driving poses.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Alireza Javanmardi , Pragati Jaiswal , Tewodros Amberbir Habtegebrial , Christen Millerdurai , Shaoxiang Wang , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

Current generative video models excel at producing novel content from text and image prompts, but leave a critical gap in editing existing pre-recorded videos, where minor alterations to the spoken script require preserving motion, temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 John Flynn , Wolfgang Paier , Dimitar Dinev , Sam Nhut Nguyen , Hayk Poghosyan , Manuel Toribio , Sandipan Banerjee , Guy Gafni

Recent diffusion-based human image animation techniques have demonstrated impressive success in synthesizing videos that faithfully follow a given reference identity and a sequence of desired movement poses. Despite this, there are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Changxin Gao , Jiayu Wang , Xiaoqiang Zhou , Yingya Zhang , Luxin Yan , Nong Sang

While recent research has made significant progress in speech-driven talking face generation, the quality of the generated video still lags behind that of real recordings. One reason for this is the use of handcrafted intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Chenpeng Du , Qi Chen , Tianyu He , Xu Tan , Xie Chen , Kai Yu , Sheng Zhao , Jiang Bian