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Although significant progress has been made in audio-driven talking head generation, text-driven methods remain underexplored. In this work, we present OmniTalker, a unified framework that jointly generates synchronized talking audio-video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zhongjian Wang , Peng Zhang , Jinwei Qi , Guangyuan Wang , Chaonan Ji , Sheng Xu , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

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

Taking inspiration from recent developments in visual generative tasks using diffusion models, we propose a method for end-to-end speech-driven video editing using a denoising diffusion model. Given a video of a talking person, and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Dan Bigioi , Shubhajit Basak , Michał Stypułkowski , Maciej Zięba , Hugh Jordan , Rachel McDonnell , Peter Corcoran

Existing methods for image-to-3D avatar generation struggle to produce highly detailed, animation-ready avatars suitable for real-world applications. We introduce AdaHuman, a novel framework that generates high-fidelity animatable 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yangyi Huang , Ye Yuan , Xueting Li , Jan Kautz , Umar Iqbal

With the rise of diffusion models, audio-video generation has been revolutionized. However, most existing methods rely on separate modules for each modality, with limited exploration of unified generative architectures. In addition, many…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Lei Zhao , Linfeng Feng , Dongxu Ge , Rujin Chen , Fangqiu Yi , Chi Zhang , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Xuelong Li

Human-centric motion control in video generation remains a critical challenge, particularly when jointly controlling camera movements and human poses in scenarios like the iconic Grammy Glambot moment. While recent video diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Ruineng Li , Daitao Xing , Huiming Sun , Yuanzhou Ha , Jinglin Shen , Chiuman Ho

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

Recent video generation models have achieved remarkable progress and are now deployed in film, social media production, and advertising. Beyond their creative potential, such models also hold promise as world simulators for robotics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 David Romero , Ariana Bermudez , Viacheslav Iablochnikov , Hao Li , Fabio Pizzati , Ivan Laptev

Audio-driven human animation has attracted wide attention thanks to its practical applications. However, critical challenges remain in generating high-resolution, long-duration videos with consistent appearance and natural hand motions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Xiaodi Li , Pan Xie , Yi Ren , Qijun Gan , Chen Zhang , Fangyuan Kong , Xiang Yin , Bingyue Peng , Zehuan Yuan

We are witnessing a revolution in conditional image synthesis with the recent success of large scale text-to-image generation methods. This success also opens up new opportunities in controlling the generation and editing process using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Burak Can Biner , Farrin Marouf Sofian , Umur Berkay Karakaş , Duygu Ceylan , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem

Recent diffusion methods have made significant progress in generating videos from single images due to their powerful visual generation capabilities. However, challenges persist in image-to-video synthesis, particularly in human video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Tiantian Wang , Chun-Han Yao , Tao Hu , Mallikarjun Byrasandra Ramalinga Reddy , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Varun Jampani

Human motion video generation has garnered significant research interest due to its broad applications, enabling innovations such as photorealistic singing heads or dynamic avatars that seamlessly dance to music. However, existing surveys…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Haiwei Xue , Xiangyang Luo , Zhanghao Hu , Xin Zhang , Xunzhi Xiang , Yuqin Dai , Jianzhuang Liu , Zhensong Zhang , Minglei Li , Jian Yang , Fei Ma , Zhiyong Wu , Changpeng Yang , Zonghong Dai , Fei Richard Yu

Audio-driven facial animation is essential for immersive digital interaction, yet existing frameworks fail to reconcile real-time streaming with high-fidelity personalization. Current methods often rely on latency-inducing audio look-ahead,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xuangeng Chu , Yu Han , Wei Mao , Shih-En Wei

Generating temporally-consistent high-fidelity videos can be computationally expensive, especially over longer temporal spans. More-recent Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) -- despite making significant headway in this context -- have only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Kumara Kahatapitiya , Haozhe Liu , Sen He , Ding Liu , Menglin Jia , Chenyang Zhang , Michael S. Ryoo , Tian Xie

We introduce the first method for audio-driven universal photorealistic avatar synthesis, combining a person-agnostic speech model with our novel Universal Head Avatar Prior (UHAP). UHAP is trained on cross-identity multi-view videos. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Kartik Teotia , Helge Rhodin , Mohit Mendiratta , Hyeongwoo Kim , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt

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,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Fatemeh Nazarieh , Zhenhua Feng , Diptesh Kanojia , Muhammad Awais , Josef Kittler

In this paper, we present TalkingMachines -- an efficient framework that transforms pretrained video generation models into real-time, audio-driven character animators. TalkingMachines enables natural conversational experiences by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Chetwin Low , Weimin Wang

We consider the challenging problem of audio to animated video generation. We propose a novel method OneShotAu2AV to generate an animated video of arbitrary length using an audio clip and a single unseen image of a person as an input. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Neeraj Kumar , Srishti Goel , Ankur Narang , Brejesh Lall , Mujtaba Hasan , Pranshu Agarwal , Dipankar Sarkar

Generating high-quality whole-body human object interaction motion sequences is becoming increasingly important in various fields such as animation, VR/AR, and robotics. The main challenge of this task lies in determining the level of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yonghao Zhang , Qiang He , Yanguang Wan , Yinda Zhang , Xiaoming Deng , Cuixia Ma , Hongan Wang

Current deep learning results on video generation are limited while there are only a few first results on video prediction and no relevant significant results on video completion. This is due to the severe ill-posedness inherent in these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Haoye Cai , Chunyan Bai , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang