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Speech-driven 3D face animation technique, extending its applications to various multimedia fields. Previous research has generated promising realistic lip movements and facial expressions from audio signals. However, traditional regression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Ziqiao Peng , Yihao Luo , Yue Shi , Hao Xu , Xiangyu Zhu , Jun He , Hongyan Liu , Zhaoxin Fan

Similar to facial beautification in real life, 3D virtual avatars require personalized customization to enhance their visual appeal, yet this area remains insufficiently explored. Although current 3D Gaussian editing methods can be adapted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yiming Zhong , Xiaolin Zhang , Ligang Liu , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

The ability to create high-quality 3D faces from a single image has become increasingly important with wide applications in video conferencing, AR/VR, and advanced video editing in movie industries. In this paper, we propose Face Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Hao Zhang , Yanbo Xu , Tianyuan Dai , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Identity-preserving face synthesis aims to generate synthetic face images of virtual subjects that can substitute real-world data for training face recognition models. While prior arts strive to create images with consistent identities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yuxi Mi , Zhizhou Zhong , Yuge Huang , Qiuyang Yuan , Xuan Zhao , Jianqing Xu , Shouhong Ding , ShaoMing Wang , Rizen Guo , Shuigeng Zhou

Synthesizing personalized talking faces that uphold and highlight a speaker's unique style while maintaining lip-sync accuracy remains a significant challenge. A primary limitation of existing approaches is the intrinsic confounding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Renjie Lu , Xulong Zhang , Xiaoyang Qu , Jianzong Wang , Shangfei Wang

This technical report presents a diffusion model based framework for face swapping between two portrait images. The basic framework consists of three components, i.e., IP-Adapter, ControlNet, and Stable Diffusion's inpainting pipeline, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Feifei Wang

Diffusion-based models have gained wide adoption in the virtual human generation due to their outstanding expressiveness. However, their substantial computational requirements have constrained their deployment in real-time interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Haojie Yu , Zhaonian Wang , Yihan Pan , Meng Cheng , Hao Yang , Chao Wang , Tao Xie , Xiaoming Xu , Xiaoming Wei , Xunliang Cai

We introduce GaussianSpeech, a novel approach that synthesizes high-fidelity animation sequences of photo-realistic, personalized 3D human head avatars from spoken audio. To capture the expressive, detailed nature of human heads, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Shivangi Aneja , Artem Sevastopolsky , Tobias Kirschstein , Justus Thies , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

To be widely adopted, 3D facial avatars must be animated easily, realistically, and directly from speech signals. While the best recent methods generate 3D animations that are synchronized with the input audio, they largely ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Radek Daněček , Kiran Chhatre , Shashank Tripathi , Yandong Wen , Michael J. Black , Timo Bolkart

In recent years, the field of talking faces generation has attracted considerable attention, with certain methods adept at generating virtual faces that convincingly imitate human expressions. However, existing methods face challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Bingyuan Zhang , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jun Yu , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

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

Facial attribute editing and style manipulation are crucial for applications like virtual avatars and photo editing. However, achieving precise control over facial attributes without altering unrelated features is challenging due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Wenmin Huang , Weiqi Luo , Xiaochun Cao , Jiwu Huang

How much can we infer about an emotional voice solely from an expressive face? This intriguing question holds great potential for applications such as virtual character dubbing and aiding individuals with expressive language disorders.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jiaxin Ye , Boyuan Cao , Hongming Shan

Facial Appearance Editing (FAE) aims to modify physical attributes, such as pose, expression and lighting, of human facial images while preserving attributes like identity and background, showing great importance in photograph. In spite of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Qilin Wang , Jiangning Zhang , Chengming Xu , Weijian Cao , Ying Tai , Yue Han , Yanhao Ge , Hong Gu , Chengjie Wang , Yanwei Fu

This paper presents a novel Expressive Facial Control (ExFace) method based on Diffusion Transformers, which achieves precise mapping from human facial blendshapes to bionic robot motor control. By incorporating an innovative model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Dong Zhang , Jingwei Peng , Yuyang Jiao , Jiayuan Gu , Jingyi Yu , Jiahao Chen

We consider the task of animating 3D facial geometry from speech signal. Existing works are primarily deterministic, focusing on learning a one-to-one mapping from speech signal to 3D face meshes on small datasets with limited speakers.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Karren D. Yang , Anurag Ranjan , Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Raviteja Vemulapalli , Oncel Tuzel

Audio-driven talking face video generation has attracted increasing attention due to its huge industrial potential. Some previous methods focus on learning a direct mapping from audio to visual content. Despite progress, they often struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Weizhi Zhong , Junfan Lin , Peixin Chen , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

In recent years, audio-driven 3D facial animation has gained significant attention, particularly in applications such as virtual reality, gaming, and video conferencing. However, accurately modeling the intricate and subtle dynamics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Guinan Su , Yanwu Yang , Zhifeng Li

The objective of this work is to extract target speaker's voice from a mixture of voices using visual cues. Existing works on audio-visual speech separation have demonstrated their performance with promising intelligibility, but maintaining…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Suyeon Lee , Chaeyoung Jung , Youngjoon Jang , Jaehun Kim , Joon Son Chung

Speech-driven 3D face animation aims to generate realistic facial expressions that match the speech content and emotion. However, existing methods often neglect emotional facial expressions or fail to disentangle them from speech content.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Ziqiao Peng , Haoyu Wu , Zhenbo Song , Hao Xu , Xiangyu Zhu , Jun He , Hongyan Liu , Zhaoxin Fan