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Zujin Guo

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preprint2026arXiv

Generate Your Talking Avatar from Video Reference

Existing talking avatar methods typically adopt an image-to-video pipeline conditioned on a static reference image within the same scene as the target generation. This restricted, single-view perspective lacks sufficient temporal and expression cues, limiting the ability to synthesize high-fidelity talking avatars in customized backgrounds. To this end, we introduce Talking Avatar generation from Video Reference (TAVR), a novel framework that shifts the paradigm by leveraging cross-scene video inputs. To effectively process these extended temporal contexts and bridge cross-scene domain gaps, TAVR integrates a token selection module alongside a comprehensive three-stage training scheme. Specifically, same-scene video pretraining establishes foundational appearance copying, which is subsequently expanded by cross-scene reference fine-tuning for robust cross-scene adaptation. Finally, task-specific reinforcement learning aligns the generated outputs with identity-based rewards to maximize identity similarity. To systematically evaluate cross-scene robustness, we construct a new benchmark comprising 158 carefully curated cross-scene video pairs. Extensive experiments show that TAVR benefits from flexible inference-time video referencing and consistently surpasses existing baselines both quantitatively and qualitatively. This work has been deployed to production. For more related research, please visit \href{https://www.heygen.com/research}{HeyGen Research} and \href{https://www.heygen.com/research/avatar-v-model}{HeyGen Avatar-V}.

preprint2026arXiv

TransVLM: A Vision-Language Framework and Benchmark for Detecting Any Shot Transitions

Traditional Shot Boundary Detection (SBD) inherently struggles with complex transitions by formulating the task around isolated cut points, frequently yielding corrupted video shots. We address this fundamental limitation by formalizing the Shot Transition Detection (STD) task. Rather than searching for ambiguous points, STD explicitly detects the continuous temporal segments of transitions. To tackle this, we propose TransVLM, a Vision-Language Model (VLM) framework for STD. Unlike regular VLMs that predominantly rely on spatial semantics and struggle with fine-grained inter-shot dynamics, our method explicitly injects optical flow as a critical motion prior at the input stage. Through a simple yet effective feature-fusion strategy, TransVLM directly processes concatenated color and motion representations, significantly enhancing its temporal awareness without incurring any additional visual token overhead on the language backbone. To overcome the severe class imbalance in public data, we design a scalable data engine to synthesize diverse transition videos for robust training, alongside a comprehensive benchmark for STD. Extensive experiments demonstrate that TransVLM achieves superior overall performance, outperforming traditional heuristic methods, specialized spatiotemporal networks, and top-tier VLMs. This work has been deployed to production. For more related research, please visit HeyGen Research (https://www.heygen.com/research) and HeyGen Avatar-V (https://www.heygen.com/research/avatar-v-model). Project page: https://chence17.github.io/TransVLM/

preprint2025arXiv

Controllable Human-centric Keyframe Interpolation with Generative Prior

Existing interpolation methods use pre-trained video diffusion priors to generate intermediate frames between sparsely sampled keyframes. In the absence of 3D geometric guidance, these methods struggle to produce plausible results for complex, articulated human motions and offer limited control over the synthesized dynamics. In this paper, we introduce PoseFuse3D Keyframe Interpolator (PoseFuse3D-KI), a novel framework that integrates 3D human guidance signals into the diffusion process for Controllable Human-centric Keyframe Interpolation (CHKI). To provide rich spatial and structural cues for interpolation, our PoseFuse3D, a 3D-informed control model, features a novel SMPL-X encoder that transforms 3D geometry and shape into the 2D latent conditioning space, alongside a fusion network that integrates these 3D cues with 2D pose embeddings. For evaluation, we build CHKI-Video, a new dataset annotated with both 2D poses and 3D SMPL-X parameters. We show that PoseFuse3D-KI consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on CHKI-Video, achieving a 9% improvement in PSNR and a 38% reduction in LPIPS. Comprehensive ablations demonstrate that our PoseFuse3D model improves interpolation fidelity.

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