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Animating human face images aims to synthesize a desired source identity in a natural-looking way mimicking a driving video's facial movements. In this context, Generative Adversarial Networks have demonstrated remarkable potential in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Alireza Javanmardi , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

Current audio-driven facial animation methods achieve impressive results for short videos but suffer from error accumulation and identity drift when extended to longer durations. Existing methods attempt to mitigate this through external…

Talking face generation is a novel and challenging generation task, aiming at synthesizing a vivid speaking-face video given a specific audio. To fulfill emotion-controllable talking face generation, current methods need to overcome two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ziqi Zhang , Cheng Deng

With the rapid advancement of intelligent transportation systems, text-driven image generation and editing techniques have demonstrated significant potential in providing rich, controllable visual scene data for applications such as traffic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Feng Lv , Haoxuan Feng , Zilu Zhang , Chunlong Xia , Yanfeng Li

Recent advances in co-speech gesture and talking head generation have been impressive, yet most methods focus on only one of the two tasks. Those that attempt to generate both often rely on separate models or network modules, increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Steven Hogue , Chenxu Zhang , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo

Recent advancements in controllable human image generation have led to zero-shot generation using structural signals (e.g., pose, depth) or facial appearance. Yet, generating human images conditioned on multiple parts of human appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Zehuan Huang , Hongxing Fan , Lipeng Wang , Lu Sheng

Audio-driven talking face generation, which aims to synthesize talking faces with realistic facial animations (including accurate lip movements, vivid facial expression details and natural head poses) corresponding to the audio, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Rongliang Wu , Yingchen Yu , Fangneng Zhan , Jiahui Zhang , Xiaoqin Zhang , Shijian Lu

3D face modeling has been an active area of research in computer vision and computer graphics, fueling applications ranging from facial expression transfer in virtual avatars to synthetic data generation. Existing 3D deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Fariborz Taherkhani , Aashish Rai , Quankai Gao , Shaunak Srivastava , Xuanbai Chen , Fernando de la Torre , Steven Song , Aayush Prakash , Daeil Kim

For realistic talking head generation, creating natural head motion while maintaining accurate lip synchronization is essential. To fulfill this challenging task, we propose DisCoHead, a novel method to disentangle and control head pose and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Geumbyeol Hwang , Sunwon Hong , Seunghyun Lee , Sungwoo Park , Gyeongsu Chae

The task of talking head generation is to synthesize a lip synchronized talking head video by inputting an arbitrary face image and audio clips. Most existing methods ignore the local driving information of the mouth muscles. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Sen Chen , Zhilei Liu , Jiaxing Liu , Zhengxiang Yan , Longbiao Wang

Neural networks have recently become good at engaging in dialog. However, current approaches are based solely on verbal text, lacking the richness of a real face-to-face conversation. We propose a neural conversation model that aims to read…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Hang Chu , Daiqing Li , Sanja Fidler

The paper proposes a novel generative adversarial network for one-shot face reenactment, which can animate a single face image to a different pose-and-expression (provided by a driving image) while keeping its original appearance. The core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Guangming Yao , Yi Yuan , Tianjia Shao , Shuang Li , Shanqi Liu , Yong Liu , Mengmeng Wang , Kun Zhou

Generating human portraits is a hot topic in the image generation area, e.g. mask-to-face generation and text-to-face generation. However, these unimodal generation methods lack controllability in image generation. Controllability can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Debin Meng , Christos Tzelepis , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Audio-Driven Talking Face Generation aims at generating realistic videos of talking faces, focusing on accurate audio-lip synchronization without deteriorating any identity-related visual details. Recent state-of-the-art methods are based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Dogucan Yaman , Fevziye Irem Eyiokur , Leonard Bärmann , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Alexander Waibel

Recently, talking-face video generation has received considerable attention. So far most methods generate results with neutral expressions or expressions that are implicitly determined by neural networks in an uncontrollable way. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Zipeng Ye , Zhiyao Sun , Yu-Hui Wen , Yanan Sun , Tian Lv , Ran Yi , Yong-Jin Liu

Audio-driven portrait animation aims to synthesize portrait videos that are conditioned by given audio. Animating high-fidelity and multimodal video portraits has a variety of applications. Previous methods have attempted to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Yunfei Liu , Lijian Lin , Fei Yu , Changyin Zhou , Yu Li

Unlike existing methods that rely on source images as appearance references and use source speech to generate motion, this work proposes a novel approach that directly extracts information from the speech, addressing key challenges in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Jinting Wang , Jun Wang , Hei Victor Cheng , Li Liu

The one-shot talking-head synthesis task aims to animate a source image to another pose and expression, which is dictated by a driving frame. Recent methods rely on warping the appearance feature extracted from the source, by using motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Kangning Liu , Yu-Chuan Su , Wei , Hong , Ruijin Cang , Xuhui Jia

Audio-driven 3D facial animation has achieved significant progress in both research and applications. While recent baselines struggle to generate natural and continuous facial movements due to their frame-by-frame vertex generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Xuanmeng Sha , Liyun Zhang , Tomohiro Mashita , Naoya Chiba , Yuki Uranishi

Formulated as a conditional generation problem, face animation aims at synthesizing continuous face images from a single source image driven by a set of conditional face motion. Previous works mainly model the face motion as conditions with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Xintian Wu , Qihang Zhang , Yiming Wu , Huanyu Wang , Songyuan Li , Lingyun Sun , Xi Li