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Audio-driven talking head generation is a significant and challenging task applicable to various fields such as virtual avatars, film production, and online conferences. However, the existing GAN-based models emphasize generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Jintao Tan , Xize Cheng , Lingyu Xiong , Lei Zhu , Xiandong Li , Xianjia Wu , Kai Gong , Minglei Li , Yi Cai

Synthesizing realistic videos according to a given speech is still an open challenge. Previous works have been plagued by issues such as inaccurate lip shape generation and poor image quality. The key reason is that only motions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Xiuzhe Wu , Pengfei Hu , Yang Wu , Xiaoyang Lyu , Yan-Pei Cao , Ying Shan , Wenming Yang , Zhongqian Sun , Xiaojuan Qi

The creation of lifelike speech-driven 3D facial animation requires a natural and precise synchronization between audio input and facial expressions. However, existing works still fail to render shapes with flexible head poses and natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Wei Zhao , Yijun Wang , Tianyu He , Lianying Yin , Jianxin Lin , Xin Jin

One-shot talking face generation aims at synthesizing a high-quality talking face video from an arbitrary portrait image, driven by a video or an audio segment. One challenging quality factor is the resolution of the output video: higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Fei Yin , Yong Zhang , Xiaodong Cun , Mingdeng Cao , Yanbo Fan , Xuan Wang , Qingyan Bai , Baoyuan Wu , Jue Wang , Yujiu Yang

Although existing speech-driven talking face generation methods achieve significant progress, they are far from real-world application due to the avatar-specific training demand and unstable lip movements. To address the above issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Haiming Zhang , Zhihao Yuan , Chaoda Zheng , Xu Yan , Baoyuan Wang , Guanbin Li , Song Wu , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Speech-driven 3D facial animation technology has been developed for years, but its practical application still lacks expectations. The main challenges lie in data limitations, lip alignment, and the naturalness of facial expressions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xiangyu Liang , Wenlin Zhuang , Tianyong Wang , Guangxing Geng , Guangyue Geng , Haifeng Xia , Siyu Xia

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

We present a method to edit a target portrait footage by taking a sequence of audio as input to synthesize a photo-realistic video. This method is unique because it is highly dynamic. It does not assume a person-specific rendering network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Linsen Song , Wayne Wu , Chen Qian , Ran He , Chen Change Loy

Synthesizing realistic videos of talking faces under custom lighting conditions and viewing angles benefits various downstream applications like video conferencing. However, most existing relighting methods are either time-consuming or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Ziqi Cai , Kaiwen Jiang , Shu-Yu Chen , Yu-Kun Lai , Hongbo Fu , Boxin Shi , Lin Gao

Despite the significant progress in recent years, very few of the AI-based talking face generation methods attempt to render natural emotions. Moreover, the scope of the methods is majorly limited to the characteristics of the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Sanjana Sinha , Sandika Biswas , Ravindra Yadav , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

Given an audio clip and a reference face image, the goal of the talking head generation is to generate a high-fidelity talking head video. Although some audio-driven methods of generating talking head videos have made some achievements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Jianrong Wang , Yaxin Zhao , Li Liu , Tianyi Xu , Qi Li , Sen Li

Critical obstacles in training classifiers to detect facial actions are the limited sizes of annotated video databases and the relatively low frequencies of occurrence of many actions. To address these problems, we propose an approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Koichiro Niinuma , Itir Onal Ertugrul , Jeffrey F Cohn , László A Jeni

Audio-driven talking face video generation has attracted increasing attention due to its huge industrial potential. Some previous methods focus on learning a direct mapping from audio to visual content. Despite progress, they often struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Weizhi Zhong , Junfan Lin , Peixin Chen , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

Recent advancements in deep learning and computer vision have led to a surge of interest in generating realistic talking heads. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art methods for talking head generation. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Shreyank N Gowda , Dheeraj Pandey , Shashank Narayana Gowda

Video generation has achieved remarkable progress, with generated videos increasingly resembling real ones. However, the rapid advance in generation has outpaced the development of adequate evaluation metrics. Currently, the assessment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Nabyl Quignon , Baptiste Chopin , Yaohui Wang , Antitza Dantcheva

This paper reports our solution for ACM Multimedia ViCo 2022 Conversational Head Generation Challenge, which aims to generate vivid face-to-face conversation videos based on audio and reference images. Our solution focuses on training a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Ailin Huang , Zhewei Huang , Shuchang Zhou

This work addresses the problem of generating 3D holistic body motions from human speech. Given a speech recording, we synthesize sequences of 3D body poses, hand gestures, and facial expressions that are realistic and diverse. To achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Hongwei Yi , Hualin Liang , Yifei Liu , Qiong Cao , Yandong Wen , Timo Bolkart , Dacheng Tao , Michael J. Black

Audio-driven cospeech video generation typically involves two stages: speech-to-gesture and gesture-to-video. While significant advances have been made in speech-to-gesture generation, synthesizing natural expressions and gestures remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Renda Li , Xiaohua Qi , Qiang Ling , Jun Yu , Ziyi Chen , Peng Chang , Mei HanJing Xiao

Modern avatar generators allow anyone to synthesize photorealistic real-time talking avatars, ushering in a new era of avatar-based human communication, such as with immersive AR/VR interactions or videoconferencing with limited bandwidths.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Ekta Prashnani , Koki Nagano , Shalini De Mello , David Luebke , Orazio Gallo

Recent attempts to solve the problem of head reenactment using a single reference image have shown promising results. However, most of them either perform poorly in terms of photo-realism, or fail to meet the identity preservation problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Michail Christos Doukas , Stefanos Zafeiriou , Viktoriia Sharmanska