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The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) and artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) has accelerated AI-native applications, such as AI-based storybooks that automate engaging story production for children. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Xuenan Xu , Jiahao Mei , Chenliang Li , Yuning Wu , Ming Yan , Shaopeng Lai , Ji Zhang , Mengyue Wu

Stories are central to human culture, serving to share ideas, preserve traditions, and foster connections. Automatic story generation, a key advancement in artificial intelligence (AI), offers new possibilities for creating personalized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jiaming Li , Yukun Chen , Ziqiang Liu , Minghuan Tan , Lei Zhang , Yunshui Li , Run Luo , Longze Chen , Jing Luo , Ahmadreza Argha , Hamid Alinejad-Rokny , Wei Zhou , Min Yang

The consistency of a response to a given post at semantic-level and emotional-level is essential for a dialogue system to deliver human-like interactions. However, this challenge is not well addressed in the literature, since most of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Wei Wei , Jiayi Liu , Xianling Mao , Guibing Guo , Feida Zhu , Pan Zhou , Yuchong Hu

Perception and expression of emotion are key factors to the success of dialogue systems or conversational agents. However, this problem has not been studied in large-scale conversation generation so far. In this paper, we propose Emotional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Hao Zhou , Minlie Huang , Tianyang Zhang , Xiaoyan Zhu , Bing Liu

Diffusion models have revolutionized the field of talking head generation, yet still face challenges in expressiveness, controllability, and stability in long-time generation. In this research, we propose an EmotiveTalk framework to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Haotian Wang , Yuzhe Weng , Yueyan Li , Zilu Guo , Jun Du , Shutong Niu , Jiefeng Ma , Shan He , Xiaoyan Wu , Qiming Hu , Bing Yin , Cong Liu , Qingfeng Liu

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

In this work, we tackle the challenge of enhancing the realism and expressiveness in talking head video generation by focusing on the dynamic and nuanced relationship between audio cues and facial movements. We identify the limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Linrui Tian , Qi Wang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Creating engaging narratives from visual data is crucial for automated digital media consumption, assistive technologies, and interactive entertainment. This survey covers methodologies used in the generation of these narratives, focusing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Daniel A. P. Oliveira , Eugénio Ribeiro , David Martins de Matos

Achieving empathy is a crucial step toward humanized dialogue systems. Current approaches for empathetic dialogue generation mainly perceive an emotional label to generate an empathetic response conditioned on it, which simply treat…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Fengyi Fu , Lei Zhang , Quan Wang , Zhendong Mao

Maintaining narrative coherence and visual consistency remains a central challenge in open-domain video generation. Existing text-to-video models often treat each shot independently, resulting in identity drift, scene inconsistency, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Qinglin Zeng , Kaitong Cai , Ruiqi Chen , Qinhan Lv , Keze Wang

Long-horizon video generation has advanced in visual quality, yet existing methods still struggle to maintain knowledge consistency and coherent pedagogical narratives across multi-shot instructional videos, especially in STEM domains. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xinyi Wu , Jayant Teotia , Shuai Zhao , Erik Cambria

Systems for story generation are asked to produce plausible and enjoyable stories given an input context. This task is underspecified, as a vast number of diverse stories can originate from a single input. The large output space makes it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Nader Akoury , Shufan Wang , Josh Whiting , Stephen Hood , Nanyun Peng , Mohit Iyyer

We focus on the foundational task of Scene Staging: given a reference scene image and a text condition specifying an actor category to be generated in the scene and its spatial relation to the scene, the goal is to synthesize an output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Cong Xie , Che Wang , Yan Zhang , Ruiqi Yu , Han Zou , Zheng Pan , Zhenpeng Zhan

Towards human-like dialogue systems, current emotional dialogue approaches jointly model emotion and semantics with a unified neural network. This strategy tends to generate safe responses due to the mutual restriction between emotion and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Yushan Qian , Bo Wang , Shangzhao Ma , Wu Bin , Shuo Zhang , Dongming Zhao , Kun Huang , Yuexian Hou

State-of-the-art speech synthesis models try to get as close as possible to the human voice. Hence, modelling emotions is an essential part of Text-To-Speech (TTS) research. In our work, we selected FastSpeech2 as the starting point and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Daria Diatlova , Vitaly Shutov

The successful emotional conversation system depends on sufficient perception and appropriate expression of emotions. In a real-life conversation, humans firstly instinctively perceive emotions from multi-source information, including the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Ying Zhang , Jinan Xu , Yufeng Chen , Jie Zhou

As recommender systems become increasingly sophisticated and complex, they often suffer from lack of fairness and transparency. Providing robust and unbiased explanations for recommendations has been drawing more and more attention as it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Bingbing Wen , Yunhe Feng , Yongfeng Zhang , Chirag Shah

Speech emotion conversion is the task of converting the expressed emotion of a spoken utterance to a target emotion while preserving the lexical content and speaker identity. While most existing works in speech emotion conversion rely on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Navin Raj Prabhu , Bunlong Lay , Simon Welker , Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock , Timo Gerkmann

Understanding the reason for emotional support response is crucial for establishing connections between users and emotional support dialogue systems. Previous works mostly focus on generating better responses but ignore interpretability,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Tenggan Zhang , Xinjie Zhang , Jinming Zhao , Li Zhou , Qin Jin

How much can we infer about an emotional voice solely from an expressive face? This intriguing question holds great potential for applications such as virtual character dubbing and aiding individuals with expressive language disorders.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jiaxin Ye , Boyuan Cao , Hongming Shan