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Social interactions incorporate nonverbal signals to convey emotions alongside speech, including facial expressions and body gestures. Generative models have demonstrated promising results in creating full-body nonverbal animations…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Kiran Chhatre , Renan Guarese , Andrii Matviienko , Christopher Peters

Creating a realistic animatable avatar from a single static portrait remains challenging. Existing approaches often struggle to capture subtle facial expressions, the associated global body movements, and the dynamic background. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mengchao Wang , Qiang Wang , Fan Jiang , Yaqi Fan , Yunpeng Zhang , Yonggang Qi , Kun Zhao , Mu Xu

Talking head synthesis, an advanced method for generating portrait videos from a still image driven by specific content, has garnered widespread attention in virtual reality, augmented reality and game production. Recently, significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Ming Meng , Yufei Zhao , Bo Zhang , Yonggui Zhu , Weimin Shi , Maxwell Wen , Zhaoxin Fan

This work addresses the problem of generating 3D holistic body motions from human speech. Given a speech recording, we synthesize sequences of 3D body poses, hand gestures, and facial expressions that are realistic and diverse. To achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Hongwei Yi , Hualin Liang , Yifei Liu , Qiong Cao , Yandong Wen , Timo Bolkart , Dacheng Tao , Michael J. Black

Synthesizing high-quality 3D face models from natural language descriptions is very valuable for many applications, including avatar creation, virtual reality, and telepresence. However, little research ever tapped into this task. We argue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Menghua Wu , Hao Zhu , Linjia Huang , Yiyu Zhuang , Yuanxun Lu , Xun Cao

While accurate lip synchronization has been achieved for arbitrary-subject audio-driven talking face generation, the problem of how to efficiently drive the head pose remains. Previous methods rely on pre-estimated structural information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Hang Zhou , Yasheng Sun , Wayne Wu , Chen Change Loy , Xiaogang Wang , Ziwei Liu

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

Talking head synthesis with arbitrary speech audio is a crucial challenge in the field of digital humans. Recently, methods based on radiance fields have received increasing attention due to their ability to synthesize high-fidelity and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yifan Xie , Tao Feng , Xin Zhang , Xiangyang Luo , Zixuan Guo , Weijiang Yu , Heng Chang , Fei Ma , Fei Richard Yu

We present a novel approach for synthesizing 3D facial motions from audio sequences using key motion embeddings. Despite recent advancements in data-driven techniques, accurately mapping between audio signals and 3D facial meshes remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhihao Xu , Shengjie Gong , Jiapeng Tang , Lingyu Liang , Yining Huang , Haojie Li , Shuangping Huang

Recently audio-driven talking face video generation has attracted considerable attention. However, very few researches address the issue of emotional editing of these talking face videos with continuously controllable expressions, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zhiyao Sun , Yu-Hui Wen , Tian Lv , Yanan Sun , Ziyang Zhang , Yaoyuan Wang , Yong-Jin Liu

The human face is central to communication. For immersive applications, the digital presence of a person should mirror the physical reality, capturing the users idiosyncrasies and detailed facial expressions. However, current 3D head avatar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jalees Nehvi , Timo Bolkart , Thabo Beeler , Justus Thies

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

We propose GaussianTalker, a novel framework for real-time generation of pose-controllable talking heads. It leverages the fast rendering capabilities of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) while addressing the challenges of directly controlling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Kyusun Cho , Joungbin Lee , Heeji Yoon , Yeobin Hong , Jaehoon Ko , Sangjun Ahn , Seungryong Kim

In this paper, we consider a novel and practical case for talking face video generation. Specifically, we focus on the scenarios involving multi-people interactions, where the talking context, such as audience or surroundings, is present.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Meidai Xuanyuan , Yuwang Wang , Honglei Guo , Qionghai Dai

Humor is a central aspect of human communication that has not been solved for artificial agents so far. Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly able to capture implicit and contextual information. Especially, OpenAI's ChatGPT recently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Sophie Jentzsch , Kristian Kersting

High-fidelity and efficient audio-driven talking head generation has been a key research topic in computer graphics and computer vision. In this work, we study vector image based audio-driven talking head generation. Compared with directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Hao Hu , Xuan Wang , Jingxiang Sun , Yanbo Fan , Yu Guo , Caigui Jiang

In this work, we address the problem of 4D facial expressions generation. This is usually addressed by animating a neutral 3D face to reach an expression peak, and then get back to the neutral state. In the real world though, people show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Naima Otberdout , Claudio Ferrari , Mohamed Daoudi , Stefano Berretti , Alberto Del Bimbo

The facial expression generation capability of humanoid social robots is critical for achieving natural and human-like interactions, playing a vital role in enhancing the fluidity of human-robot interactions and the accuracy of emotional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yongtong Zhu , Lei Li , Iggy Qian , WenBin Zhou , Ye Yuan , Qingdu Li , Na Liu , Jianwei Zhang

Generating vivid and diverse 3D co-speech gestures is crucial for various applications in animating virtual avatars. While most existing methods can generate gestures from audio directly, they usually overlook that emotion is one of the key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Xingqun Qi , Chen Liu , Lincheng Li , Jie Hou , Haoran Xin , Xin Yu

This paper investigates a novel task of talking face video generation solely from speeches. The speech-to-video generation technique can spark interesting applications in entertainment, customer service, and human-computer-interaction…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Shijing Si , Jianzong Wang , Xiaoyang Qu , Ning Cheng , Wenqi Wei , Xinghua Zhu , Jing Xiao