English
Related papers

Related papers: Capture, Learning, and Synthesis of 3D Speaking St…

200 papers

We introduce FaceTalk, a novel generative approach designed for synthesizing high-fidelity 3D motion sequences of talking human heads from input audio signal. To capture the expressive, detailed nature of human heads, including hair, ears,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Shivangi Aneja , Justus Thies , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

Face-based Voice Conversion (FVC) is a novel task that leverages facial images to generate the target speaker's voice style. Previous work has two shortcomings: (1) suffering from obtaining facial embeddings that are well-aligned with the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Yan Rong , Li Liu

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

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to convert given speech audio to a photo-realistic speaking video of a specific person, where the output video has synchronized, realistic, and expressive rich body dynamics. We achieve this by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Miao Liao , Sibo Zhang , Peng Wang , Hao Zhu , Xinxin Zuo , Ruigang Yang

State-of-the-art Active Speaker Detection (ASD) approaches mainly use audio and facial features as input. However, the main hypothesis in this paper is that body dynamics is also highly correlated to "speaking" (and "listening") actions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Tiago Roxo , Joana C. Costa , Pedro Inácio , Hugo Proença

This paper presents a self-supervised method for visual detection of the active speaker in a multi-person spoken interaction scenario. Active speaker detection is a fundamental prerequisite for any artificial cognitive system attempting to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Kalin Stefanov , Jonas Beskow , Giampiero Salvi

Speech-driven 3D talking heads generation has emerged as a significant area of interest among researchers, presenting numerous challenges. Existing methods are constrained by animating faces with fixed topologies, wherein point-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Federico Nocentini , Thomas Besnier , Claudio Ferrari , Sylvain Arguillere , Stefano Berretti , Mohamed Daoudi

The generation of talking avatars has achieved significant advancements in precise audio synchronization. However, crafting lifelike talking head videos requires capturing a broad spectrum of emotions and subtle facial expressions. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Huaize Liu , Wenzhang Sun , Donglin Di , Shibo Sun , Jiahui Yang , Changqing Zou , Hujun Bao

Vision Language Action (VLA) models promise an open-vocabulary interface that can translate perceptual ambiguity into semantically grounded driving decisions, yet they still treat language as a static prior fixed at inference time. As a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Ziang Guo , Feng Yang , Xuefeng Zhang , Jiaqi Guo , Kun Zhao , Yixiao Zhou , Peng Lu , Sifa Zheng , Zufeng Zhang

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

Photo-realistic and controllable 3D avatars are crucial for various applications such as virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR), telepresence, gaming, and film production. Traditional methods for avatar creation often involve time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Keqiang Sun , Amin Jourabloo , Riddhish Bhalodia , Moustafa Meshry , Yu Rong , Zhengyu Yang , Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Christian Haene , Jiu Xu , Sam Johnson , Hongsheng Li , Sofien Bouaziz

Recent advances in diffusion-based video generation have enabled photo-realistic short clips, but current methods still struggle to achieve multi-modal consistency when jointly generating whole-body motion and natural speech. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Xinhan Di , Kristin Qi , Pengqian Yu

Speech-driven 3D talking head generation aims to produce lifelike facial animations precisely synchronized with speech. While considerable progress has been made in achieving high lip-synchronization accuracy, existing methods largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Bin Wang , Yang Xu , Huan Zhao , Hao Zhang , Zixing Zhang

In this paper, we present a large-scale detailed 3D face dataset, FaceScape, and the corresponding benchmark to evaluate single-view facial 3D reconstruction. By training on FaceScape data, a novel algorithm is proposed to predict elaborate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Hao Zhu , Haotian Yang , Longwei Guo , Yidi Zhang , Yanru Wang , Mingkai Huang , Menghua Wu , Qiu Shen , Ruigang Yang , Xun Cao

The progress we are currently witnessing in many computer vision applications, including automatic face analysis, would not be made possible without tremendous efforts in collecting and annotating large scale visual databases. To this end,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Shiyang Cheng , Irene Kotsia , Maja Pantic , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Our goal is to create a realistic 3D facial avatar with hair and accessories using only a text description. While this challenge has attracted significant recent interest, existing methods either lack realism, produce unrealistic shapes, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Hao Zhang , Yao Feng , Peter Kulits , Yandong Wen , Justus Thies , Michael J. Black

High-quality 3D avatar modeling faces a critical trade-off between fidelity and generalization. On the one hand, multi-view studio data enables high-fidelity modeling of humans with precise control over expressions and poses, but it…

Audio-driven one-shot talking face generation methods are usually trained on video resources of various persons. However, their created videos often suffer unnatural mouth shapes and asynchronous lips because those methods struggle to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Suzhen Wang , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Xin Yu

Audiovisual active speaker detection (ASD) is conventionally performed by modelling the temporal synchronisation of acoustic and visual speech cues. In egocentric recordings, however, the efficacy of synchronisation-based methods is…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jason Clarke , Yoshihiko Gotoh , Stefan Goetze

While current monocular 3D face reconstruction methods can recover fine geometric details, they suffer several limitations. Some methods produce faces that cannot be realistically animated because they do not model how wrinkles vary with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Yao Feng , Haiwen Feng , Michael J. Black , Timo Bolkart