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Modern avatar generators allow anyone to synthesize photorealistic real-time talking avatars, ushering in a new era of avatar-based human communication, such as with immersive AR/VR interactions or videoconferencing with limited bandwidths.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Ekta Prashnani , Koki Nagano , Shalini De Mello , David Luebke , Orazio Gallo

Performance, the externalization of intent, emotion, and personality through visual, vocal, and temporal behavior, is what makes a character alive. Learning such performance from video is a promising alternative to traditional 3D pipelines.…

Synthesizing natural interactions between virtual humans and their 3D environments is critical for numerous applications, such as computer games and AR/VR experiences. Our goal is to synthesize humans interacting with a given 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Kaifeng Zhao , Shaofei Wang , Yan Zhang , Thabo Beeler , Siyu Tang

We propose a novel framework to produce cartoon videos by fetching the color information from two input keyframes while following the animated motion guided by a user sketch. The key idea of the proposed approach is to estimate the dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Xiaoyu Li , Bo Zhang , Jing Liao , Pedro V. Sander

This paper investigates a novel task of talking face video generation solely from speeches. The speech-to-video generation technique can spark interesting applications in entertainment, customer service, and human-computer-interaction…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Shijing Si , Jianzong Wang , Xiaoyang Qu , Ning Cheng , Wenqi Wei , Xinghua Zhu , Jing Xiao

In this paper, we consider a novel and practical case for talking face video generation. Specifically, we focus on the scenarios involving multi-people interactions, where the talking context, such as audience or surroundings, is present.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Meidai Xuanyuan , Yuwang Wang , Honglei Guo , Qionghai Dai

Video editing increasingly demands the ability to incorporate specific real-world instances into existing footage, yet current approaches fundamentally fail to capture the unique visual characteristics of particular subjects and ensure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Shaobin Zhuang , Zhipeng Huang , Binxin Yang , Ying Zhang , Fangyikang Wang , Canmiao Fu , Chong Sun , Zheng-Jun Zha , Chen Li , Yali Wang

Unsupervised domain adaptation which aims to adapt models trained on a labeled source domain to a completely unlabeled target domain has attracted much attention in recent years. While many domain adaptation techniques have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Aadarsh Sahoo , Rutav Shah , Rameswar Panda , Kate Saenko , Abir Das

Despite recent progress, text-to-image models still struggle to generate semantically diverse and compositionally accurate multi-person interaction scenes, often collapsing to repetitive layouts, stereotypical poses, and poorly grounded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Wenxuan Peng , Bharath Hariharan , Hadar Averbuch-Elor

Recently, significant advancements have been made in diffusion-based visual text generation models. Although the effectiveness of these methods in visual text rendering is rapidly improving, they still encounter challenges such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Lichen Ma , Tiezhu Yue , Pei Fu , Yujie Zhong , Kai Zhou , Xiaoming Wei , Jie Hu

Several works have developed end-to-end pipelines for generating lip-synced talking faces with various real-world applications, such as teaching and language translation in videos. However, these prior works fail to create realistic-looking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Sahil Goyal , Shagun Uppal , Sarthak Bhagat , Yi Yu , Yifang Yin , Rajiv Ratn Shah

We propose and investigate an identity sensitive joint embedding of face and voice. Such an embedding enables cross-modal retrieval from voice to face and from face to voice. We make the following four contributions: first, we show that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Arsha Nagrani , Samuel Albanie , Andrew Zisserman

Customized text-to-video generation aims to generate high-quality videos guided by text prompts and subject references. Current approaches for personalizing text-to-video generation suffer from tackling multiple subjects, which is a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Zhao Wang , Aoxue Li , Lingting Zhu , Yong Guo , Qi Dou , Zhenguo Li

Caricature generation is an interesting yet challenging task. The primary goal is to generate plausible caricatures with reasonable exaggerations given face images. Conventional caricature generation approaches mainly use low-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Wenbin Li , Wei Xiong , Haofu Liao , Jing Huo , Yang Gao , Jiebo Luo

With the rapid development of Role-Playing Games (RPGs), players are now allowed to edit the facial appearance of their in-game characters with their preferences rather than using default templates. This paper proposes a game character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Tianyang Shi , Zhengxia Zou , Yi Yuan , Changjie Fan

Recent advances in video diffusion models have significantly improved character animation techniques. However, current approaches rely on basic structural conditions such as DWPose or SMPL-X to animate character images, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Muyao Niu , Mingdeng Cao , Yifan Zhan , Qingtian Zhu , Mingze Ma , Jiancheng Zhao , Yanhong Zeng , Zhihang Zhong , Xiao Sun , Yinqiang Zheng

Research on text generation from multimodal inputs has largely focused on static images, and less on video data. In this paper, we propose a new task, narration generation, that is complementing videos with narration texts that are to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Nikos Papasarantopoulos , Shay B. Cohen

In this work, we tackle the scenario of understanding characters in scripts, which aims to learn the characters' personalities and identities from their utterances. We begin by analyzing several challenges in this scenario, and then propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Dawei Li , Hengyuan Zhang , Yanran Li , Shiping Yang

Controllability, temporal coherence, and detail synthesis remain the most critical challenges in video generation. In this paper, we focus on a commonly used yet underexplored cinematic technique known as Frame In and Frame Out.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Boyang Wang , Xuweiyi Chen , Matheus Gadelha , Zezhou Cheng

Cross-modal retrieval between videos and texts has gained increasing research interest due to the rapid emergence of videos on the web. Generally, a video contains rich instance and event information and the query text only describes a part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Chengzhi Lin , Ancong Wu , Junwei Liang , Jun Zhang , Wenhang Ge , Wei-Shi Zheng , Chunhua Shen