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This paper presents InfiniteAudio, a simple yet effective strategy for generating infinite-length audio using diffusion-based text-to-audio methods. Current approaches face memory constraints because the output size increases with input…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Chaeyoung Jung , Hojoon Ki , Ji-Hoon Kim , Junmo Kim , Joon Son Chung

Real-time interactive video-chat portraits have been increasingly recognized as the future trend, particularly due to the remarkable progress made in text and voice chat technologies. However, existing methods primarily focus on real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Jinwei Qi , Chaonan Ji , Sheng Xu , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

We present X-Actor, a novel audio-driven portrait animation framework that generates lifelike, emotionally expressive talking head videos from a single reference image and an input audio clip. Unlike prior methods that emphasize lip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Chenxu Zhang , Zenan Li , Hongyi Xu , You Xie , Xiaochen Zhao , Tianpei Gu , Guoxian Song , Xin Chen , Chao Liang , Jianwen Jiang , Linjie Luo

Building photorealistic, animatable full-body digital humans remains a longstanding challenge in computer graphics and vision. Recent advances in animatable avatar modeling have largely progressed along two directions: improving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Heming Zhu , Guoxing Sun , Marc Habermann

Human video generation task has gained significant attention with the advancement of deep generative models. Generating realistic videos with human movements is challenging in nature, due to the intricacies of human body topology and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhangsihao Yang , Mengyi Shan , Mohammad Farazi , Wenhui Zhu , Yanxi Chen , Xuanzhao Dong , Yalin Wang

Current video diffusion models achieve impressive generation quality but struggle in interactive applications due to bidirectional attention dependencies. The generation of a single frame requires the model to process the entire sequence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Tianwei Yin , Qiang Zhang , Richard Zhang , William T. Freeman , Fredo Durand , Eli Shechtman , Xun Huang

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

Recent advancements in video generation have primarily leveraged diffusion models for short-duration content. However, these approaches often fall short in modeling complex narratives and maintaining character consistency over extended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Canyu Zhao , Mingyu Liu , Wen Wang , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang , Hao Chen , Bo Zhang , Chunhua Shen

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

Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) have achieved strong performance on many video understanding tasks, but most existing systems remain offline and are not well-suited for live video streams that require continuous observation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xudong Lu , Yang Bo , Jinpeng Chen , Shuhan Li , Xintong Guo , Huankang Guan , Fang Liu , Dunyuan Xu , Peiwen Sun , Heyang Sun , Rui Liu , Hongsheng Li

The generation of temporally consistent, high-fidelity driving videos over extended horizons presents a fundamental challenge in autonomous driving world modeling. Existing approaches often suffer from error accumulation and feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jiamin Wang , Yichen Yao , Xiang Feng , Hang Wu , Yaming Wang , Qingqiu Huang , Yuexin Ma , Xinge Zhu

The Metaverse through VR headsets is a rapidly growing concept, but the high cost of entry currently limits access for many users. This project aims to provide an accessible entry point to the immersive Metaverse experience by leveraging…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Joseph Chang

Despite advances in audio-driven video generation, achieving commercial-grade stability remains challenging. We present LongCat-Video-Avatar 1.5, an upgraded open-source framework prioritizing systematic engineering and production-readiness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Meituan LongCat Team , Xunliang Cai , Meng Cheng , Feng Gao , Zhe Kong , Jiamu Li , Le Li , Weiheng Li , Hongyu Liu , Shuai Tan , Xiaoming Wei , Tianyu Yang , Yong Zhang

Creating expressive, diverse and high-quality 3D avatars from highly customized text descriptions and pose guidance is a challenging task, due to the intricacy of modeling and texturing in 3D that ensure details and various styles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Huichao Zhang , Bowen Chen , Hao Yang , Liao Qu , Xu Wang , Li Chen , Chao Long , Feida Zhu , Kang Du , Min Zheng

As the digital and physical worlds become more intertwined, there has been a lot of interest in digital avatars that closely resemble their real-world counterparts. Current digitization methods used in 3D production pipelines require costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yifan Wang , Ivan Molodetskikh , Ondrej Texler , Dimitar Dinev

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved audio-driven human video generation, surpassing traditional methods in both quality and controllability. However, existing approaches still face challenges in lip-sync…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xingpei Ma , Shenneng Huang , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shen Zheng , Hanfeng Zhao , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang

We present DreamAvatar, a text-and-shape guided framework for generating high-quality 3D human avatars with controllable poses. While encouraging results have been reported by recent methods on text-guided 3D common object generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yukang Cao , Yan-Pei Cao , Kai Han , Ying Shan , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

This work proposes a novel method to generate realistic talking head videos using audio and visual streams. We animate a source image by transferring head motion from a driving video using a dense motion field generated using learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Madhav Agarwal , Rudrabha Mukhopadhyay , Vinay Namboodiri , C V Jawahar

Recent advances in audio-driven avatar video generation have significantly enhanced audio-visual realism. However, existing methods treat instruction conditioning merely as low-level tracking driven by acoustic or visual cues, without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yikang Ding , Jiwen Liu , Wenyuan Zhang , Zekun Wang , Wentao Hu , Liyuan Cui , Mingming Lao , Yingchao Shao , Hui Liu , Xiaohan Li , Ming Chen , Xiaoqiang Liu , Yu-Shen Liu , Pengfei Wan

We introduce TurboDiffusion, a video generation acceleration framework that can speed up end-to-end diffusion generation by 100-200x while maintaining video quality. TurboDiffusion mainly relies on several components for acceleration: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jintao Zhang , Kaiwen Zheng , Kai Jiang , Haoxu Wang , Ion Stoica , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Jianfei Chen , Jun Zhu