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Dynamic facial emotion is essential for believable AI-generated avatars, yet most systems remain visually static, limiting their use in simulations like virtual training for investigative interviews with abused children. We present a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Pegah Salehi , Sajad Amouei Sheshkal , Vajira Thambawita , Michael A. Riegler , Pål Halvorsen

Generating vivid and emotional 3D co-speech gestures is crucial for virtual avatar animation in human-machine interaction applications. While the existing methods enable generating the gestures to follow a single emotion label, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Xingqun Qi , Jiahao Pan , Peng Li , Ruibin Yuan , Xiaowei Chi , Mengfei Li , Wenhan Luo , Wei Xue , Shanghang Zhang , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

In this work, we tackle the challenge of enhancing the realism and expressiveness in talking head video generation by focusing on the dynamic and nuanced relationship between audio cues and facial movements. We identify the limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Linrui Tian , Qi Wang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Streaming speech-to-avatar synthesis creates real-time animations for a virtual character from audio data. Accurate avatar representations of speech are important for the visualization of sound in linguistics, phonetics, and phonology,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Tejas S. Prabhune , Peter Wu , Bohan Yu , Gopala K. Anumanchipalli

In recent years, there has been significant interest in creating 3D avatars and motions, driven by their diverse applications in areas like film-making, video games, AR/VR, and human-robot interaction. However, current efforts primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zeyu Zhang , Yiran Wang , Biao Wu , Shuo Chen , Zhiyuan Zhang , Shiya Huang , Wenbo Zhang , Meng Fang , Ling Chen , Yang Zhao

Animating stylized avatars with dynamic poses and expressions has attracted increasing attention for its broad range of applications. Previous research has made significant progress by training controllable generative models to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Ken Chen , Sachith Seneviratne , Wei Wang , Dongting Hu , Sanjay Saha , Md. Tarek Hasan , Sanka Rasnayaka , Tamasha Malepathirana , Mingming Gong , Saman Halgamuge

Given an arbitrary face image and an arbitrary speech clip, the proposed work attempts to generating the talking face video with accurate lip synchronization while maintaining smooth transition of both lip and facial movement over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Yang Song , Jingwen Zhu , Dawei Li , Xiaolong Wang , Hairong Qi

In human-centric content generation, the pre-trained text-to-image models struggle to produce user-wanted portrait images, which retain the identity of individuals while exhibiting diverse expressions. This paper introduces our efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Renshuai Liu , Bowen Ma , Wei Zhang , Zhipeng Hu , Changjie Fan , Tangjie Lv , Yu Ding , Xuan Cheng

In this paper, we rethink text-to-avatar generative models by proposing TeRA, a more efficient and effective framework than the previous SDS-based models and general large 3D generative models. Our approach employs a two-stage training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Yanwen Wang , Yiyu Zhuang , Jiawei Zhang , Li Wang , Yifei Zeng , Xun Cao , Xinxin Zuo , Hao Zhu

Current works in the generation of personalized dialogue primarily contribute to the agent presenting a consistent personality and driving a more informative response. However, we found that the generated responses from most previous models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Itsugun Cho , Dongyang Wang , Ryota Takahashi , Hiroaki Saito

Empathetic Response Generation (ERG) is one of the key tasks of the affective computing area, which aims to produce emotionally nuanced and compassionate responses to user's queries. However, existing ERG research is predominantly confined…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Han Zhang , Zixiang Meng , Meng Luo , Hong Han , Lizi Liao , Erik Cambria , Hao Fei

Crafting magic and illusions is one of the most thrilling aspects of filmmaking, with visual effects (VFX) serving as the powerhouse behind unforgettable cinematic experiences. While recent advances in generative artificial intelligence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Xinyu Liu , Ailing Zeng , Wei Xue , Harry Yang , Wenhan Luo , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

We propose VASA-3D, an audio-driven, single-shot 3D head avatar generator. This research tackles two major challenges: capturing the subtle expression details present in real human faces, and reconstructing an intricate 3D head avatar from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sicheng Xu , Guojun Chen , Jiaolong Yang , Yizhong Zhang , Yu Deng , Steve Lin , Baining Guo

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

Recent advances in photorealistic avatar generation have enabled highly realistic talking-head avatars, raising security concerns regarding identity impersonation in AI-mediated communication. To advance in this challenging problem, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Laura Pedrouzo-Rodriguez , Luis F. Gomez , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Roberto Daza , Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez

We are interested in a novel task, namely low-resource text-to-talking avatar. Given only a few-minute-long talking person video with the audio track as the training data and arbitrary texts as the driving input, we aim to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zhenhui Ye , Ziyue Jiang , Yi Ren , Jinglin Liu , Chen Zhang , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma , Zhou Zhao

Modeling face-to-face communication in computer vision, which focuses on recognizing and analyzing nonverbal cues and behaviors during interactions, serves as the foundation for our proposed alternative to text-based Human-AI interaction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Dragos Costea , Alina Marcu , Cristina Lazar , Marius Leordeanu

Recently, emotional talking face generation has received considerable attention. However, existing methods only adopt one-hot coding, image, or audio as emotion conditions, thus lacking flexible control in practical applications and failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Chao Xu , Junwei Zhu , Jiangning Zhang , Yue Han , Wenqing Chu , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Zhifeng Xie , Yong Liu

Generating realistic human-human interactions is a challenging task that requires not only high-quality individual body and hand motions, but also coherent coordination among all interactants. Due to limitations in available data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Pablo Ruiz-Ponce , Sergio Escalera , José García-Rodríguez , Jiankang Deng , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias

Avatar fingerprinting, i.e., verifying who drives a synthetic talking-head video rather than whether it is real, is a critical safeguard for authorized use of face-reenactment technology. Existing methods rely on a fixed, non-differentiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Masoumeh Chapariniya , Jean-Marc Odobez , Volker Dellwo , Teodora Vuković