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We present a multimodal learning-based method to simultaneously synthesize co-speech facial expressions and upper-body gestures for digital characters using RGB video data captured using commodity cameras. Our approach learns from sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Uttaran Bhattacharya , Aniket Bera , Dinesh Manocha

Talking Head Generation (THG) has emerged as a transformative technology in computer vision, enabling the synthesis of realistic human faces synchronized with image, audio, text, or video inputs. This paper provides a comprehensive review…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Vineet Kumar Rakesh , Soumya Mazumdar , Research Pratim Maity , Sarbajit Pal , Amitabha Das , Tapas Samanta

Generating talking person portraits with arbitrary speech audio is a crucial problem in the field of digital human and metaverse. A modern talking face generation method is expected to achieve the goals of generalized audio-lip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Zhenhui Ye , Jinzheng He , Ziyue Jiang , Rongjie Huang , Jiawei Huang , Jinglin Liu , Yi Ren , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma , Zhou Zhao

Talking head synthesis is an emerging technology with wide applications in film dubbing, virtual avatars and online education. Recent NeRF-based methods generate more natural talking videos, as they better capture the 3D structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Shuai Shen , Wanhua Li , Zheng Zhu , Yueqi Duan , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Audio-driven talking head generation is advancing from 2D to 3D content. Notably, Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) is in the spotlight as a means to synthesize high-quality 3D talking head outputs. Unfortunately, this NeRF-based approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Gihoon Kim , Kwanggyoon Seo , Sihun Cha , Junyong Noh

Audio-driven talking head generation holds significant potential for film production. While existing 3D methods have advanced motion modeling and content synthesis, they often produce rendering artifacts, such as motion blur, temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Kui Jiang , Shiyu Liu , Junjun Jiang , Hongxun Yao , Xiaopeng Fan

Synthesizing realistic videos of talking faces under custom lighting conditions and viewing angles benefits various downstream applications like video conferencing. However, most existing relighting methods are either time-consuming or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Ziqi Cai , Kaiwen Jiang , Shu-Yu Chen , Yu-Kun Lai , Hongbo Fu , Boxin Shi , Lin Gao

While recent advances in deep neural networks have made it possible to render high-quality images, generating photo-realistic and personalized talking head remains challenging. With given audio, the key to tackling this task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Shunyu Yao , RuiZhe Zhong , Yichao Yan , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang

Generating realistic talking faces is a complex and widely discussed task with numerous applications. In this paper, we present DiffTalker, a novel model designed to generate lifelike talking faces through audio and landmark co-driving.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Zipeng Qi , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

Achieving high synchronization in the synthesis of realistic, speech-driven talking head videos presents a significant challenge. Traditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) struggle to maintain consistent facial identity, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Ziqiao Peng , Wentao Hu , Yue Shi , Xiangyu Zhu , Xiaomei Zhang , Hao Zhao , Jun He , Hongyan Liu , Zhaoxin Fan

Visual speech recognition is a technique to identify spoken content in silent speech videos, which has raised significant attention in recent years. Advancements in data-driven deep learning methods have significantly improved both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Lei Yang , Junshan Jin , Mingyuan Zhang , Yi He , Bofan Chen , Shilin Wang

Talking face synthesis has been widely studied in either appearance-based or warping-based methods. Previous works mostly utilize single face image as a source, and generate novel facial animations by merging other person's facial features.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Kuangxiao Gu , Yuqian Zhou , Thomas Huang

Audio-driven talking head animation is a challenging research topic with many real-world applications. Recent works have focused on creating photo-realistic 2D animation, while learning different talking or singing styles remains an open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Trong-Thang Pham , Nhat Le , Tuong Do , Hung Nguyen , Erman Tjiputra , Quang D. Tran , Anh Nguyen

In this paper, we address the problem of enhancing the speech of a speaker of interest in a cocktail party scenario when visual information of the speaker of interest is available. Contrary to most previous studies, we do not learn visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Giovanni Morrone , Luca Pasa , Vadim Tikhanoff , Sonia Bergamaschi , Luciano Fadiga , Leonardo Badino

While deep learning technologies are now capable of generating realistic images confusing humans, the research efforts are turning to the synthesis of images for more concrete and application-specific purposes. Facial image generation based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Yeqi Bai , Tao Ma , Lipo Wang , Zhenjie Zhang

In this paper, we present the decomposed triplane-hash neural radiance fields (DT-NeRF), a framework that significantly improves the photorealistic rendering of talking faces and achieves state-of-the-art results on key evaluation datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Yaoyu Su , Shaohui Wang , Haoqian Wang

Recent advancements in visual speech recognition (VSR) have promoted progress in lip-to-speech synthesis, where pre-trained VSR models enhance the intelligibility of synthesized speech by providing valuable semantic information. The success…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yifan Liang , Fangkun Liu , Andong Li , Xiaodong Li , Chengshi Zheng

We propose StyleTalker, a novel audio-driven talking head generation model that can synthesize a video of a talking person from a single reference image with accurately audio-synced lip shapes, realistic head poses, and eye blinks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Dongchan Min , Minyoung Song , Eunji Ko , Sung Ju Hwang

Audio-driven talking face generation aims to synthesize video with lip movements synchronized to input audio. However, current generative techniques face challenges in preserving intricate regional textures (skin, teeth). To address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Lingyu Xiong , Xize Cheng , Jintao Tan , Xianjia Wu , Xiandong Li , Lei Zhu , Fei Ma , Minglei Li , Huang Xu , Zhihu Hu

The task of few-shot visual dubbing focuses on synchronizing the lip movements with arbitrary speech input for any talking head video. Albeit moderate improvements in current approaches, they commonly require high-quality homologous data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Tianyi Xie , Liucheng Liao , Cheng Bi , Benlai Tang , Xiang Yin , Jianfei Yang , Mingjie Wang , Jiali Yao , Yang Zhang , Zejun Ma