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While current talking head models are capable of generating photorealistic talking head videos, they provide limited pose controllability. Most methods require specific video sequences that should exactly contain the head pose desired,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Kwangho Lee , Patrick Kwon , Myung Ki Lee , Namhyuk Ahn , Junsoo Lee

Recent diffusion-based talking face generation models have demonstrated impressive potential in synthesizing videos that accurately match a speech audio clip with a given reference identity. However, existing approaches still encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xingpei Ma , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shenneng Huang , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang

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

Editing of portrait images is a very popular and important research topic with a large variety of applications. For ease of use, control should be provided via a semantically meaningful parameterization that is akin to computer animation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Ayush Tewari , Mohamed Elgharib , Mallikarjun B R. , Florian Bernard , Hans-Peter Seidel , Patrick Pérez , Michael Zollhöfer , Christian Theobalt

We propose a method for generating video-realistic animations of real humans under user control. In contrast to conventional human character rendering, we do not require the availability of a production-quality photo-realistic 3D model of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Lingjie Liu , Weipeng Xu , Michael Zollhoefer , Hyeongwoo Kim , Florian Bernard , Marc Habermann , Wenping Wang , Christian Theobalt

To the best of our knowledge, we first present a live system that generates personalized photorealistic talking-head animation only driven by audio signals at over 30 fps. Our system contains three stages. The first stage is a deep neural…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Yuanxun Lu , Jinxiang Chai , Xun Cao

We introduce FactorPortrait, a video diffusion method for controllable portrait animation that enables lifelike synthesis from disentangled control signals of facial expressions, head movement, and camera viewpoints. Given a single portrait…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jiapeng Tang , Kai Li , Chengxiang Yin , Liuhao Ge , Fei Jiang , Jiu Xu , Matthias Nießner , Christian Häne , Timur Bagautdinov , Egor Zakharov , Peihong Guo

We introduce PortraitGen, a powerful portrait video editing method that achieves consistent and expressive stylization with multimodal prompts. Traditional portrait video editing methods often struggle with 3D and temporal consistency, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Xuan Gao , Haiyao Xiao , Chenglai Zhong , Shimin Hu , Yudong Guo , Juyong Zhang

Portrait animation aims to generate photo-realistic videos from a single source image by reenacting the expression and pose from a driving video. While early methods relied on 3D morphable models or feature warping techniques, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mallikarjun B. R. , Fei Yin , Vikram Voleti , Nikita Drobyshev , Maksim Lapin , Aaryaman Vasishta , Varun Jampani

Rapid advances in the field of generative AI and text-to-image methods in particular have transformed the way we interact with and perceive computer-generated imagery today. In parallel, much progress has been made in 3D face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Mirela Ostrek , Justus Thies

Facial 3D Morphable Models are a main computer vision subject with countless applications and have been highly optimized in the last two decades. The tremendous improvements of deep generative networks have created various possibilities for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Stathis Galanakis , Baris Gecer , Alexandros Lattas , Stefanos Zafeiriou

The ability to create high-quality 3D faces from a single image has become increasingly important with wide applications in video conferencing, AR/VR, and advanced video editing in movie industries. In this paper, we propose Face Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Hao Zhang , Yanbo Xu , Tianyuan Dai , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

This study delves into the intricacies of synchronizing facial dynamics with multilingual audio inputs, focusing on the creation of visually compelling, time-synchronized animations through diffusion-based techniques. Diverging from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Rui Zhang , Yixiao Fang , Zhengnan Lu , Pei Cheng , Zebiao Huang , Bin Fu

Filmmaking and animation production often require sophisticated techniques for coordinating camera transitions and object movements, typically involving labor-intensive real-world capturing. Despite advancements in generative AI for video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Yaowei Li , Xintao Wang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Zhouxia Wang , Ziyang Yuan , Liangbin Xie , Yuexian Zou , Ying Shan

Traditional 3D morphable face models (3DMMs) provide fine-grained control over expression but cannot easily capture geometric and appearance details. Neural volumetric representations approach photorealism but are hard to animate and do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Yufeng Zheng , Victoria Fernández Abrevaya , Marcel C. Bühler , Xu Chen , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges

In this study, we propose AniPortrait, a novel framework for generating high-quality animation driven by audio and a reference portrait image. Our methodology is divided into two stages. Initially, we extract 3D intermediate representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Huawei Wei , Zejun Yang , Zhisheng Wang

The objective of this paper is a neural network model that controls the pose and expression of a given face, using another face or modality (e.g. audio). This model can then be used for lightweight, sophisticated video and image editing. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Olivia Wiles , A. Sophia Koepke , Andrew Zisserman

Recent neural talking radiance field methods have shown great success in photorealistic audio-driven talking face synthesis. In this paper, we propose a novel interactive framework that utilizes human instructions to edit such implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Yuqi Sun , Ruian He , Weimin Tan , Bo Yan

3D-controllable portrait synthesis has significantly advanced, thanks to breakthroughs in generative adversarial networks (GANs). However, it is still challenging to manipulate existing face images with precise 3D control. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Yuchen Liu , Zhixin Shu , Yijun Li , Zhe Lin , Richard Zhang , S. Y. Kung

In filmmaking, directors typically allow actors to perform freely based on the script before providing specific guidance on how to present key actions. AI-generated content faces similar requirements, where users not only need automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zheng Qin , Ruobing Zheng , Yabing Wang , Tianqi Li , Zixin Zhu , Sanping Zhou , Ming Yang , Le Wang