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Despite advances in audio-driven video generation, achieving commercial-grade stability remains challenging. We present LongCat-Video-Avatar 1.5, an upgraded open-source framework prioritizing systematic engineering and production-readiness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Meituan LongCat Team , Xunliang Cai , Meng Cheng , Feng Gao , Zhe Kong , Jiamu Li , Le Li , Weiheng Li , Hongyu Liu , Shuai Tan , Xiaoming Wei , Tianyu Yang , Yong Zhang

In this paper, we propose a novel audio-driven talking head method capable of simultaneously generating highly expressive facial expressions and hand gestures. Unlike existing methods that focus on generating full-body or half-body poses,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Linrui Tian , Siqi Hu , Qi Wang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Although significant progress has been made in audio-driven talking head generation, text-driven methods remain underexplored. In this work, we present OmniTalker, a unified framework that jointly generates synchronized talking audio-video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zhongjian Wang , Peng Zhang , Jinwei Qi , Guangyuan Wang , Chaonan Ji , Sheng Xu , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

SmartAvatar is a vision-language-agent-driven framework for generating fully rigged, animation-ready 3D human avatars from a single photo or textual prompt. While diffusion-based methods have made progress in general 3D object generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Alexander Huang-Menders , Xinhang Liu , Andy Xu , Yuyao Zhang , Chi-Keung Tang , Yu-Wing Tai

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mengchao Wang , Qiang Wang , Fan Jiang , Yaqi Fan , Yunpeng Zhang , Yonggang Qi , Kun Zhao , Mu Xu

Generating talking avatar driven by audio remains a significant challenge. Existing methods typically require high computational costs and often lack sufficient facial detail and realism, making them unsuitable for applications that demand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Yujian Liu , Shidang Xu , Jing Guo , Dingbin Wang , Zairan Wang , Xianfeng Tan , Xiaoli Liu

Video generation is an inherently challenging task, as it requires modeling realistic temporal dynamics as well as spatial content. Existing methods entangle the two intrinsically different tasks of motion and content creation in a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Ximeng Sun , Huijuan Xu , Kate Saenko

We present PresentAgent, a multimodal agent that transforms long-form documents into narrated presentation videos. While existing approaches are limited to generating static slides or text summaries, our method advances beyond these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jingwei Shi , Zeyu Zhang , Biao Wu , Yanjie Liang , Meng Fang , Ling Chen , Yang Zhao

We introduce AV-Flow, an audio-visual generative model that animates photo-realistic 4D talking avatars given only text input. In contrast to prior work that assumes an existing speech signal, we synthesize speech and vision jointly. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Aggelina Chatziagapi , Louis-Philippe Morency , Hongyu Gong , Michael Zollhoefer , Dimitris Samaras , Alexander Richard

We present GaussianAvatar, an efficient approach to creating realistic human avatars with dynamic 3D appearances from a single video. We start by introducing animatable 3D Gaussians to explicitly represent humans in various poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Liangxiao Hu , Hongwen Zhang , Yuxiang Zhang , Boyao Zhou , Boning Liu , Shengping Zhang , Liqiang Nie

The paper introduces AniTalker, an innovative framework designed to generate lifelike talking faces from a single portrait. Unlike existing models that primarily focus on verbal cues such as lip synchronization and fail to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Tao Liu , Feilong Chen , Shuai Fan , Chenpeng Du , Qi Chen , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

Recent diffusion-based human image animation techniques have demonstrated impressive success in synthesizing videos that faithfully follow a given reference identity and a sequence of desired movement poses. Despite this, there are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Changxin Gao , Jiayu Wang , Xiaoqiang Zhou , Yingya Zhang , Luxin Yan , Nong Sang

We present LiftAvatar, a new paradigm that completes sparse monocular observations in kinematic space (e.g., facial expressions and head pose) and uses the completed signals to drive high-fidelity avatar animation. LiftAvatar is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hualiang Wei , Shunran Jia , Jialun Liu , Wenhui Li

Recently, text-guided digital portrait editing has attracted more and more attentions. However, existing methods still struggle to maintain consistency across time, expression, and view or require specific data prerequisites. To solve these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Haiyao Xiao , Chenglai Zhong , Xuan Gao , Yudong Guo , Juyong Zhang

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

Audio-driven 3D talking avatar generation is increasingly important in virtual communication, digital humans, and interactive media, where avatars must preserve identity, synchronize lip motion with speech, express emotion, and exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zhongju Wang , Zhenhong Sun , Beier Wang , Yifu Wang , Daoyi Dong , Huadong Mo , Hongdong Li

Talking head generation creates lifelike avatars from static portraits for virtual communication and content creation. However, current models do not yet convey the feeling of truly interactive communication, often generating one-way…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Taekyung Ki , Sangwon Jang , Jaehyeong Jo , Jaehong Yoon , Sung Ju Hwang

Audio-driven human animation has attracted wide attention thanks to its practical applications. However, critical challenges remain in generating high-resolution, long-duration videos with consistent appearance and natural hand motions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Xiaodi Li , Pan Xie , Yi Ren , Qijun Gan , Chen Zhang , Fangyuan Kong , Xiang Yin , Bingyue Peng , Zehuan Yuan

Recent breakthroughs in video AIGC have ushered in a transformative era for audio-driven human animation. However, conventional video dubbing techniques remain constrained to mouth region editing, resulting in discordant facial expressions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Shaoshu Yang , Zhe Kong , Feng Gao , Meng Cheng , Xiangyu Liu , Yong Zhang , Zhuoliang Kang , Wenhan Luo , Xunliang Cai , Ran He , Xiaoming Wei

We present a CloseUpAvatar - a novel approach for articulated human avatar representation dealing with more general camera motions, while preserving rendering quality for close-up views. CloseUpAvatar represents an avatar as a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 David Svitov , Pietro Morerio , Lourdes Agapito , Alessio Del Bue