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Image diffusion models have been adapted for real-world video super-resolution to tackle over-smoothing issues in GAN-based methods. However, these models struggle to maintain temporal consistency, as they are trained on static images,…

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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

Recent attempts to interleave autoregressive (AR) sketchers with diffusion-based refiners over continuous speech representations have shown promise, but they remain brittle under distribution shift and offer limited levers for…

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Diffusion models have significantly advanced the field of talking head generation (THG). However, slow inference speeds and prevalent non-autoregressive paradigms severely constrain the application of diffusion-based THG models. In this…

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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,…

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Diffusion-based models, widely used in text-to-image generation, have proven effective in 2D representation learning. Recently, this framework has been extended to 3D self-supervised learning by constructing a conditional point generator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yiyang Chen , Shanshan Zhao , Lunhao Duan , Changxing Ding , Dacheng Tao

Devising intelligent agents able to live in an environment and learn by observing the surroundings is a longstanding goal of Artificial Intelligence. From a bare Machine Learning perspective, challenges arise when the agent is prevented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Matteo Tiezzi , Simone Marullo , Lapo Faggi , Enrico Meloni , Alessandro Betti , Stefano Melacci

Face image restoration aims to enhance degraded facial images while addressing challenges such as diverse degradation types, real-time processing demands, and, most crucially, the preservation of identity-specific features. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Howard Zhang , Yuval Alaluf , Sizhuo Ma , Achuta Kadambi , Jian Wang , Kfir Aberman

This paper presents a novel framework for converting 2D videos to immersive stereoscopic 3D, addressing the growing demand for 3D content in immersive experience. Leveraging foundation models as priors, our approach overcomes the…

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Videos convey richer information than images or text, capturing both spatial and temporal dynamics. However, most existing video customization methods rely on reference images or task-specific temporal priors, failing to fully exploit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Pengze Zhang , Yanze Wu , Mengtian Li , Xu Bai , Songtao Zhao , Fulong Ye , Chong Mou , Xinghui Li , Zhuowei Chen , Qian He , Mingyuan Gao

Recent advancements in 4D scene reconstruction, particularly those leveraging diffusion priors, have shown promise for novel view synthesis in autonomous driving. However, these methods often process frames independently or in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Heyu Si , Brandon James Denis , Muyang Sun , Dragos Datcu , Yaoru Li , Xin Jin , Ruiju Fu , Yuliia Tatarinova , Federico Landi , Jie Song , Mingli Song , Qi Guo

A video autoencoder is proposed for learning disentan- gled representations of 3D structure and camera pose from videos in a self-supervised manner. Relying on temporal continuity in videos, our work assumes that the 3D scene structure in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Zihang Lai , Sifei Liu , Alexei A. Efros , Xiaolong Wang

Recent advances in video diffusion models have unlocked new potential for realistic audio-driven talking video generation. However, achieving seamless audio-lip synchronization, maintaining long-term identity consistency, and producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Longtao Zheng , Yifan Zhang , Hanzhong Guo , Jiachun Pan , Zhenxiong Tan , Jiahao Lu , Chuanxin Tang , Bo An , Shuicheng Yan

Recent advances in diffusion-based text-to-video models, particularly those built on the diffusion transformer architecture, have achieved remarkable progress in generating high-quality and temporally coherent videos. However, transferring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zhexin Zhang , Yangyang Xu , Yifeng Zhu , Long Chen , Yong Du , Shengfeng He , Jun Yu

We propose VLOGGER, a method for audio-driven human video generation from a single input image of a person, which builds on the success of recent generative diffusion models. Our method consists of 1) a stochastic human-to-3d-motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Enric Corona , Andrei Zanfir , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Nikos Kolotouros , Thiemo Alldieck , Cristian Sminchisescu

Despite significant advances in talking avatar generation, existing methods face critical challenges: insufficient text-following capability for diverse actions, lack of temporal alignment between actions and audio content, and dependency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ziqiao Peng , Yi Chen , Yifeng Ma , Guozhen Zhang , Zhiyao Sun , Zixiang Zhou , Youliang Zhang , Zhengguang Zhou , Zhaoxin Fan , Hongyan Liu , Yuan Zhou , Qinglin Lu , Jun He

Diffusion models can synthesize realistic co-speech video from audio for various applications, such as video creation and virtual agents. However, existing diffusion-based methods are slow due to numerous denoising steps and costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Beijia Lu , Ziyi Chen , Jing Xiao , Jun-Yan Zhu

We present TimeWalker, a novel framework that models realistic, full-scale 3D head avatars of a person on lifelong scale. Unlike current human head avatar pipelines that capture identity at the momentary level(e.g., instant photography or…

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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…

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