Overview

The field builds models that generate or edit sound and moving images together, or use one modality to create the other. Common approaches include diffusion transformers and flow-matching models, with text, reference media, event timelines, or motion cues guiding generation; autoregressive versions support streaming and longer clips. Applications range from video soundtracks and music videos to talking avatars, with controls for identity, timing, sound sources, and scene structure. A central challenge is that perceptual quality and basic synchronization do not guarantee semantic or physical correctness, especially across long scenes, so evaluation increasingly tests human judgments, fine-grained control, and physical grounding.

Latest papers

CardsList

157 papers24 papers in the last four weeks, up 71% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. TurboTalk: Progressive Distillation for One-Step Audio-Driven Talking Avatar Generation

    Apr 16, 2026Xiangyu Liu, Feng Gao, Xiaomei Zhang +4Audio-Video GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

  2. OmniShow: Unifying Multimodal Conditions for Human-Object Interaction Video Generation

    Apr 13, 2026Donghao Zhou, Guisheng Liu, Hao Yang +9HOI GenerationControllable Video Generation

  3. VidAudio-Bench: Benchmarking V2A and VT2A Generation across Four Audio Categories

    Apr 12, 2026Qian Zhang, Yuqin Cao, Yixuan Gao +1Audio-Video GenerationAudio Generation

  4. Beyond Monologue: Interactive Talking-Listening Avatar Generation with Conversational Audio Context-Aware Kernels

    Apr 11, 2026Yuzhe Weng, Haotian Wang, Xinyi Yu +4Audio-Video GenerationTalking Head Generation

  5. Tora3: Trajectory-Guided Audio-Video Generation with Physical Coherence

    Apr 10, 2026Junchao Liao, Zhenghao Zhang, Xiangyu Meng +5Trajectory-Guided Video GenerationAudio-Video Generation

  6. AVGen-Bench: A Task-Driven Benchmark for Multi-Granular Evaluation of Text-to-Audio-Video Generation

    Apr 9, 2026Ziwei Zhou, Zeyuan Lai, Rui Wang +6Text-to-Audio-Video Generation EvaluationAudio-Video Generation

  7. OmniSonic: Towards Universal and Holistic Audio Generation from Video and Text

    Apr 6, 2026Weiguo Pian, Saksham Singh Kushwaha, Zhimin Chen +4Audio GenerationAudio-Video Generation

  8. DynFOA: Generating First-Order Ambisonics with Conditional Diffusion for Dynamic and Acoustically Complex 360-Degree Videos

    Apr 3, 2026Ziyu Luo, Lin Chen, Qiang Qu +2Spatial AudioAudio-Video Generation

  9. SonoWorld: From One Image to a 3D Audio-Visual Scene

    Mar 30, 2026Derong Jin, Xiyi Chen, Ming C. Lin +1Audio-Video Generation3D Scene Generation

  10. FoleyDirector: Fine-Grained Temporal Steering for Video-to-Audio Generation via Structured Scripts

    Mar 20, 2026You Li, Dewei Zhou, Fan Ma +3Audio GenerationAudio-Video Generation

  11. AC-Foley: Reference-Audio-Guided Video-to-Audio Synthesis with Acoustic Transfer

    Mar 16, 2026Pengjun Fang, Yingqing He, Yazhou Xing +3Audio-Video GenerationAudio Generation

  12. AvatarForcing: One-Step Streaming Talking Avatars via Local-Future Sliding-Window Denoising

    Mar 15, 2026Liyuan Cui, Wentao Hu, Wenyuan Zhang +3Audio-Video GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

  13. OmniForcing: Unleashing Real-time Joint Audio-Visual Generation

    Mar 12, 2026Yaofeng Su, Yuming Li, Zeyue Xue +7Audio-Video GenerationStreaming Video Generation

  14. V2A-DPO: Omni-Preference Optimization for Video-to-Audio Generation

    Mar 11, 2026Nolan Chan, Timmy Gang, Yongqian Wang +2Audio-Video GenerationDirect Preference Optimization

  15. mAVE: A Watermark for Joint Audio-Visual Generation Models

    Mar 7, 2026Luyang Si, Leyi Pan, Dongsheng Ma +1Diffusion Model WatermarkingRobust Watermarking

  16. UniTalking: A Unified Audio-Video Framework for Talking Portrait Generation

    Mar 2, 2026Hebeizi Li, Zihao Liang, Benyuan Sun +4Lip SynchronizationAudio-Video Generation

  17. FlowPortrait: Reinforcement Learning for Audio-Driven Portrait Video Generation

    Feb 25, 2026Weiting Tan, Andy T. Liu, Ming Tu +3Audio-Driven Facial AnimationAudio-Video Generation

  18. Echoes Over Time: Unlocking Length Generalization in Video-to-Audio Generation Models

    Feb 24, 2026Christian Simon, Masato Ishii, Wei-Yao Wang +8Audio-Video GenerationAudio Generation

  19. JavisDiT++: Unified Modeling and Optimization for Joint Audio-Video Generation

    Feb 22, 2026Kai Liu, Yanhao Zheng, Kai Wang +7Audio-Video GenerationAudio-Visual Alignment