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

Speech-driven 3D facial animation technology has been developed for years, but its practical application still lacks expectations. The main challenges lie in data limitations, lip alignment, and the naturalness of facial expressions.…

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People may perform diverse gestures affected by various mental and physical factors when speaking the same sentences. This inherent one-to-many relationship makes co-speech gesture generation from audio particularly challenging.…

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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.…

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Emotion is essential in spoken communication, yet most existing frameworks in speech emotion modeling rely on predefined categories or low-dimensional continuous attributes, which offer limited expressive capacity. Recent advances in speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Tianhua Qi , Wenming Zheng , Björn W. Schuller , Zhaojie Luo , Haizhou Li

Recent AIGC systems possess the capability to generate digital multimedia content based on human language instructions, such as text, image and video. However, when it comes to speech, existing methods related to human instruction-to-speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Yixuan Zhou , Xiaoyu Qin , Zeyu Jin , Shuoyi Zhou , Shun Lei , Songtao Zhou , Zhiyong Wu , Jia Jia

Audio-driven talking head generation has drawn much attention in recent years, and many efforts have been made in lip-sync, expressive facial expressions, natural head pose generation, and high video quality. However, no model has yet led…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Xusen Sun , Longhao Zhang , Hao Zhu , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Xinya Ji , Kangneng Zhou , Daiheng Gao , Liefeng Bo , Xun Cao

We propose PersonaGesture, a diffusion-based pipeline for single-reference co-speech gesture personalization of unseen speakers. Given target speech and one motion clip from a new speaker, the model must synthesize gestures that follow the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xiangyue Zhang , Yiyi Cai , Kunhang Li , Kaixing Yang , You Zhou , Zhengqing Li , Xuangeng Chu , Jiaxu Zhang , Haiyang Liu

Human action recognition and motion generation are two active research problems in human-centric computer vision, both aiming to align motion with textual semantics. However, most existing works study these two problems separately, without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jidong Kuang , Hongsong Wang , Jie Gui

Human speech is often accompanied by hand and arm gestures. Given audio speech input, we generate plausible gestures to go along with the sound. Specifically, we perform cross-modal translation from "in-the-wild'' monologue speech of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Shiry Ginosar , Amir Bar , Gefen Kohavi , Caroline Chan , Andrew Owens , Jitendra Malik

Individuals with language disorders often face significant communication challenges due to their limited language processing and comprehension abilities, which also affect their interactions with voice-assisted systems that mostly rely on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Seungbae Kim , Daeun Lee , Brielle Stark , Jinyoung Han

Current video captioning methods usually use an encoder-decoder structure to generate text autoregressively. However, autoregressive methods have inherent limitations such as slow generation speed and large cumulative error. Furthermore,…

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Speech-driven 3D facial animation has been widely studied, yet there is still a gap to achieving realism and vividness due to the highly ill-posed nature and scarcity of audio-visual data. Existing works typically formulate the cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jinbo Xing , Menghan Xia , Yuechen Zhang , Xiaodong Cun , Jue Wang , Tien-Tsin Wong

Speech-driven 3D talking face method should offer both accurate lip synchronization and controllable expressions. Previous methods solely adopt discrete emotion labels to globally control expressions throughout sequences while limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Hejia Chen , Haoxian Zhang , Shoulong Zhang , Xiaoqiang Liu , Sisi Zhuang , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Shuai Li

With an increasing need for elderly and disability care, there is an increasing opportunity for intelligent and mobile devices such as robots to provide care and support solutions. In order to naturally assist and interact with humans, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Katsushi Ikeuchi , David Baumert , Shunsuke Kudoh , Masaru Takizawa

Diffusion models have revolutionized the field of talking head generation, yet still face challenges in expressiveness, controllability, and stability in long-time generation. In this research, we propose an EmotiveTalk framework to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Haotian Wang , Yuzhe Weng , Yueyan Li , Zilu Guo , Jun Du , Shutong Niu , Jiefeng Ma , Shan He , Xiaoyan Wu , Qiming Hu , Bing Yin , Cong Liu , Qingfeng Liu

In this paper, we propose a novel framework, Combo, for harmonious co-speech holistic 3D human motion generation and efficient customizable adaption. In particular, we identify that one fundamental challenge as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Chao Xu , Mingze Sun , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Fei Wang , Yang Liu , Baigui Sun , Ruqi Huang , Alexander Hauptmann

Audio-driven talking face generation is a challenging task in digital communication. Despite significant progress in the area, most existing methods concentrate on audio-lip synchronization, often overlooking aspects such as visual quality,…

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Co-speech gestures increase engagement and improve speech understanding. Most data-driven robot systems generate rhythmic beat-like motion, yet few integrate semantic emphasis. To address this, we propose a lightweight transformer that…

Human motion modeling is important for many modern graphics applications, which typically require professional skills. In order to remove the skill barriers for laymen, recent motion generation methods can directly generate human motions…

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