Singaporean Author and Stroke Survivor Terence Ang Earns Distinguished Favorite Recognition from Two Major Book Awards

Singaporean Author and Stroke Survivor Terence Ang won a 2025 NYC Big Book Award and 2026 Independent Press Award; A ...
NOLA.com

A Louisiana university program brings ‘positive changes’ to stroke patients with aphasia

This university-based program, open to people with aphasia in Hammond and surrounding Louisiana communities, helps stroke ...
IEEE

Expressive 3D Facial Animation Generation Based on Local-to-Global Latent Diffusion

Abstract: 3D Facial animations, crucial to augmented and mixed reality digital media, have evolved from mere aesthetic elements to potent storytelling media. Despite considerable progress in facial ...
IEEE

Flexpéro: Flexible Expressive Zero-Shot Speech Refinement via In-Context Learning

Abstract: Controlling speech expressiveness has emerged as a critical research frontier in speech generation, focusing on synthesizing natural, human-like speech that accurately conveys intended ...
The Straits Times

‘My thoughts are clear, but the words don’t always come out’: Life with aphasia, a language disorder

Aphasia, a language disorder affecting speech and comprehension, can result from brain damage due to stroke or other conditions. Individuals with aphasia use various tools like AAC devices, pictorial ...
GitHub

SkyReels-A1: Expressive Portrait Animation in Video Diffusion Transformers

This repo, named SkyReels-A1, contains the official PyTorch implementation of our paper SkyReels-A1: Expressive Portrait Animation in Video Diffusion Transformers.
GitHub

Fine-Controllable and Expressive Freestyle Portrait Animation

We present Follow-Your-Emoji, a diffusion-based framework for portrait animation, which animates a reference portrait with target landmark sequences. [FollowYourEmoji ...