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Giving Faces Their Feelings Back: Explicit Emotion Control for Feedforward Single-Image 3D Head Avatars

Yicheng Gong, Jiawei Zhang, Liqiang Liu, Yanwen Wang, Lei Chu, Jiahao Li, Hao Pan, Hao Zhu, Yan Lu

April 2026

arXiv | April 2026

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LumiMotion: Improving Gaussian Relighting with Scene Dynamics

Joanna Kaleta, Piotr W'ojcik, Kacper Marzol, Tomasz Trzci'nski, Kacper Kania, Marek Kowalski

April 2026

arXiv | April 2026

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Storycaster: An AI System for Immersive Room-Based Storytelling

Naisha Agarwal, Judith Amores, Andrew D. Wilson

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) | April 2026

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Evaluating AI-Generated Images of Cultural Artifacts with Community-Informed Rubrics

Nari Johnson, Deepthi Sudharsan, Hamna, Samantha Dalal, Theo Holroyd, Anja Thieme, Hoda Heidari, Daniela Massiceti, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Cecily Morrison

April 2026

arXiv | April 2026

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Generative Video Compression with One-Dimensional Latent Representation

Zihan Zheng, Zhaoyang Jia, Naifu Xue, Jiahao Li, Bin Li, Zongyu Guo, Xiaoyi Zhang, Zhenghao Chen, Houqiang Li, Yan Lu

March 2026

arXiv | March 2026

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Object Fusion via Diffusion Time-step for Customized Image Editing with Single Example

Xue Song, Zhongqi Yue, Jiequan Cui, Hanwang Zhang, Jingjing Chen

2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’05) | March 2026, pp. 9127-9134

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Multi-Object Advertisement Creative Generation

Jialu Gao, Mithun Gupta, Qun Li, Raveena Kshatriya, Andrew D. Wilson, Keng-hao Chang, Balasaravanan Thoravi Kumaravel

March 2026

arXiv | March 2026

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InfoAlign: A Human-AI Co-Creation System for Storytelling with Infographics

Jielin Feng, Xinwu Ye, Qianhui Li, Verena Prantl, Jun-Hsiang Yao, Yuheng Zhao, Yun Wang, Siming Chen

CHI 2026 | February 2026

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FilMaster: Bridging Cinematic Principles and Generative AI for Automated Film Generation

Kaiyi Huang, Yukun Huang, Xintao Wang, Zinan Lin, Xuefei Ning, Pengfei Wan, Di Zhang, Yu Wang, Xihui Liu

ICLR 2026 | February 2026

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Long Video Understanding with Learnable Retrieval in Video-Language Models

Jiaqi Xu, Cuiling Lan, Wenxuan Xie, Xuejin Chen, Yan Lu

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia | February 2026