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We tackle the challenging task of generating complete 3D facial animations for two interacting, co-located participants from a mixed audio stream. While existing methods often produce disembodied "talking heads" akin to a video conference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mengyi Shan , Shouchieh Chang , Ziqian Bai , Shichen Liu , Yinda Zhang , Luchuan Song , Rohit Pandey , Sean Fanello , Zeng Huang

Combining face swapping with lip synchronization technology offers a cost-effective solution for customized talking face generation. However, directly cascading existing models together tends to introduce significant interference between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Zeren Zhang , Haibo Qin , Jiayu Huang , Yixin Li , Hui Lin , Yitao Duan , Jinwen Ma

Talking face generation aims to synthesize realistic speaking portraits from a single image, yet existing methods often rely on explicit optical flow and local warping, which fail to model complex global motions and cause identity drift. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Bo Chen , Tao Liu , Qi Chen , Xie Chen , Zilong Zheng

Recent advances in audio-driven talking head generation have achieved impressive results in lip synchronization and emotional expression. However, they largely overlook the crucial task of facial attribute editing. This capability is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Guanwen Feng , Zhiyuan Ma , Yunan Li , Jiahao Yang , Junwei Jing , Qiguang Miao

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

Talking face generation aims to create realistic videos with accurate lip synchronization and high visual quality, using given audio and reference video while preserving identity and visual characteristics. In this paper, we start by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Dogucan Yaman , Fevziye Irem Eyiokur , Leonard Bärmann , Hazim Kemal Ekenel , Alexander Waibel

Cross-modality generation is an emerging topic that aims to synthesize data in one modality based on information in a different modality. In this paper, we consider a task of such: given an arbitrary audio speech and one lip image of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Lele Chen , Zhiheng Li , Ross K. Maddox , Zhiyao Duan , Chenliang Xu

Generating photo-realistic video portrait with arbitrary speech audio is a crucial problem in film-making and virtual reality. Recently, several works explore the usage of neural radiance field in this task to improve 3D realness and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Zhenhui Ye , Ziyue Jiang , Yi Ren , Jinglin Liu , JinZheng He , Zhou Zhao

The presence of a corresponding talking face has been shown to significantly improve speech intelligibility in noisy conditions and for hearing impaired population. In this paper, we present a system that can generate landmark points of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Sefik Emre Eskimez , Ross K Maddox , Chenliang Xu , Zhiyao Duan

We propose StyleTalker, a novel audio-driven talking head generation model that can synthesize a video of a talking person from a single reference image with accurately audio-synced lip shapes, realistic head poses, and eye blinks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Dongchan Min , Minyoung Song , Eunji Ko , Sung Ju Hwang

Talking Face Generation (TFG) strives to create realistic and emotionally expressive digital faces. While previous TFG works have mastered the creation of naturalistic facial movements, they typically express a fixed target emotion in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Hao Yang , Yanyan Zhao , Tian Zheng , Hongbo Zhang , Bichen Wang , Di Wu , Xing Fu , Xuda Zhi , Yongbo Huang , Hao He

Conversational Speech Synthesis (CSS) is a key task in the user-agent interaction area, aiming to generate more expressive and empathetic speech for users. However, it is well-known that "listening" and "eye contact" play crucial roles in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Yifan Hu , Rui Liu , Yi Ren , Xiang Yin , Haizhou Li

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), digital humans have attracted more and more attention and are expected to achieve a wide range of applications in several industries. Then, most of the existing digital humans…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Yingjie Zhou , Yaodong Chen , Kaiyue Bi , Lian Xiong , Hui Liu

This brief literature review studies the problem of audiovisual speech synthesis, which is the problem of generating an animated talking head given a text as input. Due to the high complexity of this problem, we approach it as the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Efthymios Georgiou , Athanasios Katsamanis

Speech-driven 3D facial animation with accurate lip synchronization has been widely studied. However, synthesizing realistic motions for the entire face during speech has rarely been explored. In this work, we present a joint audio-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yingruo Fan , Zhaojiang Lin , Jun Saito , Wenping Wang , Taku Komura

This paper aims to build a multi-speaker expressive TTS system, synthesizing a target speaker's speech with multiple styles and emotions. To this end, we propose a novel contrastive learning-based TTS approach to transfer style and emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Xinfa Zhu , Yuke Li , Yi Lei , Ning Jiang , Guoqing Zhao , Lei Xie

This paper presents a method for end-to-end cross-lingual text-to-speech (TTS) which aims to preserve the target language's pronunciation regardless of the original speaker's language. The model used is based on a non-attentive Tacotron…

While previous audio-driven talking head generation (THG) methods generate head poses from driving audio, the generated poses or lips cannot match the audio well or are not editable. In this study, we propose \textbf{PoseTalk}, a THG system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Jun Ling , Yiwen Wang , Han Xue , Rong Xie , Li Song

We present VideoReTalking, a new system to edit the faces of a real-world talking head video according to input audio, producing a high-quality and lip-syncing output video even with a different emotion. Our system disentangles this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Kun Cheng , Xiaodong Cun , Yong Zhang , Menghan Xia , Fei Yin , Mingrui Zhu , Xuan Wang , Jue Wang , Nannan Wang

Audio-driven human animation methods, such as talking head and talking body generation, have made remarkable progress in generating synchronized facial movements and appealing visual quality videos. However, existing methods primarily focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zhe Kong , Feng Gao , Yong Zhang , Zhuoliang Kang , Xiaoming Wei , Xunliang Cai , Guanying Chen , Wenhan Luo