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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

Talking head video generation aims to generate a realistic talking head video that preserves the person's identity from a source image and the motion from a driving video. Despite the promising progress made in the field, it remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Shuling Zhao , Fa-Ting Hong , Xiaoshui Huang , Dan Xu

Generating synchronized and natural lip movement with speech is one of the most important tasks in creating realistic virtual characters. In this paper, we present a combined deep neural network of one-dimensional convolutions and LSTM to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Xiaohong Li , Xiang Wang , Kai Wang , Shiguo Lian

Recent advances in audio-synchronized visual animation enable control of video content using audios from specific classes. However, existing methods rely heavily on expensive manual curation of high-quality, class-specific training videos,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Lin Zhang , Zefan Cai , Yufan Zhou , Shentong Mo , Jinhong Lin , Cheng-En Wu , Yibing Wei , Yijing Zhang , Ruiyi Zhang , Wen Xiao , Tong Sun , Junjie Hu , Pedro Morgado

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Xuangeng Chu , Nabarun Goswami , Ziteng Cui , Hanqin Wang , Tatsuya Harada

Talking Head Generation (THG) has emerged as a transformative technology in computer vision, enabling the synthesis of realistic human faces synchronized with image, audio, text, or video inputs. This paper provides a comprehensive review…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Vineet Kumar Rakesh , Soumya Mazumdar , Research Pratim Maity , Sarbajit Pal , Amitabha Das , Tapas Samanta

Understanding the lip movement and inferring the speech from it is notoriously difficult for the common person. The task of accurate lip-reading gets help from various cues of the speaker and its contextual or environmental setting. Every…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Munender Varshney , Ravindra Yadav , Vinay P. Namboodiri , Rajesh M Hegde

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

Audio-driven talking-head generation has advanced rapidly with diffusion-based generative models, yet producing temporally coherent videos with fine-grained motion control remains challenging. We propose DEMO, a flow-matching generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Peiyin Chen , Zhuowei Yang , Hui Feng , Sheng Jiang , Rui Yan

The task of talking head generation is to synthesize a lip synchronized talking head video by inputting an arbitrary face image and audio clips. Most existing methods ignore the local driving information of the mouth muscles. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Sen Chen , Zhilei Liu , Jiaxing Liu , Zhengxiang Yan , Longbiao Wang

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

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

We tackle the challenging task of generating complete 3D facial animations for two interacting, co-located participants from a mixed audio stream. While existing methods often produce disembodied "talking heads" akin to a video conference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mengyi Shan , Shouchieh Chang , Ziqian Bai , Shichen Liu , Yinda Zhang , Luchuan Song , Rohit Pandey , Sean Fanello , Zeng Huang

Talking face generation aims to synthesize a face video with precise lip synchronization as well as a smooth transition of facial motion over the entire video via the given speech clip and facial image. Most existing methods mainly focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Hao Zhu , Huaibo Huang , Yi Li , Aihua Zheng , Ran He

Current audio-driven 3D head generation methods mainly focus on single-speaker scenarios, lacking natural, bidirectional listen-and-speak interaction. Achieving seamless conversational behavior, where speaking and listening states…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Lei Zhu , Lijian Lin , Ye Zhu , Jiahao Wu , Xuehan Hou , Yu Li , Yunfei Liu , Jie Chen

This work proposes a novel method to generate realistic talking head videos using audio and visual streams. We animate a source image by transferring head motion from a driving video using a dense motion field generated using learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Madhav Agarwal , Rudrabha Mukhopadhyay , Vinay Namboodiri , C V Jawahar

Despite numerous completed studies, achieving high fidelity talking face generation with highly synchronized lip movements corresponding to arbitrary audio remains a significant challenge in the field. The shortcomings of published studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Juan Zhang , Jiahao Chen , Cheng Wang , Zhiwang Yu , Tangquan Qi , Di Wu

This work focuses on full-body co-speech gesture generation. Existing methods typically employ an autoregressive model accompanied by vector-quantized tokens for gesture generation, which results in information loss and compromises the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Binjie Liu , Lina Liu , Sanyi Zhang , Songen Gu , Yihao Zhi , Tianyi Zhu , Lei Yang , Long Ye

Significant progress has been made in talking-face video generation research; however, precise lip-audio synchronization and high visual quality remain challenging in editing lip shapes based on input audio. This paper introduces JoyGen, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Qili Wang , Dajiang Wu , Zihang Xu , Junshi Huang , Jun Lv

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