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20202026
most citedThe ReprGesture entry to the GENEA Challenge 2022

16 citations · 29 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.SD2026

Breaking the Quality--Intelligibility Trade-off in Streaming Target Speaker Extraction via Deep-Feature-Anchored Preference Optimization

Shuhai Peng, Jinjiang Liu, Hui Lu +5

Generative streaming models for Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) commonly exhibit a quality--intelligibility trade-off, wherein naive optimization for perceptual audio quality tends…

cs.SD2026

StarTSE: Towards Streaming Target Speaker Extraction via Chunk-wise Interleaved Splicing of Autoregressive Language Model

Shuhai Peng, Hui Lu, Jinjiang Liu +8

While generative models have set new benchmarks for Target Speaker Extraction (TSE), their inherent reliance on global context precludes deployment in real-time applications. Direc…

cs.CV2026

DreamID-Omni: Unified Framework for Controllable Human-Centric Audio-Video Generation

Xu Guo, Fulong Ye, Qichao Sun +7

Recent advancements in foundation models have revolutionized joint audio-video generation. However, existing approaches typically treat human-centric tasks including reference-base…

cs.CV2025

From Inpainting to Editing: Unlocking Robust Mask-Free Visual Dubbing via Generative Bootstrapping

Xu He, Haoxian Zhang, Hejia Chen +7

Audio-driven visual dubbing aims to synchronize a video's lip movements with new speech but is fundamentally challenged by the lack of ideal training data: paired videos differing…

cs.CV2025

StableDub: Taming Diffusion Prior for Generalized and Efficient Visual Dubbing

Liyang Chen, Tianze Zhou, Xu He +7

The visual dubbing task aims to generate mouth movements synchronized with the driving audio, which has seen significant progress in recent years. However, two critical deficiencie…

cs.CV2025

HuMo: Human-Centric Video Generation via Collaborative Multi-Modal Conditioning

Liyang Chen, Tianxiang Ma, Jiawei Liu +7

Human-Centric Video Generation (HCVG) methods seek to synthesize human videos from multimodal inputs, including text, image, and audio. Existing methods struggle to effectively coo…

cs.MM2024

Enhancing Expressiveness in Dance Generation via Integrating Frequency and Music Style Information

Qiaochu Huang, Xu He, Boshi Tang +6

Dance generation, as a branch of human motion generation, has attracted increasing attention. Recently, a few works attempt to enhance dance expressiveness, which includes genre ma…

cs.CV2023

AdaMesh: Personalized Facial Expressions and Head Poses for Adaptive Speech-Driven 3D Facial Animation

Liyang Chen, Weihong Bao, Shun Lei +5

Speech-driven 3D facial animation aims at generating facial movements that are synchronized with the driving speech, which has been widely explored recently. Existing works mostly…

cs.SD2023

Improving Language Model-Based Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Multi-Scale Acoustic Prompts

Shun Lei, Yixuan Zhou, Liyang Chen +8

Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis aims to clone any unseen speaker's voice without adaptation parameters. By quantizing speech waveform into discrete acoustic tokens and mod…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

VAST: Vivify Your Talking Avatar via Zero-Shot Expressive Facial Style Transfer

Liyang Chen, Zhiyong Wu, Runnan Li +4

Current talking face generation methods mainly focus on speech-lip synchronization. However, insufficient investigation on the facial talking style leads to a lifeless and monotono…

cs.SD2023★ 1 cited

MSStyleTTS: Multi-Scale Style Modeling with Hierarchical Context Information for Expressive Speech Synthesis

Shun Lei, Yixuan Zhou, Liyang Chen +4

Expressive speech synthesis is crucial for many human-computer interaction scenarios, such as audiobooks, podcasts, and voice assistants. Previous works focus on predicting the sty…

cs.SD2023★ 2 cited

GTN-Bailando: Genre Consistent Long-Term 3D Dance Generation based on Pre-trained Genre Token Network

Haolin Zhuang, Shun Lei, Long Xiao +6

Music-driven 3D dance generation has become an intensive research topic in recent years with great potential for real-world applications. Most existing methods lack the considerati…

cs.SD2023

Context-aware Coherent Speaking Style Prediction with Hierarchical Transformers for Audiobook Speech Synthesis

Shun Lei, Yixuan Zhou, Liyang Chen +3

Recent advances in text-to-speech have significantly improved the expressiveness of synthesized speech. However, it is still challenging to generate speech with contextually approp…

cs.CV2022

StableFace: Analyzing and Improving Motion Stability for Talking Face Generation

Jun Ling, Xu Tan, Liyang Chen +4

While previous speech-driven talking face generation methods have made significant progress in improving the visual quality and lip-sync quality of the synthesized videos, they pay…

cs.HC2022★ 16 cited

The ReprGesture entry to the GENEA Challenge 2022

Sicheng Yang, Zhiyong Wu, Minglei Li +4

This paper describes the ReprGesture entry to the Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents (GENEA) challenge 2022. The GENEA challenge provides the pro…

cs.SD2022

Towards Expressive Speaking Style Modelling with Hierarchical Context Information for Mandarin Speech Synthesis

Shun Lei, Yixuan Zhou, Liyang Chen +3

Previous works on expressive speech synthesis mainly focus on current sentence. The context in adjacent sentences is neglected, resulting in inflexible speaking style for the same…

cs.SD2022

Towards Multi-Scale Speaking Style Modelling with Hierarchical Context Information for Mandarin Speech Synthesis

Shun Lei, Yixuan Zhou, Liyang Chen +4

Previous works on expressive speech synthesis focus on modelling the mono-scale style embedding from the current sentence or context, but the multi-scale nature of speaking style i…

cs.MM2021★ 2 cited

Transformer-S2A: Robust and Efficient Speech-to-Animation

Liyang Chen, Zhiyong Wu, Jun Ling +3

We propose a novel robust and efficient Speech-to-Animation (S2A) approach for synchronized facial animation generation in human-computer interaction. Compared with conventional ap…

cs.LG2020★ 7 cited

DropCluster: A structured dropout for convolutional networks

Liyan Chen, Philippos Mordohai, Sergul Aydore

Dropout as a common regularizer to prevent overfitting in deep neural networks has been less effective in convolutional layers than in fully connected layers. This is because Dropo…