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We introduce SketcherX, a novel robotic system for personalized portrait drawing through interactive human-robot engagement. Unlike traditional robotic art systems that rely on analog printing techniques, SketcherX captures and processes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Jookyung Song , Mookyoung Kang , Nojun Kwak

Latent diffusion models have made great strides in generating expressive portrait videos with accurate lip-sync and natural motion from a single reference image and audio input. However, these models are far from real-time, often requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Hanzhong Guo , Hongwei Yi , Daquan Zhou , Alexander William Bergman , Michael Lingelbach , Yizhou Yu

Audio-driven portrait animation aims to synthesize realistic and natural talking head videos from an input audio signal and a single reference image. While existing methods achieve high-quality results by leveraging high-dimensional…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Fangyu Du , Taiqing Li , Qian Qiao , Tan Yu , Ziwei Zhang , Dingcheng Zhen , Xu Jia , Yang Yang , Shunshun Yin , Siyuan Liu

Modern Transformer-based language models achieve strong performance in natural language processing tasks, yet their latent semantic spaces remain largely uninterpretable black boxes. This paper introduces LAG-XAI (Lie Affine Geometry for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Olexander Mazurets , Olexander Barmak , Leonid Bedratyuk , Iurii Krak

Learning an animatable and clothed human avatar model with vivid dynamics and photorealistic appearance from multi-view videos is an important foundational research problem in computer graphics and vision. Fueled by recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Heming Zhu , Guoxing Sun , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann

Talking face generation aims to synthesize realistic speaking portraits from a single image, yet existing methods often rely on explicit optical flow and local warping, which fail to model complex global motions and cause identity drift. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Bo Chen , Tao Liu , Qi Chen , Xie Chen , Zilong Zheng

We introduce LTX-Video, a transformer-based latent diffusion model that adopts a holistic approach to video generation by seamlessly integrating the responsibilities of the Video-VAE and the denoising transformer. Unlike existing methods,…

Existing facial reenactment methods struggle with a trade-off between expressiveness and fine-grained controllability. Holistic facial reenactment models often sacrifice granular control for expressiveness, while methods designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Chaonan Ji , Jinwei Qi , Sheng Xu , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang

Existing audio-driven facial animation methods face critical challenges, including expression leakage, ineffective subtle expression transfer, and imprecise audio-driven synchronization. We discovered that these issues stem from limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Bin Lin , Yanzhen Yu , Jianhao Ye , Ruitao Lv , Yuguang Yang , Ruoye Xie , Pan Yu , Hongbin Zhou

We introduce HunyuanPortrait, a diffusion-based condition control method that employs implicit representations for highly controllable and lifelike portrait animation. Given a single portrait image as an appearance reference and video clips…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Zunnan Xu , Zhentao Yu , Zixiang Zhou , Jun Zhou , Xiaoyu Jin , Fa-Ting Hong , Xiaozhong Ji , Junwei Zhu , Chengfei Cai , Shiyu Tang , Qin Lin , Xiu Li , Qinglin Lu

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

In this paper, we propose a novel model called Learnable VAE (L-VAE), which learns a disentangled representation together with the hyperparameters of the cost function. L-VAE can be considered as an extension of \b{eta}-VAE, wherein the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Hazal Mogultay Ozcan , Sinan Kalkan , Fatos T. Yarman-Vural

We present Lynx, a high-fidelity model for personalized video synthesis from a single input image. Built on an open-source Diffusion Transformer (DiT) foundation model, Lynx introduces two lightweight adapters to ensure identity fidelity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Shen Sang , Tiancheng Zhi , Tianpei Gu , Jing Liu , Linjie Luo

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

Masked autoencoders (MAEs) have emerged recently as art self-supervised spatiotemporal representation learners. Inheriting from the image counterparts, however, existing video MAEs still focus largely on static appearance learning whilst…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Haosen Yang , Deng Huang , Bin Wen , Jiannan Wu , Hongxun Yao , Yi Jiang , Xiatian Zhu , Zehuan Yuan

Recent diffusion-based talking face generation models have demonstrated impressive potential in synthesizing videos that accurately match a speech audio clip with a given reference identity. However, existing approaches still encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xingpei Ma , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shenneng Huang , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang

This paper presents STARCaster, an identity-aware spatio-temporal video diffusion model that addresses both speech-driven portrait animation and free-viewpoint talking portrait synthesis, given an identity embedding or reference image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou , Stathis Galanakis , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Bernhard Kainz , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Motion-controllable image animation is a fundamental task with a wide range of potential applications. Recent works have made progress in controlling camera or object motion via various motion representations, while they still struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yingjie Chen , Yifang Men , Yuan Yao , Miaomiao Cui , Liefeng Bo

Speech-driven 3D facial animation plays a key role in applications such as virtual avatars, gaming, and digital content creation. While existing methods have made significant progress in achieving accurate lip synchronization and generating…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yifang Pan , Karan Singh , Luiz Gustavo Hafemann

Real-time rendering of human head avatars is a cornerstone of many computer graphics applications, such as augmented reality, video games, and films, to name a few. Recent approaches address this challenge with computationally efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Kartik Teotia , Hyeongwoo Kim , Pablo Garrido , Marc Habermann , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt