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We propose a novel method for generating high-resolution videos of talking-heads from speech audio and a single 'identity' image. Our method is based on a convolutional neural network model that incorporates a pre-trained StyleGAN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Mohammed M. Alghamdi , He Wang , Andrew J. Bulpitt , David C. Hogg

Recent advances in diffusion models have endowed talking head synthesis with subtle expressions and vivid head movements, but have also led to slow inference speed and insufficient control over generated results. To address these issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Tianqi Li , Ruobing Zheng , Minghui Yang , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang

Text-based diffusion models have exhibited remarkable success in generation and editing, showing great promise for enhancing visual content with their generative prior. However, applying these models to video super-resolution remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Shangchen Zhou , Peiqing Yang , Jianyi Wang , Yihang Luo , Chen Change Loy

Modern video generative models based on diffusion models can produce very realistic clips, but they are computationally inefficient, often requiring minutes of GPU time for just a few seconds of video. This inefficiency poses a critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Jieying Chen , Jeffrey Hu , Joan Lasenby , Ayush Tewari

Recent advancements in video diffusion models have significantly enhanced audio-driven portrait animation. However, current methods still suffer from flickering, identity drift, and poor audio-visual synchronization. These issues primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Zhenjie Liu , Jianzhang Lu , Renjie Lu , Cong Liang , Shangfei Wang

Multi-step prediction models, such as diffusion and rectified flow models, have emerged as state-of-the-art solutions for generation tasks. However, these models exhibit higher latency in sampling new frames compared to single-step methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Gaurav Shrivastava , Abhinav Shrivastava

Generating realistic human-human interactions is a challenging task that requires not only high-quality individual body and hand motions, but also coherent coordination among all interactants. Due to limitations in available data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Pablo Ruiz-Ponce , Sergio Escalera , José García-Rodríguez , Jiankang Deng , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias

Animating portraits using speech has received growing attention in recent years, with various creative and practical use cases. An ideal generated video should have good lip sync with the audio, natural facial expressions and head motions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Siddharth Gururani , Arun Mallya , Ting-Chun Wang , Rafael Valle , Ming-Yu Liu

The field of photorealistic 3D avatar reconstruction and generation has garnered significant attention in recent years; however, animating such avatars remains challenging. Recent advances in diffusion models have notably enhanced the…

Generating temporally coherent high fidelity video is an important milestone in generative modeling research. We make progress towards this milestone by proposing a diffusion model for video generation that shows very promising initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Jonathan Ho , Tim Salimans , Alexey Gritsenko , William Chan , Mohammad Norouzi , David J. Fleet

Despite the recent strides in video generation, state-of-the-art methods still struggle with elements of visual detail. One particularly challenging case is the class of videos in which the intricate motion of the hand coupled with a mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yayuan Li , Zhi Cao , Jason J. Corso

The rising demand for creating lifelike avatars in the digital realm has led to an increased need for generating high-quality human videos guided by textual descriptions and poses. We propose Dancing Avatar, designed to fabricate human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Bosheng Qin , Wentao Ye , Qifan Yu , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

The objective of this study is to generate high-quality speech from silent talking face videos, a task also known as video-to-speech synthesis. A significant challenge in video-to-speech synthesis lies in the substantial modality gap…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Ji-Hoon Kim , Jeongsoo Choi , Jaehun Kim , Chaeyoung Jung , Joon Son Chung

Several works have developed end-to-end pipelines for generating lip-synced talking faces with various real-world applications, such as teaching and language translation in videos. However, these prior works fail to create realistic-looking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Sahil Goyal , Shagun Uppal , Sarthak Bhagat , Yi Yu , Yifang Yin , Rajiv Ratn Shah

Significant progress has been made in talking-face video generation research; however, precise lip-audio synchronization and high visual quality remain challenging in editing lip shapes based on input audio. This paper introduces JoyGen, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Qili Wang , Dajiang Wu , Zihang Xu , Junshi Huang , Jun Lv

This paper focuses on the task of speech-driven 3D facial animation, which aims to generate realistic and synchronized facial motions driven by speech inputs. Recent methods have employed audio-conditioned diffusion models for 3D facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yifan Yang , Zhi Cen , Sida Peng , Xiangwei Chen , Yifu Deng , Xinyu Zhu , Fan Jia , Xiaowei Zhou , Hujun Bao

We present a novel one-shot talking head synthesis method that achieves disentangled and fine-grained control over lip motion, eye gaze&blink, head pose, and emotional expression. We represent different motions via disentangled latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Duomin Wang , Yu Deng , Zixin Yin , Heung-Yeung Shum , Baoyuan Wang

Audio-driven talking head animation is a challenging research topic with many real-world applications. Recent works have focused on creating photo-realistic 2D animation, while learning different talking or singing styles remains an open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Trong-Thang Pham , Nhat Le , Tuong Do , Hung Nguyen , Erman Tjiputra , Quang D. Tran , Anh Nguyen

Generating highly dynamic and photorealistic portrait animations driven by audio and skeletal motion remains challenging due to the need for precise lip synchronization, natural facial expressions, and high-fidelity body motion dynamics. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jiahao Cui , Yan Chen , Mingwang Xu , Hanlin Shang , Yuxuan Chen , Yun Zhan , Zilong Dong , Yao Yao , Jingdong Wang , Siyu Zhu

Generating high-quality artistic portrait videos is an important and desirable task in computer graphics and vision. Although a series of successful portrait image toonification models built upon the powerful StyleGAN have been proposed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Shuai Yang , Liming Jiang , Ziwei Liu , Chen Change Loy