DIDiffGes: Decoupled Semi-Implicit Diffusion Models for Real-time Gesture Generation from Speech

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Main Authors: Cheng, Yongkang, Huang, Shaoli, Chen, Xuelin, Ning, Jifeng, Gong, Mingming
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author Cheng, Yongkang
Huang, Shaoli
Chen, Xuelin
Ning, Jifeng
Gong, Mingming
author_facet Cheng, Yongkang
Huang, Shaoli
Chen, Xuelin
Ning, Jifeng
Gong, Mingming
contents Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable synthesis quality and diversity in generating co-speech gestures. However, the computationally intensive sampling steps associated with diffusion models hinder their practicality in real-world applications. Hence, we present DIDiffGes, for a Decoupled Semi-Implicit Diffusion model-based framework, that can synthesize high-quality, expressive gestures from speech using only a few sampling steps. Our approach leverages Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to enable large-step sampling for diffusion model. We decouple gesture data into body and hands distributions and further decompose them into marginal and conditional distributions. GANs model the marginal distribution implicitly, while L2 reconstruction loss learns the conditional distributions exciplictly. This strategy enhances GAN training stability and ensures expressiveness of generated full-body gestures. Our framework also learns to denoise root noise conditioned on local body representation, guaranteeing stability and realism. DIDiffGes can generate gestures from speech with just 10 sampling steps, without compromising quality and expressiveness, reducing the number of sampling steps by a factor of 100 compared to existing methods. Our user study reveals that our method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in human likeness, appropriateness, and style correctness. Project is https://cyk990422.github.io/DIDiffGes.
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spellingShingle DIDiffGes: Decoupled Semi-Implicit Diffusion Models for Real-time Gesture Generation from Speech
Cheng, Yongkang
Huang, Shaoli
Chen, Xuelin
Ning, Jifeng
Gong, Mingming
Graphics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable synthesis quality and diversity in generating co-speech gestures. However, the computationally intensive sampling steps associated with diffusion models hinder their practicality in real-world applications. Hence, we present DIDiffGes, for a Decoupled Semi-Implicit Diffusion model-based framework, that can synthesize high-quality, expressive gestures from speech using only a few sampling steps. Our approach leverages Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to enable large-step sampling for diffusion model. We decouple gesture data into body and hands distributions and further decompose them into marginal and conditional distributions. GANs model the marginal distribution implicitly, while L2 reconstruction loss learns the conditional distributions exciplictly. This strategy enhances GAN training stability and ensures expressiveness of generated full-body gestures. Our framework also learns to denoise root noise conditioned on local body representation, guaranteeing stability and realism. DIDiffGes can generate gestures from speech with just 10 sampling steps, without compromising quality and expressiveness, reducing the number of sampling steps by a factor of 100 compared to existing methods. Our user study reveals that our method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in human likeness, appropriateness, and style correctness. Project is https://cyk990422.github.io/DIDiffGes.
title DIDiffGes: Decoupled Semi-Implicit Diffusion Models for Real-time Gesture Generation from Speech
topic Graphics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17059