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Manipulating facial expressions is a challenging task due to fine-grained shape changes produced by facial muscles and the lack of input-output pairs for supervised learning. Unlike previous methods using Generative Adversarial Networks…

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This paper presents a 3D generative model that uses diffusion models to automatically generate 3D digital avatars represented as neural radiance fields. A significant challenge in generating such avatars is that the memory and processing…

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As humans, we aspire to create media content that is both freely willed and readily controlled. Thanks to the prominent development of generative techniques, we now can easily utilize 2D diffusion methods to synthesize images controlled by…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Wenqi Dong , Bangbang Yang , Lin Ma , Xiao Liu , Liyuan Cui , Hujun Bao , Yuewen Ma , Zhaopeng Cui

As 3D generation techniques continue to flourish, the demand for generating personalized content is rapidly rising. Users increasingly seek to apply various editing methods to polish generated 3D content, aiming to enhance its color, style,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Weitao Wang , Haoran Xu , Jun Meng , Haoqian Wang

Cultural heritage applications and advanced machine learning models are creating a fruitful synergy to provide effective and accessible ways of interacting with artworks. Smart audio-guides, personalized art-related content and gamification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Dario Cioni , Lorenzo Berlincioni , Federico Becattini , Alberto del Bimbo

In recent years, financial institutions and firms have increasingly adopted synthetic data to address data scarcity and to generate counterfactual market scenarios. However, reproducing all the statistical properties of financial time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Giuseppe Masi , Andrea Coletta , Novella Bartolini

Digital humans and, especially, 3D facial avatars have raised a lot of attention in the past years, as they are the backbone of several applications like immersive telepresence in AR or VR. Despite the progress, facial avatars reconstructed…

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Cross-Modal learning tasks have picked up pace in recent times. With plethora of applications in diverse areas, generation of novel content using multiple modalities of data has remained a challenging problem. To address the same, various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Nikhil Verma

Semantic communication is expected to be one of the cores of next-generation AI-based communications. One of the possibilities offered by semantic communication is the capability to regenerate, at the destination side, images or videos…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Eleonora Grassucci , Sergio Barbarossa , Danilo Comminiello

Speech-driven 3D talking heads generation has emerged as a significant area of interest among researchers, presenting numerous challenges. Existing methods are constrained by animating faces with fixed topologies, wherein point-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Federico Nocentini , Thomas Besnier , Claudio Ferrari , Sylvain Arguillere , Stefano Berretti , Mohamed Daoudi

Animating virtual avatars to make co-speech gestures facilitates various applications in human-machine interaction. The existing methods mainly rely on generative adversarial networks (GANs), which typically suffer from notorious mode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Lingting Zhu , Xian Liu , Xuanyu Liu , Rui Qian , Ziwei Liu , Lequan Yu

Portrait animation aims to generate photo-realistic videos from a single source image by reenacting the expression and pose from a driving video. While early methods relied on 3D morphable models or feature warping techniques, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mallikarjun B. R. , Fei Yin , Vikram Voleti , Nikita Drobyshev , Maksim Lapin , Aaryaman Vasishta , Varun Jampani

The creation of 3D human face avatars from a single unconstrained image is a fundamental task that underlies numerous real-world vision and graphics applications. Despite the significant progress made in generative models, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Wenqing Wang , Haosen Yang , Josef Kittler , Xiatian Zhu

Pose skeleton images are an important reference in pose-controllable image generation. In order to enrich the source of skeleton images, recent works have investigated the generation of pose skeletons based on natural language. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Shuowen Liang , Sisi Li , Qingyun Wang , Cen Zhang , Kaiquan Zhu , Tian Yang

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

As a new emerging and promising type of generative models, diffusion models have proven to outperform Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in multiple tasks, including image synthesis. In this work, we explore semantic image synthesis for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yan Zhuang , Benjamin Hou , Tejas Sudharshan Mathai , Pritam Mukherjee , Boah Kim , Ronald M. Summers

The advance of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) enables realistic face image synthesis. However, synthesizing face images that preserve facial identity as well as have high diversity within each identity remains challenging. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Yujun Shen , Bolei Zhou , Ping Luo , Xiaoou Tang

Talking head generation is a significant research topic that still faces numerous challenges. Previous works often adopt generative adversarial networks or regression models, which are plagued by generation quality and average facial shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ziyu Yao , Xuxin Cheng , Zhiqi Huang

Recent studies emphasize the crucial role of data augmentation in enhancing the performance of object detection models. However,existing methodologies often struggle to effectively harmonize dataset diversity with semantic coordination.To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Sen Nie , Zhuo Wang , Xinxin Wang , Kun He

Previous animatable 3D-aware GANs for human generation have primarily focused on either the human head or full body. However, head-only videos are relatively uncommon in real life, and full body generation typically does not deal with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yue Wu , Sicheng Xu , Jianfeng Xiang , Fangyun Wei , Qifeng Chen , Jiaolong Yang , Xin Tong