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Speech-driven 3D facial animation has been an attractive task in both academia and industry. Traditional methods mostly focus on learning a deterministic mapping from speech to animation. Recent approaches start to consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Peng Chen , Xiaobao Wei , Ming Lu , Yitong Zhu , Naiming Yao , Xingyu Xiao , Hui Chen

Tuning-free approaches adapting large-scale pre-trained video diffusion models for identity-preserving text-to-video generation (IPT2V) have gained popularity recently due to their efficacy and scalability. However, significant challenges…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Yunpeng Zhang , Qiang Wang , Fan Jiang , Yaqi Fan , Mu Xu , Yonggang Qi

We present a training-free, plug-and-play method, namely VFace, for high-quality face swapping in videos. It can be seamlessly integrated with image-based face swapping approaches built on diffusion models. First, we introduce a Frequency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Sanoojan Baliah , Yohan Abeysinghe , Rusiru Thushara , Khan Muhammad , Abhinav Dhall , Karthik Nandakumar , Muhammad Haris Khan

Recent years have witnessed significant progress in audio-driven human animation. However, critical challenges remain in (i) generating highly dynamic videos while preserving character consistency, (ii) achieving precise emotion alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yi Chen , Sen Liang , Zixiang Zhou , Ziyao Huang , Yifeng Ma , Junshu Tang , Qin Lin , Yuan Zhou , Qinglin Lu

Advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved video quality, directing attention to fine-grained controllability. However, many existing methods depend on fine-tuning large-scale video models for specific tasks, which becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Sangwon Jang , Taekyung Ki , Jaehyeong Jo , Jaehong Yoon , Soo Ye Kim , Zhe Lin , Sung Ju Hwang

Diffusion-based audio-driven talking avatar methods have recently gained attention for their high-fidelity, vivid, and expressive results. However, their slow inference speed limits practical applications. Despite the development of various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Tianyun Zhong , Chao Liang , Jianwen Jiang , Gaojie Lin , Jiaqi Yang , Zhou Zhao

In the paradigm of AI-generated content (AIGC), there has been increasing attention to transferring knowledge from pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) models to text-to-video (T2V) generation. Despite their effectiveness, these frameworks face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Susung Hong , Junyoung Seo , Heeseong Shin , Sunghwan Hong , Seungryong Kim

Recently, 2D speaking avatars have increasingly participated in everyday scenarios due to the fast development of facial animation techniques. However, most existing works neglect the explicit control of human bodies. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jiazhi Guan , Quanwei Yang , Kaisiyuan Wang , Hang Zhou , Shengyi He , Zhiliang Xu , Haocheng Feng , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang , Hongtao Xie , Youjian Zhao , Ziwei Liu

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

Despite the recent progress of audio-driven video generation, existing methods mostly focus on driving facial movements, leading to non-coherent head and body dynamics. Moving forward, it is desirable yet challenging to generate holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jiazhi Guan , Kaisiyuan Wang , Zhiliang Xu , Quanwei Yang , Yasheng Sun , Shengyi He , Borong Liang , Yukang Cao , Yingying Li , Haocheng Feng , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang , Youjian Zhao , Hang Zhou , Ziwei Liu

Recent years have witnessed remarkable advances in audio-driven talking head generation. However, existing approaches predominantly focus on single-character scenarios. While some methods can create separate conversation videos between two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yubo Huang , Weiqiang Wang , Sirui Zhao , Tong Xu , Lin Liu , Enhong Chen

Despite recent advancements in learning-based motion in-betweening, a key limitation has been overlooked: the requirement for character-specific datasets. In this work, we introduce AnyMoLe, a novel method that addresses this limitation by…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Kwan Yun , Seokhyeon Hong , Chaelin Kim , Junyong Noh

In filmmaking, directors typically allow actors to perform freely based on the script before providing specific guidance on how to present key actions. AI-generated content faces similar requirements, where users not only need automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zheng Qin , Ruobing Zheng , Yabing Wang , Tianqi Li , Zixin Zhu , Sanping Zhou , Ming Yang , Le Wang

Talking head generation with arbitrary identities and speech audio remains a crucial problem in the realm of the virtual metaverse. Recently, diffusion models have become a popular generative technique in this field with their strong…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Xinyang Li , Gen Li , Zhihui Lin , Yichen Qian , GongXin Yao , Weinan Jia , Aowen Wang , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang

Text-to-image diffusion model alignment is critical for improving the alignment between the generated images and human preferences. While training-based methods are constrained by high computational costs and dataset requirements,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Xin Xie , Dong Gong

Recent advances in video generation models has significantly accelerated video generation and related downstream tasks. Among these, video stylization holds important research value in areas such as immersive applications and artistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Hengye Lyu , Zisu Li , Yue Hong , Yueting Weng , Jiaxin Shi , Hanwang Zhang , Chen Liang

This paper investigates a solution for enabling in-context capabilities of video diffusion transformers, with minimal tuning required for activation. Specifically, we propose a simple pipeline to leverage in-context generation:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zhengcong Fei , Di Qiu , Debang Li , Changqian Yu , Mingyuan Fan

Generating realistic and controllable human motions, particularly those involving rich multi-character interactions, remains a significant challenge due to data scarcity and the complexities of modeling inter-personal dynamics. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ruihao Xi , Xuekuan Wang , Yongcheng Li , Shuhua Li , Zichen Wang , Yiwei Wang , Feng Wei , Cairong Zhao

In this work, we present DiffVoice, a novel text-to-speech model based on latent diffusion. We propose to first encode speech signals into a phoneme-rate latent representation with a variational autoencoder enhanced by adversarial training,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Zhijun Liu , Yiwei Guo , Kai Yu

Current audio-driven facial animation methods achieve impressive results for short videos but suffer from error accumulation and identity drift when extended to longer durations. Existing methods attempt to mitigate this through external…