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In this study, we explore the representation mapping from the domain of visual arts to the domain of music, with which we can use visual arts as an effective handle to control music generation. Unlike most studies in multimodal…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Runbang Zhang , Yixiao Zhang , Kai Shao , Ying Shan , Gus Xia

We propose Polyffusion, a diffusion model that generates polyphonic music scores by regarding music as image-like piano roll representations. The model is capable of controllable music generation with two paradigms: internal control and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Lejun Min , Junyan Jiang , Gus Xia , Jingwei Zhao

Emotion alignment between music and palettes is crucial for effective multimedia content, yet misalignment creates confusion that weakens the intended message. However, existing methods often generate only a single dominant color, missing…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Jiayun Hu , Yueyi He , Tianyi Liang , Changbo Wang , Chenhui Li

Automatically generating symbolic music-music scores tailored to specific human needs-can be highly beneficial for musicians and enthusiasts. Recent studies have shown promising results using extensive datasets and advanced transformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yangyang Shu , Haiming Xu , Ziqin Zhou , Anton van den Hengel , Lingqiao Liu

The generation of talking avatars has achieved significant advancements in precise audio synchronization. However, crafting lifelike talking head videos requires capturing a broad spectrum of emotions and subtle facial expressions. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Huaize Liu , Wenzhang Sun , Donglin Di , Shibo Sun , Jiahui Yang , Changqing Zou , Hujun Bao

Audio-driven emotional 3D facial animation encounters two significant challenges: (1) reliance on single-modal control signals (videos, text, or emotion labels) without leveraging their complementary strengths for comprehensive emotion…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Kangwei Liu , Junwu Liu , Xiaowei Yi , Jinlin Guo , Yun Cao

Visual emotion expression plays an important role in audiovisual speech communication. In this work, we propose a novel approach to rendering visual emotion expression in speech-driven talking face generation. Specifically, we design an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-23 Sefik Emre Eskimez , You Zhang , Zhiyao Duan

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

Numerous studies in the field of music generation have demonstrated impressive performance, yet virtually no models are able to directly generate music to match accompanying videos. In this work, we develop a generative music AI framework,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Jaeyong Kang , Soujanya Poria , Dorien Herremans

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

Audio-driven 3D facial animation has several virtual humans applications for content creation and editing. While several existing methods provide solutions for speech-driven animation, precise control over content (what) and style (how) of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Qingju Liu , Hyeongwoo Kim , Gaurav Bharaj

In this work, we build a simple but strong baseline for sounding video generation. Given base diffusion models for audio and video, we integrate them with additional modules into a single model and train it to make the model jointly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Masato Ishii , Akio Hayakawa , Takashi Shibuya , Yuki Mitsufuji

Talking head video generation aims to generate a realistic talking head video that preserves the person's identity from a source image and the motion from a driving video. Despite the promising progress made in the field, it remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Shuling Zhao , Fa-Ting Hong , Xiaoshui Huang , Dan Xu

We introduce FaceTalk, a novel generative approach designed for synthesizing high-fidelity 3D motion sequences of talking human heads from input audio signal. To capture the expressive, detailed nature of human heads, including hair, ears,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Shivangi Aneja , Justus Thies , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

We propose X-Portrait, an innovative conditional diffusion model tailored for generating expressive and temporally coherent portrait animation. Specifically, given a single portrait as appearance reference, we aim to animate it with motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 You Xie , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , Chao Wang , Yichun Shi , Linjie Luo

Multimodal music generation aims to produce music from diverse input modalities, including text, videos, and images. Existing methods use a common embedding space for multimodal fusion. Despite their effectiveness in other modalities, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Baisen Wang , Le Zhuo , Zhaokai Wang , Chenxi Bao , Wu Chengjing , Xuecheng Nie , Jiao Dai , Jizhong Han , Yue Liao , Si Liu

Dynamic facial expression generation from natural language is a crucial task in Computer Graphics, with applications in Animation, Virtual Avatars, and Human-Computer Interaction. However, current generative models suffer from datasets that…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yaron Aloni , Rotem Shalev-Arkushin , Yonatan Shafir , Guy Tevet , Ohad Fried , Amit Haim Bermano

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

Audio-driven portrait animation aims to synthesize portrait videos that are conditioned by given audio. Animating high-fidelity and multimodal video portraits has a variety of applications. Previous methods have attempted to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Yunfei Liu , Lijian Lin , Fei Yu , Changyin Zhou , Yu Li

Emotion recognition from facial videos enables non-contact inference of human emotional states. Although facial expressions are widely used cues, they cannot fully reflect intrinsic affective states. Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xiwen Luo , Jia Li , Rencheng Song , Yu Liu , Juan Cheng