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We leverage the modern advancements in talking head generation to propose an end-to-end system for talking head video compression. Our algorithm transmits pivot frames intermittently while the rest of the talking head video is generated by…

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

We present Free-HeadGAN, a person-generic neural talking head synthesis system. We show that modeling faces with sparse 3D facial landmarks are sufficient for achieving state-of-the-art generative performance, without relying on strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Michail Christos Doukas , Evangelos Ververas , Viktoriia Sharmanska , Stefanos Zafeiriou

We present a novel approach for the task of human pose transfer, which aims at synthesizing a new image of a person from an input image of that person and a target pose. We address the issues of limited correspondences identified between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Yining Li , Chen Huang , Chen Change Loy

We introduce FaceTalk, a novel generative approach designed for synthesizing high-fidelity 3D motion sequences of talking human heads from input audio signal. To capture the expressive, detailed nature of human heads, including hair, ears,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Shivangi Aneja , Justus Thies , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

We propose a novel learned deep prior of body motion for 3D hand shape synthesis and estimation in the domain of conversational gestures. Our model builds upon the insight that body motion and hand gestures are strongly correlated in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Evonne Ng , Shiry Ginosar , Trevor Darrell , Hanbyul Joo

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

In this paper, we propose a novel machine learning architecture for facial reenactment. In particular, contrary to the model-based approaches or recent frame-based methods that use Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Mohammad Rami Koujan , Michail Christos Doukas , Anastasios Roussos , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Existing methods for human motion control in video generation typically rely on either 2D poses or explicit 3D parametric models (e.g., SMPL) as control signals. However, 2D poses rigidly bind motion to the driving viewpoint, precluding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zhixue Fang , Xu He , Songlin Tang , Haoxian Zhang , Qingfeng Li , Xiaoqiang Liu , Pengfei Wan , Kun Gai

We present Style3D, a novel approach for generating stylized 3D objects from a content image and a style image. Unlike most previous methods that require case- or style-specific training, Style3D supports instant 3D object stylization. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Bingjie Song , Xin Huang , Ruting Xie , Xue Wang , Qing Wang

The one-shot talking-head synthesis task aims to animate a source image to another pose and expression, which is dictated by a driving frame. Recent methods rely on warping the appearance feature extracted from the source, by using motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Kangning Liu , Yu-Chuan Su , Wei , Hong , Ruijin Cang , Xuhui Jia

Text-to-video models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in producing diverse and captivating video content, showcasing a notable advancement in generative AI. However, these models generally lack fine-grained control over motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Tuna Han Salih Meral , Hidir Yesiltepe , Connor Dunlop , Pinar Yanardag

To the best of our knowledge, we first present a live system that generates personalized photorealistic talking-head animation only driven by audio signals at over 30 fps. Our system contains three stages. The first stage is a deep neural…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Yuanxun Lu , Jinxiang Chai , Xun Cao

The transfer of facial expressions from people to 3D face models is a classic computer graphics problem. In this paper, we present a novel, learning-based approach to transferring facial expressions and head movements from images and videos…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Xiao S. Zeng , Surya Dwarakanath , Wuyue Lu , Masaki Nakada , Demetri Terzopoulos

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

The generation of stylistic 3D facial animations driven by speech presents a significant challenge as it requires learning a many-to-many mapping between speech, style, and the corresponding natural facial motion. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Zhiyao Sun , Tian Lv , Sheng Ye , Matthieu Lin , Jenny Sheng , Yu-Hui Wen , Minjing Yu , Yong-Jin Liu

We introduce a novel approach for high-resolution talking head generation from a single image and audio input. Prior methods using explicit face models, like 3D morphable models (3DMM) and facial landmarks, often fall short in generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Sejong Yang , Seoung Wug Oh , Yang Zhou , Seon Joo Kim

Recent advances in neural portrait animation have demonstrated remarked potential for applications in virtual avatars, telepresence, and digital content creation. However, traditional explicit warping approaches often struggle with accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Shihang Li , Zhiqiang Gong , Minming Ye , Yue Gao , Wen Yao

Transferring human motion and appearance between videos of human actors remains one of the key challenges in Computer Vision. Despite the advances from recent image-to-image translation approaches, there are several transferring contexts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Thiago L. Gomes , Renato Martins , João Ferreira , Rafael Azevedo , Guilherme Torres , Erickson R. Nascimento

In order to be widely applicable, speech-driven 3D head avatars must articulate their lips in accordance with speech, while also conveying the appropriate emotions with dynamically changing facial expressions. The key problem is that…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Radek Daněček , Carolin Schmitt , Senya Polikovsky , Michael J. Black

Motion transfer from the driving to the source portrait remains a key challenge in the portrait animation. Current diffusion-based approaches condition only on the driving motion, which fails to capture source-to-driving correspondences and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yating Xu , Yunqi Miao , Evangelos Ververas , Jiankang Deng , Jifei Song