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Audio-driven talking-head generation is a crucial and useful technology for virtual human interaction and film-making. While recent advances have focused on improving image fidelity and lip synchronization, generating accurate emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Wenqing Wang , Yun Fu

When people deliver a speech, they naturally move heads, and this rhythmic head motion conveys prosodic information. However, generating a lip-synced video while moving head naturally is challenging. While remarkably successful, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Lele Chen , Guofeng Cui , Celong Liu , Zhong Li , Ziyi Kou , Yi Xu , Chenliang Xu

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

Automatically generating videos in which synthesized speech is synchronized with lip movements in a talking head has great potential in many human-computer interaction scenarios. In this paper, we present an automatic method to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-29 Xinsheng Wang , Qicong Xie , Jihua Zhu , Lei Xie , Scharenborg

Emotional talking-head generation has emerged as a pivotal research area at the intersection of computer vision and multimodal artificial intelligence, with its core value lying in enhancing human-computer interaction through immersive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Hanlei Shi , Leyuan Qu , Yu Liu , Di Gao , Yuhua Zheng , Taihao Li

Recent advances in video diffusion models have unlocked new potential for realistic audio-driven talking video generation. However, achieving seamless audio-lip synchronization, maintaining long-term identity consistency, and producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Longtao Zheng , Yifan Zhang , Hanzhong Guo , Jiachun Pan , Zhenxiong Tan , Jiahao Lu , Chuanxin Tang , Bo An , Shuicheng Yan

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

This paper introduces a framework, called EMOTION, for generating expressive motion sequences in humanoid robots, enhancing their ability to engage in humanlike non-verbal communication. Non-verbal cues such as facial expressions, gestures,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Peide Huang , Yuhan Hu , Nataliya Nechyporenko , Daehwa Kim , Walter Talbott , Jian Zhang

Generating appropriate emotions for responses is essential for dialog systems to provide human-like interaction in various application scenarios. Most previous dialog systems tried to achieve this goal by learning empathetic manners from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Zhiyuan Wen , Jiannong Cao , Jiaxing Shen , Ruosong Yang , Shuaiqi Liu , Maosong Sun

In recent years, the field of talking faces generation has attracted considerable attention, with certain methods adept at generating virtual faces that convincingly imitate human expressions. However, existing methods face challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Bingyuan Zhang , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jun Yu , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

Audio-driven talking face generation has received growing interest, particularly for applications requiring expressive and natural human-avatar interaction. However, most existing emotion-aware methods rely on a single modality (either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Phyo Thet Yee , Dimitrios Kollias , Sudeepta Mishra , Abhinav Dhall

In human-to-computer interaction, facial animation in synchrony with affective speech can deliver more naturalistic conversational agents. In this paper, we present a two-stage deep learning approach for affective speech driven facial shape…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-13 Rizwan Sadiq , Sasan AsadiAbadi , Engin Erzin

The successful emotional conversation system depends on sufficient perception and appropriate expression of emotions. In a real-life conversation, humans firstly instinctively perceive emotions from multi-source information, including the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Ying Zhang , Jinan Xu , Yufeng Chen , Jie Zhou

Achieving natural dyadic interaction requires generating facial expressions that are emotionally appropriate and socially aligned with human preference. Human feedback offers a compelling mechanism to guide such alignment, yet how to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xu Chen , Rui Gao , Xinjie Zhang , Haoyu Zhang , Che Sun , Zhi Gao , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia

Audio-driven talking face generation, which aims to synthesize talking faces with realistic facial animations (including accurate lip movements, vivid facial expression details and natural head poses) corresponding to the audio, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Rongliang Wu , Yingchen Yu , Fangneng Zhan , Jiahui Zhang , Xiaoqin Zhang , Shijian Lu

Talking face generation technology creates talking videos from arbitrary appearance and motion signal, with the "arbitrary" offering ease of use but also introducing challenges in practical applications. Existing methods work well with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Chao Liang , Jianwen Jiang , Tianyun Zhong , Gaojie Lin , Zhengkun Rong , Jiaqi Yang , Yongming Zhu

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

Although existing speech-driven talking face generation methods achieve significant progress, they are far from real-world application due to the avatar-specific training demand and unstable lip movements. To address the above issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Haiming Zhang , Zhihao Yuan , Chaoda Zheng , Xu Yan , Baoyuan Wang , Guanbin Li , Song Wu , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Emotionally talking head video generation aims to generate expressive portrait videos with accurate lip synchronization and emotional facial expressions. Current methods rely on simple emotional labels, leading to insufficient semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yahui Li , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang , Shengjie Shen

An important aspect of human conversation difficult for machines is conversing with empathy, which is to understand the user's emotion and respond appropriately. Recent neural conversation models that attempted to generate empathetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Jamin Shin , Peng Xu , Andrea Madotto , Pascale Fung