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The rising demand for creating lifelike avatars in the digital realm has led to an increased need for generating high-quality human videos guided by textual descriptions and poses. We propose Dancing Avatar, designed to fabricate human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Bosheng Qin , Wentao Ye , Qifan Yu , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Interactive long video generation requires prompt switching to introduce new subjects or events, while maintaining perceptual fidelity and coherent motion over extended horizons. Recent distilled streaming video diffusion models reuse a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yang Yang , Tianyi Zhang , Wei Huang , Jinwei Chen , Boxi Wu , Xiaofei He , Deng Cai , Bo Li , Peng-Tao Jiang

Animating stylized avatars with dynamic poses and expressions has attracted increasing attention for its broad range of applications. Previous research has made significant progress by training controllable generative models to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Ken Chen , Sachith Seneviratne , Wei Wang , Dongting Hu , Sanjay Saha , Md. Tarek Hasan , Sanka Rasnayaka , Tamasha Malepathirana , Mingming Gong , Saman Halgamuge

Real-time text-driven joint audio-video avatar generation requires jointly synthesizing portrait video and speech with high fidelity and precise synchronization, yet existing audio-visual diffusion models remain too slow for interactive use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Chunyu Li , Jiaye Li , Ruiqiao Mei , Haoyuan Xia , Hao Zhu , Jingdong Wang , Siyu Zhu

Large-scale pre-trained vision-language models allow for the zero-shot text-based generation of 3D avatars. The previous state-of-the-art method utilized CLIP to supervise neural implicit models that reconstructed a human body mesh.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Shuo Huang , Zongxin Yang , Liangting Li , Yi Yang , Jia Jia

Modern avatar generators allow anyone to synthesize photorealistic real-time talking avatars, ushering in a new era of avatar-based human communication, such as with immersive AR/VR interactions or videoconferencing with limited bandwidths.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Ekta Prashnani , Koki Nagano , Shalini De Mello , David Luebke , Orazio Gallo

We present AvatarPopUp, a method for fast, high quality 3D human avatar generation from different input modalities, such as images and text prompts and with control over the generated pose and shape. The common theme is the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Nikos Kolotouros , Thiemo Alldieck , Enric Corona , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Cristian Sminchisescu

Video streams are delivered continuously to save the cost of storage and device memory. Real-time denoising algorithms are typically adopted on the user device to remove the noise involved during the shooting and transmission of video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Chenyang Qi , Junming Chen , Xin Yang , Qifeng Chen

Whole-body audio-driven avatar pose and expression generation is a critical task for creating lifelike digital humans and enhancing the capabilities of interactive virtual agents, with wide-ranging applications in virtual reality, digital…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Tianbao Zhang , Jian Zhao , Yuer Li , Zheng Zhu , Ping Hu , Zhaoxin Fan , Wenjun Wu , Xuelong Li

Latent diffusion models have made great strides in generating expressive portrait videos with accurate lip-sync and natural motion from a single reference image and audio input. However, these models are far from real-time, often requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Hanzhong Guo , Hongwei Yi , Daquan Zhou , Alexander William Bergman , Michael Lingelbach , Yizhou Yu

Synthesizing personalized talking faces that uphold and highlight a speaker's unique style while maintaining lip-sync accuracy remains a significant challenge. A primary limitation of existing approaches is the intrinsic confounding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Renjie Lu , Xulong Zhang , Xiaoyang Qu , Jianzong Wang , Shangfei Wang

Recent advances have substantially improved real-time interactive video generation in the autoregressive regime. However, most existing few-step autoregressive video generation methods, often distilled from a corresponding many-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jiaqi Feng , Justin Cui , Yuanhao Ban , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Recent advances in image and video creation, especially AI-based image synthesis, have led to the production of numerous visual scenes that exhibit a high level of abstractness and diversity. Consequently, Visual Storytelling (VST), a task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Shengguang Wu , Mei Yuan , Qi Su

Existing talking avatar methods typically adopt an image-to-video pipeline conditioned on a static reference image within the same scene as the target generation. This restricted, single-view perspective lacks sufficient temporal and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Zujin Guo , Zhenhui Ye , Yi Ren , Yuanming Li , Ce Chen , Zhibin Hong , Chen Change Loy

Virtual try-on aims to generate a photo-realistic fitting result given an in-shop garment and a reference person image. Existing methods usually build up multi-stage frameworks to deal with clothes warping and body blending respectively, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Shuai Bai , Huiling Zhou , Zhikang Li , Chang Zhou , Hongxia Yang

This paper presents Diffusion Forcing, a new training paradigm where a diffusion model is trained to denoise a set of tokens with independent per-token noise levels. We apply Diffusion Forcing to sequence generative modeling by training a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Boyuan Chen , Diego Marti Monso , Yilun Du , Max Simchowitz , Russ Tedrake , Vincent Sitzmann

We introduce a method to generate temporally coherent human animation from a single image, a video, or a random noise. This problem has been formulated as modeling of an auto-regressive generation, i.e., to regress past frames to decode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Tserendorj Adiya , Jae Shin Yoon , Jungeun Lee , Sanghun Kim , Hwasup Lim

Streaming video generation (SVG) distills a pretrained bidirectional video diffusion model into an autoregressive model equipped with sliding window attention (SWA). However, SWA inevitably loses distant history during long video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ruibin Li , Tao Yang , Fangzhou Ai , Tianhe Wu , Shilei Wen , Bingyue Peng , Lei Zhang

Current diffusion-based portrait animation models predominantly focus on enhancing visual quality and expression realism, while overlooking generation latency and real-time performance, which restricts their application range in the live…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Zhiyuan Li , Chi-Man Pun , Chen Fang , Jue Wang , Xiaodong Cun

We introduce StreamDiffusion, a real-time diffusion pipeline designed for interactive image generation. Existing diffusion models are adept at creating images from text or image prompts, yet they often fall short in real-time interaction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Akio Kodaira , Chenfeng Xu , Toshiki Hazama , Takanori Yoshimoto , Kohei Ohno , Shogo Mitsuhori , Soichi Sugano , Hanying Cho , Zhijian Liu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Kurt Keutzer