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Visual emotion expression plays an important role in audiovisual speech communication. In this work, we propose a novel approach to rendering visual emotion expression in speech-driven talking face generation. Specifically, we design an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-23 Sefik Emre Eskimez , You Zhang , Zhiyao Duan

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

Recent advances in AI-generated video have shown strong performance on \emph{text-to-video} tasks, particularly for short clips depicting a single scene. However, current models struggle to generate longer videos with coherent scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Hanwen Shen , Jiajie Lu , Yupeng Cao , Xiaonan Yang

Current diffusion models for audio-driven avatar video generation struggle to synthesize long videos with natural audio synchronization and identity consistency. This paper presents StableAvatar, the first end-to-end video diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shuyuan Tu , Yueming Pan , Yinming Huang , Xintong Han , Zhen Xing , Qi Dai , Chong Luo , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Text-to-Avatar generation has recently made significant strides due to advancements in diffusion models. However, most existing work remains constrained by limited diversity, producing avatars with subtle differences in appearance for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Weijing Tao , Biwen Lei , Kunhao Liu , Shijian Lu , Miaomiao Cui , Xuansong Xie , Chunyan Miao

Digital humans and, especially, 3D facial avatars have raised a lot of attention in the past years, as they are the backbone of several applications like immersive telepresence in AR or VR. Despite the progress, facial avatars reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Berna Kabadayi , Wojciech Zielonka , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Gerard Pons-Moll , Justus Thies

Generating talking face videos from audio attracts lots of research interest. A few person-specific methods can generate vivid videos but require the target speaker's videos for training or fine-tuning. Existing person-generic methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Weizhi Zhong , Chaowei Fang , Yinqi Cai , Pengxu Wei , Gangming Zhao , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

Audio-driven human video generation has achieved remarkable success in monologue scenarios, largely driven by advancements in powerful video generation foundation models. Moving beyond monologues, authentic human communication is inherently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yuzhe Weng , Haotian Wang , Xinyi Yu , Xiaoyan Wu , Haoran Xu , Shan He , Jun Du

Creating a realistic animatable avatar from a single static portrait remains challenging. Existing approaches often struggle to capture subtle facial expressions, the associated global body movements, and the dynamic background. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mengchao Wang , Qiang Wang , Fan Jiang , Yaqi Fan , Yunpeng Zhang , Yonggang Qi , Kun Zhao , Mu Xu

We devise a cascade GAN approach to generate talking face video, which is robust to different face shapes, view angles, facial characteristics, and noisy audio conditions. Instead of learning a direct mapping from audio to video frames, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Lele Chen , Ross K. Maddox , Zhiyao Duan , Chenliang Xu

Joint audio-video generation models have shown that unified generation yields stronger cross-modal coherence than cascaded approaches. However, existing models couple modalities throughout denoising via pervasive attention, treating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zhen Ye , Xu Tan , Aoxiong Yin , Hongzhan Lin , Guangyan Zhang , Peiwen Sun , Yiming Li , Chi-Min Chan , Wei Ye , Shikun Zhang , Wei Xue

Text-to-video (T2V) generation technology holds potential to transform multiple domains such as education, marketing, entertainment, and assistive technologies for individuals with visual or reading comprehension challenges, by creating…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Nilay Kumar , Priyansh Bhandari , G. Maragatham

High-fidelity and efficient audio-driven talking head generation has been a key research topic in computer graphics and computer vision. In this work, we study vector image based audio-driven talking head generation. Compared with directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Hao Hu , Xuan Wang , Jingxiang Sun , Yanbo Fan , Yu Guo , Caigui Jiang

We present READ Avatars, a 3D-based approach for generating 2D avatars that are driven by audio input with direct and granular control over the emotion. Previous methods are unable to achieve realistic animation due to the many-to-many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Jack Saunders , Vinay Namboodiri

Real-time talking avatar generation requires low latency and minute-level temporal stability. Autoregressive (AR) forcing enables streaming inference but suffers from exposure bias, which causes errors to accumulate and become irreversible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Liyuan Cui , Wentao Hu , Wenyuan Zhang , Zesong Yang , Fan Shi , Xiaoqiang Liu

We present a virtual reality (VR) environment featuring conversational avatars powered by a locally-deployed LLM, integrated with automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and lip-syncing. Through a pilot study, we explored…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Mykola Maslych , Christian Pumarada , Amirpouya Ghasemaghaei , Joseph J. LaViola

Real-time, streaming interactive avatars represent a critical yet challenging goal in digital human research. Although diffusion-based human avatar generation methods achieve remarkable success, their non-causal architecture and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhiyao Sun , Ziqiao Peng , Yifeng Ma , Yi Chen , Zhengguang Zhou , Zixiang Zhou , Guozhen Zhang , Youliang Zhang , Yuan Zhou , Qinglin Lu , Yong-Jin Liu

With recent advancements in neural rendering and motion capture algorithms, remarkable progress has been made in photorealistic human avatar modeling, unlocking immense potential for applications in virtual reality, augmented reality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Hendrik Junkawitsch , Guoxing Sun , Heming Zhu , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann

In human dialogue, nonverbal information such as nodding and facial expressions is as crucial as verbal information, and spoken dialogue systems are also expected to express such nonverbal behaviors. We focus on nodding, which is critical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Kazushi Kato , Koji Inoue , Divesh Lala , Keiko Ochi , Tatsuya Kawahara

Generating talking avatars is a fundamental task in video generation. Although existing methods can generate full-body talking avatars with simple human motion, extending this task to grounded human-object interaction (GHOI) remains an open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Youliang Zhang , Zhengguang Zhou , Zhentao Yu , Ziyao Huang , Teng Hu , Sen Liang , Guozhen Zhang , Ziqiao Peng , Shunkai Li , Yi Chen , Zixiang Zhou , Yuan Zhou , Qinglin Lu , Xiu Li