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Realistic, high-fidelity 3D facial animations are crucial for expressive avatar systems in human-computer interaction and accessibility. Although prior methods show promising quality, their reliance on the mesh domain limits their ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Alexandre Symeonidis-Herzig , Özge Mercanoğlu Sincan , Richard Bowden

Realistic talking-head video generation is critical for virtual avatars, film production, and interactive systems. Current methods struggle with nuanced emotional expressions due to the lack of fine-grained emotion control. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiayi Lyu , Leigang Qu , Wenjing Zhang , Hanyu Jiang , Kai Liu , Zhenglin Zhou , Xiaobo Xia , Jian Xue , Tat-Seng Chua

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

Audio-driven talking head generation has drawn growing attention. To produce talking head videos with desired facial expressions, previous methods rely on extra reference videos to provide expression information, which may be difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yifeng Ma , Suzhen Wang , Yu Ding , Bowen Ma , Tangjie Lv , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu , Zhidong Deng , Xin Yu

Combining face swapping with lip synchronization technology offers a cost-effective solution for customized talking face generation. However, directly cascading existing models together tends to introduce significant interference between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Zeren Zhang , Haibo Qin , Jiayu Huang , Yixin Li , Hui Lin , Yitao Duan , Jinwen Ma

In this study, we propose AniPortrait, a novel framework for generating high-quality animation driven by audio and a reference portrait image. Our methodology is divided into two stages. Initially, we extract 3D intermediate representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Huawei Wei , Zejun Yang , Zhisheng Wang

Recent advances in deep learning for sequential data have given rise to fast and powerful models that produce realistic videos of talking humans. The state of the art in talking face generation focuses mainly on lip-syncing, being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Georgios Milis , Panagiotis P. Filntisis , Anastasios Roussos , Petros Maragos

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

Speech-driven 3D facial animation technology has been developed for years, but its practical application still lacks expectations. The main challenges lie in data limitations, lip alignment, and the naturalness of facial expressions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xiangyu Liang , Wenlin Zhuang , Tianyong Wang , Guangxing Geng , Guangyue Geng , Haifeng Xia , Siyu Xia

Current generative video models excel at producing novel content from text and image prompts, but leave a critical gap in editing existing pre-recorded videos, where minor alterations to the spoken script require preserving motion, temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 John Flynn , Wolfgang Paier , Dimitar Dinev , Sam Nhut Nguyen , Hayk Poghosyan , Manuel Toribio , Sandipan Banerjee , Guy Gafni

Vision-guided speech generation aims to produce authentic speech from facial appearance or lip motions without relying on auditory signals, offering significant potential for applications such as dubbing in filmmaking and assisting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Jiaxin Ye , Hongming Shan

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

Creating realistic, natural, and lip-readable talking face videos remains a formidable challenge. Previous research primarily concentrated on generating and aligning single-frame images while overlooking the smoothness of frame-to-frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Shuheng Ge , Haoyu Xing , Li Zhang , Xiangqian Wu

Audio-driven single-image talking portrait generation plays a crucial role in virtual reality, digital human creation, and filmmaking. Existing approaches are generally categorized into keypoint-based and image-based methods. Keypoint-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Chaolong Yang , Kai Yao , Yuyao Yan , Chenru Jiang , Weiguang Zhao , Jie Sun , Guangliang Cheng , Yifei Zhang , Bin Dong , Kaizhu Huang

In filmmaking, directors typically allow actors to perform freely based on the script before providing specific guidance on how to present key actions. AI-generated content faces similar requirements, where users not only need automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zheng Qin , Ruobing Zheng , Yabing Wang , Tianqi Li , Zixin Zhu , Sanping Zhou , Ming Yang , Le Wang

The task of talking head generation is to synthesize a lip synchronized talking head video by inputting an arbitrary face image and audio clips. Most existing methods ignore the local driving information of the mouth muscles. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Sen Chen , Zhilei Liu , Jiaxing Liu , Zhengxiang Yan , Longbiao Wang

Audio-Driven Talking Face Generation aims at generating realistic videos of talking faces, focusing on accurate audio-lip synchronization without deteriorating any identity-related visual details. Recent state-of-the-art methods are based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Dogucan Yaman , Fevziye Irem Eyiokur , Leonard Bärmann , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Alexander Waibel

Gaze and head movements play a central role in expressive 3D media, human-agent interaction, and immersive communication. Existing works often model facial components in isolation and lack mechanisms for generating personalized, style-aware…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Chengwei Shi , Chong Cao

The one-shot talking-head generation learns to synthesize a talking-head video with one source portrait image under the driving of same or different identity video. Usually these methods require plane-based pixel transformations via Jacobin…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Luchuan Song , Pinxin Liu , Guojun Yin , Chenliang Xu

We propose Dimitra++, a novel framework for audio-driven talking head generation, streamlined to learn lip motion, facial expression, as well as head pose motion. Specifically, we propose a conditional Motion Diffusion Transformer (cMDT) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Baptiste Chopin , Tashvik Dhamija , Pranav Balaji , Yaohui Wang , Antitza Dantcheva