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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

Speech-driven 3D facial animation aims to generate realistic lip movements and facial expressions for 3D head models from arbitrary audio clips. Although existing diffusion-based methods are capable of producing natural motions, their slow…

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In this paper, we consider a novel and practical case for talking face video generation. Specifically, we focus on the scenarios involving multi-people interactions, where the talking context, such as audience or surroundings, is present.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Meidai Xuanyuan , Yuwang Wang , Honglei Guo , Qionghai Dai

NeRF (Neural Radiance Fields) has demonstrated tremendous potential in novel view synthesis and 3D reconstruction, but its performance is sensitive to input image quality, which struggles to achieve high-fidelity rendering when provided…

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In this work, we present a multimodal solution to the problem of 4D face reconstruction from monocular videos. 3D face reconstruction from 2D images is an under-constrained problem due to the ambiguity of depth. State-of-the-art methods try…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Aggelina Chatziagapi , Dimitris Samaras

The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence has enabled the creation of highly realistic fake facial images, posing serious threats to personal privacy and the integrity of online information. Existing deepfake detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Huanhuan Yuan , Yang Ping , Zhengqin Xu , Junyi Cao , Shuai Jia , Chao Ma

Audio-driven talking face video generation has attracted increasing attention due to its huge industrial potential. Some previous methods focus on learning a direct mapping from audio to visual content. Despite progress, they often struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Weizhi Zhong , Junfan Lin , Peixin Chen , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

Novel view synthesis is an essential functionality for enabling immersive experiences in various Augmented- and Virtual-Reality (AR/VR) applications, for which generalizable Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have gained increasing popularity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yonggan Fu , Zhifan Ye , Jiayi Yuan , Shunyao Zhang , Sixu Li , Haoran You , Yingyan Celine Lin

Reconstructing from multi-view images is a longstanding problem in 3D vision, where neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have shown great potential and get realistic rendered images of novel views. Currently, most NeRF methods either require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xin Wen , Xuening Zhu , Renjiao Yi , Zhifeng Wang , Chenyang Zhu , Kai Xu

Style transfer for human face has been widely researched in recent years. Majority of the existing approaches work in 2D image domain and have 3D inconsistency issue when applied on different viewpoints of the same face. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Jianwei Feng , Prateek Singhal

Audio-driven talking head generation is a significant and challenging task applicable to various fields such as virtual avatars, film production, and online conferences. However, the existing GAN-based models emphasize generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Jintao Tan , Xize Cheng , Lingyu Xiong , Lei Zhu , Xiandong Li , Xianjia Wu , Kai Gong , Minglei Li , Yi Cai

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

The task of audio-driven portrait animation involves generating a talking head video using an identity image and an audio track of speech. While many existing approaches focus on lip synchronization and video quality, few tackle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Jian Zhang , Weijian Mai , Zhijun Zhang

Most Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) exhibit limited generalization capabilities, which restrict their applicability in representing multiple scenes using a single model. To address this problem, existing generalizable NeRF methods simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Ganlin Yang , Guoqiang Wei , Zhizheng Zhang , Yan Lu , Dong Liu

Our goal is to create a realistic 3D facial avatar with hair and accessories using only a text description. While this challenge has attracted significant recent interest, existing methods either lack realism, produce unrealistic shapes, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Hao Zhang , Yao Feng , Peter Kulits , Yandong Wen , Justus Thies , Michael J. Black

Text-to-Face (TTF) synthesis is a challenging task with great potential for diverse computer vision applications. Compared to Text-to-Image (TTI) synthesis tasks, the textual description of faces can be much more complicated and detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Tianren Wang , Teng Zhang , Brian Lovell

Recent works on generalizable NeRFs have shown promising results on novel view synthesis from single or few images. However, such models have rarely been applied on other downstream tasks beyond synthesis such as semantic understanding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jianglong Ye , Naiyan Wang , Xiaolong Wang

Most earlier researches on talking face generation have focused on the synchronization of lip motion and speech content. However, head pose and facial emotions are equally important characteristics of natural faces. While audio-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Changpeng Cai , Guinan Guo , Jiao Li , Junhao Su , Fei Shen , Chenghao He , Jing Xiao , Yuanxu Chen , Lei Dai , Feiyu Zhu

Talking Head Generation aims at synthesizing natural-looking talking videos from speech and a single portrait image. Previous 3D talking head generation methods have relied on domain-specific heuristics such as warping-based facial motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Tong Shi , Melonie de Almeida , Daniela Ivanova , Nicolas Pugeault , Paul Henderson

Generating 3D faces from textual descriptions has a multitude of applications, such as gaming, movie, and robotics. Recent progresses have demonstrated the success of unconditional 3D face generation and text-to-3D shape generation.…

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