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We consider the challenging problem of audio to animated video generation. We propose a novel method OneShotAu2AV to generate an animated video of arbitrary length using an audio clip and a single unseen image of a person as an input. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Neeraj Kumar , Srishti Goel , Ankur Narang , Brejesh Lall , Mujtaba Hasan , Pranshu Agarwal , Dipankar Sarkar

In recent years, there has been significant interest in creating 3D avatars and motions, driven by their diverse applications in areas like film-making, video games, AR/VR, and human-robot interaction. However, current efforts primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zeyu Zhang , Yiran Wang , Biao Wu , Shuo Chen , Zhiyuan Zhang , Shiya Huang , Wenbo Zhang , Meng Fang , Ling Chen , Yang Zhao

To be widely adopted, 3D facial avatars must be animated easily, realistically, and directly from speech signals. While the best recent methods generate 3D animations that are synchronized with the input audio, they largely ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Radek Daněček , Kiran Chhatre , Shashank Tripathi , Yandong Wen , Michael J. Black , Timo Bolkart

Generating speech-consistent body and gesture movements is a long-standing problem in virtual avatar creation. Previous studies often synthesize pose movement in a holistic manner, where poses of all joints are generated simultaneously.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Xian Liu , Qianyi Wu , Hang Zhou , Yinghao Xu , Rui Qian , Xinyi Lin , Xiaowei Zhou , Wayne Wu , Bo Dai , Bolei Zhou

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved audio-driven human video generation, surpassing traditional methods in both quality and controllability. However, existing approaches still face challenges in lip-sync…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xingpei Ma , Shenneng Huang , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shen Zheng , Hanfeng Zhao , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang

Building 3D animatable head avatars from a single image is an important yet challenging problem. Existing methods generally collapse under large camera pose variations, compromising the realism of 3D avatars. In this work, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shuling Zhao , Dan Xu

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

We introduce FaceTalk, a novel generative approach designed for synthesizing high-fidelity 3D motion sequences of talking human heads from input audio signal. To capture the expressive, detailed nature of human heads, including hair, ears,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Shivangi Aneja , Justus Thies , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

With the introduction of diffusion-based video generation techniques, audio-conditioned human video generation has recently achieved significant breakthroughs in both the naturalness of motion and the synthesis of portrait details. Due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Jianwen Jiang , Chao Liang , Jiaqi Yang , Gaojie Lin , Tianyun Zhong , Yanbo Zheng

A key component of dyadic spoken interactions is the contextually relevant non-verbal gestures, such as head movements that reflect a listener's response to the interlocutor's speech. Although significant progress has been made in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Bishal Ghosh , Emma Li , Tanaya Guha

Audio-driven talking-head generation is a crucial and useful technology for virtual human interaction and film-making. While recent advances have focused on improving image fidelity and lip synchronization, generating accurate emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Wenqing Wang , Yun Fu

Person-generic audio-driven face generation is a challenging task in computer vision. Previous methods have achieved remarkable progress in audio-visual synchronization, but there is still a significant gap between current results and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Xiaozhong Ji , Chuming Lin , Zhonggan Ding , Ying Tai , Junwei Zhu , Xiaobin Hu , Donghao Luo , Yanhao Ge , Chengjie Wang

Talking head generation intends to produce vivid and realistic talking head videos from a single portrait and speech audio clip. Although significant progress has been made in diffusion-based talking head generation, almost all methods rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Hanbo Cheng , Limin Lin , Chenyu Liu , Pengcheng Xia , Pengfei Hu , Jiefeng Ma , Jun Du , Jia Pan

This paper introduces Stereo-Talker, a novel one-shot audio-driven human video synthesis system that generates 3D talking videos with precise lip synchronization, expressive body gestures, temporally consistent photo-realistic quality, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Xiang Deng , Youxin Pang , Xiaochen Zhao , Chao Xu , Lizhen Wang , Hongjiang Xiao , Shi Yan , Hongwen Zhang , Yebin Liu

Given an arbitrary audio clip, audio-driven 3D facial animation aims to generate lifelike lip motions and facial expressions for a 3D head. Existing methods typically rely on training their models using limited public 3D datasets that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Liying Lu , Tianke Zhang , Yunfei Liu , Xuangeng Chu , Yu Li

In this paper, we abstract the process of people hearing speech, extracting meaningful cues, and creating various dynamically audio-consistent talking faces, termed Listening and Imagining, into the task of high-fidelity diverse talking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Chao Xu , Yang Liu , Jiazheng Xing , Weida Wang , Mingze Sun , Jun Dan , Tianxin Huang , Siyuan Li , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Ying Tai , Baigui Sun

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 propose a method for synthesizing edited photo-realistic digital avatars with text instructions. Given a short monocular RGB video and text instructions, our method uses an image-conditioned diffusion model to edit one head image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Shaoxu Li

Co-speech gesture generation is crucial for automatic digital avatar animation. However, existing methods suffer from issues such as unstable training and temporal inconsistency, particularly in generating high-fidelity and comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Longbin Ji , Pengfei Wei , Yi Ren , Jinglin Liu , Chen Zhang , Xiang Yin

One-shot 3D talking portrait generation aims to reconstruct a 3D avatar from an unseen image, and then animate it with a reference video or audio to generate a talking portrait video. The existing methods fail to simultaneously achieve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zhenhui Ye , Tianyun Zhong , Yi Ren , Jiaqi Yang , Weichuang Li , Jiawei Huang , Ziyue Jiang , Jinzheng He , Rongjie Huang , Jinglin Liu , Chen Zhang , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma , Zhou Zhao