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Generative models have advanced rapidly, enabling impressive talking head generation that brings AI to life. However, most existing methods focus solely on one-way portrait animation. Even the few that support bidirectional conversational…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Haijie Yang , Zhenyu Zhang , Hao Tang , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang

Generating vivid and diverse 3D co-speech gestures is crucial for various applications in animating virtual avatars. While most existing methods can generate gestures from audio directly, they usually overlook that emotion is one of the key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Xingqun Qi , Chen Liu , Lincheng Li , Jie Hou , Haoran Xin , Xin Yu

The integration of geometric reconstruction and generative modeling remains a critical challenge in developing AI systems capable of human-like spatial reasoning. This paper proposes Aether, a unified framework that enables geometry-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Aether Team , Haoyi Zhu , Yifan Wang , Jianjun Zhou , Wenzheng Chang , Yang Zhou , Zizun Li , Junyi Chen , Chunhua Shen , Jiangmiao Pang , Tong He

This study presents a theory-inspired visual narrative generative system that integrates conceptual principles-comic authoring idioms-with generative and language models to enhance the comic creation process. Our system combines human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Yi-Chun Chen , Arnav Jhala

Recent advances in scene-based video generation enable coherent visual narratives from structured prompts, yet a key aspect of storytelling -- character-driven dialogue and speech -- remains underexplored. We present a modular pipeline that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Taewon Kang , Ming C. Lin

Owing to the recent developments in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLM), conversational agents are becoming increasingly popular and accepted. They provide a human touch by interacting in ways familiar…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Fathima Abdul Rahman , Guang Lu

Generating vivid and emotional 3D co-speech gestures is crucial for virtual avatar animation in human-machine interaction applications. While the existing methods enable generating the gestures to follow a single emotion label, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Xingqun Qi , Jiahao Pan , Peng Li , Ruibin Yuan , Xiaowei Chi , Mengfei Li , Wenhan Luo , Wei Xue , Shanghang Zhang , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

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

Generating coherent long-form video sequences from discrete text prompts remains challenging due to difficulties in maintaining temporal coherence, semantic consistency, and scene-action continuity across segments. We propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Taewon Kang , Divya Kothandaraman , Ming C. Lin

In filmmaking, directors typically allow actors to perform freely based on the script before providing specific guidance on how to present key actions. AI-generated content faces similar requirements, where users not only need automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zheng Qin , Ruobing Zheng , Yabing Wang , Tianqi Li , Zixin Zhu , Sanping Zhou , Ming Yang , Le Wang

Generative retrieval has recently emerged as a promising approach to sequential recommendation, framing candidate item retrieval as an autoregressive sequence generation problem. However, existing generative methods typically focus solely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Ye Wang , Jiahao Xun , Minjie Hong , Jieming Zhu , Tao Jin , Wang Lin , Haoyuan Li , Linjun Li , Yan Xia , Zhou Zhao , Zhenhua Dong

Recent advancements in text-to-image generation have been propelled by the development of diffusion models and multi-modality learning. However, since text is typically represented sequentially in these models, it often falls short in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Guibao Shen , Luozhou Wang , Jiantao Lin , Wenhang Ge , Chaozhe Zhang , Xin Tao , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Zhongyuan Wang , Guangyong Chen , Yijun Li , Ying-Cong Chen

Lack of large, well-annotated emotional speech corpora continues to limit the performance and robustness of speech emotion recognition (SER), particularly as models grow more complex and the demand for multimodal systems increases. While…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Chung-Soo Ahn , Rajib Rana , Sunil Sivadas , Carlos Busso , Jagath C. Rajapakse

This paper proposes a multimodal emotion recognition system based on hybrid fusion that classifies the emotions depicted by speech utterances and corresponding images into discrete classes. A new interpretability technique has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Puneet Kumar , Sarthak Malik , Balasubramanian Raman

Employing voice-based emotion recognition function in artificial intelligence (AI) product will improve the user experience. Most of researches that have been done only focus on the speech collected under controlled conditions. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-06 Fei Tao , Gang Liu , Qingen Zhao

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

The research on human emotion under multimedia stimulation based on physiological signals is an emerging field, and important progress has been achieved for emotion recognition based on multi-modal signals. However, it is challenging to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Ziyu Jia , Youfang Lin , Jing Wang , Zhiyang Feng , Xiangheng Xie , Caijie Chen

We present PresentAgent, a multimodal agent that transforms long-form documents into narrated presentation videos. While existing approaches are limited to generating static slides or text summaries, our method advances beyond these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jingwei Shi , Zeyu Zhang , Biao Wu , Yanjie Liang , Meng Fang , Ling Chen , Yang Zhao

Exploring proper way to conduct multi-speech feature fusion for cross-corpus speech emotion recognition is crucial as different speech features could provide complementary cues reflecting human emotion status. While most previous approaches…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Xueyu Liu , Jie Lin , Chao Wang

Story visualization has gained increasing attention in artificial intelligence. However, existing methods still struggle with maintaining a balance between character identity preservation and text-semantics alignment, largely due to a lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Jinlu Zhang , Jiji Tang , Rongsheng Zhang , Tangjie Lv , Xiaoshuai Sun