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Visual speech recognition is a technique to identify spoken content in silent speech videos, which has raised significant attention in recent years. Advancements in data-driven deep learning methods have significantly improved both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Lei Yang , Junshan Jin , Mingyuan Zhang , Yi He , Bofan Chen , Shilin Wang

Portrait animation aims to synthesize talking videos from a static reference face, conditioned on audio and style frame cues (e.g., emotion and head poses), while ensuring precise lip synchronization and faithful reproduction of speaking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 He Feng , Yongjia Ma , Donglin Di , Lei Fan , Tonghua Su , Xiangqian Wu

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

We introduce SEDTalker, an emotion-aware framework for speech-driven 3D facial animation that leverages frame-level speech emotion diarization to achieve fine-grained expressive control. Unlike prior approaches that rely on utterance-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Farzaneh Jafari , Stefano Berretti , Anup Basu

Vivid talking face generation holds immense potential applications across diverse multimedia domains, such as film and game production. While existing methods accurately synchronize lip movements with input audio, they typically ignore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Jiadong Liang , Feng Lu

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

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

We present a deep learning framework for real-time speech-driven 3D facial animation from just raw waveforms. Our deep neural network directly maps an input sequence of speech audio to a series of micro facial action unit activations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Hai X. Pham , Yuting Wang , Vladimir Pavlovic

Facial expression editing methods can be mainly categorized into two types based on their architectures: 2D-based and 3D-based methods. The former lacks 3D face modeling capabilities, making it difficult to edit 3D factors effectively. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yikang He , Jichao Zhang , Wei Wang , Nicu Sebe , Yao Zhao

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has garnered lots of attention thanks to its broad range of applications. Despite recent advancements in achieving realistic lip motion, current methods fail to capture the nuanced emotional undertones…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jisoo Kim , Jungbin Cho , Joonho Park , Soonmin Hwang , Da Eun Kim , Geon Kim , Youngjae Yu

Generating talking avatar driven by audio remains a significant challenge. Existing methods typically require high computational costs and often lack sufficient facial detail and realism, making them unsuitable for applications that demand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Yujian Liu , Shidang Xu , Jing Guo , Dingbin Wang , Zairan Wang , Xianfeng Tan , Xiaoli Liu

When we speak, the prosody and content of the speech can be inferred from the movement of our lips. In this work, we explore the task of lip to speech synthesis, i.e., learning to generate speech given only the lip movements of a speaker…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Christen Millerdurai , Lotfy Abdel Khaliq , Timon Ulrich

High-quality reconstruction of controllable 3D head avatars from 2D videos is highly desirable for virtual human applications in movies, games, and telepresence. Neural implicit fields provide a powerful representation to model 3D head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Chuhan Chen , Matthew O'Toole , Gaurav Bharaj , Pablo Garrido

We are interested in a novel task, namely low-resource text-to-talking avatar. Given only a few-minute-long talking person video with the audio track as the training data and arbitrary texts as the driving input, we aim to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zhenhui Ye , Ziyue Jiang , Yi Ren , Jinglin Liu , Chen Zhang , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma , Zhou Zhao

This work proposes a novel method to generate realistic talking head videos using audio and visual streams. We animate a source image by transferring head motion from a driving video using a dense motion field generated using learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Madhav Agarwal , Rudrabha Mukhopadhyay , Vinay Namboodiri , C V Jawahar

Recent advancements in speech-driven 3D talking head generation have made significant progress in lip synchronization. However, existing models still struggle to capture the perceptual alignment between varying speech characteristics and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Lee Chae-Yeon , Oh Hyun-Bin , Han EunGi , Kim Sung-Bin , Suekyeong Nam , Tae-Hyun Oh

Lip motion reflects behavior characteristics of speakers, and thus can be used as a new kind of biometrics in speaker recognition. In the literature, lots of works used two-dimensional (2D) lip images to recognize speaker in a textdependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Jianrong Wang , Tong Wu , Shanyu Wang , Mei Yu , Qiang Fang , Ju Zhang , Li Liu

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

Speech-driven facial video generation has been a complex problem due to its multi-modal aspects namely audio and video domain. The audio comprises lots of underlying features such as expression, pitch, loudness, prosody(speaking style) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Neeraj Kumar , Srishti Goel , Ankur Narang , Brejesh Lall

Recent advances in diffusion-based lip-syncing generative models have demonstrated their ability to produce highly synchronized talking face videos for visual dubbing. Although these models excel at lip synchronization, they often struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yanyu Zhu , Lichen Bai , Jintao Xu , Hai-tao Zheng