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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,…

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The autoregressive video diffusion model has recently gained considerable research interest due to its causal modeling and iterative denoising. In this work, we identify that the multi-head self-attention in these models under-utilizes…

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Portrait animation from a single source image and a driving video is a long-standing problem. Recent approaches tend to adopt diffusion-based image/video generation models for realistic and expressive animation. However, none of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Yuxiang Shi , Zhe Li , Yanwen Wang , Hao Zhu , Xun Cao , Ligang Liu

Video generation has drawn significant interest recently, pushing the development of large-scale models capable of producing realistic videos with coherent motion. Due to memory constraints, these models typically generate short video…

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Diffusion-based video generation techniques have significantly improved zero-shot talking-head avatar generation, enhancing the naturalness of both head motion and facial expressions. However, existing methods suffer from poor…

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Video inpainting aims to fill spatio-temporal "corrupted" regions with plausible content. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to find correspondences from neighbouring frames to faithfully hallucinate the unknown content. Current methods…

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Despite the remarkable process of talking-head-based avatar-creating solutions, directly generating anchor-style videos with full-body motions remains challenging. In this study, we propose Make-Your-Anchor, a novel system necessitating…

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Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative frameworks by progressively adding noise to data through a forward process and then reversing this process to generate realistic samples. While these models have achieved strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xingzhuo Guo , Yu Zhang , Baixu Chen , Haoran Xu , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

With the rapid advancement of diffusion-based generative models, portrait image animation has achieved remarkable results. However, it still faces challenges in temporally consistent video generation and fast sampling due to its iterative…

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Interactive image editing allows users to modify images through visual interaction operations such as drawing, clicking, and dragging. Existing methods construct such supervision signals from videos, as they capture how objects change with…

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This paper presents Diffusion Forcing, a new training paradigm where a diffusion model is trained to denoise a set of tokens with independent per-token noise levels. We apply Diffusion Forcing to sequence generative modeling by training a…

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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…

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Real-time, streaming interactive avatars represent a critical yet challenging goal in digital human research. Although diffusion-based human avatar generation methods achieve remarkable success, their non-causal architecture and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhiyao Sun , Ziqiao Peng , Yifeng Ma , Yi Chen , Zhengguang Zhou , Zixiang Zhou , Guozhen Zhang , Youliang Zhang , Yuan Zhou , Qinglin Lu , Yong-Jin Liu

Video diffusion models have rich world priors, but their use in spatial tasks is limited by poor control, spatial-temporal inconsistent results, and entangled scene-camera dynamics. Current approaches, such as per-task fine-tuning or…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Chenxi Song , Yanming Yang , Tong Zhao , Ruibo Li , Chi Zhang

Long-context video modeling is essential for enabling generative models to function as world simulators, as they must maintain temporal coherence over extended time spans. However, most existing models are trained on short clips, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yuchao Gu , Weijia Mao , Mike Zheng Shou

Deep convolutional networks have recently achieved great success in video recognition, yet their practical realization remains a challenge due to the large amount of computational resources required to achieve robust recognition. Motivated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Ximeng Sun , Rameswar Panda , Chun-Fu Chen , Aude Oliva , Rogerio Feris , Kate Saenko

While recent machine learning research has revealed connections between deep generative models such as VAEs and rate-distortion losses used in learned compression, most of this work has focused on images. In a similar spirit, we view…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Ruihan Yang , Yibo Yang , Joseph Marino , Stephan Mandt

Autoregressive video generation aims at real-time, open-ended synthesis. Yet, cinematic storytelling is not merely the endless extension of a single scene; it requires progressing through evolving events, viewpoint shifts, and discrete shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yihao Meng , Zichen Liu , Hao Ouyang , Qiuyu Wang , Ka Leong Cheng , Yue Yu , Hanlin Wang , Haobo Li , Jiapeng Zhu , Yanhong Zeng , Xing Zhu , Yujun Shen , Qifeng Chen , Huamin Qu

Creating a realistic animatable avatar from a single static portrait remains challenging. Existing approaches often struggle to capture subtle facial expressions, the associated global body movements, and the dynamic background. To address…

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