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Video generation has achieved remarkable progress, with generated videos increasingly resembling real ones. However, the rapid advance in generation has outpaced the development of adequate evaluation metrics. Currently, the assessment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Nabyl Quignon , Baptiste Chopin , Yaohui Wang , Antitza Dantcheva

While accurate lip synchronization has been achieved for arbitrary-subject audio-driven talking face generation, the problem of how to efficiently drive the head pose remains. Previous methods rely on pre-estimated structural information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Hang Zhou , Yasheng Sun , Wayne Wu , Chen Change Loy , Xiaogang Wang , Ziwei Liu

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

Audio-driven talking-head generation has advanced rapidly with diffusion-based generative models, yet producing temporally coherent videos with fine-grained motion control remains challenging. We propose DEMO, a flow-matching generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Peiyin Chen , Zhuowei Yang , Hui Feng , Sheng Jiang , Rui Yan

While recent advances in deep neural networks have made it possible to render high-quality images, generating photo-realistic and personalized talking head remains challenging. With given audio, the key to tackling this task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Shunyu Yao , RuiZhe Zhong , Yichao Yan , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang

This paper presents a novel approach for generating 3D talking heads from raw audio inputs. Our method grounds on the idea that speech related movements can be comprehensively and efficiently described by the motion of a few control points…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Federico Nocentini , Claudio Ferrari , Stefano Berretti

Recent advances in deep learning for sequential data have given rise to fast and powerful models that produce realistic videos of talking humans. The state of the art in talking face generation focuses mainly on lip-syncing, being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Georgios Milis , Panagiotis P. Filntisis , Anastasios Roussos , Petros Maragos

We propose a novel approach for few-shot talking-head synthesis. While recent works in neural talking heads have produced promising results, they can still produce images that do not preserve the identity of the subject in source images. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Moustafa Meshry , Saksham Suri , Larry S. Davis , Abhinav Shrivastava

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

The introduction of diffusion models has brought significant advances to the field of audio-driven talking head generation. However, the extremely slow inference speed severely limits the practical implementation of diffusion-based talking…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Haotian Wang , Yuzhe Weng , Jun Du , Haoran Xu , Xiaoyan Wu , Shan He , Bing Yin , Cong Liu , Jianqing Gao , Qingfeng Liu

High quality facial image editing is a challenging problem in the movie post-production industry, requiring a high degree of control and identity preservation. Previous works that attempt to tackle this problem may suffer from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Xu Yao , Alasdair Newson , Yann Gousseau , Pierre Hellier

Audio-driven talking head generation is crucial for applications in virtual reality, digital avatars, and film production. While NeRF-based methods enable high-fidelity reconstruction, they suffer from low rendering efficiency and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Tianheng Zhu , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang , Fuchun Sun , Wendong Zheng

In this paper, we present a method for reprogramming pre-trained audio-driven talking face synthesis models to operate in a text-driven manner. Consequently, we can easily generate face videos that articulate the provided textual sentences,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Jeongsoo Choi , Minsu Kim , Se Jin Park , Yong Man Ro

Audio-driven talking-head generation is a crucial and useful technology for virtual human interaction and film-making. While recent advances have focused on improving image fidelity and lip synchronization, generating accurate emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Wenqing Wang , Yun Fu

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

In this paper, we present VideoGen, a text-to-video generation approach, which can generate a high-definition video with high frame fidelity and strong temporal consistency using reference-guided latent diffusion. We leverage an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Xin Li , Wenqing Chu , Ye Wu , Weihang Yuan , Fanglong Liu , Qi Zhang , Fu Li , Haocheng Feng , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

StyleGANs have shown impressive results on data generation and manipulation in recent years, thanks to its disentangled style latent space. A lot of efforts have been made in inverting a pretrained generator, where an encoder is trained ad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Ligong Han , Sri Harsha Musunuri , Martin Renqiang Min , Ruijiang Gao , Yu Tian , Dimitris Metaxas

Audio-driven cospeech video generation typically involves two stages: speech-to-gesture and gesture-to-video. While significant advances have been made in speech-to-gesture generation, synthesizing natural expressions and gestures remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Renda Li , Xiaohua Qi , Qiang Ling , Jun Yu , Ziyi Chen , Peng Chang , Mei HanJing Xiao

Audio-driven talking video generation has advanced significantly, but existing methods often depend on video-to-video translation techniques and traditional generative networks like GANs and they typically generate taking heads and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Steven Hogue , Chenxu Zhang , Hamza Daruger , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo

This paper adapts a StyleGAN model for speech generation with minimal or no conditioning on text. StyleGAN is a multi-scale convolutional GAN capable of hierarchically capturing data structure and latent variation on multiple spatial (or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Kasperi Palkama , Lauri Juvela , Alexander Ilin