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Audio-driven talking face video generation has attracted increasing attention due to its huge industrial potential. Some previous methods focus on learning a direct mapping from audio to visual content. Despite progress, they often struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Weizhi Zhong , Junfan Lin , Peixin Chen , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

Speech-driven 3D facial animation synthesis has been a challenging task both in industry and research. Recent methods mostly focus on deterministic deep learning methods meaning that given a speech input, the output is always the same.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Stefan Stan , Kazi Injamamul Haque , Zerrin Yumak

Creative story illustration requires a consistent interplay of multiple characters or objects. However, conventional text-to-image models face significant challenges while producing images featuring multiple personalized subjects. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Arushi Jain , Shubham Paliwal , Monika Sharma , Vikram Jamwal , Lovekesh Vig

The body movements accompanying speech aid speakers in expressing their ideas. Co-speech motion generation is one of the important approaches for synthesizing realistic avatars. Due to the intricate correspondence between speech and motion,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Sen Wang , Jiangning Zhang , Xin Tan , Zhifeng Xie , Chengjie Wang , Lizhuang Ma

Human-centric generative models designed for AI-driven storytelling must bring together two core capabilities: identity consistency and precise control over human performance. While recent diffusion-based approaches have made significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

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

Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved the realism and generalizability of character-driven animation, enabling the synthesis of high-quality motion from just a single RGB image and a set of driving poses.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Alireza Javanmardi , Pragati Jaiswal , Tewodros Amberbir Habtegebrial , Christen Millerdurai , Shaoxiang Wang , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

With the advancement of natural language generation (NLG) technologies, creative story generation systems have gained increasing attention. However, current systems often fail to accurately translate user intent into satisfactory story…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yunchao Wang , Guodao Sun , Zihang Fu , Zhehao Liu , Kaixing Du , Haidong Gao , Ronghua Liang

Given the audio-visual clip of the speaker, facial reaction generation aims to predict the listener's facial reactions. The challenge lies in capturing the relevance between video and audio while balancing appropriateness, realism, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jiaming Li , Sheng Wang , Xin Wang , Yitao Zhu , Honglin Xiong , Zixu Zhuang , Qian Wang

Video generation has achieved remarkable progress with the introduction of diffusion models, which have significantly improved the quality of generated videos. However, recent research has primarily focused on scaling up model training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Chenyang Si , Weichen Fan , Zhengyao Lv , Ziqi Huang , Yu Qiao , Ziwei Liu

Recent advancements in diffusion models have showcased their impressive capacity to generate visually striking images. Nevertheless, ensuring a close match between the generated image and the given prompt remains a persistent challenge. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Yupeng Zhou , Daquan Zhou , Zuo-Liang Zhu , Yaxing Wang , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

While significant progress has been achieved in multimodal facial generation using semantic masks and textual descriptions, conventional feature fusion approaches often fail to enable effective cross-modal interactions, thereby leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yushe Cao , Dianxi Shi , Xing Fu , Xuechao Zou , Haikuo Peng , Xueqi Li , Chun Yu , Junliang Xing

Generating a coherent sequence of images that tells a visual story, using text-to-image diffusion models, often faces the critical challenge of maintaining subject consistency across all story scenes. Existing approaches, which typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Gopalji Gaur , Mohammadreza Zolfaghari , Thomas Brox

Large-scale text-guided image diffusion models have shown astonishing results in text-to-image (T2I) generation. However, applying these models to synthesize textures for 3D geometries remains challenging due to the domain gap between 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Jiawei Lu , Yingpeng Zhang , Zengjun Zhao , He Wang , Kun Zhou , Tianjia Shao

We present TokenCompose, a Latent Diffusion Model for text-to-image generation that achieves enhanced consistency between user-specified text prompts and model-generated images. Despite its tremendous success, the standard denoising process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zirui Wang , Zhizhou Sha , Zheng Ding , Yilin Wang , Zhuowen Tu

Tuning-free personalized image generation methods have achieved significant success in maintaining facial consistency, i.e., identities, even with multiple characters. However, the lack of holistic consistency in scenes with multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Zhengguang Zhou , Jing Li , Huaxia Li , Nemo Chen , Xu Tang

Text-to-image generative models can generate high-quality humans, but realism is lost when generating hands. Common artifacts include irregular hand poses, shapes, incorrect numbers of fingers, and physically implausible finger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Supreeth Narasimhaswamy , Uttaran Bhattacharya , Xiang Chen , Ishita Dasgupta , Saayan Mitra , Minh Hoai

The diffusion model has been proven a powerful generative model in recent years, yet remains a challenge in generating visual text. Several methods alleviated this issue by incorporating explicit text position and content as guidance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Jingye Chen , Yupan Huang , Tengchao Lv , Lei Cui , Qifeng Chen , Furu Wei

Diffusion language models intrinsically fail to capture correlations between decoded tokens, which leads to a harsh trade-off between sampling quality and throughput. To solve this issue, we propose DiLaDiff, a variant of masked diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jean-Marie Lemercier , Tomas Geffner , Karsten Kreis , Morteza Mardani , Arash Vahdat , Ante Jukić

Scene text synthesis involves rendering specified texts onto arbitrary images. Current methods typically formulate this task in an end-to-end manner but lack effective character-level guidance during training. Besides, their text encoders,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yibin Wang , Weizhong Zhang , Honghui Xu , Cheng Jin