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Today's Automatic Speech Recognition systems only rely on acoustic signals and often don't perform well under noisy conditions. Performing multi-modal speech recognition - processing acoustic speech signals and lip-reading video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Matthijs Van keirsbilck , Bert Moons , Marian Verhelst

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

Lip synchronization, known as the task of aligning lip movements in an existing video with new input audio, is typically framed as a simpler variant of audio-driven facial animation. However, as well as suffering from the usual issues in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Antoni Bigata , Rodrigo Mira , Stella Bounareli , Michał Stypułkowski , Konstantinos Vougioukas , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Audio-Visual Speech-to-Speech Translation typically prioritizes improving translation quality and naturalness. However, an equally critical aspect in audio-visual content is lip-synchrony-ensuring that the movements of the lips match the…

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

Lip motion reflects behavior characteristics of speakers, and thus can be used as a new kind of biometrics in speaker recognition. In the literature, lots of works used two-dimensional (2D) lip images to recognize speaker in a textdependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Jianrong Wang , Tong Wu , Shanyu Wang , Mei Yu , Qiang Fang , Ju Zhang , Li Liu

To be widely adopted, 3D facial avatars must be animated easily, realistically, and directly from speech signals. While the best recent methods generate 3D animations that are synchronized with the input audio, they largely ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Radek Daněček , Kiran Chhatre , Shashank Tripathi , Yandong Wen , Michael J. Black , Timo Bolkart

We tackle the challenging task of generating complete 3D facial animations for two interacting, co-located participants from a mixed audio stream. While existing methods often produce disembodied "talking heads" akin to a video conference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mengyi Shan , Shouchieh Chang , Ziqian Bai , Shichen Liu , Yinda Zhang , Luchuan Song , Rohit Pandey , Sean Fanello , Zeng Huang

Lip motion accuracy is important for speech intelligibility, especially for users who are hard of hearing or second language learners. A high level of realism in lip movements is also required for the game and film production industries. 3D…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Rabab Algadhy , Yoshihiko Gotoh , Steve Maddock

In this paper, we present StyleLipSync, a style-based personalized lip-sync video generative model that can generate identity-agnostic lip-synchronizing video from arbitrary audio. To generate a video of arbitrary identities, we leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Taekyung Ki , Dongchan Min

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has been widely explored, with applications in gaming, character animation, virtual reality, and telepresence systems. State-of-the-art methods deform the face topology of the target actor to sync the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Balamurugan Thambiraja , Ikhsanul Habibie , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Darren Cosker , Christian Theobalt , Justus Thies

Most lip-to-speech (LTS) synthesis models are trained and evaluated under the assumption that the audio-video pairs in the dataset are perfectly synchronized. In this work, we show that the commonly used audio-visual datasets, such as GRID,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Zhe Niu , Brian Mak

We aim to edit the lip movements in talking video according to the given speech while preserving the personal identity and visual details. The task can be decomposed into two sub-problems: (1) speech-driven lip motion generation and (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Runyi Yu , Tianyu He , Ailing Zhang , Yuchi Wang , Junliang Guo , Xu Tan , Chang Liu , Jie Chen , Jiang Bian

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has recently garnered attention due to its cost-effective usability in multimedia production. However, most current advances overlook the intelligibility of lip movements, limiting the realism of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Han EunGi , Oh Hyun-Bin , Kim Sung-Bin , Corentin Nivelet Etcheberry , Suekyeong Nam , Janghoon Joo , Tae-Hyun Oh

Generating talking avatar driven by audio remains a significant challenge. Existing methods typically require high computational costs and often lack sufficient facial detail and realism, making them unsuitable for applications that demand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Yujian Liu , Shidang Xu , Jing Guo , Dingbin Wang , Zairan Wang , Xianfeng Tan , Xiaoli Liu

The presence of a corresponding talking face has been shown to significantly improve speech intelligibility in noisy conditions and for hearing impaired population. In this paper, we present a system that can generate landmark points of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Sefik Emre Eskimez , Ross K Maddox , Chenliang Xu , Zhiyao Duan

We propose a multimodal-driven framework for high-fidelity long-term digital human animation termed $\textbf{Soul}$, which generates semantically coherent videos from a single-frame portrait image, text prompts, and audio, achieving precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jiangning Zhang , Junwei Zhu , Zhenye Gan , Donghao Luo , Chuming Lin , Feifan Xu , Xu Peng , Jianlong Hu , Yuansen Liu , Yijia Hong , Weijian Cao , Han Feng , Xu Chen , Chencan Fu , Keke He , Xiaobin Hu , Chengjie Wang

High-quality AI-powered video dubbing demands precise audio-lip synchronization, high-fidelity visual generation, and faithful preservation of identity and background. Most existing methods rely on a mask-based training strategy, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Xindi Zhang , Dechao Meng , Steven Xiao , Qi Wang , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang

In this work, we revisit the effectiveness of 3DMM for talking head synthesis by jointly learning a 3D face reconstruction model and a talking head synthesis model. This enables us to obtain a FACS-based blendshape representation of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Sungjoon Park , Minsik Park , Haneol Lee , Jaesub Yun , Donggeon Lee

We present Livatar, a real-time audio-driven talking heads videos generation framework. Existing baselines suffer from limited lip-sync accuracy and long-term pose drift. We address these limitations with a flow matching based framework.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Haiyang Liu , Xiaolin Hong , Xuancheng Yang , Yudi Ruan , Xiang Lian , Michael Lingelbach , Hongwei Yi , Wei Li