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Diffusion-based audio-driven talking avatar methods have recently gained attention for their high-fidelity, vivid, and expressive results. However, their slow inference speed limits practical applications. Despite the development of various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Tianyun Zhong , Chao Liang , Jianwen Jiang , Gaojie Lin , Jiaqi Yang , Zhou Zhao

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 present Follow-Your-Emoji-Faster, an efficient diffusion-based framework for freestyle portrait animation driven by facial landmarks. The main challenges in this task are preserving the identity of the reference portrait, accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yue Ma , Zexuan Yan , Hongyu Liu , Hongfa Wang , Heng Pan , Yingqing He , Junkun Yuan , Ailing Zeng , Chengfei Cai , Heung-Yeung Shum , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Linfeng Zhang , Qifeng Chen

Diffusion models have shown impressive potential on talking head generation. While plausible appearance and talking effect are achieved, these methods still suffer from temporal, 3D or expression inconsistency due to the error accumulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Haijie Yang , Zhenyu Zhang , Hao Tang , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang

Current diffusion models for audio-driven avatar video generation struggle to synthesize long videos with natural audio synchronization and identity consistency. This paper presents StableAvatar, the first end-to-end video diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shuyuan Tu , Yueming Pan , Yinming Huang , Xintong Han , Zhen Xing , Qi Dai , Chong Luo , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

The field of portrait image animation, driven by speech audio input, has experienced significant advancements in the generation of realistic and dynamic portraits. This research delves into the complexities of synchronizing facial movements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mingwang Xu , Hui Li , Qingkun Su , Hanlin Shang , Liwei Zhang , Ce Liu , Jingdong Wang , Yao Yao , Siyu Zhu

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…

Talking head generation with arbitrary identities and speech audio remains a crucial problem in the realm of the virtual metaverse. Recently, diffusion models have become a popular generative technique in this field with their strong…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Xinyang Li , Gen Li , Zhihui Lin , Yichen Qian , GongXin Yao , Weinan Jia , Aowen Wang , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang

In real-life conversations, the content is diverse, and there exists the one-to-many problem that requires diverse generation. Previous studies attempted to introduce discrete or Gaussian-based continuous latent variables to address the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jianxiang Xiang , Zhenhua Liu , Haodong Liu , Yin Bai , Jia Cheng , Wenliang Chen

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

While diffusion models have shown great potential in portrait generation, generating expressive, coherent, and controllable cinematic portrait videos remains a significant challenge. Existing intermediate signals for portrait generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Junyi Wang , Yudong Guo , Boyang Guo , Shengming Yang , Juyong Zhang

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

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

We present AvatarPopUp, a method for fast, high quality 3D human avatar generation from different input modalities, such as images and text prompts and with control over the generated pose and shape. The common theme is the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Nikos Kolotouros , Thiemo Alldieck , Enric Corona , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Cristian Sminchisescu

Recent advances in diffusion models have revolutionized video generation, offering superior temporal consistency and visual quality compared to traditional generative adversarial networks-based approaches. While this emerging field shows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yimu Wang , Xuye Liu , Wei Pang , Li Ma , Shuai Yuan , Paul Debevec , Ning Yu

Speech-driven animation has gained significant traction in recent years, with current methods achieving near-photorealistic results. However, the field remains underexplored regarding non-verbal communication despite evidence demonstrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Antoni Bigata Casademunt , Rodrigo Mira , Nikita Drobyshev , Konstantinos Vougioukas , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Video and audio content creation serves as the core technique for the movie industry and professional users. Recently, existing diffusion-based methods tackle video and audio generation separately, which hinders the technique transfer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Yazhou Xing , Yingqing He , Zeyue Tian , Xintao Wang , Qifeng Chen

Existing methodologies for animating portrait images face significant challenges, particularly in handling non-frontal perspectives, rendering dynamic objects around the portrait, and generating immersive, realistic backgrounds. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Jiahao Cui , Hui Li , Yun Zhan , Hanlin Shang , Kaihui Cheng , Yuqi Ma , Shan Mu , Hang Zhou , Jingdong Wang , Siyu Zhu

Recently, 2D speaking avatars have increasingly participated in everyday scenarios due to the fast development of facial animation techniques. However, most existing works neglect the explicit control of human bodies. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jiazhi Guan , Quanwei Yang , Kaisiyuan Wang , Hang Zhou , Shengyi He , Zhiliang Xu , Haocheng Feng , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang , Hongtao Xie , Youjian Zhao , Ziwei Liu

Although powerful for image generation, consistent and controllable video is a longstanding problem for diffusion models. Video models require extensive training and computational resources, leading to high costs and large environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Muhammad Haaris Khan , Hadrien Reynaud , Bernhard Kainz