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Recent advances in generative AI have significantly enhanced image and video editing, particularly in the context of text prompt control. State-of-the-art approaches predominantly rely on diffusion models to accomplish these tasks. However,…

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While accurate lip synchronization has been achieved for arbitrary-subject audio-driven talking face generation, the problem of how to efficiently drive the head pose remains. Previous methods rely on pre-estimated structural information…

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Existing gesture generation methods primarily focus on upper body gestures based on audio features, neglecting speech content, emotion, and locomotion. These limitations result in stiff, mechanical gestures that fail to convey the true…

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Despite remarkable achievements in video synthesis, achieving granular control over complex dynamics, such as nuanced movement among multiple interacting objects, still presents a significant hurdle for dynamic world modeling, compounded by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Pengxiang Li , Kai Chen , Zhili Liu , Ruiyuan Gao , Lanqing Hong , Guo Zhou , Hua Yao , Dit-Yan Yeung , Huchuan Lu , Xu Jia

Recent generative models can synthesize high-quality images, but they often fail to generate humans interacting with objects using their hands. This arises mostly from the model's misunderstanding of such interactions and the hardships of…

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We introduce AvatarForge, a framework for generating animatable 3D human avatars from text or image inputs using AI-driven procedural generation. While diffusion-based methods have made strides in general 3D object generation, they struggle…

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We present TANGO, a framework for generating co-speech body-gesture videos. Given a few-minute, single-speaker reference video and target speech audio, TANGO produces high-fidelity videos with synchronized body gestures. TANGO builds on…

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Recent breakthroughs in video AIGC have ushered in a transformative era for audio-driven human animation. However, conventional video dubbing techniques remain constrained to mouth region editing, resulting in discordant facial expressions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Shaoshu Yang , Zhe Kong , Feng Gao , Meng Cheng , Xiangyu Liu , Yong Zhang , Zhuoliang Kang , Wenhan Luo , Xunliang Cai , Ran He , Xiaoming Wei

Audio-driven portrait animation, which synthesizes realistic videos from reference images using audio signals, faces significant challenges in real-time generation of high-fidelity, temporally coherent animations. While recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Dechao Meng , Steven Xiao , Xindi Zhang , Guangyuan Wang , Peng Zhang , Qi Wang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Audio-driven talking head generation aims to create vivid and realistic videos from a static portrait and speech. Existing AR-based methods rely on intermediate facial representations, which limit their expressiveness and realism.…

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Pre-trained conditional diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable potential in image editing. However, they often face challenges with temporal consistency, particularly in the talking head domain, where continuous changes in facial…

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Recent advancements in video diffusion models have significantly enhanced audio-driven portrait animation. However, current methods still suffer from flickering, identity drift, and poor audio-visual synchronization. These issues primarily…

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With the introduction of diffusion-based video generation techniques, audio-conditioned human video generation has recently achieved significant breakthroughs in both the naturalness of motion and the synthesis of portrait details. Due to…

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

Talking head generation creates lifelike avatars from static portraits for virtual communication and content creation. However, current models do not yet convey the feeling of truly interactive communication, often generating one-way…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Taekyung Ki , Sangwon Jang , Jaehyeong Jo , Jaehong Yoon , Sung Ju Hwang

Portrait animation aims to synthesize talking videos from a static reference face, conditioned on audio and style frame cues (e.g., emotion and head poses), while ensuring precise lip synchronization and faithful reproduction of speaking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 He Feng , Yongjia Ma , Donglin Di , Lei Fan , Tonghua Su , Xiangqian Wu

Audio-driven emotional 3D facial animation encounters two significant challenges: (1) reliance on single-modal control signals (videos, text, or emotion labels) without leveraging their complementary strengths for comprehensive emotion…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Kangwei Liu , Junwu Liu , Xiaowei Yi , Jinlin Guo , Yun Cao

Long-duration talking video synthesis faces enduring challenges in achieving high video quality, portrait consistency, temporal coherence, and computational efficiency. As video length increases, issues such as visual degradation, portrait…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Haojie Zhang , Zhihao Liang , Ruibo Fu , Bingyan Liu , Zhengqi Wen , Xuefei Liu , Jianhua Tao , Yaling Liang

Diffusion models have experienced a surge of interest as highly expressive yet efficiently trainable probabilistic models. We show that these models are an excellent fit for synthesising human motion that co-occurs with audio, e.g., dancing…

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This work targets to construct a robust human pose prior. However, it remains a persistent challenge due to biomechanical constraints and diverse human movements. Traditional priors like VAEs and NDFs often exhibit shortcomings in realism…

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Video generation models have advanced significantly, yet they still struggle to synthesize complex human movements due to the high degrees of freedom in human articulation. This limitation stems from the intrinsic constraints of pixel-only…

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