ChatAnyone: Stylized Real-time Portrait Video Generation with
  Hierarchical Motion Diffusion Model
Authors: name: Jinwei Qi; name: Chaonan Ji; name: Sheng Xu; name: Peng Zhang; name: Bang Zhang; name: Liefeng Bo
Published: 2025-03-27 04:18:53

Abstract: Real-time interactive video-chat portraits have been increasingly recognized
as the future trend, particularly due to the remarkable progress made in text
and voice chat technologies. However, existing methods primarily focus on
real-time generation of head movements, but struggle to produce synchronized
body motions that match these head actions. Additionally, achieving
fine-grained control over the speaking style and nuances of facial expressions
remains a challenge. To address these limitations, we introduce a novel
framework for stylized real-time portrait video generation, enabling expressive
and flexible video chat that extends from talking head to upper-body
interaction. Our approach consists of the following two stages. The first stage
involves efficient hierarchical motion diffusion models, that take both
explicit and implicit motion representations into account based on audio
inputs, which can generate a diverse range of facial expressions with stylistic
control and synchronization between head and body movements. The second stage
aims to generate portrait video featuring upper-body movements, including hand
gestures. We inject explicit hand control signals into the generator to produce
more detailed hand movements, and further perform face refinement to enhance
the overall realism and expressiveness of the portrait video. Additionally, our
approach supports efficient and continuous generation of upper-body portrait
video in maximum 512 * 768 resolution at up to 30fps on 4090 GPU, supporting
interactive video-chat in real-time. Experimental results demonstrate the
capability of our approach to produce portrait videos with rich expressiveness
and natural upper-body movements.