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We introduce VASA, a framework for generating lifelike talking faces with appealing visual affective skills (VAS) given a single static image and a speech audio clip. Our premiere model, VASA-1, is capable of not only generating lip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Sicheng Xu , Guojun Chen , Yu-Xiao Guo , Jiaolong Yang , Chong Li , Zhenyu Zang , Yizhong Zhang , Xin Tong , Baining Guo

While state-of-the-art audio-video generation models like Veo3 and Sora2 demonstrate remarkable capabilities, their closed-source nature makes their architectures and training paradigms inaccessible. To bridge this gap in accessibility and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hebeizi Li , Zihao Liang , Benyuan Sun , Zihao Yin , Xiao Sha , Chenliang Wang , Yi Yang

Talking-head video editing aims to efficiently insert, delete, and substitute the word of a pre-recorded video through a text transcript editor. The key challenge for this task is obtaining an editing model that generates new talking-head…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Songlin Yang , Wei Wang , Jun Ling , Bo Peng , Xu Tan , Jing Dong

Current talking-head generation has gradually shifted from GAN-based methods to diffusion-based paradigms, achieving remarkable progress in visual fidelity and temporal consistency. However, inter-frame flicker remains prevalent in existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yuchen Deng , Xiuyang Wu , Hai-Tao Zheng , Suiyang Zhang , Yi He , Yuxing Han

Codec Avatars are a recent class of learned, photorealistic face models that accurately represent the geometry and texture of a person in 3D (i.e., for virtual reality), and are almost indistinguishable from video. In this paper we describe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Alexander Richard , Colin Lea , Shugao Ma , Juergen Gall , Fernando de la Torre , Yaser Sheikh

This study delves into the intricacies of synchronizing facial dynamics with multilingual audio inputs, focusing on the creation of visually compelling, time-synchronized animations through diffusion-based techniques. Diverging from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Rui Zhang , Yixiao Fang , Zhengnan Lu , Pei Cheng , Zebiao Huang , Bin Fu

Realistic, high-fidelity 3D facial animations are crucial for expressive avatar systems in human-computer interaction and accessibility. Although prior methods show promising quality, their reliance on the mesh domain limits their ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Alexandre Symeonidis-Herzig , Özge Mercanoğlu Sincan , Richard Bowden

Recent large-scale text-to-image generation models have made significant improvements in the quality, realism, and diversity of the synthesized images and enable users to control the created content through language. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Samaneh Azadi , Thomas Hayes , Akbar Shah , Guan Pang , Devi Parikh , Sonal Gupta

Recent advancements in personalized Text-to-Video (T2V) generation have made significant strides in synthesizing character-specific content. However, these methods face a critical limitation: the inability to perform fine-grained control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Haopeng Fang , Di Qiu , Binjie Mao , He Tang

We introduce FlexAvatar, a method for creating high-quality and complete 3D head avatars from a single image. A core challenge lies in the limited availability of multi-view data and the tendency of monocular training to yield incomplete 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Tobias Kirschstein , Simon Giebenhain , Matthias Nießner

Video captioning aims to convey dynamic scenes from videos using natural language, facilitating the understanding of spatiotemporal information within our environment. Although there have been recent advances, generating detailed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Jun Chen , Deyao Zhu , Kilichbek Haydarov , Xiang Li , Mohamed Elhoseiny

This work proposes a novel method to generate realistic talking head videos using audio and visual streams. We animate a source image by transferring head motion from a driving video using a dense motion field generated using learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Madhav Agarwal , Rudrabha Mukhopadhyay , Vinay Namboodiri , C V Jawahar

Generating 3D human models directly from text helps reduce the cost and time of character modeling. However, achieving multi-attribute controllable and realistic 3D human avatar generation is still challenging due to feature coupling and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Chaoqun Gong , Yuqin Dai , Ronghui Li , Achun Bao , Jun Li , Jian Yang , Yachao Zhang , Xiu Li

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,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Fatemeh Nazarieh , Zhenhua Feng , Diptesh Kanojia , Muhammad Awais , Josef Kittler

Capturing and editing full head performances enables the creation of virtual characters with various applications such as extended reality and media production. The past few years witnessed a steep rise in the photorealism of human head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Mohit Mendiratta , Xingang Pan , Mohamed Elgharib , Kartik Teotia , Mallikarjun B R , Ayush Tewari , Vladislav Golyanik , Adam Kortylewski , Christian Theobalt

Current audio-driven facial animation methods achieve impressive results for short videos but suffer from error accumulation and identity drift when extended to longer durations. Existing methods attempt to mitigate this through external…

Multimodal Large Language Models excel at offline audio-visual understanding, but their ability to serve as mobile assistants in continuous real-world streams remains underexplored. In daily phone use, mobile assistants must track streaming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xudong Lu , Huankang Guan , Yang Bo , Jinpeng Chen , Xintong Guo , Shuhan Li , Fang Liu , Peiwen Sun , Xueying Li , Wei Zhang , Xue Yang , Rui Liu , Hongsheng Li

Deploying massive diffusion models for real-time, infinite-duration, audio-driven avatar generation presents a significant engineering challenge, primarily due to the conflict between computational load and strict latency constraints.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Le Shen , Qian Qiao , Tan Yu , Ke Zhou , Tianhang Yu , Yu Zhan , Zhenjie Wang , Ming Tao , Shunshun Yin , Siyuan Liu

Speaker diarization consists of assigning speech signals to people engaged in a dialogue. An audio-visual spatiotemporal diarization model is proposed. The model is well suited for challenging scenarios that consist of several participants…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Israel D. Gebru , Silèye Ba , Xiaofei Li , Radu Horaud

Video dubbing requires content accuracy, expressive prosody, high-quality acoustics, and precise lip synchronization, yet existing approaches struggle on all four fronts. To address these issues, we propose DiFlowDubber, the first video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Ngoc-Son Nguyen , Thanh V. T. Tran , Jeongsoo Choi , Hieu-Nghia Huynh-Nguyen , Truong-Son Hy , Van Nguyen