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Diffusion models have recently advanced photorealistic human synthesis, although practical talking-head generation (THG) remains constrained by high inference latency, temporal instability such as flicker and identity drift, and imperfect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Soumya Mazumdar , Vineet Kumar Rakesh

With the growing requirement for natural human-computer interaction, speech-based systems receive increasing attention as speech is one of the most common forms of daily communication. However, the existing speech models still experience…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Zuwei Long , Yunhang Shen , Chaoyou Fu , Heting Gao , Lijiang Li , Peixian Chen , Mengdan Zhang , Hang Shao , Jian Li , Jinlong Peng , Haoyu Cao , Ke Li , Rongrong Ji , Xing Sun

Generating naturalistic and nuanced listener motions for extended interactions remains an open problem. Existing methods often rely on low-dimensional motion codes for facial behavior generation followed by photorealistic rendering,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Maksim Siniukov , Di Chang , Minh Tran , Hongkun Gong , Ashutosh Chaubey , Mohammad Soleymani

Interior design is a complex and creative discipline involving aesthetics, functionality, ergonomics, and materials science. Effective solutions must meet diverse requirements, typically producing multiple deliverables such as renderings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yuxuan Yang , Tao Geng

In this paper, we present TalkingMachines -- an efficient framework that transforms pretrained video generation models into real-time, audio-driven character animators. TalkingMachines enables natural conversational experiences by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Chetwin Low , Weimin Wang

We introduce Audio-Agent, a multimodal framework for audio generation, editing and composition based on text or video inputs. Conventional approaches for text-to-audio (TTA) tasks often make single-pass inferences from text descriptions.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Zixuan Wang , Chi-Keung Tang , Yu-Wing Tai

Recently, the application of diffusion models has facilitated the significant development of speech and audio generation. Nevertheless, the quality of samples generated by diffusion models still needs improvement. And the effectiveness of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Wenhao Guan , Kaidi Wang , Wangjin Zhou , Yang Wang , Feng Deng , Hui Wang , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong , Yong Qin

Benefiting from prompt tuning, recent years have witnessed the promising performance of pre-trained vision-language models, e.g., CLIP, on versatile downstream tasks. In this paper, we focus on a particular setting of learning adaptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Chun-Mei Feng , Kai Yu , Yong Liu , Salman Khan , Wangmeng Zuo

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in text-to-speech (TTS), even in zero-shot scenarios. Recent efforts aim to address the trade-off between inference speed and sound quality, often considered the primary drawback of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Changjin Han , Seokgi Lee , Gyuhyeon Nam , Gyeongsu Chae

Recent advancements in audio generation have enabled the creation of high-fidelity audio clips from free-form textual descriptions. However, temporal relationships, a critical feature for audio content, are currently underrepresented in…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Zeyu Xie , Xuenan Xu , Zhizheng Wu , Mengyue Wu

Text-to-Audio (TTA) aims to generate audio that corresponds to the given text description, playing a crucial role in media production. The text descriptions in TTA datasets lack rich variations and diversity, resulting in a drop in TTA…

Despite significant progress in text-to-image diffusion models, achieving precise spatial control over generated outputs remains challenging. ControlNet addresses this by introducing an auxiliary conditioning module, while ControlNet++…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Nina Konovalova , Maxim Nikolaev , Andrey Kuznetsov , Aibek Alanov

In this study, we investigate leveraging cross-attention control for efficient audio editing within auto-regressive models. Inspired by image editing methodologies, we develop a Prompt-to-Prompt-like approach that guides edits through cross…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Vassilis Sioros , Alexandros Potamianos , Giorgos Paraskevopoulos

The generation of sounding videos has seen significant advancements with the advent of diffusion models. However, existing methods often lack the fine-grained control needed to generate viewpoint-specific content from larger, immersive…

Controlled generation refers to the problem of creating text that contains stylistic or semantic attributes of interest. Many approaches reduce this problem to training a predictor of the desired attribute. For example, researchers hoping…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Carolina Zheng , Claudia Shi , Keyon Vafa , Amir Feder , David M. Blei

We present a method to control a text-to-image generative model to produce training data useful for supervised learning. Unlike previous works that employ an open-loop approach and pre-define prompts to generate new data using either a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Teresa Yeo , Andrei Atanov , Harold Benoit , Aleksandr Alekseev , Ruchira Ray , Pooya Esmaeil Akhoondi , Amir Zamir

Talking head synthesis is a promising approach for the video production industry. Recently, a lot of effort has been devoted in this research area to improve the generation quality or enhance the model generalization. However, there are few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Shuai Shen , Wenliang Zhao , Zibin Meng , Wanhua Li , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Recent advances in text-to-video diffusion models have enabled high-quality video synthesis, but controllable generation remains challenging, particularly under limited data and compute. Existing fine-tuning methods for conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Kinam Kim , Junha Hyung , Jaegul Choo

The rapid development of large-scale text-to-speech (TTS) models has led to significant advancements in modeling diverse speaker prosody and voices. However, these models often face issues such as slow inference speeds, reliance on complex…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Yinghao Aaron Li , Xilin Jiang , Cong Han , Nima Mesgarani

Text-to-audio (TTA) generation can significantly benefit the media industry by reducing production costs and enhancing work efficiency. However, most current TTA models (primarily diffusion-based) suffer from slow inference speeds and high…

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