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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

The rising demand for creating lifelike avatars in the digital realm has led to an increased need for generating high-quality human videos guided by textual descriptions and poses. We propose Dancing Avatar, designed to fabricate human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Bosheng Qin , Wentao Ye , Qifan Yu , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Video generation is rapidly evolving towards unified audio-video generation. In this paper, we present ALIVE, a generation model that adapts a pretrained Text-to-Video (T2V) model to Sora-style audio-video generation and animation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ying Guo , Qijun Gan , Yifu Zhang , Jinlai Liu , Yifei Hu , Pan Xie , Dongjun Qian , Yu Zhang , Ruiqi Li , Yuqi Zhang , Ruibiao Lu , Xiaofeng Mei , Bo Han , Xiang Yin , Bingyue Peng , Zehuan Yuan

Audio-Visual Foundation Models, which are pretrained to jointly generate sound and visual content, have recently shown an unprecedented ability to model multi-modal generation and editing, opening new opportunities for downstream tasks.…

Generative AI is reshaping the media landscape, enabling unprecedented capabilities in video creation, personalization, and scalability. This paper presents a comprehensive SWOT analysis of Metas Movie Gen, a cutting-edge generative AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Abul Ehtesham , Saket Kumar , Aditi Singh , Tala Talaei Khoei

We devise a cascade GAN approach to generate talking face video, which is robust to different face shapes, view angles, facial characteristics, and noisy audio conditions. Instead of learning a direct mapping from audio to video frames, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Lele Chen , Ross K. Maddox , Zhiyao Duan , Chenliang Xu

Vision-guided speech generation aims to produce authentic speech from facial appearance or lip motions without relying on auditory signals, offering significant potential for applications such as dubbing in filmmaking and assisting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Jiaxin Ye , Hongming Shan

Although significant progress has been made in audio-driven talking head generation, text-driven methods remain underexplored. In this work, we present OmniTalker, a unified framework that jointly generates synchronized talking audio-video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zhongjian Wang , Peng Zhang , Jinwei Qi , Guangyuan Wang , Chaonan Ji , Sheng Xu , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

This work proposes a novel method to generate realistic talking head videos using audio and visual streams. We animate a source image by transferring head motion from a driving video using a dense motion field generated using learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Madhav Agarwal , Rudrabha Mukhopadhyay , Vinay Namboodiri , C V Jawahar

Existing video avatar models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in scenarios such as talking, public speaking, and singing. However, the majority of these methods exhibit limited alignment with respect to text instructions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ruikui Wang , Jinheng Feng , Lang Tian , Huaishao Luo , Chaochao Li , Liangbo Zhou , Huan Zhang , Youzheng Wu , Xiaodong He

Facial expression generation has always been an intriguing task for scientists and researchers all over the globe. In this context, we present our novel approach for generating videos of the six basic facial expressions. Starting from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Hamza Bouzid , Lahoucine Ballihi

Generating natural human motion from a story has the potential to transform the landscape of animation, gaming, and film industries. A new and challenging task, Story-to-Motion, arises when characters are required to move to various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Zhongfei Qing , Zhongang Cai , Zhitao Yang , Lei Yang

Recent advancements in audio generation have been spurred by the evolution of large-scale deep learning models and expansive datasets. However, the task of video-to-audio (V2A) generation continues to be a challenge, principally because of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Xinhao Mei , Varun Nagaraja , Gael Le Lan , Zhaoheng Ni , Ernie Chang , Yangyang Shi , Vikas Chandra

Current video-to-audio (V2A) methods struggle in complex multi-event scenarios (video scenarios involving multiple sound sources, sound events, or transitions) due to two critical limitations. First, existing methods face challenges in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Jianxuan Yang , Xiaoran Yang , Lipan Zhang , Xinyue Guo , Zhao Wang , Gongping Huang

Video-to-Audio (V2A) Generation achieves significant progress and plays a crucial role in film and video post-production. However, current methods overlook the cinematic language, a critical component of artistic expression in filmmaking.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Feizhen Huang , Yu Wu , Yutian Lin , Bo Du

Video generation is a challenging yet pivotal task in various industries, such as gaming, e-commerce, and advertising. One significant unresolved aspect within T2V is the effective visualization of text within generated videos. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Lin Liu , Quande Liu , Shengju Qian , Yuan Zhou , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Lingxi Xie , Qi Tian

Generating talking avatar driven by audio remains a significant challenge. Existing methods typically require high computational costs and often lack sufficient facial detail and realism, making them unsuitable for applications that demand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Yujian Liu , Shidang Xu , Jing Guo , Dingbin Wang , Zairan Wang , Xianfeng Tan , Xiaoli Liu

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

The demand for realistic and versatile character animation has surged, driven by its wide-ranging applications in various domains. However, the animation generation algorithms modeling human pose with 2D or 3D structures all face various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tianyu Sun , Zhoujie Fu , Bang Zhang , Guosheng Lin

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