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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…

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We present Wav2Lip-Emotion, a video-to-video translation architecture that modifies facial expressions of emotion in videos of speakers. Previous work modifies emotion in images, uses a single image to produce a video with animated emotion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Ian Magnusson , Aruna Sankaranarayanan , Andrew Lippman

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

The ability to accurately capture and express emotions is a critical aspect of creating believable characters in video games and other forms of entertainment. Traditionally, this animation has been achieved with artistic effort or…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jack Saunders , Steven Caulkin , Vinay Namboodiri

Creating personalized 3D animations with precise control and realistic head motions remains challenging for current speech-driven 3D facial animation methods. Editing these animations is especially complex and time consuming, requires…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Balamurugan Thambiraja , Malte Prinzler , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Darren Cosker , Justus Thies

Recently, emotional talking face generation has received considerable attention. However, existing methods only adopt one-hot coding, image, or audio as emotion conditions, thus lacking flexible control in practical applications and failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Chao Xu , Junwei Zhu , Jiangning Zhang , Yue Han , Wenqing Chu , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Zhifeng Xie , Yong Liu

Speech-driven 3D facial animation technology has been developed for years, but its practical application still lacks expectations. The main challenges lie in data limitations, lip alignment, and the naturalness of facial expressions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xiangyu Liang , Wenlin Zhuang , Tianyong Wang , Guangxing Geng , Guangyue Geng , Haifeng Xia , Siyu Xia

We propose ClipFace, a novel self-supervised approach for text-guided editing of textured 3D morphable model of faces. Specifically, we employ user-friendly language prompts to enable control of the expressions as well as appearance of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Shivangi Aneja , Justus Thies , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

Editing talking-head video to change the speech content or to remove filler words is challenging. We propose a novel method to edit talking-head video based on its transcript to produce a realistic output video in which the dialogue of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Ohad Fried , Ayush Tewari , Michael Zollhöfer , Adam Finkelstein , Eli Shechtman , Dan B Goldman , Kyle Genova , Zeyu Jin , Christian Theobalt , Maneesh Agrawala

Despite the significant progress in recent years, very few of the AI-based talking face generation methods attempt to render natural emotions. Moreover, the scope of the methods is majorly limited to the characteristics of the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Sanjana Sinha , Sandika Biswas , Ravindra Yadav , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

Audio-driven 3D facial animation has several virtual humans applications for content creation and editing. While several existing methods provide solutions for speech-driven animation, precise control over content (what) and style (how) of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Qingju Liu , Hyeongwoo Kim , Gaurav Bharaj

The transfer of facial expressions from people to 3D face models is a classic computer graphics problem. In this paper, we present a novel, learning-based approach to transferring facial expressions and head movements from images and videos…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Xiao S. Zeng , Surya Dwarakanath , Wuyue Lu , Masaki Nakada , Demetri Terzopoulos

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

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

Visual emotion expression plays an important role in audiovisual speech communication. In this work, we propose a novel approach to rendering visual emotion expression in speech-driven talking face generation. Specifically, we design an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-23 Sefik Emre Eskimez , You Zhang , Zhiyao Duan

3D Gaussian splatting-based talking head synthesis has recently gained attention for its ability to render high-fidelity images with real-time inference speed. However, since it is typically trained on only a short video that lacks the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Junuk Cha , Seongro Yoon , Valeriya Strizhkova , Francois Bremond , Seungryul Baek

This paper primarily investigates the task of expression-only portrait video performance editing based on a driving video, which plays a crucial role in animation and film industries. Most existing research mainly focuses on portrait…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jiadong Liang , Bojun Xiong , Jie Tian , Hua Li , Xiao Long , Yong Zheng , Huan Fu

Facial expression manipulation aims at editing facial expression with a given condition. Previous methods edit an input image under the guidance of a discrete emotion label or absolute condition (e.g., facial action units) to possess the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Jun Ling , Han Xue , Li Song , Shuhui Yang , Rong Xie , Xiao Gu

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

In this work, we tackle the challenge of enhancing the realism and expressiveness in talking head video generation by focusing on the dynamic and nuanced relationship between audio cues and facial movements. We identify the limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Linrui Tian , Qi Wang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo