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Relightable portrait animation aims to animate a static reference portrait to match the head movements and expressions of a driving video while adapting to user-specified or reference lighting conditions. Existing portrait animation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Mingtao Guo , Guanyu Xing , Yanli Liu

Audio-driven facial reenactment is a crucial technique that has a range of applications in film-making, virtual avatars and video conferences. Existing works either employ explicit intermediate face representations (e.g., 2D facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Ricong Huang , Peiwen Lai , Yipeng Qin , Guanbin Li

We introduce a novel method for joint expression and audio-guided talking face generation. Recent approaches either struggle to preserve the speaker identity or fail to produce faithful facial expressions. To address these challenges, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Sai Tanmay Reddy Chakkera , Aggelina Chatziagapi , Dimitris Samaras

Generating portrait images by controlling the motions of existing faces is an important task of great consequence to social media industries. For easy use and intuitive control, semantically meaningful and fully disentangled parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Yurui Ren , Ge Li , Yuanqi Chen , Thomas H. Li , Shan Liu

We propose an audio-driven talking-head method to generate photo-realistic talking-head videos from a single reference image. In this work, we tackle two key challenges: (i) producing natural head motions that match speech prosody, and (ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Suzhen Wang , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Changjie Fan , Xin Yu

Reconstructing 3D assets from images has long required separate pipelines for geometry reconstruction, material estimation, and illumination recovery, each with distinct limitations and computational overhead. We present ReLi3D, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jan-Niklas Dihlmann , Mark Boss , Simon Donne , Andreas Engelhardt , Hendrik P. A. Lensch , Varun Jampani

We present a learning-based technique for estimating high dynamic range (HDR), omnidirectional illumination from a single low dynamic range (LDR) portrait image captured under arbitrary indoor or outdoor lighting conditions. We train our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Chloe LeGendre , Wan-Chun Ma , Rohit Pandey , Sean Fanello , Christoph Rhemann , Jason Dourgarian , Jay Busch , Paul Debevec

Talking face generation aims to synthesize realistic speaking portraits from a single image, yet existing methods often rely on explicit optical flow and local warping, which fail to model complex global motions and cause identity drift. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Bo Chen , Tao Liu , Qi Chen , Xie Chen , Zilong Zheng

Manipulating the illumination of a 3D scene within a single image represents a fundamental challenge in computer vision and graphics. This problem has traditionally been addressed using inverse rendering techniques, which involve explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Shrisha Bharadwaj , Haiwen Feng , Giorgio Becherini , Victoria Fernandez Abrevaya , Michael J. Black

Portrait Animation aims to synthesize a lifelike video from a single source image, using it as an appearance reference, with motion (i.e., facial expressions and head pose) derived from a driving video, audio, text, or generation. Instead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Jianzhu Guo , Dingyun Zhang , Xiaoqiang Liu , Zhizhou Zhong , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang

We present a method that generates expressive talking heads from a single facial image with audio as the only input. In contrast to previous approaches that attempt to learn direct mappings from audio to raw pixels or points for creating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Yang Zhou , Xintong Han , Eli Shechtman , Jose Echevarria , Evangelos Kalogerakis , Dingzeyu Li

In this work, we introduce the first autoregressive framework for real-time, audio-driven portrait animation, a.k.a, talking head. Beyond the challenge of lengthy animation times, a critical challenge in realistic talking head generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Dingcheng Zhen , Shunshun Yin , Shiyang Qin , Hou Yi , Ziwei Zhang , Siyuan Liu , Gan Qi , Ming Tao

The generation and editing of audio-conditioned talking portraits guided by multimodal inputs, including text, images, and videos, remains under explored. In this paper, we present SkyReels-Audio, a unified framework for synthesizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zhengcong Fei , Hao Jiang , Di Qiu , Baoxuan Gu , Youqiang Zhang , Jiahua Wang , Jialin Bai , Debang Li , Mingyuan Fan , Guibin Chen , Yahui Zhou

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

Diffusion-based video generation techniques have significantly improved zero-shot talking-head avatar generation, enhancing the naturalness of both head motion and facial expressions. However, existing methods suffer from poor…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Lingzhou Mu , Baiji Liu , Ruonan Zhang , Guiming Mo , Jiawei Jin , Kai Zhang , Haozhi Huang

Real-world talking faces often accompany with natural head movement. However, most existing talking face video generation methods only consider facial animation with fixed head pose. In this paper, we address this problem by proposing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Ran Yi , Zipeng Ye , Juyong Zhang , Hujun Bao , Yong-Jin Liu

In this work, a system for creating a relightable 3D portrait of a human head is presented. Our neural pipeline operates on a sequence of frames captured by a smartphone camera with the flash blinking (flash-no flash sequence). A coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Artem Sevastopolsky , Savva Ignatiev , Gonzalo Ferrer , Evgeny Burnaev , Victor Lempitsky

With the introduction of diffusion-based video generation techniques, audio-conditioned human video generation has recently achieved significant breakthroughs in both the naturalness of motion and the synthesis of portrait details. Due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Jianwen Jiang , Chao Liang , Jiaqi Yang , Gaojie Lin , Tianyun Zhong , Yanbo Zheng

For audio-driven visual dubbing, it remains a considerable challenge to uphold and highlight speaker's persona while synthesizing accurate lip synchronization. Existing methods fall short of capturing speaker's unique speaking style or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Longhao Zhang , Shuang Liang , Zhipeng Ge , Tianshu Hu

Human relighting is a highly desirable yet challenging task. Existing works either require expensive one-light-at-a-time (OLAT) captured data using light stage or cannot freely change the viewpoints of the rendered body. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Zhaoxi Chen , Ziwei Liu