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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

Advancement in speech technology has brought convenience to our life. However, the concern is on the rise as speech signal contains multiple personal attributes, which would lead to either sensitive information leakage or bias toward…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Yu-Lin Huang , Bo-Hao Su , Y. -W. Peter Hong , Chi-Chun Lee

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to convert given speech audio to a photo-realistic speaking video of a specific person, where the output video has synchronized, realistic, and expressive rich body dynamics. We achieve this by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Miao Liao , Sibo Zhang , Peng Wang , Hao Zhu , Xinxin Zuo , Ruigang Yang

Talking head generation is to synthesize a lip-synchronized talking head video by inputting an arbitrary face image and corresponding audio clips. Existing methods ignore not only the interaction and relationship of cross-modal information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Sen Chen , Zhilei Liu , Jiaxing Liu , Longbiao Wang

We present a novel one-shot talking head synthesis method that achieves disentangled and fine-grained control over lip motion, eye gaze&blink, head pose, and emotional expression. We represent different motions via disentangled latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Duomin Wang , Yu Deng , Zixin Yin , Heung-Yeung Shum , Baoyuan Wang

Recent advances in expressive text-to-speech (TTS) have introduced diverse methods based on style embedding extracted from reference speech. However, synthesizing high-quality expressive speech remains challenging. We propose SpotlightTTS,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Nam-Gyu Kim

The goal of this work is Active Speaker Detection (ASD), a task to determine whether a person is speaking or not in a series of video frames. Previous works have dealt with the task by exploring network architectures while learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Chaeyoung Jung , Suyeon Lee , Kihyun Nam , Kyeongha Rho , You Jin Kim , Youngjoon Jang , Joon Son Chung

Prior works have demonstrated zero-shot text-to-speech by using a generative language model on audio tokens obtained via a neural audio codec. It is still challenging, however, to adapt them to low-latency scenarios. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Trung Dang , David Aponte , Dung Tran , Kazuhito Koishida

This paper proposes a new model, referred to as the show and speak (SAS) model that, for the first time, is able to directly synthesize spoken descriptions of images, bypassing the need for any text or phonemes. The basic structure of SAS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Xinsheng Wang , Siyuan Feng , Jihua Zhu , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Odette Scharenborg

An ability to model a generative process and learn a latent representation for speech in an unsupervised fashion will be crucial to process vast quantities of unlabelled speech data. Recently, deep probabilistic generative models such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Wei-Ning Hsu , Yu Zhang , James Glass

With the advancement of speech synthesis technology, users have higher expectations for the naturalness and expressiveness of synthesized speech. But previous research ignores the importance of prompt selection. This study proposes a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Dan Luo , Chengyuan Ma , Weiqin Li , Jun Wang , Wei Chen , Zhiyong Wu

Animating portraits using speech has received growing attention in recent years, with various creative and practical use cases. An ideal generated video should have good lip sync with the audio, natural facial expressions and head motions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Siddharth Gururani , Arun Mallya , Ting-Chun Wang , Rafael Valle , Ming-Yu Liu

Recent advances in text-to-vision generation excel in visual fidelity but struggle with compositional generalization and semantic alignment. Existing datasets are noisy and weakly compositional, limiting models' understanding of complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Ziqi Gao , Weikai Huang , Jieyu Zhang , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Ranjay Krishna

Audio-driven one-shot talking face generation methods are usually trained on video resources of various persons. However, their created videos often suffer unnatural mouth shapes and asynchronous lips because those methods struggle to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Suzhen Wang , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Xin Yu

When virtual agents interact with humans, gestures are crucial to delivering their intentions with speech. Previous multimodal co-speech gesture generation models required encoded features of all modalities to generate gestures. If some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Gwantae Kim , Seonghyeok Noh , Insung Ham , Hanseok Ko

Singing Accompaniment Generation (SAG) is the process of generating instrumental music for a given clean vocal input. However, existing SAG techniques use source-separated vocals as input and overfit to separation artifacts. This creates a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Junan Zhang , Yunjia Zhang , Xueyao Zhang , Zhizheng Wu

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 propose VASA-3D, an audio-driven, single-shot 3D head avatar generator. This research tackles two major challenges: capturing the subtle expression details present in real human faces, and reconstructing an intricate 3D head avatar from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sicheng Xu , Guojun Chen , Jiaolong Yang , Yizhong Zhang , Yu Deng , Steve Lin , Baining Guo

Deep generative models have been enjoying success in modeling continuous data. However it remains challenging to capture the representations for discrete structures with formal grammars and semantics, e.g., computer programs and molecular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Hanjun Dai , Yingtao Tian , Bo Dai , Steven Skiena , Le Song

This paper investigates a novel task of talking face video generation solely from speeches. The speech-to-video generation technique can spark interesting applications in entertainment, customer service, and human-computer-interaction…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Shijing Si , Jianzong Wang , Xiaoyang Qu , Ning Cheng , Wenqi Wei , Xinghua Zhu , Jing Xiao