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The goal of this paper is to synthesise talking faces with controllable facial motions. To achieve this goal, we propose two key ideas. The first is to establish a canonical space where every face has the same motion patterns but different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Youngjoon Jang , Kyeongha Rho , Jong-Bin Woo , Hyeongkeun Lee , Jihwan Park , Youshin Lim , Byeong-Yeol Kim , Joon Son Chung

Talking head synthesis is to synthesize a lip-synchronized talking head video using audio. Recently, the capability of NeRF to enhance the realism and texture details of synthesized talking heads has attracted the attention of researchers.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Xiaoxing Liu , Zhilei Liu , Chongke Bi

The generation of stylistic 3D facial animations driven by speech presents a significant challenge as it requires learning a many-to-many mapping between speech, style, and the corresponding natural facial motion. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Zhiyao Sun , Tian Lv , Sheng Ye , Matthieu Lin , Jenny Sheng , Yu-Hui Wen , Minjing Yu , Yong-Jin Liu

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 talking face generation is a challenging task in digital communication. Despite significant progress in the area, most existing methods concentrate on audio-lip synchronization, often overlooking aspects such as visual quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Fatemeh Nazarieh , Zhenhua Feng , Diptesh Kanojia , Muhammad Awais , Josef Kittler

Generating speech-driven 3D talking heads presents numerous challenges; among those is dealing with varying mesh topologies where no point-wise correspondence exists across the meshes the model can animate. While previous literature works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Federico Nocentini , Thomas Besnier , Claudio Ferrari , Sylvain Arguillere , Mohamed Daoudi , Stefano Berretti

Accurately synthesizing talking face videos and capturing fine facial features for individuals with long hair presents a significant challenge. To tackle these challenges in existing methods, we propose a decomposed per-embedding Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Kaijun Deng , Dezhi Zheng , Jindong Xie , Jinbao Wang , Weicheng Xie , Linlin Shen , Siyang Song

Recent works on language-guided image manipulation have shown great power of language in providing rich semantics, especially for face images. However, the other natural information, motions, in language is less explored. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Tiankai Hang , Huan Yang , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Xin Geng , Baining Guo

Audio-driven 3D facial animation has achieved significant progress in both research and applications. While recent baselines struggle to generate natural and continuous facial movements due to their frame-by-frame vertex generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Xuanmeng Sha , Liyun Zhang , Tomohiro Mashita , Naoya Chiba , Yuki Uranishi

Talking Head Generation aims at synthesizing natural-looking talking videos from speech and a single portrait image. Previous 3D talking head generation methods have relied on domain-specific heuristics such as warping-based facial motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Tong Shi , Melonie de Almeida , Daniela Ivanova , Nicolas Pugeault , Paul Henderson

The field of portrait image animation, driven by speech audio input, has experienced significant advancements in the generation of realistic and dynamic portraits. This research delves into the complexities of synchronizing facial movements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mingwang Xu , Hui Li , Qingkun Su , Hanlin Shang , Liwei Zhang , Ce Liu , Jingdong Wang , Yao Yao , Siyu Zhu

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

One-shot video-driven talking face generation aims at producing a synthetic talking video by transferring the facial motion from a video to an arbitrary portrait image. Head pose and facial expression are always entangled in facial motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Youxin Pang , Yong Zhang , Weize Quan , Yanbo Fan , Xiaodong Cun , Ying Shan , Dong-ming Yan

Audio-driven facial animation is essential for immersive digital interaction, yet existing frameworks fail to reconcile real-time streaming with high-fidelity personalization. Current methods often rely on latency-inducing audio look-ahead,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xuangeng Chu , Yu Han , Wei Mao , Shih-En Wei

Synthesising 3D facial motion from speech is a crucial problem manifesting in a multitude of applications such as computer games and movies. Recently proposed methods tackle this problem in controlled conditions of speech. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Panagiotis Tzirakis , Athanasios Papaioannou , Alexander Lattas , Michail Tarasiou , Björn Schuller , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Synthesizing personalized talking faces that uphold and highlight a speaker's unique style while maintaining lip-sync accuracy remains a significant challenge. A primary limitation of existing approaches is the intrinsic confounding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Renjie Lu , Xulong Zhang , Xiaoyang Qu , Jianzong Wang , Shangfei Wang

In order to be widely applicable, speech-driven 3D head avatars must articulate their lips in accordance with speech, while also conveying the appropriate emotions with dynamically changing facial expressions. The key problem is that…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Radek Daněček , Carolin Schmitt , Senya Polikovsky , Michael J. Black

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

Existing facial reenactment methods struggle with a trade-off between expressiveness and fine-grained controllability. Holistic facial reenactment models often sacrifice granular control for expressiveness, while methods designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Chaonan Ji , Jinwei Qi , Sheng Xu , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang

Audio-driven 3D talking avatar generation is increasingly important in virtual communication, digital humans, and interactive media, where avatars must preserve identity, synchronize lip motion with speech, express emotion, and exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zhongju Wang , Zhenhong Sun , Beier Wang , Yifu Wang , Daoyi Dong , Huadong Mo , Hongdong Li