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The generation of emotional talking faces from a single portrait image remains a significant challenge. The simultaneous achievement of expressive emotional talking and accurate lip-sync is particularly difficult, as expressiveness is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Chenxu Zhang , Chao Wang , Jianfeng Zhang , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , You Xie , Linjie Luo , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo , Jiashi Feng

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…

Understanding the lip movement and inferring the speech from it is notoriously difficult for the common person. The task of accurate lip-reading gets help from various cues of the speaker and its contextual or environmental setting. Every…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Munender Varshney , Ravindra Yadav , Vinay P. Namboodiri , Rajesh M Hegde

Visual speech recognition models traditionally consist of two stages, feature extraction and classification. Several deep learning approaches have been recently presented aiming to replace the feature extraction stage by automatically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Stavros Petridis , Yujiang Wang , Pingchuan Ma , Zuwei Li , Maja Pantic

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

The aim of this work is to investigate the impact of crossmodal self-supervised pre-training for speech reconstruction (video-to-audio) by leveraging the natural co-occurrence of audio and visual streams in videos. We propose LipSound2…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Leyuan Qu , Cornelius Weber , Stefan Wermter

As the cornerstone of other important technologies, such as speech recognition and speech synthesis, speech enhancement is a critical area in audio signal processing. In this paper, a new deep learning structure for speech enhancement is…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Yuzi Yan , Wei-Qiang Zhang , Michael T. Johnson

Text-guided human body animation has advanced rapidly, yet facial animation lags due to the scarcity of well-annotated, text-paired facial corpora. To close this gap, we leverage foundation generative models to synthesize a large, balanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Luchuan Song , Pinxin Liu , Haiyang Liu , Zhenchao Jin , Yolo Yunlong Tang , Zichong Xu , Susan Liang , Jing Bi , Jason J Corso , Chenliang Xu

The creation of listener facial responses aims to simulate interactive communication feedback from a listener during a face-to-face conversation. Our goal is to generate believable videos of listeners' heads that respond authentically to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Minh-Duc Nguyen , Hyung-Jeong Yang , Seung-Won Kim , Ji-Eun Shin , Soo-Hyung Kim

Although significant progress has been made to audio-driven talking face generation, existing methods either neglect facial emotion or cannot be applied to arbitrary subjects. In this paper, we propose the Emotion-Aware Motion Model (EAMM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Xinya Ji , Hang Zhou , Kaisiyuan Wang , Qianyi Wu , Wayne Wu , Feng Xu , Xun Cao

Audio-driven facial animation is essential for immersive digital interaction, yet existing frameworks fail to reconcile real-time streaming with high-fidelity personalization. Current methods often rely on latency-inducing audio look-ahead,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xuangeng Chu , Yu Han , Wei Mao , Shih-En Wei

Speech-driven 3D facial animation with accurate lip synchronization has been widely studied. However, synthesizing realistic motions for the entire face during speech has rarely been explored. In this work, we present a joint audio-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yingruo Fan , Zhaojiang Lin , Jun Saito , Wenping Wang , Taku Komura

Speech-driven 3D facial animation is challenging due to the complex geometry of human faces and the limited availability of 3D audio-visual data. Prior works typically focus on learning phoneme-level features of short audio windows with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Yingruo Fan , Zhaojiang Lin , Jun Saito , Wenping Wang , Taku Komura

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

Audio-driven emotional 3D face animation aims to generate emotionally expressive talking heads with synchronized lip movements. However, previous research has often overlooked the influence of diverse emotions on facial expressions or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Chang Liu , Qunfen Lin , Zijiao Zeng , Ye Pan

Generating semantically coherent and visually accurate talking faces requires bridging the gap between linguistic meaning and facial articulation. Although audio-driven methods remain prevalent, their reliance on high-quality paired audio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xu Wang , Shengeng Tang , Fei Wang , Lechao Cheng , Dan Guo , Feng Xue , Richang Hong

Speech-driven facial video generation has been a complex problem due to its multi-modal aspects namely audio and video domain. The audio comprises lots of underlying features such as expression, pitch, loudness, prosody(speaking style) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Neeraj Kumar , Srishti Goel , Ankur Narang , Brejesh Lall

In this study, we propose a deep neural network for reconstructing intelligible speech from silent lip movement videos. We use auditory spectrogram as spectral representation of speech and its corresponding sound generation method resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Hassan Akbari , Himani Arora , Liangliang Cao , Nima Mesgarani

Facial video re-targeting is a challenging problem aiming to modify the facial attributes of a target subject in a seamless manner by a driving monocular sequence. We leverage the 3D geometry of faces and Generative Adversarial Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Michail Christos Doukas , Mohammad Rami Koujan , Viktoriia Sharmanska , Anastasios Roussos

Talking face synthesis has been widely studied in either appearance-based or warping-based methods. Previous works mostly utilize single face image as a source, and generate novel facial animations by merging other person's facial features.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Kuangxiao Gu , Yuqian Zhou , Thomas Huang