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Recent advances in Talking Head Generation (THG) have achieved impressive lip synchronization and visual quality through diffusion models; yet existing methods struggle to generate emotionally expressive portraits while preserving speaker…

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This work presents a framework based on feature disentanglement to learn speaker embeddings that are robust to environmental variations. Our framework utilises an auto-encoder as a disentangler, dividing the input speaker embedding into…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-21 KiHyun Nam , Hee-Soo Heo , Jee-weon Jung , Joon Son Chung

In this paper, we propose a novel audio-driven talking head method capable of simultaneously generating highly expressive facial expressions and hand gestures. Unlike existing methods that focus on generating full-body or half-body poses,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Linrui Tian , Siqi Hu , Qi Wang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Speech signals are inherently complex as they encompass both global acoustic characteristics and local semantic information. However, in the task of target speech extraction, certain elements of global and local semantic information in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhaoxi Mu , Xinyu Yang , Sining Sun , Qing Yang

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

Audio-driven 3D facial animation aims to generate synchronized lip movements and vivid facial expressions from arbitrary audio clips. While existing methods can produce synchronized lip motions, they often rely on predefined identity or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xuangeng Chu , Yuan Gan , Ziteng Cui , Shuhong Liu , Jian Wang , Bing Zhou , Tatsuya Harada

While accurate lip synchronization has been achieved for arbitrary-subject audio-driven talking face generation, the problem of how to efficiently drive the head pose remains. Previous methods rely on pre-estimated structural information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Hang Zhou , Yasheng Sun , Wayne Wu , Chen Change Loy , Xiaogang Wang , Ziwei Liu

We explore different design choices for injecting noise into generative adversarial networks (GANs) with the goal of disentangling the latent space. Instead of traditional approaches, we propose feeding multiple noise codes through separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Yazeed Alharbi , Peter Wonka

Disentangling speaker and content attributes of a speech signal into separate latent representations followed by decoding the content with an exchanged speaker representation is a popular approach for voice conversion, which can be trained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Michael Kuhlmann , Fritz Seebauer , Janek Ebbers , Petra Wagner , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Audio-driven talking-head generation is a crucial and useful technology for virtual human interaction and film-making. While recent advances have focused on improving image fidelity and lip synchronization, generating accurate emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Wenqing Wang , Yun Fu

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

Vivid talking face generation holds immense potential applications across diverse multimedia domains, such as film and game production. While existing methods accurately synchronize lip movements with input audio, they typically ignore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Jiadong Liang , Feng Lu

Realistic talking-head video generation is critical for virtual avatars, film production, and interactive systems. Current methods struggle with nuanced emotional expressions due to the lack of fine-grained emotion control. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiayi Lyu , Leigang Qu , Wenjing Zhang , Hanyu Jiang , Kai Liu , Zhenglin Zhou , Xiaobo Xia , Jian Xue , Tat-Seng Chua

Current audio-driven 3D head generation methods mainly focus on single-speaker scenarios, lacking natural, bidirectional listen-and-speak interaction. Achieving seamless conversational behavior, where speaking and listening states…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Lei Zhu , Lijian Lin , Ye Zhu , Jiahao Wu , Xuehan Hou , Yu Li , Yunfei Liu , Jie Chen

Discrete audio representations are gaining traction in speech modeling due to their interpretability and compatibility with large language models, but are not always optimized for noisy or real-world environments. Building on existing works…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Shreyas Gopal , Ashutosh Anshul , Haoyang Li , Yue Heng Yeo , Hexin Liu , Eng Siong Chng

Most earlier researches on talking face generation have focused on the synchronization of lip motion and speech content. However, head pose and facial emotions are equally important characteristics of natural faces. While audio-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Changpeng Cai , Guinan Guo , Jiao Li , Junhao Su , Fei Shen , Chenghao He , Jing Xiao , Yuanxu Chen , Lei Dai , Feiyu Zhu

The task of audio-driven portrait animation involves generating a talking head video using an identity image and an audio track of speech. While many existing approaches focus on lip synchronization and video quality, few tackle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Jian Zhang , Weijian Mai , Zhijun Zhang

Speech-driven 3D facial animation aims to synthesize vivid facial animations that accurately synchronize with speech and match the unique speaking style. However, existing works primarily focus on achieving precise lip synchronization while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Hui Fu , Zeqing Wang , Ke Gong , Keze Wang , Tianshui Chen , Haojie Li , Haifeng Zeng , Wenxiong Kang

To the best of our knowledge, we first present a live system that generates personalized photorealistic talking-head animation only driven by audio signals at over 30 fps. Our system contains three stages. The first stage is a deep neural…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Yuanxun Lu , Jinxiang Chai , Xun Cao

Contemporary speech enhancement predominantly relies on audio transforms that are trained to reconstruct a clean speech waveform. The development of high-performing neural network sound recognition systems has raised the possibility of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Mark R. Saddler , Andrew Francl , Jenelle Feather , Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Josh H. McDermott