The paper introduces an end‑to‑end framework for personalized audio‑driven facial motion that operates in real time without look‑ahead. It combines a causal multi‑resolution motion tokenizer, which captures both global temporal context and fine articulatory details, with a multi‑modal style retriever that pulls stylistic priors from arbitrary reference footage using ongoing audio and motion queries. This approach allows high‑fidelity, identity‑consistent animation from just a few casually recorded clips, outperforming existing methods in lip‑sync accuracy, identity consistency, and perceived realism while maintaining real‑time streaming constraints.
arXiv:2606. 30145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural face-to-face conversation requires real-time speech generation together with synchronized facial motion.
arXiv:2606. 01031v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio-driven talking-head generation has advanced rapidly, yet existing evaluation protocols mainly rely on frame-wise metrics that assume strict temporal correspondence between generated and reference videos.
arXiv:2606. 28568v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech-driven 3D facial animation methods face significant challenges in simultaneously achieving high-fidelity motion and precise artistic control at production quality.
Natural face-to-face conversation requires real-time speech generation together with synchronized facial motion. Existing systems only partially address this problem: speech-only full-duplex models can generate speech in real time but do not produce facial motion, while audio-driven facial motion models animate a face from already available audio rather than jointly generating speech and motion online.
Vorch-Human is a unified framework for human‑centric audio‑visual generation that handles multiple tasks—animating a person from speech, jointly generating speech and video from a voice reference, and synthesizing a scene from paired appearance and voice references—using a single dual‑stream audio‑video diffusion transformer. The model incorporates clean condition‑audio and condition‑video tokens, per‑token task embeddings, temporal position types, condition masks, and a shared multimodal prompt encoder to express diverse inputs such as driving speech, timbre examples, first frames, and subject images. A two‑level data pipeline supplies the necessary supervision by extracting speech, appearance, and timbre annotations from clips and linking consistent identity and outfit references across videos, while a frozen‑prefix recurrence enables long‑form audio‑driven generation with reduced boundary discontinuity and identity drift.
arXiv:2602. 12304v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing mainstream video customization methods focus on generating identity-consistent videos based on given reference images and textual prompts.
arXiv:2609.13264v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generating human-centric videos that preserve both visual identity and person-specific expressive behavior remains a fundamental challenge. In additi...
EditaLive! is a new real‑time framework for character video editing in live streaming, built on a pretrained image animation model (Wan‑Animate) that separates appearance from motion. It uses the CharEdit‑50K dataset for reference‑frame editing and video reconstruction, and adapts the model from offline bidirectional to causal streaming generation. A self‑rollout distillation strategy compresses the model into a two‑step sampler, employing fixed RoPE, alignment forcing, and first‑frame preserved sparse attention to reduce appearance drift and achieve low‑latency inference while preserving facial expressions.
arXiv:2601. 00664v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Talking head generation creates lifelike avatars from static portraits for virtual communication and content creation.
arXiv:2607. 22830v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In visual storytelling, human performances are central to creative intent and narrative meaning.
Real-time long-form avatar audio--video generation requires causal, continuous synthesis while maintaining audiovisual synchronization and visual consistency. Adapting a pretrained bidirectional model to this setting presents two key dilemmas.
Video generation is progressing beyond isolated clips toward long-form narratives and interactive worlds, requiring models to preserve identities, follow user controls, and remain stable over extended...