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We propose a novel approach for few-shot talking-head synthesis. While recent works in neural talking heads have produced promising results, they can still produce images that do not preserve the identity of the subject in source images. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Moustafa Meshry , Saksham Suri , Larry S. Davis , Abhinav Shrivastava

Several works have developed end-to-end pipelines for generating lip-synced talking faces with various real-world applications, such as teaching and language translation in videos. However, these prior works fail to create realistic-looking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Sahil Goyal , Shagun Uppal , Sarthak Bhagat , Yi Yu , Yifang Yin , Rajiv Ratn Shah

Audio-driven talking head generation aims to create vivid and realistic videos from a static portrait and speech. Existing AR-based methods rely on intermediate facial representations, which limit their expressiveness and realism.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yuzhe Weng , Haotian Wang , Yuanhong Yu , Jun Du , Shan He , Xiaoyan Wu , Haoran Xu

Researchers have shown a growing interest in Audio-driven Talking Head Generation. The primary challenge in talking head generation is achieving audio-visual coherence between the lips and the audio, known as lip synchronization. This paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhipeng Chen , Xinheng Wang , Lun Xie , Haijie Yuan , Hang Pan

Talking head generation is to synthesize a lip-synchronized talking head video by inputting an arbitrary face image and corresponding audio clips. Existing methods ignore not only the interaction and relationship of cross-modal information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Sen Chen , Zhilei Liu , Jiaxing Liu , Longbiao Wang

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

Talking head synthesis, also known as speech-to-lip synthesis, reconstructs the facial motions that align with the given audio tracks. The synthesized videos are evaluated on mainly two aspects, lip-speech synchronization and image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Xulin Fan , Heting Gao , Ziyi Chen , Peng Chang , Mei Han , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Audio-Driven Talking Face Generation aims at generating realistic videos of talking faces, focusing on accurate audio-lip synchronization without deteriorating any identity-related visual details. Recent state-of-the-art methods are based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Dogucan Yaman , Fevziye Irem Eyiokur , Leonard Bärmann , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Alexander Waibel

Talking head synthesis is a promising approach for the video production industry. Recently, a lot of effort has been devoted in this research area to improve the generation quality or enhance the model generalization. However, there are few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Shuai Shen , Wenliang Zhao , Zibin Meng , Wanhua Li , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Talking face generation has gained immense popularity in the computer vision community, with various applications including AR, VR, teleconferencing, digital assistants, and avatars. Traditional methods are mainly audio-driven, which have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Xingjian Diao , Ming Cheng , Wayner Barrios , SouYoung Jin

Talking head video generation aims to animate a human face in a still image with dynamic poses and expressions using motion information derived from a target-driving video, while maintaining the person's identity in the source image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Fa-Ting Hong , Dan Xu

Pruning effectively compresses overparameterized models. Despite the success of pruning methods for discriminative models, applying them for generative models has been relatively rarely approached. This study conducts structured pruning on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Bo-Kyeong Kim , Shinkook Choi , Hancheol Park

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

In this work, we address the task of unconditional head motion generation to animate still human faces in a low-dimensional semantic space from a single reference pose. Different from traditional audio-conditioned talking head generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Louis Airale , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Stéphane Lathuilière , Dominique Vaufreydaz

This paper discusses the task of face-based speech synthesis, a kind of personalized speech synthesis where the synthesized voices are constrained to perceptually match with a reference face image. Due to the lack of TTS-quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Yao Shi , Yunfei Xu , Hongbin Suo , Yulong Wan , Haifeng Liu

Synthesizing realistic videos according to a given speech is still an open challenge. Previous works have been plagued by issues such as inaccurate lip shape generation and poor image quality. The key reason is that only motions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Xiuzhe Wu , Pengfei Hu , Yang Wu , Xiaoyang Lyu , Yan-Pei Cao , Ying Shan , Wenming Yang , Zhongqian Sun , Xiaojuan Qi

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

Although significant progress has been made in audio-driven talking head generation, text-driven methods remain underexplored. In this work, we present OmniTalker, a unified framework that jointly generates synchronized talking audio-video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zhongjian Wang , Peng Zhang , Jinwei Qi , Guangyuan Wang , Chaonan Ji , Sheng Xu , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

We present a novel one-shot talking head synthesis method that achieves disentangled and fine-grained control over lip motion, eye gaze&blink, head pose, and emotional expression. We represent different motions via disentangled latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Duomin Wang , Yu Deng , Zixin Yin , Heung-Yeung Shum , Baoyuan Wang

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