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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

Talking face generation has gained significant attention as a core application of generative models. To enhance the expressiveness and realism of synthesized videos, emotion editing in talking face video plays a crucial role. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Chanhyuk Choi , Taesoo Kim , Donggyu Lee , Siyeol Jung , Taehwan Kim

With the rapid advancement of diffusion models, text-to-image generation has achieved significant progress in image resolution, detail fidelity, and semantic alignment, particularly with models like Stable Diffusion 3.5, Stable Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Cheng Zhang , Hongxia xie , Bin Wen , Songhan Zuo , Ruoxuan Zhang , Wen-huang Cheng

Head avatars animated by visual signals have gained popularity, particularly in cross-driving synthesis where the driver differs from the animated character, a challenging but highly practical approach. The recently presented MegaPortraits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Nikita Drobyshev , Antoni Bigata Casademunt , Konstantinos Vougioukas , Zoe Landgraf , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Audio-driven talking-head generation is a crucial and useful technology for virtual human interaction and film-making. While recent advances have focused on improving image fidelity and lip synchronization, generating accurate emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Wenqing Wang , Yun Fu

Generating emotional talking faces is a practical yet challenging endeavor. To create a lifelike avatar, we draw upon two critical insights from a human perspective: 1) The connection between audio and the non-deterministic facial dynamics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Shuai Tan , Bin Ji , Ye Pan

Audio-driven emotional 3D face animation aims to generate emotionally expressive talking heads with synchronized lip movements. However, previous research has often overlooked the influence of diverse emotions on facial expressions or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Chang Liu , Qunfen Lin , Zijiao Zeng , Ye Pan

Speech emotion conversion is the task of converting the expressed emotion of a spoken utterance to a target emotion while preserving the lexical content and speaker identity. While most existing works in speech emotion conversion rely on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Navin Raj Prabhu , Bunlong Lay , Simon Welker , Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock , Timo Gerkmann

Synthesizing high-fidelity and emotion-controllable talking video portraits, with audio-lip sync, vivid expressions, realistic head poses, and eye blinks, has been an important and challenging task in recent years. Most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yibo Xia , Lizhen Wang , Xiang Deng , Xiaoyan Luo , Yunhong Wang , Yebin Liu

In this work, we focus on exploring explicit fine-grained control of generative facial image editing, all while generating faithful facial appearances and consistent semantic details, which however, is quite challenging and has not been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Haozhe Jia , Yan Li , Hengfei Cui , Di Xu , Yuwang Wang , Tao Yu

Generating emotion-specific talking head videos from audio input is an important and complex challenge for human-machine interaction. However, emotion is highly abstract concept with ambiguous boundaries, and it necessitates disentangled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Xuli Shen , Hua Cai , Dingding Yu , Weilin Shen , Qing Xu , Xiangyang Xue

The paper introduces AniTalker, an innovative framework designed to generate lifelike talking faces from a single portrait. Unlike existing models that primarily focus on verbal cues such as lip synchronization and fail to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Tao Liu , Feilong Chen , Shuai Fan , Chenpeng Du , Qi Chen , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

Human-centric generative models designed for AI-driven storytelling must bring together two core capabilities: identity consistency and precise control over human performance. While recent diffusion-based approaches have made significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

There has been significant progress in emotional Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis technology in recent years. However, existing methods primarily focus on the synthesis of a limited number of emotion types and have achieved unsatisfactory…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Haobin Tang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in image generation task, where users can create visually astonishing images with high-quality. However, existing text-to-image diffusion models are proficient in generating concrete concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Jingyuan Yang , Jiawei Feng , Hui Huang

The field of photorealistic 3D avatar reconstruction and generation has garnered significant attention in recent years; however, animating such avatars remains challenging. Recent advances in diffusion models have notably enhanced the…

Different forms of customized 2D avatars are widely used in gaming applications, virtual communication, education, and content creation. However, existing approaches often fail to capture fine-grained facial expressions and struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Hao Yu , Rupayan Mallick , Margrit Betke , Sarah Adel Bargal

It is in high demand to generate facial animation with high realism, but it remains a challenging task. Existing approaches of speech-driven facial animation can produce satisfactory mouth movement and lip synchronization, but show weakness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Yutong Chen , Junhong Zhao , Wei-Qiang Zhang

Despite the significant progress in recent years, very few of the AI-based talking face generation methods attempt to render natural emotions. Moreover, the scope of the methods is majorly limited to the characteristics of the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Sanjana Sinha , Sandika Biswas , Ravindra Yadav , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

The domain of 3D talking head generation has witnessed significant progress in recent years. A notable challenge in this field consists in blending speech-related motions with expression dynamics, which is primarily caused by the lack of…

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