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Specifying nuanced and compelling camera motion remains a significant hurdle for non-expert creators using generative tools, creating an "expressive gap" where generic text prompts fail to capture cinematic vision. This barrier limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Pooja Guhan , Divya Kothandaraman , Geonsun Lee , Tsung-Wei Huang , Guan-Ming Su , Dinesh Manocha

We introduce TurboPortrait3D: a method for low-latency novel-view synthesis of human portraits. Our approach builds on the observation that existing image-to-3D models for portrait generation, while capable of producing renderable 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Emily Kim , Julieta Martinez , Timur Bagautdinov , Jessica Hodgins

Recent text-to-image generation models have demonstrated incredible success in generating images that faithfully follow input prompts. However, the requirement of using words to describe a desired concept provides limited control over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Senthil Purushwalkam , Akash Gokul , Shafiq Joty , Nikhil Naik

Current video generation techniques excel at single-shot clips but struggle to produce narrative multi-shot videos, which require flexible shot arrangement, coherent narrative, and controllability beyond text prompts. To tackle these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Qinghe Wang , Xiaoyu Shi , Baolu Li , Weikang Bian , Quande Liu , Huchuan Lu , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Kun Gai , Xu Jia

In human-centric content generation, the pre-trained text-to-image models struggle to produce user-wanted portrait images, which retain the identity of individuals while exhibiting diverse expressions. This paper introduces our efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Renshuai Liu , Bowen Ma , Wei Zhang , Zhipeng Hu , Changjie Fan , Tangjie Lv , Yu Ding , Xuan Cheng

Head avatars animated by visual signals have gained popularity, particularly in cross-driving synthesis where the driver differs from the animated character, a challenging but highly practical approach. The recently presented MegaPortraits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Nikita Drobyshev , Antoni Bigata Casademunt , Konstantinos Vougioukas , Zoe Landgraf , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

In this paper, we present DreaMoving, a diffusion-based controllable video generation framework to produce high-quality customized human videos. Specifically, given target identity and posture sequences, DreaMoving can generate a video of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Mengyang Feng , Jinlin Liu , Kai Yu , Yuan Yao , Zheng Hui , Xiefan Guo , Xianhui Lin , Haolan Xue , Chen Shi , Xiaowen Li , Aojie Li , Xiaoyang Kang , Biwen Lei , Miaomiao Cui , Peiran Ren , Xuansong Xie

Human-centric generative models designed for AI-driven storytelling must bring together two core capabilities: identity consistency and precise control over human performance. While recent diffusion-based approaches have made significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Despite recent progress in diffusion models, generating realistic head portraits from novel viewpoints remains a significant challenge. Most current approaches are constrained to limited angular ranges, predominantly focusing on frontal or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Stathis Galanakis , Alexandros Lattas , Stylianos Moschoglou , Bernhard Kainz , Stefanos Zafeiriou

This technical report presents a diffusion model based framework for face swapping between two portrait images. The basic framework consists of three components, i.e., IP-Adapter, ControlNet, and Stable Diffusion's inpainting pipeline, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Feifei Wang

One-shot 3D talking portrait generation aims to reconstruct a 3D avatar from an unseen image, and then animate it with a reference video or audio to generate a talking portrait video. The existing methods fail to simultaneously achieve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zhenhui Ye , Tianyun Zhong , Yi Ren , Jiaqi Yang , Weichuang Li , Jiawei Huang , Ziyue Jiang , Jinzheng He , Rongjie Huang , Jinglin Liu , Chen Zhang , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma , Zhou Zhao

Large-scale text-to-image models including Stable Diffusion are capable of generating high-fidelity photorealistic portrait images. There is an active research area dedicated to personalizing these models, aiming to synthesize specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Junha Hyung , Jaeyo Shin , Jaegul Choo

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

Emotional talking head synthesis aims to generate talking portrait videos with vivid expressions. Existing methods still exhibit limitations in control flexibility, motion naturalness, and expression quality. Moreover, currently available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yiguo Jiang , Xiaodong Cun , Yong Zhang , Yudian Zheng , Fan Tang , Chi-Man Pun

The generation of stylistic 3D facial animations driven by speech presents a significant challenge as it requires learning a many-to-many mapping between speech, style, and the corresponding natural facial motion. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Zhiyao Sun , Tian Lv , Sheng Ye , Matthieu Lin , Jenny Sheng , Yu-Hui Wen , Minjing Yu , Yong-Jin Liu

In contrast to the traditional avatar creation pipeline which is a costly process, contemporary generative approaches directly learn the data distribution from photographs. While plenty of works extend unconditional generative models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Junshu Tang , Bo Zhang , Binxin Yang , Ting Zhang , Dong Chen , Lizhuang Ma , Fang Wen

Talking head synthesis is a promising approach for the video production industry. Recently, a lot of effort has been devoted in this research area to improve the generation quality or enhance the model generalization. However, there are few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Shuai Shen , Wenliang Zhao , Zibin Meng , Wanhua Li , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Audio-driven portrait animation has made significant advances with diffusion-based models, improving video quality and lipsync accuracy. However, the increasing complexity of these models has led to inefficiencies in training and inference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Xuyang Cao , Guoxin Wang , Sheng Shi , Jun Zhao , Yang Yao , Jintao Fei , Minyu Gao , Pei Xie

Generating realistic talking-head videos remains challenging due to persistent issues such as imperfect lip synchronization, unnatural motion, and evaluation metrics that correlate poorly with human perception. We propose FlowPortrait, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Weiting Tan , Andy T. Liu , Ming Tu , Xinghua Qu , Philipp Koehn , Lu Lu

Multi-view generation with camera pose control and prompt-based customization are both essential elements for achieving controllable generative models. However, existing multi-view generation models do not support customization with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Minjung Shin , Hyunin Cho , Sooyeon Go , Jin-Hwa Kim , Youngjung Uh