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The generation of emotional talking faces from a single portrait image remains a significant challenge. The simultaneous achievement of expressive emotional talking and accurate lip-sync is particularly difficult, as expressiveness is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Chenxu Zhang , Chao Wang , Jianfeng Zhang , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , You Xie , Linjie Luo , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo , Jiashi Feng

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

Talking Head Generation (THG) has emerged as a transformative technology in computer vision, enabling the synthesis of realistic human faces synchronized with image, audio, text, or video inputs. This paper provides a comprehensive review…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Vineet Kumar Rakesh , Soumya Mazumdar , Research Pratim Maity , Sarbajit Pal , Amitabha Das , Tapas Samanta

We propose the first approach to automatically and jointly synthesize both the synchronous 3D conversational body and hand gestures, as well as 3D face and head animations, of a virtual character from speech input. Our algorithm uses a CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Ikhsanul Habibie , Weipeng Xu , Dushyant Mehta , Lingjie Liu , Hans-Peter Seidel , Gerard Pons-Moll , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

Dubbing is a technique for translating video content from one language to another. However, state-of-the-art visual dubbing techniques directly copy facial expressions from source to target actors without considering identity-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Hyeongwoo Kim , Mohamed Elgharib , Michael Zollhöfer , Hans-Peter Seidel , Thabo Beeler , Christian Richardt , Christian Theobalt

Audio-driven talking head generation is advancing from 2D to 3D content. Notably, Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) is in the spotlight as a means to synthesize high-quality 3D talking head outputs. Unfortunately, this NeRF-based approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Gihoon Kim , Kwanggyoon Seo , Sihun Cha , Junyong Noh

Interpreting human neural signals to decode static speech intentions such as text or images and dynamic speech intentions such as audio or video is showing great potential as an innovative communication tool. Human communication accompanies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ji-Ha Park , Seo-Hyun Lee , Soowon Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

For the last decades, the concern of producing convincing facial animation has garnered great interest, that has only been accelerating with the recent explosion of 3D content in both entertainment and professional activities. The use of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Eloïse Berson , Catherine Soladié , Nicolas Stoiber

Generating talking person portraits with arbitrary speech audio is a crucial problem in the field of digital human and metaverse. A modern talking face generation method is expected to achieve the goals of generalized audio-lip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Zhenhui Ye , Jinzheng He , Ziyue Jiang , Rongjie Huang , Jiawei Huang , Jinglin Liu , Yi Ren , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma , Zhou Zhao

Creating realistic, natural, and lip-readable talking face videos remains a formidable challenge. Previous research primarily concentrated on generating and aligning single-frame images while overlooking the smoothness of frame-to-frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Shuheng Ge , Haoyu Xing , Li Zhang , Xiangqian Wu

We introduce a novel method for joint expression and audio-guided talking face generation. Recent approaches either struggle to preserve the speaker identity or fail to produce faithful facial expressions. To address these challenges, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Sai Tanmay Reddy Chakkera , Aggelina Chatziagapi , Dimitris Samaras

Current texture synthesis methods, which generate textures from fixed viewpoints, suffer from inconsistencies due to the lack of global context and geometric understanding. Meanwhile, recent advancements in video generation models have…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Donggoo Kang , Jangyeong Kim , Dasol Jeong , Junyoung Choi , Jeonga Wi , Hyunmin Lee , Joonho Gwon , Joonki Paik

Recent advancements in video diffusion models have significantly enhanced audio-driven portrait animation. However, current methods still suffer from flickering, identity drift, and poor audio-visual synchronization. These issues primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Zhenjie Liu , Jianzhang Lu , Renjie Lu , Cong Liang , Shangfei Wang

Talking face generation aims to synthesize a face video with precise lip synchronization as well as a smooth transition of facial motion over the entire video via the given speech clip and facial image. Most existing methods mainly focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Hao Zhu , Huaibo Huang , Yi Li , Aihua Zheng , Ran He

Diffusion models have shown impressive potential on talking head generation. While plausible appearance and talking effect are achieved, these methods still suffer from temporal, 3D or expression inconsistency due to the error accumulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Haijie Yang , Zhenyu Zhang , Hao Tang , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang

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

Generative models have surged in popularity recently due to their ability to produce high-quality images and video. However, steering these models to produce images with specific attributes and precise control remains challenging. Humans,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Tuomas Varanka , Huai-Qian Khor , Yante Li , Mengting Wei , Hanwei Kung , Nicu Sebe , Guoying Zhao

Recently deep generative models have achieved impressive results in the field of automated facial expression editing. However, the approaches presented so far presume a discrete representation of human emotions and are therefore limited in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Alexandra Lindt , Pablo Barros , Henrique Siqueira , Stefan Wermter

Videos depict the change of complex dynamical systems over time in the form of discrete image sequences. Generating controllable videos by learning the dynamical system is an important yet underexplored topic in the computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Yucheng Xu , Li Nanbo , Arushi Goel , Zijian Guo , Zonghai Yao , Hamidreza Kasaei , Mohammadreze Kasaei , Zhibin Li

Audio-Driven Talking Face Generation aims at generating realistic videos of talking faces, focusing on accurate audio-lip synchronization without deteriorating any identity-related visual details. Recent state-of-the-art methods are based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Dogucan Yaman , Fevziye Irem Eyiokur , Leonard Bärmann , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Alexander Waibel