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This work addresses the problem of generating 3D holistic body motions from human speech. Given a speech recording, we synthesize sequences of 3D body poses, hand gestures, and facial expressions that are realistic and diverse. To achieve…

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Recently audio-driven talking face video generation has attracted considerable attention. However, very few researches address the issue of emotional editing of these talking face videos with continuously controllable expressions, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zhiyao Sun , Yu-Hui Wen , Tian Lv , Yanan Sun , Ziyang Zhang , Yaoyuan Wang , Yong-Jin Liu

In this paper, we propose a novel audio-driven talking head method capable of simultaneously generating highly expressive facial expressions and hand gestures. Unlike existing methods that focus on generating full-body or half-body poses,…

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In this paper, we propose a novel text-based talking-head video generation framework that synthesizes high-fidelity facial expressions and head motions in accordance with contextual sentiments as well as speech rhythm and pauses. To be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Lincheng Li , Suzhen Wang , Zhimeng Zhang , Yu Ding , Yixing Zheng , Xin Yu , Changjie Fan

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

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

Speech-driven 3D face animation aims to generate realistic facial expressions that match the speech content and emotion. However, existing methods often neglect emotional facial expressions or fail to disentangle them from speech content.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Ziqiao Peng , Haoyu Wu , Zhenbo Song , Hao Xu , Xiangyu Zhu , Jun He , Hongyan Liu , Zhaoxin Fan

Although automatically animating audio-driven talking heads has recently received growing interest, previous efforts have mainly concentrated on achieving lip synchronization with the audio, neglecting two crucial elements for generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Shuai Tan , Bin Ji , Ye Pan

The domain of 3D talking head generation has witnessed significant progress in recent years. A notable challenge in this field consists in blending speech-related motions with expression dynamics, which is primarily caused by the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Federico Nocentini , Claudio Ferrari , Stefano Berretti

Different people have different facial expressions while speaking emotionally. A realistic facial animation system should consider such identity-specific speaking styles and facial idiosyncrasies to achieve high-degree of naturalness and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Elif Bozkurt

Audio-driven emotional 3D facial animation aims to generate synchronized lip movements and vivid facial expressions. However, most existing approaches focus on static and predefined emotion labels, limiting their diversity and naturalness.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Chang Liu , Ye Pan , Chenyang Ding , Susanto Rahardja , Xiaokang Yang

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

We present a novel approach for synthesizing 3D talking heads with controllable emotion, featuring enhanced lip synchronization and rendering quality. Despite significant progress in the field, prior methods still suffer from multi-view…

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Expressions are fundamental to conveying human emotions. With the rapid advancement of AI-generated content (AIGC), realistic and expressive 3D facial animation has become increasingly crucial. Despite recent progress in speech-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yuxiang Mao , Zhijie Zhang , Zhiheng Zhang , Jiawei Liu , Chen Zeng , Shihong Xia

In order to be widely applicable, speech-driven 3D head avatars must articulate their lips in accordance with speech, while also conveying the appropriate emotions with dynamically changing facial expressions. The key problem is that…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Radek Daněček , Carolin Schmitt , Senya Polikovsky , Michael J. Black

Recently, talking-face video generation has received considerable attention. So far most methods generate results with neutral expressions or expressions that are implicitly determined by neural networks in an uncontrollable way. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Zipeng Ye , Zhiyao Sun , Yu-Hui Wen , Yanan Sun , Tian Lv , Ran Yi , Yong-Jin Liu

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has been an attractive task in both academia and industry. Traditional methods mostly focus on learning a deterministic mapping from speech to animation. Recent approaches start to consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Peng Chen , Xiaobao Wei , Ming Lu , Yitong Zhu , Naiming Yao , Xingyu Xiao , Hui Chen

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has recently garnered attention due to its cost-effective usability in multimedia production. However, most current advances overlook the intelligibility of lip movements, limiting the realism of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Han EunGi , Oh Hyun-Bin , Kim Sung-Bin , Corentin Nivelet Etcheberry , Suekyeong Nam , Janghoon Joo , Tae-Hyun Oh

Realistic, high-fidelity 3D facial animations are crucial for expressive avatar systems in human-computer interaction and accessibility. Although prior methods show promising quality, their reliance on the mesh domain limits their ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Alexandre Symeonidis-Herzig , Özge Mercanoğlu Sincan , Richard Bowden

Recent studies in speech-driven 3D talking head generation have achieved convincing results in verbal articulations. However, generating accurate lip-syncs degrades when applied to input speech in other languages, possibly due to the lack…

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