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Video-driven 3D facial animation transfer aims to drive avatars to reproduce the expressions of actors. Existing methods have achieved remarkable results by constraining both geometric and perceptual consistency. However, geometric…

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Realistic 3D full-body talking avatars hold great potential in AR, with applications ranging from e-commerce live streaming to holographic communication. Despite advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) for lifelike avatar creation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Jianchuan Chen , Jingchuan Hu , Gaige Wang , Zhonghua Jiang , Tiansong Zhou , Zhiwen Chen , Chengfei Lv

We present X-Actor, a novel audio-driven portrait animation framework that generates lifelike, emotionally expressive talking head videos from a single reference image and an input audio clip. Unlike prior methods that emphasize lip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Chenxu Zhang , Zenan Li , Hongyi Xu , You Xie , Xiaochen Zhao , Tianpei Gu , Guoxian Song , Xin Chen , Chao Liang , Jianwen Jiang , Linjie Luo

Real-time text-driven joint audio-video avatar generation requires jointly synthesizing portrait video and speech with high fidelity and precise synchronization, yet existing audio-visual diffusion models remain too slow for interactive use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Chunyu Li , Jiaye Li , Ruiqiao Mei , Haoyuan Xia , Hao Zhu , Jingdong Wang , Siyu Zhu

Recent advancements in automatic 3D avatar generation guided by text have made significant progress. However, existing methods have limitations such as oversaturation and low-quality output. To address these challenges, we propose X-Oscar,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yiwei Ma , Zhekai Lin , Jiayi Ji , Yijun Fan , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

Controllability, generalizability and efficiency are the major objectives of constructing face avatars represented by neural implicit field. However, existing methods have not managed to accommodate the three requirements simultaneously.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zhiyuan Ma , Xiangyu Zhu , Guojun Qi , Zhen Lei , Lei Zhang

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved audio-driven human video generation, surpassing traditional methods in both quality and controllability. However, existing approaches still face challenges in lip-sync…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xingpei Ma , Shenneng Huang , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shen Zheng , Hanfeng Zhao , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang

We introduce Toyteller, an AI-powered storytelling system where users generate a mix of story text and visuals by directly manipulating character symbols like they are toy-playing. Anthropomorphized symbol motions can convey rich and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-24 John Joon Young Chung , Melissa Roemmele , Max Kreminski

We introduce SimAvatar, a framework designed to generate simulation-ready clothed 3D human avatars from a text prompt. Current text-driven human avatar generation methods either model hair, clothing, and the human body using a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Xueting Li , Ye Yuan , Shalini De Mello , Gilles Daviet , Jonathan Leaf , Miles Macklin , Jan Kautz , Umar Iqbal

Significant progress has been made in talking-face video generation research; however, precise lip-audio synchronization and high visual quality remain challenging in editing lip shapes based on input audio. This paper introduces JoyGen, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Qili Wang , Dajiang Wu , Zihang Xu , Junshi Huang , Jun Lv

In recent years, audio-driven 3D facial animation has gained significant attention, particularly in applications such as virtual reality, gaming, and video conferencing. However, accurately modeling the intricate and subtle dynamics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Guinan Su , Yanwu Yang , Zhifeng Li

Customized text-to-video generation aims to generate text-guided videos with user-given subjects, which has gained increasing attention. However, existing works are primarily limited to single-subject oriented text-to-video generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hong Chen , Xin Wang , Guanning Zeng , Yipeng Zhang , Yuwei Zhou , Feilin Han , Yaofei Wu , Wenwu Zhu

Portrait animation aims to synthesize talking videos from a static reference face, conditioned on audio and style frame cues (e.g., emotion and head poses), while ensuring precise lip synchronization and faithful reproduction of speaking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 He Feng , Yongjia Ma , Donglin Di , Lei Fan , Tonghua Su , Xiangqian Wu

End-to-end human animation, such as audio-driven talking human generation, has undergone notable advancements in the recent few years. However, existing methods still struggle to scale up as large general video generation models, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Gaojie Lin , Jianwen Jiang , Jiaqi Yang , Zerong Zheng , Chao Liang

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

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

Current talking face generation methods mainly focus on speech-lip synchronization. However, insufficient investigation on the facial talking style leads to a lifeless and monotonous avatar. Most previous works fail to imitate expressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Liyang Chen , Zhiyong Wu , Runnan Li , Weihong Bao , Jun Ling , Xu Tan , Sheng Zhao

We present a framework for generating full-bodied photorealistic avatars that gesture according to the conversational dynamics of a dyadic interaction. Given speech audio, we output multiple possibilities of gestural motion for an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Evonne Ng , Javier Romero , Timur Bagautdinov , Shaojie Bai , Trevor Darrell , Angjoo Kanazawa , Alexander Richard

We study the problem of creating high-fidelity and animatable 3D avatars from only textual descriptions. Existing text-to-avatar methods are either limited to static avatars which cannot be animated or struggle to generate animatable…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Jianfeng Zhang , Xuanmeng Zhang , Huichao Zhang , Jun Hao Liew , Chenxu Zhang , Yi Yang , Jiashi Feng

We introduce AvatarBooth, a novel method for generating high-quality 3D avatars using text prompts or specific images. Unlike previous approaches that can only synthesize avatars based on simple text descriptions, our method enables the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Yifei Zeng , Yuanxun Lu , Xinya Ji , Yao Yao , Hao Zhu , Xun Cao