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Recent advances in conditional diffusion models have shown promise for generating realistic TalkingFace videos, yet challenges persist in achieving consistent head movement, synchronized facial expressions, and accurate lip synchronization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Fei Shen , Cong Wang , Junyao Gao , Qin Guo , Jisheng Dang , Jinhui Tang , Tat-Seng Chua

Joint audio-video generation models have shown that unified generation yields stronger cross-modal coherence than cascaded approaches. However, existing models couple modalities throughout denoising via pervasive attention, treating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zhen Ye , Xu Tan , Aoxiong Yin , Hongzhan Lin , Guangyan Zhang , Peiwen Sun , Yiming Li , Chi-Min Chan , Wei Ye , Shikun Zhang , Wei Xue

Virtual humans have gained considerable attention in numerous industries, e.g., entertainment and e-commerce. As a core technology, synthesizing photorealistic face frames from target speech and facial identity has been actively studied…

Audio-driven talking face generation has garnered significant interest within the domain of digital human research. Existing methods are encumbered by intricate model architectures that are intricately dependent on each other, complicating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Dong Zhao , Jiaying Shi , Wenjun Li , Shudong Wang , Shenghui Xu , Zhaoming Pan

Diffusion-based video generation techniques have significantly improved zero-shot talking-head avatar generation, enhancing the naturalness of both head motion and facial expressions. However, existing methods suffer from poor…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Lingzhou Mu , Baiji Liu , Ruonan Zhang , Guiming Mo , Jiawei Jin , Kai Zhang , Haozhi Huang

Speech-to-face generation is an intriguing area of research that focuses on generating realistic facial images based on a speaker's audio speech. However, state-of-the-art methods employing GAN-based architectures lack stability and cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Jinting Wang , Li Liu , Jun Wang , Hei Victor Cheng

Speech-driven facial animation is the process that automatically synthesizes talking characters based on speech signals. The majority of work in this domain creates a mapping from audio features to visual features. This approach often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Konstantinos Vougioukas , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Talking face generation, also known as speech-to-lip generation, reconstructs facial motions concerning lips given coherent speech input. The previous studies revealed the importance of lip-speech synchronization and visual quality. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Jiadong Wang , Xinyuan Qian , Malu Zhang , Robby T. Tan , Haizhou Li

We propose Dimitra, a novel framework for audio-driven talking head generation, streamlined to learn lip motion, facial expression, as well as head pose motion. Specifically, we train a conditional Motion Diffusion Transformer (cMDT) by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Baptiste Chopin , Tashvik Dhamija , Pranav Balaji , Yaohui Wang , Antitza Dantcheva

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

We present LipDiffuser, a conditional diffusion model for lip-to-speech generation synthesizing natural and intelligible speech directly from silent video recordings. Our approach leverages the magnitude-preserving ablated diffusion model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-27 Julius Richter , Danilo de Oliveira , Tal Peer , Timo Gerkmann

The generation of stylistic 3D facial animations driven by speech presents a significant challenge as it requires learning a many-to-many mapping between speech, style, and the corresponding natural facial motion. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Zhiyao Sun , Tian Lv , Sheng Ye , Matthieu Lin , Jenny Sheng , Yu-Hui Wen , Minjing Yu , Yong-Jin Liu

Talking head synthesis, an advanced method for generating portrait videos from a still image driven by specific content, has garnered widespread attention in virtual reality, augmented reality and game production. Recently, significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Ming Meng , Yufei Zhao , Bo Zhang , Yonggui Zhu , Weimin Shi , Maxwell Wen , Zhaoxin Fan

Generating talking face videos from audio attracts lots of research interest. A few person-specific methods can generate vivid videos but require the target speaker's videos for training or fine-tuning. Existing person-generic methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Weizhi Zhong , Chaowei Fang , Yinqi Cai , Pengxu Wei , Gangming Zhao , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

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

We propose a novel method for generating high-resolution videos of talking-heads from speech audio and a single 'identity' image. Our method is based on a convolutional neural network model that incorporates a pre-trained StyleGAN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Mohammed M. Alghamdi , He Wang , Andrew J. Bulpitt , David C. Hogg

With the rapid advancement of diffusion models, talking face generation has made remarkable progress. However, existing diffusion-based methods still require task-specific fine-tuning and large-scale audiovisual datasets, resulting in high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Hao Wu , Xiangyang Luo , Hao Wang , Jiawei Zhang , Yi Zhang , Jinwei Wang

One-shot talking head generation produces lip-sync talking heads based on arbitrary audio and one source face. To guarantee the naturalness and realness, recent methods propose to achieve free pose control instead of simply editing mouth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Jin Liu , Xi Wang , Xiaomeng Fu , Yesheng Chai , Cai Yu , Jiao Dai , Jizhong Han

Talking head generation intends to produce vivid and realistic talking head videos from a single portrait and speech audio clip. Although significant progress has been made in diffusion-based talking head generation, almost all methods rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Hanbo Cheng , Limin Lin , Chenyu Liu , Pengcheng Xia , Pengfei Hu , Jiefeng Ma , Jun Du , Jia Pan

We introduce FaceTalk, a novel generative approach designed for synthesizing high-fidelity 3D motion sequences of talking human heads from input audio signal. To capture the expressive, detailed nature of human heads, including hair, ears,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Shivangi Aneja , Justus Thies , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner