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With the rise of diffusion models, audio-video generation has been revolutionized. However, most existing methods rely on separate modules for each modality, with limited exploration of unified generative architectures. In addition, many…

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Capturing and editing full head performances enables the creation of virtual characters with various applications such as extended reality and media production. The past few years witnessed a steep rise in the photorealism of human head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Mohit Mendiratta , Xingang Pan , Mohamed Elgharib , Kartik Teotia , Mallikarjun B R , Ayush Tewari , Vladislav Golyanik , Adam Kortylewski , Christian Theobalt

Recent multi-modal video generation models have achieved high visual quality, but their prohibitive latency and limited temporal stability hinder real-time deployment. Streaming inference exacerbates these issues, leading to pronounced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Rang Meng , Weipeng Wu , Yuming Li , Chenguang Ma

We propose DarkStream, a streaming speech synthesis model for real-time speaker anonymization. To improve content encoding under strict latency constraints, DarkStream combines a causal waveform encoder, a short lookahead buffer, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Waris Quamer , Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved the realism and generalizability of character-driven animation, enabling the synthesis of high-quality motion from just a single RGB image and a set of driving poses.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Alireza Javanmardi , Pragati Jaiswal , Tewodros Amberbir Habtegebrial , Christen Millerdurai , Shaoxiang Wang , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

The task of video generation requires synthesizing visually realistic and temporally coherent video frames. Existing methods primarily use asynchronous auto-regressive models or synchronous diffusion models to address this challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mingzhen Sun , Weining Wang , Gen Li , Jiawei Liu , Jiahui Sun , Wanquan Feng , Shanshan Lao , SiYu Zhou , Qian He , Jing Liu

We propose a novel architecture UniTransfer, which introduces both spatial and diffusion timestep decomposition in a progressive paradigm, achieving precise and controllable video concept transfer. Specifically, in terms of spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Guojun Lei , Rong Zhang , Chi Wang , Tianhang Liu , Hong Li , Zhiyuan Ma , Weiwei Xu

Generative models are reshaping the live-streaming industry by redefining how content is created, styled, and delivered. Previous image-based streaming diffusion models have powered efficient and creative live streaming products but have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Tianrui Feng , Zhi Li , Shuo Yang , Haocheng Xi , Muyang Li , Xiuyu Li , Lvmin Zhang , Keting Yang , Kelly Peng , Song Han , Maneesh Agrawala , Kurt Keutzer , Akio Kodaira , Chenfeng Xu

With the revolution of generative AI, video-related tasks have been widely studied. However, current state-of-the-art video models still lag behind image models in visual quality and user control over generated content. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Haiming Zhu , Yangyang Xu , Jun Yu , Shengfeng He

Fast Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is critical for latency-sensitive applications such as real-time captioning and meeting transcription. However, truly parallel ASR decoding remains challenging due to the sequential nature of…

Talking face generation aims to synthesize realistic speaking portraits from a single image, yet existing methods often rely on explicit optical flow and local warping, which fail to model complex global motions and cause identity drift. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Bo Chen , Tao Liu , Qi Chen , Xie Chen , Zilong Zheng

Video face restoration aims to enhance degraded face videos into high-quality results with realistic facial details, stable identity, and temporal coherence. Recent diffusion-based methods have brought strong generative priors to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zheng Chen , Bowen Chai , Rongjun Gao , Mingtao Nie , Xi Li , Bingnan Duan , Jianping Fang , Xiaohong Liu , Linghe Kong , Yulun Zhang

We propose VLOGGER, a method for audio-driven human video generation from a single input image of a person, which builds on the success of recent generative diffusion models. Our method consists of 1) a stochastic human-to-3d-motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Enric Corona , Andrei Zanfir , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Nikos Kolotouros , Thiemo Alldieck , Cristian Sminchisescu

Generative models have advanced rapidly, enabling impressive talking head generation that brings AI to life. However, most existing methods focus solely on one-way portrait animation. Even the few that support bidirectional conversational…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Haijie Yang , Zhenyu Zhang , Hao Tang , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang

Although significant progress has been made in audio-driven talking head generation, text-driven methods remain underexplored. In this work, we present OmniTalker, a unified framework that jointly generates synchronized talking audio-video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zhongjian Wang , Peng Zhang , Jinwei Qi , Guangyuan Wang , Chaonan Ji , Sheng Xu , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

We propose a streaming non-autoregressive (non-AR) decoding algorithm to deliberate the hypothesis alignment of a streaming RNN-T model. Our algorithm facilitates a simple greedy decoding procedure, and at the same time is capable of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Weiran Wang , Ke Hu , Tara N. Sainath

Real-world videos often extend over thousands of frames. Existing generative video super-resolution (VSR) approaches, however, face two persistent challenges when processing long sequences: (1) inefficiency due to the heavy cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Ziqing Zhang , Kai Liu , Zheng Chen , Xi Li , Yucong Chen , Bingnan Duan , Linghe Kong , Yulun Zhang

Existing single-image 3D human avatar methods primarily rely on rigid joint transformations, limiting their ability to model realistic cloth dynamics. We present DynaAvatar, a zero-shot framework that reconstructs animatable 3D human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Joohyun Kwon , Geonhee Sim , Gyeongsik Moon

Zero-shot artistic style transfer is an important image synthesis problem aiming at transferring arbitrary style into content images. However, the trade-off between the generalization and efficiency in existing methods impedes a high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Lu Sheng , Ziyi Lin , Jing Shao , Xiaogang Wang

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in unifying streaming and non-streaming speech recognition models to reduce development, training and deployment cost. The best-known approaches rely on either window-based or dynamic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Xilai Li , Goeric Huybrechts , Srikanth Ronanki , Jeff Farris , Sravan Bodapati