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Text-driven person image generation is an emerging and challenging task in cross-modality image generation. Controllable person image generation promotes a wide range of applications such as digital human interaction and virtual try-on.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Kaiduo Zhang , Muyi Sun , Jianxin Sun , Binghao Zhao , Kunbo Zhang , Zhenan Sun , Tieniu Tan

We present AvatarPopUp, a method for fast, high quality 3D human avatar generation from different input modalities, such as images and text prompts and with control over the generated pose and shape. The common theme is the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Nikos Kolotouros , Thiemo Alldieck , Enric Corona , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Cristian Sminchisescu

This paper studies the human image animation task, which aims to generate a video of a certain reference identity following a particular motion sequence. Existing animation works typically employ the frame-warping technique to animate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zhongcong Xu , Jianfeng Zhang , Jun Hao Liew , Hanshu Yan , Jia-Wei Liu , Chenxu Zhang , Jiashi Feng , Mike Zheng Shou

We present PrimDiffusion, the first diffusion-based framework for 3D human generation. Devising diffusion models for 3D human generation is difficult due to the intensive computational cost of 3D representations and the articulated topology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Zhaoxi Chen , Fangzhou Hong , Haiyi Mei , Guangcong Wang , Lei Yang , Ziwei Liu

The generation of emotional talking faces from a single portrait image remains a significant challenge. The simultaneous achievement of expressive emotional talking and accurate lip-sync is particularly difficult, as expressiveness is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Chenxu Zhang , Chao Wang , Jianfeng Zhang , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , You Xie , Linjie Luo , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo , Jiashi Feng

Human facial images encode a rich spectrum of information, encompassing both stable identity-related traits and mutable attributes such as pose, expression, and emotion. While recent advances in image generation have enabled high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kazuaki Mishima , Antoni Bigata Casademunt , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic , Kenji Suzuki

Recent portrait animation methods have made significant strides in generating realistic lip synchronization. However, they often lack explicit control over head movements and facial expressions, and cannot produce videos from multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yukang Lin , Hokit Fung , Jianjin Xu , Zeping Ren , Adela S. M. Lau , Guosheng Yin , Xiu Li

Recent advancements in human image animation have been propelled by video diffusion models, yet their reliance on numerous iterative denoising steps results in high inference costs and slow speeds. An intuitive solution involves adopting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Hangjie Yuan , Yujie Wei , Yingya Zhang , Changxin Gao , Yuehuan Wang , Nong Sang

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models that were initially proposed for realistic image generation have recently shown success in various perception tasks (e.g., object detection and image segmentation) and are increasingly gaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Runyang Feng , Yixing Gao , Tze Ho Elden Tse , Xueqing Ma , Hyung Jin Chang

Multimodal-driven talking face generation refers to animating a portrait with the given pose, expression, and gaze transferred from the driving image and video, or estimated from the text and audio. However, existing methods ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Chao Xu , Shaoting Zhu , Junwei Zhu , Tianxin Huang , Jiangning Zhang , Ying Tai , Yong Liu

Talking Head Generation (THG), typically driven by audio, is an important and challenging task with broad application prospects in various fields such as digital humans, film production, and virtual reality. While diffusion model-based THG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Weipeng Tan , Chuming Lin , Chengming Xu , Xiaozhong Ji , Junwei Zhu , Chengjie Wang , Yunsheng Wu , Yanwei Fu

Image enhancement finds wide-ranging applications in real-world scenarios due to complex environments and the inherent limitations of imaging devices. Recent diffusion-based methods yield promising outcomes but necessitate prolonged and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yixuan Zhu , Haolin Wang , Ao Li , Wenliang Zhao , Yansong Tang , Jingxuan Niu , Lei Chen , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Recent advances in generative diffusion models have enabled the previously unfeasible capability of generating 3D assets from a single input image or a text prompt. In this work, we aim to enhance the quality and functionality of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Xiyi Chen , Marko Mihajlovic , Shaofei Wang , Sergey Prokudin , Siyu Tang

Recent progress in diffusion models has significantly advanced the field of human image animation. While existing methods can generate temporally consistent results for short or regular motions, significant challenges remain, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Shen Zheng , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shenneng Huang , Xingpei Ma , Junjie Cao , Hanfeng Zhao , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Portrait animation transfers a driver clip's facial expression and head pose onto a single reference image while preserving the reference's identity. State-of-the-art diffusion systems address this by stacking trained modules for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Pouyan Navard , Sernam Lim

Recent advancements in image synthesis are fueled by the advent of large-scale diffusion models. Yet, integrating realistic object visualizations seamlessly into new or existing backgrounds without extensive training remains a challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Phillip Mueller , Jannik Wiese , Ioan Craciun , Lars Mikelsons

In this work, we propose MagicPose, a diffusion-based model for 2D human pose and facial expression retargeting. Specifically, given a reference image, we aim to generate a person's new images by controlling the poses and facial expressions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Di Chang , Yichun Shi , Quankai Gao , Jessica Fu , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , Qing Yan , Yizhe Zhu , Xiao Yang , Mohammad Soleymani

Recent advances in motion diffusion models have led to remarkable progress in diverse motion generation tasks, including text-to-motion synthesis. However, existing approaches represent motions as dense frame sequences, requiring the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jinseok Bae , Inwoo Hwang , Young Yoon Lee , Ziyu Guo , Joseph Liu , Yizhak Ben-Shabat , Young Min Kim , Mubbasir Kapadia

Talking head synthesis is a promising approach for the video production industry. Recently, a lot of effort has been devoted in this research area to improve the generation quality or enhance the model generalization. However, there are few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Shuai Shen , Wenliang Zhao , Zibin Meng , Wanhua Li , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Recent work has demonstrated the significant potential of denoising diffusion models for generating human motion, including text-to-motion capabilities. However, these methods are restricted by the paucity of annotated motion data, a focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Yonatan Shafir , Guy Tevet , Roy Kapon , Amit H. Bermano