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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

Speech-driven facial video generation has been a complex problem due to its multi-modal aspects namely audio and video domain. The audio comprises lots of underlying features such as expression, pitch, loudness, prosody(speaking style) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Neeraj Kumar , Srishti Goel , Ankur Narang , Brejesh Lall

Speech is a means of communication which relies on both audio and visual information. The absence of one modality can often lead to confusion or misinterpretation of information. In this paper we present an end-to-end temporal model capable…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-17 Konstantinos Vougioukas , Pingchuan Ma , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

This paper introduces Stereo-Talker, a novel one-shot audio-driven human video synthesis system that generates 3D talking videos with precise lip synchronization, expressive body gestures, temporally consistent photo-realistic quality, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Xiang Deng , Youxin Pang , Xiaochen Zhao , Chao Xu , Lizhen Wang , Hongjiang Xiao , Shi Yan , Hongwen Zhang , Yebin Liu

We propose an audio-driven talking-head method to generate photo-realistic talking-head videos from a single reference image. In this work, we tackle two key challenges: (i) producing natural head motions that match speech prosody, and (ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Suzhen Wang , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Changjie Fan , Xin Yu

Due to the increasing demand in films and games, synthesizing 3D avatar animation has attracted much attention recently. In this work, we present a production-ready text/speech-driven full-body animation synthesis system. Given the text and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Wenlin Zhuang , Jinwei Qi , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Ping Tan

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

Video-to-speech synthesis involves reconstructing the speech signal of a speaker from a silent video. The implicit assumption of this task is that the sound signal is either missing or contains a high amount of noise/corruption such that it…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Triantafyllos Kefalas , Yannis Panagakis , Maja Pantic

Generating videos of complex human motions such as flips, cartwheels, and martial arts remains challenging for current video diffusion models. Text-only conditioning is temporally ambiguous for fine-grained motion control, while explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ashkan Taghipour , Morteza Ghahremani , Zinuo Li , Hamid Laga , Farid Boussaid , Mohammed Bennamoun

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

Generating talking head videos through a face image and a piece of speech audio still contains many challenges. ie, unnatural head movement, distorted expression, and identity modification. We argue that these issues are mainly because of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Wenxuan Zhang , Xiaodong Cun , Xuan Wang , Yong Zhang , Xi Shen , Yu Guo , Ying Shan , Fei Wang

"How can we animate 3D-characters from a movie script or move robots by simply telling them what we would like them to do?" "How unstructured and complex can we make a sentence and still generate plausible movements from it?" These are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Anindita Ghosh , Noshaba Cheema , Cennet Oguz , Christian Theobalt , Philipp Slusallek

Automatically generating videos in which synthesized speech is synchronized with lip movements in a talking head has great potential in many human-computer interaction scenarios. In this paper, we present an automatic method to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-29 Xinsheng Wang , Qicong Xie , Jihua Zhu , Lei Xie , Scharenborg

Whenever we speak, our voice is accompanied by facial movements and expressions. Several recent works have shown the synthesis of highly photo-realistic videos of talking faces, but they either require a source video to drive the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Prateek Manocha , Prithwijit Guha

The goal of this work is to reconstruct speech from a silent talking face video. Recent studies have shown impressive performance on synthesizing speech from silent talking face videos. However, they have not explicitly considered on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Joanna Hong , Minsu Kim , Yong Man Ro

Contemporary Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research relies primarily on neural network models for machine vision and speech understanding of a system user. Such models require extensively annotated training datasets for optimal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Muhammad Ali Farooq , Dan Bigioi , Rishabh Jain , Wang Yao , Mariam Yiwere , Peter Corcoran

Video-to-video synthesis is a challenging problem aiming at learning a translation function between a sequence of semantic maps and a photo-realistic video depicting the characteristics of a driving video. We propose a head-to-head system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Mohammad Rami Koujan , Michail Christos Doukas , Anastasios Roussos , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Audiovisual speech synthesis is the problem of synthesizing a talking face while maximizing the coherency of the acoustic and visual speech. In this paper, we propose and compare two audiovisual speech synthesis systems for 3D face models.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Ahmed Hussen Abdelaziz , Anushree Prasanna Kumar , Chloe Seivwright , Gabriele Fanelli , Justin Binder , Yannis Stylianou , Sachin Kajarekar

We present a learning-based approach with pose perceptual loss for automatic music video generation. Our method can produce a realistic dance video that conforms to the beats and rhymes of almost any given music. To achieve this, we firstly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Xuanchi Ren , Haoran Li , Zijian Huang , Qifeng Chen

We propose a novel learned deep prior of body motion for 3D hand shape synthesis and estimation in the domain of conversational gestures. Our model builds upon the insight that body motion and hand gestures are strongly correlated in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Evonne Ng , Shiry Ginosar , Trevor Darrell , Hanbyul Joo