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Audio-driven cospeech video generation typically involves two stages: speech-to-gesture and gesture-to-video. While significant advances have been made in speech-to-gesture generation, synthesizing natural expressions and gestures remains…

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Talking Head Generation (THG), typically driven by audio, is an important and challenging task with broad application prospects in various fields such as digital humans, film production, and virtual reality. While diffusion model-based THG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Weipeng Tan , Chuming Lin , Chengming Xu , Xiaozhong Ji , Junwei Zhu , Chengjie Wang , Yunsheng Wu , Yanwei Fu

While Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems enable emotional control via natural-language instructions, expressiveness, naturalness, and speech quality degrade when the target emotion conflicts with the textual semantics. We propose a Cross-modal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yizhou Peng , Yukun Ma , Chong Zhang , Yi-Wen Chao , Chongjia Ni , Bin Ma , Eng Siong Chng

Synthesizing high-fidelity and emotion-controllable talking video portraits, with audio-lip sync, vivid expressions, realistic head poses, and eye blinks, has been an important and challenging task in recent years. Most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yibo Xia , Lizhen Wang , Xiang Deng , Xiaoyan Luo , Yunhong Wang , Yebin Liu

Talking face generation aims to synthesize a face video with precise lip synchronization as well as a smooth transition of facial motion over the entire video via the given speech clip and facial image. Most existing methods mainly focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Hao Zhu , Huaibo Huang , Yi Li , Aihua Zheng , Ran He

Creating a vivid video from the event or scenario in our imagination is a truly fascinating experience. Recent advancements in text-to-video synthesis have unveiled the potential to achieve this with prompts only. While text is convenient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Jinbo Xing , Menghan Xia , Yuxin Liu , Yuechen Zhang , Yong Zhang , Yingqing He , Hanyuan Liu , Haoxin Chen , Xiaodong Cun , Xintao Wang , Ying Shan , Tien-Tsin Wong

Generating photorealistic 3D faces from given conditions is a challenging task. Existing methods often rely on time-consuming one-by-one optimization approaches, which are not efficient for modeling the same distribution content, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Xiaolong Shen , Jianxin Ma , Chang Zhou , Zongxin Yang

Researchers have proposed to use data of human preference feedback to fine-tune text-to-image generative models. However, the scalability of human feedback collection has been limited by its reliance on manual annotation. Therefore, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Shuangquan Feng , Junhua Ma , Virginia R. de Sa

Generating appropriate emotions for responses is essential for dialog systems to provide human-like interaction in various application scenarios. Most previous dialog systems tried to achieve this goal by learning empathetic manners from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Zhiyuan Wen , Jiannong Cao , Jiaxing Shen , Ruosong Yang , Shuaiqi Liu , Maosong Sun

Dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) aims to identify emotional states by modeling the temporal changes in facial movements across video sequences. A key challenge in DFER is the many-to-one labeling problem, where a video composed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Gunho Jung , Heejo Kong , Seong-Whan Lee

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved text-to-face generation, but achieving fine-grained control over facial features remains a challenge. Existing methods often require training additional modules to handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Liang Shi , Yun Fu

The majority of current systems for end-to-end dialog generation focus on response quality without an explicit control over the affective content of the responses. In this paper, we present an affect-driven dialog system, which generates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Pierre Colombo , Wojciech Witon , Ashutosh Modi , James Kennedy , Mubbasir Kapadia

The recent advances in deep learning have made it possible to generate photo-realistic images by using neural networks and even to extrapolate video frames from an input video clip. In this paper, for the sake of both furthering this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Lijie Fan , Wenbing Huang , Chuang Gan , Junzhou Huang , Boqing Gong

Generating emotion-specific talking head videos from audio input is an important and complex challenge for human-machine interaction. However, emotion is highly abstract concept with ambiguous boundaries, and it necessitates disentangled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Xuli Shen , Hua Cai , Dingding Yu , Weilin Shen , Qing Xu , Xiangyang Xue

Videos are created to express emotion, exchange information, and share experiences. Video synthesis has intrigued researchers for a long time. Despite the rapid progress driven by advances in visual synthesis, most existing studies focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Songwei Ge , Thomas Hayes , Harry Yang , Xi Yin , Guan Pang , David Jacobs , Jia-Bin Huang , Devi Parikh

In natural face-to-face interaction, participants seamlessly alternate between speaking and listening, producing facial behaviors (FBs) that are finely informed by long-range context and naturally exhibit contextual appropriateness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Xiangyu Kong , Xiaoyu Jin , Yihan Pan , Haoqin Sun , Hengde Zhu , Xiaoming Xu , Xiaoming Wei , Lu Liu , Siyang Song

This paper explores multi-modal controllable Text-to-Speech Synthesis (TTS) where the voice can be generated from face image, and the characteristics of output speech (e.g., pace, noise level, distance, tone, place) can be controllable with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Minsu Kim , Pingchuan Ma , Honglie Chen , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Powerful generative adversarial networks (GAN) have been developed to automatically synthesize realistic images from text. However, most existing tasks are limited to generating simple images such as flowers from captions. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Osaid Rehman Nasir , Shailesh Kumar Jha , Manraj Singh Grover , Yi Yu , Ajit Kumar , Rajiv Ratn Shah

We propose Fast text2StyleGAN, a natural language interface that adapts pre-trained GANs for text-guided human face synthesis. Leveraging the recent advances in Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), no text data is required during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Xiaodan Du , Raymond A. Yeh , Nicholas Kolkin , Eli Shechtman , Greg Shakhnarovich

The field of automatic video generation has received a boost thanks to the recent Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). However, most existing methods cannot control the contents of the generated video using a text caption, losing their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Shohei Yamamoto , Antonio Tejero-de-Pablos , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada