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Audio-driven talking face generation is a challenging task in digital communication. Despite significant progress in the area, most existing methods concentrate on audio-lip synchronization, often overlooking aspects such as visual quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Fatemeh Nazarieh , Zhenhua Feng , Diptesh Kanojia , Muhammad Awais , Josef Kittler

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

We introduce a novel method for joint expression and audio-guided talking face generation. Recent approaches either struggle to preserve the speaker identity or fail to produce faithful facial expressions. To address these challenges, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Sai Tanmay Reddy Chakkera , Aggelina Chatziagapi , Dimitris Samaras

We present a novel approach for generating realistic speaking and talking faces by synthesizing a person's voice and facial movements from a static image, a voice profile, and a target text. The model encodes the prompt/driving text, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Aashish Chandra , Aashutosh A , Abhijit Das

Audio-driven portrait animation aims to synthesize realistic and natural talking head videos from an input audio signal and a single reference image. While existing methods achieve high-quality results by leveraging high-dimensional…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Fangyu Du , Taiqing Li , Qian Qiao , Tan Yu , Ziwei Zhang , Dingcheng Zhen , Xu Jia , Yang Yang , Shunshun Yin , Siyuan Liu

The goal of this work is to simultaneously generate natural talking faces and speech outputs from text. We achieve this by integrating Talking Face Generation (TFG) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems into a unified framework. We address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Youngjoon Jang , Ji-Hoon Kim , Junseok Ahn , Doyeop Kwak , Hong-Sun Yang , Yoon-Cheol Ju , Il-Hwan Kim , Byeong-Yeol Kim , Joon Son Chung

Researchers have shown a growing interest in Audio-driven Talking Head Generation. The primary challenge in talking head generation is achieving audio-visual coherence between the lips and the audio, known as lip synchronization. This paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhipeng Chen , Xinheng Wang , Lun Xie , Haijie Yuan , Hang Pan

Achieving high synchronization in the synthesis of realistic, speech-driven talking head videos presents a significant challenge. A lifelike talking head requires synchronized coordination of subject identity, lip movements, facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ziqiao Peng , Wentao Hu , Junyuan Ma , Xiangyu Zhu , Xiaomei Zhang , Hao Zhao , Hui Tian , Jun He , Hongyan Liu , Zhaoxin Fan

Audio-driven talking face generation aims to synthesize video with lip movements synchronized to input audio. However, current generative techniques face challenges in preserving intricate regional textures (skin, teeth). To address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Lingyu Xiong , Xize Cheng , Jintao Tan , Xianjia Wu , Xiandong Li , Lei Zhu , Fei Ma , Minglei Li , Huang Xu , Zhihu Hu

The field of portrait image animation, driven by speech audio input, has experienced significant advancements in the generation of realistic and dynamic portraits. This research delves into the complexities of synchronizing facial movements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mingwang Xu , Hui Li , Qingkun Su , Hanlin Shang , Liwei Zhang , Ce Liu , Jingdong Wang , Yao Yao , Siyu Zhu

Generating photo-realistic video portrait with arbitrary speech audio is a crucial problem in film-making and virtual reality. Recently, several works explore the usage of neural radiance field in this task to improve 3D realness and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Zhenhui Ye , Ziyue Jiang , Yi Ren , Jinglin Liu , JinZheng He , Zhou Zhao

This paper focuses on the task of speech-driven 3D facial animation, which aims to generate realistic and synchronized facial motions driven by speech inputs. Recent methods have employed audio-conditioned diffusion models for 3D facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yifan Yang , Zhi Cen , Sida Peng , Xiangwei Chen , Yifu Deng , Xinyu Zhu , Fan Jia , Xiaowei Zhou , Hujun Bao

We introduce AV-Flow, an audio-visual generative model that animates photo-realistic 4D talking avatars given only text input. In contrast to prior work that assumes an existing speech signal, we synthesize speech and vision jointly. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Aggelina Chatziagapi , Louis-Philippe Morency , Hongyu Gong , Michael Zollhoefer , Dimitris Samaras , Alexander Richard

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

Audio-driven talking-head generation has advanced rapidly with diffusion-based generative models, yet producing temporally coherent videos with fine-grained motion control remains challenging. We propose DEMO, a flow-matching generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Peiyin Chen , Zhuowei Yang , Hui Feng , Sheng Jiang , Rui Yan

While considerable progress has been made in achieving accurate lip synchronization for 3D speech-driven talking face generation, the task of incorporating expressive facial detail synthesis aligned with the speaker's speaking status…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yasheng Sun , Wenqing Chu , Hang Zhou , Kaisiyuan Wang , Hideki Koike

Talking head synthesis is a promising approach for the video production industry. Recently, a lot of effort has been devoted in this research area to improve the generation quality or enhance the model generalization. However, there are few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Shuai Shen , Wenliang Zhao , Zibin Meng , Wanhua Li , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

The objective of this paper is to jointly synthesize interactive videos and conversational speech from text and reference images. With the ultimate goal of building human-like conversational systems, recent studies have explored talking or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Ji-Hoon Kim , Junseok Ahn , Doyeop Kwak , Joon Son Chung , Shinji Watanabe

This brief literature review studies the problem of audiovisual speech synthesis, which is the problem of generating an animated talking head given a text as input. Due to the high complexity of this problem, we approach it as the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Efthymios Georgiou , Athanasios Katsamanis

Realistic, high-fidelity 3D facial animations are crucial for expressive avatar systems in human-computer interaction and accessibility. Although prior methods show promising quality, their reliance on the mesh domain limits their ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Alexandre Symeonidis-Herzig , Özge Mercanoğlu Sincan , Richard Bowden