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Audio to Video generation is an interesting problem that has numerous applications across industry verticals including film making, multi-media, marketing, education and others. High-quality video generation with expressive facial movements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Neeraj Kumar , Srishti Goel , Ankur Narang , Mujtaba Hasan

Recent years have witnessed great progress in creating vivid audio-driven portraits from monocular videos. However, how to seamlessly adapt the created video avatars to other scenarios with different backgrounds and lighting conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Haonan Qiu , Zhaoxi Chen , Yuming Jiang , Hang Zhou , Xiangyu Fan , Lei Yang , Wayne Wu , Ziwei Liu

For audio-driven visual dubbing, it remains a considerable challenge to uphold and highlight speaker's persona while synthesizing accurate lip synchronization. Existing methods fall short of capturing speaker's unique speaking style or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Longhao Zhang , Shuang Liang , Zhipeng Ge , Tianshu Hu

Video-conditioned audio generation, including Video-to-Sound (V2S) and Visual Text-to-Speech (VisualTTS), has traditionally been treated as distinct tasks, leaving the potential for a unified generative framework largely underexplored. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Xin Cheng , Yuyue Wang , Xihua Wang , Yihan Wu , Kaisi Guan , Yijing Chen , Peng Zhang , Xiaojiang Liu , Meng Cao , Ruihua Song

Audio-driven talking head generation is a significant and challenging task applicable to various fields such as virtual avatars, film production, and online conferences. However, the existing GAN-based models emphasize generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Jintao Tan , Xize Cheng , Lingyu Xiong , Lei Zhu , Xiandong Li , Xianjia Wu , Kai Gong , Minglei Li , Yi Cai

Audio-driven talking face video generation has attracted increasing attention due to its huge industrial potential. Some previous methods focus on learning a direct mapping from audio to visual content. Despite progress, they often struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Weizhi Zhong , Junfan Lin , Peixin Chen , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

Large Language models (LLM) have demonstrated the capability to handle a variety of generative tasks. This paper presents the UniAudio system, which, unlike prior task-specific approaches, leverages LLM techniques to generate multiple types…

Recent progress has shown that video diffusion models (VDMs) can be repurposed for diverse multimodal graphics tasks. However, existing methods often train separate models for each problem setting, which fixes the input-output mapping and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Houyuan Chen , Hong Li , Xianghao Kong , Tianrui Zhu , Shaocong Xu , Weiqing Xiao , Yuwei Guo , Chongjie Ye , Lvmin Zhang , Hao Zhao , Anyi Rao

In recent years, with the realistic generation results and a wide range of personalized applications, diffusion-based generative models gain huge attention in both visual and audio generation areas. Compared to the considerable advancements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Shiqi Yang , Zhi Zhong , Mengjie Zhao , Shusuke Takahashi , Masato Ishii , Takashi Shibuya , Yuki Mitsufuji

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising performance in both automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) systems, gradually becoming the mainstream approach. However, most current approaches address these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Wenhao Guan , Zhikang Niu , Ziyue Jiang , Kaidi Wang , Peijie Chen , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li , Xie Chen

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

We introduce UniToken, an auto-regressive generation model that encodes visual inputs through a combination of discrete and continuous representations, enabling seamless integration of unified visual understanding and image generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yang Jiao , Haibo Qiu , Zequn Jie , Shaoxiang Chen , Jingjing Chen , Lin Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

The recently developed discrete diffusion models perform extraordinarily well in the text-to-image task, showing significant promise for handling the multi-modality signals. In this work, we harness these traits and present a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Minghui Hu , Chuanxia Zheng , Heliang Zheng , Tat-Jen Cham , Chaoyue Wang , Zuopeng Yang , Dacheng Tao , Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan

Talking face generation technology creates talking videos from arbitrary appearance and motion signal, with the "arbitrary" offering ease of use but also introducing challenges in practical applications. Existing methods work well with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Chao Liang , Jianwen Jiang , Tianyun Zhong , Gaojie Lin , Zhengkun Rong , Jiaqi Yang , Yongming Zhu

In this paper, we present TalkingMachines -- an efficient framework that transforms pretrained video generation models into real-time, audio-driven character animators. TalkingMachines enables natural conversational experiences by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Chetwin Low , Weimin Wang

Diffusion-based video generation techniques have significantly improved zero-shot talking-head avatar generation, enhancing the naturalness of both head motion and facial expressions. However, existing methods suffer from poor…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Lingzhou Mu , Baiji Liu , Ruonan Zhang , Guiming Mo , Jiawei Jin , Kai Zhang , Haozhi Huang

Audio-driven one-shot talking face generation methods are usually trained on video resources of various persons. However, their created videos often suffer unnatural mouth shapes and asynchronous lips because those methods struggle to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Suzhen Wang , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Xin Yu

We present VQTalker, a Vector Quantization-based framework for multilingual talking head generation that addresses the challenges of lip synchronization and natural motion across diverse languages. Our approach is grounded in the phonetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Tao Liu , Ziyang Ma , Qi Chen , Feilong Chen , Shuai Fan , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

Audio-driven human animation methods, such as talking head and talking body generation, have made remarkable progress in generating synchronized facial movements and appealing visual quality videos. However, existing methods primarily focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zhe Kong , Feng Gao , Yong Zhang , Zhuoliang Kang , Xiaoming Wei , Xunliang Cai , Guanying Chen , Wenhan Luo

Conventional GAN-based models for talking head generation often suffer from limited quality and unstable training. Recent approaches based on diffusion models aimed to address these limitations and improve fidelity. However, they still face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Seyeon Kim , Siyoon Jin , Jihye Park , Kihong Kim , Jiyoung Kim , Jisu Nam , Seungryong Kim