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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

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

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

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

How much can we infer about an emotional voice solely from an expressive face? This intriguing question holds great potential for applications such as virtual character dubbing and aiding individuals with expressive language disorders.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jiaxin Ye , Boyuan Cao , Hongming Shan

Talking face generation is a novel and challenging generation task, aiming at synthesizing a vivid speaking-face video given a specific audio. To fulfill emotion-controllable talking face generation, current methods need to overcome two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ziqi Zhang , Cheng Deng

Video generation has achieved remarkable progress, with generated videos increasingly resembling real ones. However, the rapid advance in generation has outpaced the development of adequate evaluation metrics. Currently, the assessment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Nabyl Quignon , Baptiste Chopin , Yaohui Wang , Antitza Dantcheva

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

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

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

Enabling digital humans to express rich emotions has significant applications in dialogue systems, gaming, and other interactive scenarios. While recent advances in talking head synthesis have achieved impressive results in lip…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Haidong Xu , Meishan Zhang , Hao Ju , Zhedong Zheng , Erik Cambria , Min Zhang , Hao Fei

It is in high demand to generate facial animation with high realism, but it remains a challenging task. Existing approaches of speech-driven facial animation can produce satisfactory mouth movement and lip synchronization, but show weakness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Yutong Chen , Junhong Zhao , Wei-Qiang Zhang

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 emotional 3D face animation aims to generate emotionally expressive talking heads with synchronized lip movements. However, previous research has often overlooked the influence of diverse emotions on facial expressions or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Chang Liu , Qunfen Lin , Zijiao Zeng , Ye Pan

Audio-driven talking head generation has drawn growing attention. To produce talking head videos with desired facial expressions, previous methods rely on extra reference videos to provide expression information, which may be difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yifeng Ma , Suzhen Wang , Yu Ding , Bowen Ma , Tangjie Lv , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu , Zhidong Deng , Xin Yu

Given an arbitrary face image and an arbitrary speech clip, the proposed work attempts to generating the talking face video with accurate lip synchronization while maintaining smooth transition of both lip and facial movement over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Yang Song , Jingwen Zhu , Dawei Li , Xiaolong Wang , Hairong Qi

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,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Linrui Tian , Siqi Hu , Qi Wang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Talking face generation has gained significant attention as a core application of generative models. To enhance the expressiveness and realism of synthesized videos, emotion editing in talking face video plays a crucial role. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Chanhyuk Choi , Taesoo Kim , Donggyu Lee , Siyeol Jung , Taehwan Kim

Generating emotion-specific talking head videos from audio input is an important and complex challenge for human-machine interaction. However, emotion is highly abstract concept with ambiguous boundaries, and it necessitates disentangled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Xuli Shen , Hua Cai , Dingding Yu , Weilin Shen , Qing Xu , Xiangyang Xue

Talking face generation aims to synthesize a sequence of face images that correspond to a clip of speech. This is a challenging task because face appearance variation and semantics of speech are coupled together in the subtle movements of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Hang Zhou , Yu Liu , Ziwei Liu , Ping Luo , Xiaogang Wang
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