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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…

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Talking face generation is a novel and challenging generation task, aiming at synthesizing a vivid speaking-face video given a specific audio. To fulfill emotion-controllable talking face generation, current methods need to overcome two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ziqi Zhang , Cheng Deng

3D facial modelling and animation in computer vision and graphics traditionally require either digital artist's skill or complex pipelines with objective-function-based solvers to fit models to motion capture. This inaccessibility of…

Real-time speech-driven 3D facial animation has been attractive in academia and industry. Traditional methods mainly focus on learning a deterministic mapping from speech to animation. Recent approaches start to consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Peng Chen , Xiaobao Wei , Ming Lu , Hui Chen , Feng Tian

Speech-driven 3D facial animation aims to generate realistic and expressive facial motions directly from audio. While recent methods achieve high-quality lip synchronization, they often rely on discrete emotion categories, limiting…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Diqiong Jiang , Kai Zhu , Dan Song , Jian Chang , Chenglizhao Chen , Zhenyu Wu

Audio-driven talking face generation is a challenging task in digital communication. Despite significant progress in the area, most existing methods concentrate on audio-lip synchronization, often overlooking aspects such as visual quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Fatemeh Nazarieh , Zhenhua Feng , Diptesh Kanojia , Muhammad Awais , Josef Kittler

In human-centric content generation, the pre-trained text-to-image models struggle to produce user-wanted portrait images, which retain the identity of individuals while exhibiting diverse expressions. This paper introduces our efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Renshuai Liu , Bowen Ma , Wei Zhang , Zhipeng Hu , Changjie Fan , Tangjie Lv , Yu Ding , Xuan Cheng

Recent advances in Talking Head Generation (THG) have achieved impressive lip synchronization and visual quality through diffusion models; yet existing methods struggle to generate emotionally expressive portraits while preserving speaker…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Weipeng Tan , Chuming Lin , Chengming Xu , FeiFan Xu , Xiaobin Hu , Xiaozhong Ji , Junwei Zhu , Chengjie Wang , Yanwei Fu

Speech-driven animation has gained significant traction in recent years, with current methods achieving near-photorealistic results. However, the field remains underexplored regarding non-verbal communication despite evidence demonstrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Antoni Bigata Casademunt , Rodrigo Mira , Nikita Drobyshev , Konstantinos Vougioukas , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

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

Recently, emotional talking face generation has received considerable attention. However, existing methods only adopt one-hot coding, image, or audio as emotion conditions, thus lacking flexible control in practical applications and failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Chao Xu , Junwei Zhu , Jiangning Zhang , Yue Han , Wenqing Chu , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Zhifeng Xie , Yong Liu

Recent advances in video diffusion models have unlocked new potential for realistic audio-driven talking video generation. However, achieving seamless audio-lip synchronization, maintaining long-term identity consistency, and producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Longtao Zheng , Yifan Zhang , Hanzhong Guo , Jiachun Pan , Zhenxiong Tan , Jiahao Lu , Chuanxin Tang , Bo An , Shuicheng Yan

Creating a realistic animatable avatar from a single static portrait remains challenging. Existing approaches often struggle to capture subtle facial expressions, the associated global body movements, and the dynamic background. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mengchao Wang , Qiang Wang , Fan Jiang , Yaqi Fan , Yunpeng Zhang , Yonggang Qi , Kun Zhao , Mu Xu

Several works have developed end-to-end pipelines for generating lip-synced talking faces with various real-world applications, such as teaching and language translation in videos. However, these prior works fail to create realistic-looking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Sahil Goyal , Shagun Uppal , Sarthak Bhagat , Yi Yu , Yifang Yin , Rajiv Ratn Shah

Recent advancements in personalized image generation using diffusion models have been noteworthy. However, existing methods suffer from inefficiencies due to the requirement for subject-specific fine-tuning. This computationally intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xu Peng , Junwei Zhu , Boyuan Jiang , Ying Tai , Donghao Luo , Jiangning Zhang , Wei Lin , Taisong Jin , Chengjie Wang , Rongrong Ji

Talking head generation is a significant research topic that still faces numerous challenges. Previous works often adopt generative adversarial networks or regression models, which are plagued by generation quality and average facial shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ziyu Yao , Xuxin Cheng , Zhiqi Huang

Recently deep generative models have achieved impressive results in the field of automated facial expression editing. However, the approaches presented so far presume a discrete representation of human emotions and are therefore limited in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Alexandra Lindt , Pablo Barros , Henrique Siqueira , Stefan Wermter

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

Diffusion models arise as a powerful generative tool recently. Despite the great progress, existing diffusion models mainly focus on uni-modal control, i.e., the diffusion process is driven by only one modality of condition. To further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Ziqi Huang , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Yuming Jiang , Ziwei Liu

We introduce FactorPortrait, a video diffusion method for controllable portrait animation that enables lifelike synthesis from disentangled control signals of facial expressions, head movement, and camera viewpoints. Given a single portrait…

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