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Speech-driven 3D facial animation with accurate lip synchronization has been widely studied. However, synthesizing realistic motions for the entire face during speech has rarely been explored. In this work, we present a joint audio-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yingruo Fan , Zhaojiang Lin , Jun Saito , Wenping Wang , Taku Komura

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

Turn-taking is richly multimodal. Predictive turn-taking models (PTTMs) facilitate naturalistic human-robot interaction, yet most rely solely on speech. We introduce MM-VAP, a multimodal PTTM which combines speech with visual cues including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Sam O'Connor Russell , Naomi Harte

Speech-driven 3D facial animation is challenging due to the diversity in speaking styles and the limited availability of 3D audio-visual data. Speech predominantly dictates the coarse motion trends of the lip region, while specific styles…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-14 An Yang , Chenyu Liu , Pengcheng Xia , Jun Du

Creating personalized 3D animations with precise control and realistic head motions remains challenging for current speech-driven 3D facial animation methods. Editing these animations is especially complex and time consuming, requires…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Balamurugan Thambiraja , Malte Prinzler , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Darren Cosker , Justus Thies

Audio-Driven Face Animation is an eagerly anticipated technique for applications such as VR/AR, games, and movie making. With the rapid development of 3D engines, there is an increasing demand for driving 3D faces with audio. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Haozhe Wu , Jia Jia , Junliang Xing , Hongwei Xu , Xiangyuan Wang , Jelo Wang

We introduce SEDTalker, an emotion-aware framework for speech-driven 3D facial animation that leverages frame-level speech emotion diarization to achieve fine-grained expressive control. Unlike prior approaches that rely on utterance-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Farzaneh Jafari , Stefano Berretti , Anup Basu

Talking face generation aims to synthesize realistic speaking portraits from a single image, yet existing methods often rely on explicit optical flow and local warping, which fail to model complex global motions and cause identity drift. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Bo Chen , Tao Liu , Qi Chen , Xie Chen , Zilong Zheng

Speech-driven 3D talking heads generation has emerged as a significant area of interest among researchers, presenting numerous challenges. Existing methods are constrained by animating faces with fixed topologies, wherein point-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Federico Nocentini , Thomas Besnier , Claudio Ferrari , Sylvain Arguillere , Stefano Berretti , Mohamed Daoudi

The generation of emotional talking faces from a single portrait image remains a significant challenge. The simultaneous achievement of expressive emotional talking and accurate lip-sync is particularly difficult, as expressiveness is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Chenxu Zhang , Chao Wang , Jianfeng Zhang , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , You Xie , Linjie Luo , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo , Jiashi Feng

Audio-driven facial animation has made significant progress in multimedia applications, with diffusion models showing strong potential for talking-face synthesis. However, most existing works treat speech features as a monolithic…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Tianle Lyu , Junchuan Zhao , Ye Wang

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has recently garnered attention due to its cost-effective usability in multimedia production. However, most current advances overlook the intelligibility of lip movements, limiting the realism of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Han EunGi , Oh Hyun-Bin , Kim Sung-Bin , Corentin Nivelet Etcheberry , Suekyeong Nam , Janghoon Joo , Tae-Hyun Oh

Audio-driven talking head generation has drawn much attention in recent years, and many efforts have been made in lip-sync, expressive facial expressions, natural head pose generation, and high video quality. However, no model has yet led…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Xusen Sun , Longhao Zhang , Hao Zhu , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Xinya Ji , Kangneng Zhou , Daiheng Gao , Liefeng Bo , Xun Cao

Recent advances in audio-driven talking head generation have achieved impressive results in lip synchronization and emotional expression. However, they largely overlook the crucial task of facial attribute editing. This capability is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Guanwen Feng , Zhiyuan Ma , Yunan Li , Jiahao Yang , Junwei Jing , Qiguang Miao

Speech-driven facial animation aims to synthesize lip-synchronized 3D talking faces following the given speech signal. Prior methods to this task mostly focus on pursuing realism with deterministic systems, yet characterizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Chunzhi Gu , Shigeru Kuriyama , Katsuya Hotta

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

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has advanced rapidly, yet most approaches remain tied to registered template meshes, preventing effective deployment on raw 3D scans with arbitrary topology. At the same time, modeling controllable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Federico Nocentini , Thomas Besnier , Claudio Ferrari , Stefano Berretti , Mohamed Daoudi

Achieving disentangled control over multiple facial motions and accommodating diverse input modalities greatly enhances the application and entertainment of the talking head generation. This necessitates a deep exploration of the decoupling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Shuai Tan , Bin Ji

Speech-driven 3D face animation poses significant challenges due to the intricacy and variability inherent in human facial movements. This paper emphasizes the importance of considering both the composite and regional natures of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Haozhe Wu , Songtao Zhou , Jia Jia , Junliang Xing , Qi Wen , Xiang Wen

Speech-driven facial animation involves using a speech signal to generate realistic videos of talking faces. Recent deep learning approaches to facial synthesis rely on extracting low-dimensional representations and concatenating them,…