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Generating realistic, dyadic talking head video requires ultra-low latency. Existing chunk-based methods require full non-causal context windows, introducing significant delays. This high latency critically prevents the immediate,…

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The autoregressive video diffusion model has recently gained considerable research interest due to its causal modeling and iterative denoising. In this work, we identify that the multi-head self-attention in these models under-utilizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hang Guo , Zhaoyang Jia , Jiahao Li , Bin Li , Yuanhao Cai , Jiangshan Wang , Yawei Li , Yan Lu

Recent advancements in video diffusion models have significantly enhanced audio-driven portrait animation. However, current methods still suffer from flickering, identity drift, and poor audio-visual synchronization. These issues primarily…

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Talking head synthesis is a promising approach for the video production industry. Recently, a lot of effort has been devoted in this research area to improve the generation quality or enhance the model generalization. However, there are few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Shuai Shen , Wenliang Zhao , Zibin Meng , Wanhua Li , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Audio-driven portrait animation, which synthesizes realistic videos from reference images using audio signals, faces significant challenges in real-time generation of high-fidelity, temporally coherent animations. While recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Dechao Meng , Steven Xiao , Xindi Zhang , Guangyuan Wang , Peng Zhang , Qi Wang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Distilled autoregressive (AR) video models enable efficient streaming generation but frequently misalign with human visual preferences. Existing reinforcement learning (RL) frameworks are not naturally suited to these architectures,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Songchun Zhang , Zeyue Xue , Siming Fu , Jie Huang , Xianghao Kong , Y Ma , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan , Anyi Rao

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

A popular approach to streaming speech translation is to employ a single offline model with a wait-k policy to support different latency requirements, which is simpler than training multiple online models with different latency constraints.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Biao Fu , Minpeng Liao , Kai Fan , Zhongqiang Huang , Boxing Chen , Yidong Chen , Xiaodong Shi

Diffusion-based video generation models have demonstrated remarkable success in obtaining high-fidelity videos through the iterative denoising process. However, these models require multiple denoising steps during sampling, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zhixing Zhang , Yanyu Li , Yushu Wu , Yanwu Xu , Anil Kag , Ivan Skorokhodov , Willi Menapace , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Junli Cao , Dimitris Metaxas , Sergey Tulyakov , Jian Ren

We present an audio-driven real-time system for animating photorealistic 3D facial avatars with minimal latency, designed for social interactions in virtual reality for anyone. Central to our approach is an encoder model that transforms…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jiye Lee , Chenghui Li , Linh Tran , Shih-En Wei , Jason Saragih , Alexander Richard , Hanbyul Joo , Shaojie Bai

Diffusion models have recently advanced photorealistic human synthesis, although practical talking-head generation (THG) remains constrained by high inference latency, temporal instability such as flicker and identity drift, and imperfect…

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We present ActionPlan, a unified motion diffusion framework that bridges real-time streaming with high-quality offline generation within a single model. The core idea is to introduce a per-frame action plan: the model predicts frame-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Eric Nazarenus , Chuqiao Li , Yannan He , Xianghui Xie , Jan Eric Lenssen , Gerard Pons-Moll

We propose AvatarVTON, the first 4D virtual try-on framework that generates realistic try-on results from a single in-shop garment image, enabling free pose control, novel-view rendering, and diverse garment choices. Unlike existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Zicheng Jiang , Jixin Gao , Shengfeng He , Xinzhe Li , Yulong Zheng , Zhaotong Yang , Junyu Dong , Yong Du

Current talking face generation methods mainly focus on speech-lip synchronization. However, insufficient investigation on the facial talking style leads to a lifeless and monotonous avatar. Most previous works fail to imitate expressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Liyang Chen , Zhiyong Wu , Runnan Li , Weihong Bao , Jun Ling , Xu Tan , Sheng Zhao

Portrait animation aims to generate photo-realistic videos from a single source image by reenacting the expression and pose from a driving video. While early methods relied on 3D morphable models or feature warping techniques, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mallikarjun B. R. , Fei Yin , Vikram Voleti , Nikita Drobyshev , Maksim Lapin , Aaryaman Vasishta , Varun Jampani

Current video diffusion models achieve impressive generation quality but struggle in interactive applications due to bidirectional attention dependencies. The generation of a single frame requires the model to process the entire sequence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Tianwei Yin , Qiang Zhang , Richard Zhang , William T. Freeman , Fredo Durand , Eli Shechtman , Xun Huang

Recent advances in audio-driven avatar video generation have significantly enhanced audio-visual realism. However, existing methods treat instruction conditioning merely as low-level tracking driven by acoustic or visual cues, without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yikang Ding , Jiwen Liu , Wenyuan Zhang , Zekun Wang , Wentao Hu , Liyuan Cui , Mingming Lao , Yingchao Shao , Hui Liu , Xiaohan Li , Ming Chen , Xiaoqiang Liu , Yu-Shen Liu , Pengfei Wan

Training diffusion models for audiovisual sequences allows for a range of generation tasks by learning conditional distributions of various input-output combinations of the two modalities. Nevertheless, this strategy often requires training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Gwanghyun Kim , Alonso Martinez , Yu-Chuan Su , Brendan Jou , José Lezama , Agrim Gupta , Lijun Yu , Lu Jiang , Aren Jansen , Jacob Walker , Krishna Somandepalli

Autoregressive (AR)-Diffusion hybrid paradigms combine AR's structured semantic modeling with diffusion's high-fidelity synthesis, yet suffer from a dual speed bottleneck: the sequential AR stage and the iterative multi-step denoising of…

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