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Audio-driven talking-head generation has achieved remarkable progress with recent models such as AniTalker, FLOAT, and Sonic. Despite their success, most existing approaches rely on a single static reference image to condition the entire…

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Deep learning has been widely adopted in automatic emotion recognition and has lead to significant progress in the field. However, due to insufficient annotated emotion datasets, pre-trained models are limited in their generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Dung Nguyen , Sridha Sridharan , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Simon Denman , David Dean , Clinton Fookes

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) approaches generally require a huge number of high quality speech data, which makes it difficult to obtain such a dataset with extra emotion labels. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for emotional TTS…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Xiong Cai , Dongyang Dai , Zhiyong Wu , Xiang Li , Jingbei Li , Helen Meng

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

Automatic emotion recognition plays a key role in computer-human interaction as it has the potential to enrich the next-generation artificial intelligence with emotional intelligence. It finds applications in customer and/or representative…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Sarala Padi , Seyed Omid Sadjadi , Dinesh Manocha , Ram D. Sriram

3D Gaussian splatting-based talking head synthesis has recently gained attention for its ability to render high-fidelity images with real-time inference speed. However, since it is typically trained on only a short video that lacks the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Junuk Cha , Seongro Yoon , Valeriya Strizhkova , Francois Bremond , Seungryul Baek

Speech emotion conversion is the task of converting the expressed emotion of a spoken utterance to a target emotion while preserving the lexical content and speaker identity. While most existing works in speech emotion conversion rely on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Navin Raj Prabhu , Bunlong Lay , Simon Welker , Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock , Timo Gerkmann

Speech emotion recognition (SER) with audio-language models (ALMs) remains vulnerable to distribution shifts at test time, leading to performance degradation in out-of-domain scenarios. Test-time adaptation (TTA) provides a promising…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jiacheng Shi , Hongfei Du , Y. Alicia Hong , Ye Gao

Although significant progress has been made to audio-driven talking face generation, existing methods either neglect facial emotion or cannot be applied to arbitrary subjects. In this paper, we propose the Emotion-Aware Motion Model (EAMM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Xinya Ji , Hang Zhou , Kaisiyuan Wang , Qianyi Wu , Wayne Wu , Feng Xu , Xun Cao

The task of audio-driven portrait animation involves generating a talking head video using an identity image and an audio track of speech. While many existing approaches focus on lip synchronization and video quality, few tackle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Jian Zhang , Weijian Mai , Zhijun Zhang

Audio-driven 3D talking head synthesis has advanced rapidly with Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). By leveraging rich pre-trained priors, few-shot methods enable instant personalization from just a few seconds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Haolan Xu , Keli Cheng , Lei Wang , Ning Bi , Xiaoming Liu

Modern perception models, particularly those designed for multisensory egocentric tasks, have achieved remarkable performance but often come with substantial computational costs. These high demands pose challenges for real-world deployment,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Sanjoy Chowdhury , Subrata Biswas , Sayan Nag , Tushar Nagarajan , Calvin Murdock , Ishwarya Ananthabhotla , Yijun Qian , Vamsi Krishna Ithapu , Dinesh Manocha , Ruohan Gao

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

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

It is in high demand to generate facial animation with high realism, but it remains a challenging task. Existing approaches of speech-driven facial animation can produce satisfactory mouth movement and lip synchronization, but show weakness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Yutong Chen , Junhong Zhao , Wei-Qiang Zhang

Emotion is a critical component of artificial social intelligence. However, while current methods excel in lip synchronization and image quality, they often fail to generate accurate and controllable emotional expressions while preserving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Wenqing Wang , Yun Fu

Despite the remarkable progress made in synthesizing emotional speech from text, it is still challenging to provide emotion information to existing speech segments. Previous methods mainly rely on parallel data, and few works have studied…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Xiaoqi Jia , Jianwei Tai , Hang Zhou , Yakai Li , Weijuan Zhang , Haichao Du , Qingjia Huang

Generating vivid and emotional 3D co-speech gestures is crucial for virtual avatar animation in human-machine interaction applications. While the existing methods enable generating the gestures to follow a single emotion label, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Xingqun Qi , Jiahao Pan , Peng Li , Ruibin Yuan , Xiaowei Chi , Mengfei Li , Wenhan Luo , Wei Xue , Shanghang Zhang , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

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

Emotion and intent recognition from speech is essential and has been widely investigated in human-computer interaction. The rapid development of social media platforms, chatbots, and other technologies has led to a large volume of speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zhao Ren , Rathi Adarshi Rammohan , Kevin Scheck , Sheng Li , Tanja Schultz