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Pose-guided human image animation aims to synthesize realistic videos of a reference character driven by a sequence of poses. While diffusion-based methods have achieved remarkable success, most existing approaches are limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yingcheng Hu , Haowen Gong , Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Yongjun Xu , Songhua Liu

Recent advancements in personalized image generation using diffusion models have been noteworthy. However, existing methods suffer from inefficiencies due to the requirement for subject-specific fine-tuning. This computationally intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xu Peng , Junwei Zhu , Boyuan Jiang , Ying Tai , Donghao Luo , Jiangning Zhang , Wei Lin , Taisong Jin , Chengjie Wang , Rongrong Ji

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

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

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,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Fatemeh Nazarieh , Zhenhua Feng , Diptesh Kanojia , Muhammad Awais , Josef Kittler

Portrait animation has witnessed tremendous quality improvements thanks to recent advances in video diffusion models. However, these 2D methods often compromise 3D consistency and speed, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Kaiwen Jiang , Xueting Li , Seonwook Park , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Shalini De Mello , Koki Nagano

We propose X-NeMo, a novel zero-shot diffusion-based portrait animation pipeline that animates a static portrait using facial movements from a driving video of a different individual. Our work first identifies the root causes of the key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Xiaochen Zhao , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , You Xie , Chenxu Zhang , Xiu Li , Linjie Luo , Jinli Suo , Yebin Liu

In this study, we propose AniPortrait, a novel framework for generating high-quality animation driven by audio and a reference portrait image. Our methodology is divided into two stages. Initially, we extract 3D intermediate representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Huawei Wei , Zejun Yang , Zhisheng Wang

DiffusionAvatars synthesizes a high-fidelity 3D head avatar of a person, offering intuitive control over both pose and expression. We propose a diffusion-based neural renderer that leverages generic 2D priors to produce compelling images of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Tobias Kirschstein , Simon Giebenhain , Matthias Nießner

Video diffusion models substantially boost the productivity of artistic workflows with high-quality portrait video generative capacity. However, prevailing pipelines are primarily constrained to single-shot creation, while real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Jiahao Wang , Hualian Sheng , Sijia Cai , Weizhan Zhang , Caixia Yan , Yachuang Feng , Bing Deng , Jieping Ye

Human-centric generative models designed for AI-driven storytelling must bring together two core capabilities: identity consistency and precise control over human performance. While recent diffusion-based approaches have made significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Audio-driven avatar interaction demands real-time, streaming, and infinite-length generation -- capabilities fundamentally at odds with the sequential denoising and long-horizon drift of current diffusion models. We present Live Avatar, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yubo Huang , Hailong Guo , Fangtai Wu , Weiqiang Wang , Shifeng Zhang , Shijie Huang , Qijun Gan , Lin Liu , Sirui Zhao , Enhong Chen , Jiaming Liu , Steven Hoi

Creating human avatars is a highly desirable yet challenging task. Recent advancements in radiance field rendering have achieved unprecedented photorealism and real-time performance for personalized dynamic human avatars. However, these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Dongliang Cao , Guoxing Sun , Marc Habermann , Florian Bernard

We present Follow-Your-Emoji, a diffusion-based framework for portrait animation, which animates a reference portrait with target landmark sequences. The main challenge of portrait animation is to preserve the identity of the reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yue Ma , Hongyu Liu , Hongfa Wang , Heng Pan , Yingqing He , Junkun Yuan , Ailing Zeng , Chengfei Cai , Heung-Yeung Shum , Wei Liu , Qifeng Chen

Latent diffusion models have made great strides in generating expressive portrait videos with accurate lip-sync and natural motion from a single reference image and audio input. However, these models are far from real-time, often requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Hanzhong Guo , Hongwei Yi , Daquan Zhou , Alexander William Bergman , Michael Lingelbach , Yizhou Yu

Generating high-quality 360-degree views of human heads from single-view images is essential for enabling accessible immersive telepresence applications and scalable personalized content creation. While cutting-edge methods for full head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Yuming Gu , Phong Tran , Yujian Zheng , Hongyi Xu , Heyuan Li , Adilbek Karmanov , Hao Li

Large pretrained diffusion models have significantly enhanced the quality of generated videos, and yet their use in real-time streaming remains limited. Autoregressive models offer a natural framework for sequential frame synthesis but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jinxiu Liu , Xuanming Liu , Kangfu Mei , Yandong Wen , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Weiyang Liu

Audio-driven portrait animation has made significant advances with diffusion-based models, improving video quality and lipsync accuracy. However, the increasing complexity of these models has led to inefficiencies in training and inference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Xuyang Cao , Guoxin Wang , Sheng Shi , Jun Zhao , Yang Yao , Jintao Fei , Minyu Gao , Pei Xie

We present 3DiFACE, a novel method for personalized speech-driven 3D facial animation and editing. While existing methods deterministically predict facial animations from speech, they overlook the inherent one-to-many relationship between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Balamurugan Thambiraja , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Darren Cosker , Justus Thies

This paper addresses the challenge of text-conditioned streaming motion generation, which requires us to predict the next-step human pose based on variable-length historical motions and incoming texts. Existing methods struggle to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Lixing Xiao , Shunlin Lu , Huaijin Pi , Ke Fan , Liang Pan , Yueer Zhou , Ziyong Feng , Xiaowei Zhou , Sida Peng , Jingbo Wang