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Text-to-music generation models are now capable of generating high-quality music audio in broad styles. However, text control is primarily suitable for the manipulation of global musical attributes like genre, mood, and tempo, and is less…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Shih-Lun Wu , Chris Donahue , Shinji Watanabe , Nicholas J. Bryan

Recent advancements in portrait video generation have been noteworthy. However, existing methods rely heavily on human priors and pre-trained generative models, Motion representations based on human priors may introduce unrealistic motion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Qiyuan Zhang , Chenyu Wu , Wenzhang Sun , Huaize Liu , Donglin Di , Wei Chen , Changqing Zou

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

Speech-driven 3D facial animation aims to generate realistic and expressive facial motions directly from audio. While recent methods achieve high-quality lip synchronization, they often rely on discrete emotion categories, limiting…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Diqiong Jiang , Kai Zhu , Dan Song , Jian Chang , Chenglizhao Chen , Zhenyu Wu

Emotionally talking head video generation aims to generate expressive portrait videos with accurate lip synchronization and emotional facial expressions. Current methods rely on simple emotional labels, leading to insufficient semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yahui Li , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang , Shengjie Shen

Recent advancements in video generation have significantly impacted various downstream applications, particularly in identity-preserving video generation (IPT2V). However, existing methods struggle with "copy-paste" artifacts and low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jiangchuan Wei , Shiyue Yan , Wenfeng Lin , Boyuan Liu , Renjie Chen , Mingyu Guo

Most methods for conditional video synthesis use a single modality as the condition. This comes with major limitations. For example, it is problematic for a model conditioned on an image to generate a specific motion trajectory desired by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Ligong Han , Jian Ren , Hsin-Ying Lee , Francesco Barbieri , Kyle Olszewski , Shervin Minaee , Dimitris Metaxas , Sergey Tulyakov

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

We introduce PortraitGen, a powerful portrait video editing method that achieves consistent and expressive stylization with multimodal prompts. Traditional portrait video editing methods often struggle with 3D and temporal consistency, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Xuan Gao , Haiyao Xiao , Chenglai Zhong , Shimin Hu , Yudong Guo , Juyong Zhang

Emotional expressiveness captures the extent to which a person tends to outwardly display their emotions through behavior. Due to the close relationship between emotional expressiveness and behavioral health, as well as the crucial role…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Victoria Lin , Jeffrey M. Girard , Michael A. Sayette , Louis-Philippe Morency

The objective of stylized speech-driven facial animation is to create animations that encapsulate specific emotional expressions. Existing methods often depend on pre-established emotional labels or facial expression templates, which may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yicheng Zhong , Huawei Wei , Peiji Yang , Zhisheng Wang

Audio-driven talking face generation has garnered significant interest within the domain of digital human research. Existing methods are encumbered by intricate model architectures that are intricately dependent on each other, complicating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Dong Zhao , Jiaying Shi , Wenjun Li , Shudong Wang , Shenghui Xu , Zhaoming Pan

With the rise of online dance-video platforms and rapid advances in AI-generated content (AIGC), music-driven dance generation has emerged as a compelling research direction. Despite substantial progress in related domains such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Kaixing Yang , Jiashu Zhu , Xulong Tang , Ziqiao Peng , Xiangyue Zhang , Puwei Wang , Jiahong Wu , Xiangxiang Chu , Hongyan Liu , Jun He

Talking face generation is a novel and challenging generation task, aiming at synthesizing a vivid speaking-face video given a specific audio. To fulfill emotion-controllable talking face generation, current methods need to overcome two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ziqi Zhang , Cheng Deng

We present GEM, a Generalizable Ego-vision Multimodal world model that predicts future frames using a reference frame, sparse features, human poses, and ego-trajectories. Hence, our model has precise control over object dynamics, ego-agent…

Audio-driven human gesture synthesis is a crucial task with broad applications in virtual avatars, human-computer interaction, and creative content generation. Despite notable progress, existing methods often produce gestures that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Xukun Zhou , Fengxin Li , Ming Chen , Yan Zhou , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Yeying Jin , Zhaoxin Fan , Hongyan Liu , Jun He

Creation of images using generative adversarial networks has been widely adapted into multi-modal regime with the advent of multi-modal representation models pre-trained on large corpus. Various modalities sharing a common representation…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Yoonjeon Kim , Joel Jang , Sumin Shin

We present the Melody-Guided Music Generation (MG2) model, a novel approach using melody to guide the text-to-music generation that, despite a simple method and limited resources, achieves excellent performance. Specifically, we first align…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Shaopeng Wei , Manzhen Wei , Haoyu Wang , Yu Zhao , Gang Kou

Recent advances in generative video models have enabled the creation of high-quality videos based on natural language prompts. However, these models frequently lack fine-grained temporal control, meaning they do not allow users to specify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Shira Schiber , Ofir Lindenbaum , Idan Schwartz

Talking Face Generation (TFG) strives to create realistic and emotionally expressive digital faces. While previous TFG works have mastered the creation of naturalistic facial movements, they typically express a fixed target emotion in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Hao Yang , Yanyan Zhao , Tian Zheng , Hongbo Zhang , Bichen Wang , Di Wu , Xing Fu , Xuda Zhi , Yongbo Huang , Hao He