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Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Yunji Chu , Yunseob Shim , Unsang Park

This research focuses on the development and enhancement of text-to-image denoising diffusion models, addressing key challenges such as limited sample diversity and training instability. By incorporating Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) and…

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Recent advances in conditional diffusion models have shown promise for generating realistic TalkingFace videos, yet challenges persist in achieving consistent head movement, synchronized facial expressions, and accurate lip synchronization…

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Recently deep generative models have achieved impressive results in the field of automated facial expression editing. However, the approaches presented so far presume a discrete representation of human emotions and are therefore limited in…

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This paper proposes a talking face generation method named "CP-EB" that takes an audio signal as input and a person image as reference, to synthesize a photo-realistic people talking video with head poses controlled by a short video clip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Jianzong Wang , Yimin Deng , Ziqi Liang , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

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

Despite previous success in generating audio-driven talking heads, most of the previous studies focus on the correlation between speech content and the mouth shape. Facial emotion, which is one of the most important features on natural…

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Emotional Video Captioning (EVC) is an emerging task, which aims to describe factual content with the intrinsic emotions expressed in videos. Existing works perceive global emotional cues and then combine with video content to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Weidong Chen , Cheng Ye , Zhendong Mao , Peipei Song , Xinyan Liu , Lei Zhang , Xiaojun Chang , Yongdong Zhang

Video generation has many unique challenges beyond those of image generation. The temporal dimension introduces extensive possible variations across frames, over which consistency and continuity may be violated. In this study, we move…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Weixi Feng , Jiachen Li , Michael Saxon , Tsu-jui Fu , Wenhu Chen , William Yang Wang

Different people speak with diverse personalized speaking styles. Although existing one-shot talking head methods have made significant progress in lip sync, natural facial expressions, and stable head motions, they still cannot generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Yifeng Ma , Suzhen Wang , Zhipeng Hu , Changjie Fan , Tangjie Lv , Yu Ding , Zhidong Deng , Xin Yu

Machine-generated speech is characterized by its limited or unnatural emotional variation. Current text to speech systems generates speech with either a flat emotion, emotion selected from a predefined set, average variation learned from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Sarath Sivaprasad , Saiteja Kosgi , Vineet Gandhi

Continuous emotional image generation (C-EICG) is emerging rapidly due to its ability to produce images aligned with both user descriptions and continuous emotional values. However, existing approaches lack emotional feedback from generated…

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Although existing speech-driven talking face generation methods achieve significant progress, they are far from real-world application due to the avatar-specific training demand and unstable lip movements. To address the above issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Haiming Zhang , Zhihao Yuan , Chaoda Zheng , Xu Yan , Baoyuan Wang , Guanbin Li , Song Wu , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Virtual humans have gained considerable attention in numerous industries, e.g., entertainment and e-commerce. As a core technology, synthesizing photorealistic face frames from target speech and facial identity has been actively studied…

Talking head generation is to synthesize a lip-synchronized talking head video by inputting an arbitrary face image and corresponding audio clips. Existing methods ignore not only the interaction and relationship of cross-modal information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Sen Chen , Zhilei Liu , Jiaxing Liu , Longbiao Wang

Talking Face Generation (TFG) methods based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have recently achieved impressive progress in personalized talking head synthesis. However, existing methods typically require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Rui-Qing Sun , Ang Li , Zhijing Wu , Tian Lan , Qianyu Lu , Xingshan Yao , Chen Xu , Xian-Ling Mao

Text-driven generation models are flourishing in video generation and editing. However, face-centric text-to-video generation remains a challenge due to the lack of a suitable dataset containing high-quality videos and highly relevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Jianhui Yu , Hao Zhu , Liming Jiang , Chen Change Loy , Weidong Cai , Wayne Wu

Text generation in image-based platforms, particularly for music-related content, requires precise control over text styles and the incorporation of emotional expression. However, existing approaches often need help to control the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Yuelyu Ji , Yuheng Song , Wei Wang , Ruoyi Xu , Zhongqian Xie , Huiyun Liu

Talking face generation has been extensively investigated owing to its wide applicability. The two primary frameworks used for talking face generation comprise a text-driven framework, which generates synchronized speech and talking faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Kentaro Mitsui , Yukiya Hono , Kei Sawada

Recent studies in speech-driven talking face generation achieve promising results, but their reliance on fixed-driven speech limits further applications (e.g., face-voice mismatch). Thus, we extend the task to a more challenging setting:…

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