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Generating sound effects for videos often requires creating artistic sound effects that diverge significantly from real-life sources and flexible control in the sound design. To address this problem, we introduce MultiFoley, a model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Ziyang Chen , Prem Seetharaman , Bryan Russell , Oriol Nieto , David Bourgin , Andrew Owens , Justin Salamon

Diffusion models have revolutionized the field of talking head generation, yet still face challenges in expressiveness, controllability, and stability in long-time generation. In this research, we propose an EmotiveTalk framework to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Haotian Wang , Yuzhe Weng , Yueyan Li , Zilu Guo , Jun Du , Shutong Niu , Jiefeng Ma , Shan He , Xiaoyan Wu , Qiming Hu , Bing Yin , Cong Liu , Qingfeng Liu

End-to-end human animation with rich multi-modal conditions, e.g., text, image and audio has achieved remarkable advancements in recent years. However, most existing methods could only animate a single subject and inject conditions in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Zhenzhi Wang , Jiaqi Yang , Jianwen Jiang , Chao Liang , Gaojie Lin , Zerong Zheng , Ceyuan Yang , Yuan Zhang , Mingyuan Gao , Dahua Lin

Speech-driven 3D face animation technique, extending its applications to various multimedia fields. Previous research has generated promising realistic lip movements and facial expressions from audio signals. However, traditional regression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Ziqiao Peng , Yihao Luo , Yue Shi , Hao Xu , Xiangyu Zhu , Jun He , Hongyan Liu , Zhaoxin Fan

Speech-driven 3D facial animation technology has been developed for years, but its practical application still lacks expectations. The main challenges lie in data limitations, lip alignment, and the naturalness of facial expressions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xiangyu Liang , Wenlin Zhuang , Tianyong Wang , Guangxing Geng , Guangyue Geng , Haifeng Xia , Siyu Xia

In this paper, we propose a novel audio-driven talking head method capable of simultaneously generating highly expressive facial expressions and hand gestures. Unlike existing methods that focus on generating full-body or half-body poses,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Linrui Tian , Siqi Hu , Qi Wang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Given an arbitrary face image and an arbitrary speech clip, the proposed work attempts to generating the talking face video with accurate lip synchronization while maintaining smooth transition of both lip and facial movement over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Yang Song , Jingwen Zhu , Dawei Li , Xiaolong Wang , Hairong Qi

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved audio-driven human video generation, surpassing traditional methods in both quality and controllability. However, existing approaches still face challenges in lip-sync…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xingpei Ma , Shenneng Huang , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shen Zheng , Hanfeng Zhao , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang

Recent advancements in video generation have achieved impressive motion realism, yet they often overlook character-driven storytelling, a crucial task for automated film, animation generation. We introduce Talking Characters, a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Cong Wei , Bo Sun , Haoyu Ma , Ji Hou , Felix Juefei-Xu , Zecheng He , Xiaoliang Dai , Luxin Zhang , Kunpeng Li , Tingbo Hou , Animesh Sinha , Peter Vajda , Wenhu Chen

Talking face generation aims at generating photo-realistic video portraits of a target person driven by input audio. Due to its nature of one-to-many mapping from the input audio to the output video (e.g., one speech content may have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Anni Tang , Tianyu He , Xu Tan , Jun Ling , Li Song

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

In this paper, we introduce a novel Face-to-Face spoken dialogue model. It processes audio-visual speech from user input and generates audio-visual speech as the response, marking the initial step towards creating an avatar chatbot system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Se Jin Park , Chae Won Kim , Hyeongseop Rha , Minsu Kim , Joanna Hong , Jeong Hun Yeo , Yong Man Ro

We present a novel approach for generating realistic speaking and talking faces by synthesizing a person's voice and facial movements from a static image, a voice profile, and a target text. The model encodes the prompt/driving text, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Aashish Chandra , Aashutosh A , Abhijit Das

End-to-end human animation, such as audio-driven talking human generation, has undergone notable advancements in the recent few years. However, existing methods still struggle to scale up as large general video generation models, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Gaojie Lin , Jianwen Jiang , Jiaqi Yang , Zerong Zheng , Chao Liang

Conversation is an essential component of virtual avatar activities in the metaverse. With the development of natural language processing, textual and vocal conversation generation has achieved a significant breakthrough. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yichao Yan , Zanwei Zhou , Zi Wang , Jingnan Gao , Xiaokang Yang

Audio-driven talking video generation has advanced significantly, but existing methods often depend on video-to-video translation techniques and traditional generative networks like GANs and they typically generate taking heads and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Steven Hogue , Chenxu Zhang , Hamza Daruger , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo

Instruction-based speech processing is becoming popular. Studies show that training with multiple tasks boosts performance, but collecting diverse, large-scale tasks and datasets is expensive. Thus, it is highly desirable to design a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Chien-yu Huang , Min-Han Shih , Ke-Han Lu , Chi-Yuan Hsiao , Hung-yi Lee

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

Talking head generation is to generate video based on a given source identity and target motion. However, current methods face several challenges that limit the quality and controllability of the generated videos. First, the generated face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yue Gao , Yuan Zhou , Jinglu Wang , Xiao Li , Xiang Ming , Yan Lu

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