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Gestures are inherent to human interaction and often complement speech in face-to-face communication, forming a multimodal communication system. An important task in gesture analysis is detecting a gesture's beginning and end. Research on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Esam Ghaleb , Ilya Burenko , Marlou Rasenberg , Wim Pouw , Ivan Toni , Peter Uhrig , Anna Wilson , Judith Holler , Aslı Özyürek , Raquel Fernández

Dance, as an art form, fundamentally hinges on the precise synchronization with musical beats. However, achieving aesthetically pleasing dance sequences from music is challenging, with existing methods often falling short in controllability…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Zikai Huang , Xuemiao Xu , Cheng Xu , Huaidong Zhang , Chenxi Zheng , Jing Qin , Shengfeng He

We present a multimodal learning-based method to simultaneously synthesize co-speech facial expressions and upper-body gestures for digital characters using RGB video data captured using commodity cameras. Our approach learns from sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Uttaran Bhattacharya , Aniket Bera , Dinesh Manocha

We present HighSync, an end-to-end diffusion-based framework for high-fidelity lip synchronization that generates photorealistic talking-face videos aligned with arbitrary input audio. Existing approaches consistently struggle to reconcile…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Saeed Firouzi Daghigh , Majid Iranpour Mobarekeh , Mostafa Alavi , Mehdi Bagheri

Although audio generation has been widely studied over recent years, video-aligned audio generation still remains a relatively unexplored frontier. To address this gap, we introduce StereoSync, a novel and efficient model designed to…

We introduce Mix2Morph, a text-to-audio diffusion model fine-tuned to perform sound morphing without a dedicated dataset of morphs. By finetuning on noisy surrogate mixes at higher diffusion timesteps, Mix2Morph yields stable, perceptually…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Annie Chu , Hugo Flores García , Oriol Nieto , Justin Salamon , Bryan Pardo , Prem Seetharaman

Synthetic electrocardiogram generation serves medical AI applications requiring privacy-preserving data sharing and training dataset augmentation. Current diffusion-based methods achieve high generation quality but require hundreds of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Vitalii Bondar , Serhii Semenov , Vira Babenko , Dmytro Holovniak

People may perform diverse gestures affected by various mental and physical factors when speaking the same sentences. This inherent one-to-many relationship makes co-speech gesture generation from audio particularly challenging.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Jing Li , Di Kang , Wenjie Pei , Xuefei Zhe , Ying Zhang , Linchao Bao , Zhenyu He

Neural Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems find broad applications in voice assistants, e-learning, and audiobook creation. The pursuit of modern models, like Diffusion Models (DMs), holds promise for achieving high-fidelity, real-time speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiang Li , Fan Bu , Ambuj Mehrish , Yingting Li , Jiale Han , Bo Cheng , Soujanya Poria

The task of few-shot visual dubbing focuses on synchronizing the lip movements with arbitrary speech input for any talking head video. Albeit moderate improvements in current approaches, they commonly require high-quality homologous data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Tianyi Xie , Liucheng Liao , Cheng Bi , Benlai Tang , Xiang Yin , Jianfei Yang , Mingjie Wang , Jiali Yao , Yang Zhang , Zejun Ma

Text-to-Speech (TTS) has recently seen great progress in synthesizing high-quality speech owing to the rapid development of parallel TTS systems, but producing speech with naturalistic prosodic variations, speaking styles and emotional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Yinghao Aaron Li , Cong Han , Nima Mesgarani

Recent advances in dance generation have enabled the automatic synthesis of 3D dance motions. However, existing methods still face significant challenges in simultaneously achieving high realism, precise dance-music synchronization, diverse…

The objective of the multi-condition human motion synthesis task is to incorporate diverse conditional inputs, encompassing various forms like text, music, speech, and more. This endows the task with the capability to adapt across multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Zeyu Ling , Bo Han , Yongkang Wong , Mohan Kangkanhalli , Weidong Geng

Dancing with music is always an essential human art form to express emotion. Due to the high temporal-spacial complexity, long-term 3D realist dance generation synchronized with music is challenging. Existing methods suffer from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Siqi Yang , Zejun Yang , Zhisheng Wang

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

Stuttering is a neuro-developmental speech impairment characterized by uncontrolled utterances (interjections) and core behaviors (blocks, repetitions, and prolongations), and is caused by the failure of speech sensorimotors. Due to its…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Shakeel A. Sheikh , Md Sahidullah , Fabrice Hirsch , Slim Ouni

Generative audio modeling has largely been fragmented into specialized tasks, text-to-speech (TTS), text-to-music (TTM), and text-to-audio (TTA), each operating under heterogeneous control paradigms. Unifying these modalities remains a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Chunyu Qiang , Xiaopeng Wang , Kang Yin , Yuzhe Liang , Yuxin Guo , Teng Ma , Ziyu Zhang , Tianrui Wang , Cheng Gong , Yushen Chen , Ruibo Fu , Chen Zhang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

Generating the motion of orchestral conductors from a given piece of symphony music is a challenging task since it requires a model to learn semantic music features and capture the underlying distribution of real conducting motion. Prior…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Zhuoran Zhao , Jinbin Bai , Delong Chen , Debang Wang , Yubo Pan

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve state-of-the-art video generation quality, but their substantial memory and computational footprints hinder edge deployment. Quantization can reduce these costs, yet existing methods often degrade video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Wonsuk Jang , Thierry Tambe