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Pose-driven human-image animation diffusion models have shown remarkable capabilities in realistic human video synthesis. Despite the promising results achieved by previous approaches, challenges persist in achieving temporally consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Jeongho Kim , Min-Jung Kim , Junsoo Lee , Jaegul Choo

Talking head generation intends to produce vivid and realistic talking head videos from a single portrait and speech audio clip. Although significant progress has been made in diffusion-based talking head generation, almost all methods rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Hanbo Cheng , Limin Lin , Chenyu Liu , Pengcheng Xia , Pengfei Hu , Jiefeng Ma , Jun Du , Jia Pan

This paper focuses on the task of speech-driven 3D facial animation, which aims to generate realistic and synchronized facial motions driven by speech inputs. Recent methods have employed audio-conditioned diffusion models for 3D facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yifan Yang , Zhi Cen , Sida Peng , Xiangwei Chen , Yifu Deng , Xinyu Zhu , Fan Jia , Xiaowei Zhou , Hujun Bao

We present DPoser-X, a diffusion-based prior model for 3D whole-body human poses. Building a versatile and robust full-body human pose prior remains challenging due to the inherent complexity of articulated human poses and the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Junzhe Lu , Jing Lin , Hongkun Dou , Ailing Zeng , Yue Deng , Xian Liu , Zhongang Cai , Lei Yang , Yulun Zhang , Haoqian Wang , Ziwei Liu

Audio-driven talking video generation has advanced significantly, but existing methods often depend on video-to-video translation techniques and traditional generative networks like GANs and they typically generate taking heads and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Steven Hogue , Chenxu Zhang , Hamza Daruger , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo

Character Animation aims to generating character videos from still images through driving signals. Currently, diffusion models have become the mainstream in visual generation research, owing to their robust generative capabilities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Li Hu , Xin Gao , Peng Zhang , Ke Sun , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Face reenactment aims to generate realistic talking head videos by transferring motion from a driving video to a static source image while preserving the source identity. Although existing methods based on either implicit or explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Mingtao Guo , Guanyu Xing , Yanci Zhang , Yanli Liu

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved conditional video generation, particularly in the pose-guided human image animation task. Although existing methods are capable of generating high-fidelity and time-consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Shuolin Xu , Siming Zheng , Ziyi Wang , HC Yu , Jinwei Chen , Huaqi Zhang , Daquan Zhou , Tong-Yee Lee , Bo Li , Peng-Tao Jiang

The task of audio-driven portrait animation involves generating a talking head video using an identity image and an audio track of speech. While many existing approaches focus on lip synchronization and video quality, few tackle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Jian Zhang , Weijian Mai , Zhijun Zhang

Generating high-quality whole-body human object interaction motion sequences is becoming increasingly important in various fields such as animation, VR/AR, and robotics. The main challenge of this task lies in determining the level of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yonghao Zhang , Qiang He , Yanguang Wan , Yinda Zhang , Xiaoming Deng , Cuixia Ma , Hongan Wang

We present Follow-Your-Emoji-Faster, an efficient diffusion-based framework for freestyle portrait animation driven by facial landmarks. The main challenges in this task are preserving the identity of the reference portrait, accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yue Ma , Zexuan Yan , Hongyu Liu , Hongfa Wang , Heng Pan , Yingqing He , Junkun Yuan , Ailing Zeng , Chengfei Cai , Heung-Yeung Shum , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Linfeng Zhang , Qifeng Chen

Lightweight, controllable, and physically plausible human motion synthesis is crucial for animation, virtual reality, robotics, and human-computer interaction applications. Existing methods often compromise between computational efficiency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Arvin Tashakori , Arash Tashakori , Gongbo Yang , Z. Jane Wang , Peyman Servati

Portrait animation from a single source image and a driving video is a long-standing problem. Recent approaches tend to adopt diffusion-based image/video generation models for realistic and expressive animation. However, none of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Yuxiang Shi , Zhe Li , Yanwen Wang , Hao Zhu , Xun Cao , Ligang Liu

Recent advances in conditional diffusion models have shown promise for generating realistic TalkingFace videos, yet challenges persist in achieving consistent head movement, synchronized facial expressions, and accurate lip synchronization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Fei Shen , Cong Wang , Junyao Gao , Qin Guo , Jisheng Dang , Jinhui Tang , Tat-Seng Chua

The objective of face animation is to generate dynamic and expressive talking head videos from a single reference face, utilizing driving conditions derived from either video or audio inputs. Current approaches often require fine-tuning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 He Feng , Donglin Di , Yongjia Ma , Wei Chen , Tonghua Su

Talking face generation aims to synthesize realistic speaking portraits from a single image, yet existing methods often rely on explicit optical flow and local warping, which fail to model complex global motions and cause identity drift. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Bo Chen , Tao Liu , Qi Chen , Xie Chen , Zilong Zheng

While recent research has made significant progress in speech-driven talking face generation, the quality of the generated video still lags behind that of real recordings. One reason for this is the use of handcrafted intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Chenpeng Du , Qi Chen , Tianyu He , Xu Tan , Xie Chen , Kai Yu , Sheng Zhao , Jiang Bian

Diffusion-based models have gained wide adoption in the virtual human generation due to their outstanding expressiveness. However, their substantial computational requirements have constrained their deployment in real-time interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Haojie Yu , Zhaonian Wang , Yihan Pan , Meng Cheng , Hao Yang , Chao Wang , Tao Xie , Xiaoming Xu , Xiaoming Wei , Xunliang Cai

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Mingyuan Zhang , Zhongang Cai , Liang Pan , Fangzhou Hong , Xinying Guo , Lei Yang , Ziwei Liu

Human motion video generation has advanced significantly, while existing methods still struggle with accurately rendering detailed body parts like hands and faces, especially in long sequences and intricate motions. Current approaches also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Qijun Gan , Yi Ren , Chen Zhang , Zhenhui Ye , Pan Xie , Xiang Yin , Zehuan Yuan , Bingyue Peng , Jianke Zhu