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Recent advances in conditional diffusion models have shown promise for generating realistic TalkingFace videos, yet challenges persist in achieving consistent head movement, synchronized facial expressions, and accurate lip synchronization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Fei Shen , Cong Wang , Junyao Gao , Qin Guo , Jisheng Dang , Jinhui Tang , Tat-Seng Chua

We propose a novel talking head synthesis pipeline called "DiT-Head", which is based on diffusion transformers and uses audio as a condition to drive the denoising process of a diffusion model. Our method is scalable and can generalise to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Aaron Mir , Eduardo Alonso , Esther Mondragón

Creating personalized 3D animations with precise control and realistic head motions remains challenging for current speech-driven 3D facial animation methods. Editing these animations is especially complex and time consuming, requires…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Balamurugan Thambiraja , Malte Prinzler , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Darren Cosker , Justus Thies

Generative models have advanced rapidly, enabling impressive talking head generation that brings AI to life. However, most existing methods focus solely on one-way portrait animation. Even the few that support bidirectional conversational…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Haijie Yang , Zhenyu Zhang , Hao Tang , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to convert given speech audio to a photo-realistic speaking video of a specific person, where the output video has synchronized, realistic, and expressive rich body dynamics. We achieve this by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Miao Liao , Sibo Zhang , Peng Wang , Hao Zhu , Xinxin Zuo , Ruigang Yang

Audio-driven talking face generation has garnered significant interest within the domain of digital human research. Existing methods are encumbered by intricate model architectures that are intricately dependent on each other, complicating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Dong Zhao , Jiaying Shi , Wenjun Li , Shudong Wang , Shenghui Xu , Zhaoming Pan

We present a novel approach for synthesizing 3D talking heads with controllable emotion, featuring enhanced lip synchronization and rendering quality. Despite significant progress in the field, prior methods still suffer from multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Qianyun He , Xinya Ji , Yicheng Gong , Yuanxun Lu , Zhengyu Diao , Linjia Huang , Yao Yao , Siyu Zhu , Zhan Ma , Songcen Xu , Xiaofei Wu , Zixiao Zhang , Xun Cao , Hao Zhu

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

The recent success in StyleGAN demonstrates that pre-trained StyleGAN latent space is useful for realistic video generation. However, the generated motion in the video is usually not semantically meaningful due to the difficulty of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Seung Hyun Lee , Gyeongrok Oh , Wonmin Byeon , Chanyoung Kim , Won Jeong Ryoo , Sang Ho Yoon , Hyunjun Cho , Jihyun Bae , Jinkyu Kim , Sangpil Kim

This paper investigates a novel task of talking face video generation solely from speeches. The speech-to-video generation technique can spark interesting applications in entertainment, customer service, and human-computer-interaction…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Shijing Si , Jianzong Wang , Xiaoyang Qu , Ning Cheng , Wenqi Wei , Xinghua Zhu , Jing Xiao

Audio is inherently temporal and closely synchronized with the visual world, making it a naturally aligned and expressive control signal for controllable video generation (e.g., movies). Beyond control, directly translating audio into video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Shuchen Weng , Haojie Zheng , Zheng Chang , Si Li , Boxin Shi , Xinlong Wang

Audio-driven 3D talking head synthesis has advanced rapidly with Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). By leveraging rich pre-trained priors, few-shot methods enable instant personalization from just a few seconds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Haolan Xu , Keli Cheng , Lei Wang , Ning Bi , Xiaoming Liu

Generating talking face videos from audio attracts lots of research interest. A few person-specific methods can generate vivid videos but require the target speaker's videos for training or fine-tuning. Existing person-generic methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Weizhi Zhong , Chaowei Fang , Yinqi Cai , Pengxu Wei , Gangming Zhao , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

Talking head synthesis, also known as speech-to-lip synthesis, reconstructs the facial motions that align with the given audio tracks. The synthesized videos are evaluated on mainly two aspects, lip-speech synchronization and image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Xulin Fan , Heting Gao , Ziyi Chen , Peng Chang , Mei Han , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

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

Diffusion-based video generation techniques have significantly improved zero-shot talking-head avatar generation, enhancing the naturalness of both head motion and facial expressions. However, existing methods suffer from poor…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Lingzhou Mu , Baiji Liu , Ruonan Zhang , Guiming Mo , Jiawei Jin , Kai Zhang , Haozhi Huang

We propose a method to build in real-time animated 3D head models using a consumer-grade RGB-D camera. Our proposed method is the first one to provide simultaneously comprehensive facial motion tracking and a detailed 3D model of the user's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Diego Thomas

Despite progress in speech-to-video synthesis, existing methods often struggle to capture cross-individual dependencies and provide fine-grained control over reactive behaviors in dyadic settings. To address these challenges, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Dongwei Pan , Longwei Guo , Jiazhi Guan , Luying Huang , Yiding Li , Haojie Liu , Haocheng Feng , Wei He , Kaisiyuan Wang , Hang Zhou

Real-time interactive video-chat portraits have been increasingly recognized as the future trend, particularly due to the remarkable progress made in text and voice chat technologies. However, existing methods primarily focus on real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Jinwei Qi , Chaonan Ji , Sheng Xu , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

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