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Emotional talking head synthesis aims to generate talking portrait videos with vivid expressions. Existing methods still exhibit limitations in control flexibility, motion naturalness, and expression quality. Moreover, currently available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yiguo Jiang , Xiaodong Cun , Yong Zhang , Yudian Zheng , Fan Tang , Chi-Man Pun

The ability to envisage the visual of a talking face based just on hearing a voice is a unique human capability. There have been a number of works that have solved for this ability recently. We differ from these approaches by enabling a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Ravindra Yadav , Ashish Sardana , Vinay P Namboodiri , Rajesh M Hegde

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

In emotion recognition, it is difficult to recognize human's emotional states using just a single modality. Besides, the annotation of physiological emotional data is particularly expensive. These two aspects make the building of effective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Changde Du , Changying Du , Jinpeng Li , Wei-long Zheng , Bao-liang Lu , Huiguang He

Audio-driven emotional 3D facial animation encounters two significant challenges: (1) reliance on single-modal control signals (videos, text, or emotion labels) without leveraging their complementary strengths for comprehensive emotion…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Kangwei Liu , Junwu Liu , Xiaowei Yi , Jinlin Guo , Yun Cao

We present a novel approach for synthesizing 3D talking heads with controllable emotion, featuring enhanced lip synchronization and rendering quality. Despite significant progress in the field, prior methods still suffer from multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Qianyun He , Xinya Ji , Yicheng Gong , Yuanxun Lu , Zhengyu Diao , Linjia Huang , Yao Yao , Siyu Zhu , Zhan Ma , Songcen Xu , Xiaofei Wu , Zixiao Zhang , Xun Cao , Hao Zhu

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

Advancements in language foundation models have primarily fueled the recent surge in artificial intelligence. In contrast, generative learning of non-textual modalities, especially videos, significantly trails behind language modeling. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Lijun Yu

The synthesis of 3D facial animations from speech has garnered considerable attention. Due to the scarcity of high-quality 4D facial data and well-annotated abundant multi-modality labels, previous methods often suffer from limited realism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Qingcheng Zhao , Pengyu Long , Qixuan Zhang , Dafei Qin , Han Liang , Longwen Zhang , Yingliang Zhang , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu

Individuals have unique facial expression and head pose styles that reflect their personalized speaking styles. Existing one-shot talking head methods cannot capture such personalized characteristics and therefore fail to produce diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Suzhen Wang , Yifeng Ma , Yu Ding , Zhipeng Hu , Changjie Fan , Tangjie Lv , Zhidong Deng , Xin Yu

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

The generation of emotional talking faces from a single portrait image remains a significant challenge. The simultaneous achievement of expressive emotional talking and accurate lip-sync is particularly difficult, as expressiveness is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Chenxu Zhang , Chao Wang , Jianfeng Zhang , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , You Xie , Linjie Luo , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo , Jiashi Feng

Generating human portraits is a hot topic in the image generation area, e.g. mask-to-face generation and text-to-face generation. However, these unimodal generation methods lack controllability in image generation. Controllability can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Debin Meng , Christos Tzelepis , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Speech-driven 3D facial animation aims to generate realistic and expressive facial motions directly from audio. While recent methods achieve high-quality lip synchronization, they often rely on discrete emotion categories, limiting…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Diqiong Jiang , Kai Zhu , Dan Song , Jian Chang , Chenglizhao Chen , Zhenyu Wu

All previous methods for audio-driven talking head generation assume the input audio to be clean with a neutral tone. As we show empirically, one can easily break these systems by simply adding certain background noise to the utterance or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Gaurav Mittal , Baoyuan Wang

Current facial emotion recognition systems are predominately trained to predict a fixed set of predefined categories or abstract dimensional values. This constrained form of supervision hinders generalization and applicability, as it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Licai Sun , Xingxun Jiang , Haoyu Chen , Yante Li , Zheng Lian , Biu Liu , Yuan Zong , Wenming Zheng , Jukka M. Leppänen , Guoying Zhao

In human-centric content generation, the pre-trained text-to-image models struggle to produce user-wanted portrait images, which retain the identity of individuals while exhibiting diverse expressions. This paper introduces our efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Renshuai Liu , Bowen Ma , Wei Zhang , Zhipeng Hu , Changjie Fan , Tangjie Lv , Yu Ding , Xuan Cheng

This paper explores multi-modal controllable Text-to-Speech Synthesis (TTS) where the voice can be generated from face image, and the characteristics of output speech (e.g., pace, noise level, distance, tone, place) can be controllable with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Minsu Kim , Pingchuan Ma , Honglie Chen , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Audio-driven emotional 3D facial animation aims to generate synchronized lip movements and vivid facial expressions. However, most existing approaches focus on static and predefined emotion labels, limiting their diversity and naturalness.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Chang Liu , Ye Pan , Chenyang Ding , Susanto Rahardja , Xiaokang Yang

Recently deep generative models have achieved impressive results in the field of automated facial expression editing. However, the approaches presented so far presume a discrete representation of human emotions and are therefore limited in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Alexandra Lindt , Pablo Barros , Henrique Siqueira , Stefan Wermter