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We introduce and define a novel task-Scene-Aware Visually-Driven Speech Synthesis, aimed at addressing the limitations of existing speech generation models in creating immersive auditory experiences that align with the real physical world.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Chengyuan Ma , Jiawei Jin , Ruijie Xiong , Chunxiang Jin , Canxiang Yan , Wenming Yang

We propose an end to end deep learning approach for generating real-time facial animation from just audio. Specifically, our deep architecture employs deep bidirectional long short-term memory network and attention mechanism to discover the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Guanzhong Tian , Yi Yuan , Yong liu

Generative models have advanced rapidly, enabling impressive talking head generation that brings AI to life. However, most existing methods focus solely on one-way portrait animation. Even the few that support bidirectional conversational…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Haijie Yang , Zhenyu Zhang , Hao Tang , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang

In this work, we propose a joint system combining a talking face generation system with a text-to-speech system that can generate multilingual talking face videos from only the text input. Our system can synthesize natural multilingual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Hyoung-Kyu Song , Sang Hoon Woo , Junhyeok Lee , Seungmin Yang , Hyunjae Cho , Youseong Lee , Dongho Choi , Kang-wook Kim

Human-centric generative models are becoming increasingly popular, giving rise to various innovative tools and applications, such as talking face videos conditioned on text or audio prompts. The core of these capabilities lies in powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Donglin Di , He Feng , Wenzhang Sun , Yongjia Ma , Hao Li , Wei Chen , Lei Fan , Tonghua Su , Xun Yang

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Federico Nocentini , Claudio Ferrari , Stefano Berretti

Current visual generation methods can produce high quality videos guided by texts. However, effectively controlling object dynamics remains a challenge. This work explores audio as a cue to generate temporally synchronized image animations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Lin Zhang , Shentong Mo , Yijing Zhang , Pedro Morgado

Zero-shot talking avatar generation aims at synthesizing natural talking videos from speech and a single portrait image. Previous methods have relied on domain-specific heuristics such as warping-based motion representation and 3D Morphable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Tianyu He , Junliang Guo , Runyi Yu , Yuchi Wang , Jialiang Zhu , Kaikai An , Leyi Li , Xu Tan , Chunyu Wang , Han Hu , HsiangTao Wu , Sheng Zhao , Jiang Bian

Audio to Video generation is an interesting problem that has numerous applications across industry verticals including film making, multi-media, marketing, education and others. High-quality video generation with expressive facial movements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Neeraj Kumar , Srishti Goel , Ankur Narang , Mujtaba Hasan

Different people speak with diverse personalized speaking styles. Although existing one-shot talking head methods have made significant progress in lip sync, natural facial expressions, and stable head motions, they still cannot generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Yifeng Ma , Suzhen Wang , Zhipeng Hu , Changjie Fan , Tangjie Lv , Yu Ding , Zhidong Deng , Xin Yu

We present MagicInfinite, a novel diffusion Transformer (DiT) framework that overcomes traditional portrait animation limitations, delivering high-fidelity results across diverse character types-realistic humans, full-body figures, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hongwei Yi , Tian Ye , Shitong Shao , Xuancheng Yang , Jiantong Zhao , Hanzhong Guo , Terrance Wang , Qingyu Yin , Zeke Xie , Lei Zhu , Wei Li , Michael Lingelbach , Daquan Zhou

We introduce the first method for audio-driven universal photorealistic avatar synthesis, combining a person-agnostic speech model with our novel Universal Head Avatar Prior (UHAP). UHAP is trained on cross-identity multi-view videos. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Kartik Teotia , Helge Rhodin , Mohit Mendiratta , Hyeongwoo Kim , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt

Since facial actions such as lip movements contain significant information about speech content, it is not surprising that audio-visual speech enhancement methods are more accurate than their audio-only counterparts. Yet, state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Karren Yang , Dejan Markovic , Steven Krenn , Vasu Agrawal , Alexander Richard

While state-of-the-art audio-video generation models like Veo3 and Sora2 demonstrate remarkable capabilities, their closed-source nature makes their architectures and training paradigms inaccessible. To bridge this gap in accessibility and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hebeizi Li , Zihao Liang , Benyuan Sun , Zihao Yin , Xiao Sha , Chenliang Wang , Yi Yang

Audio-driven talking head generation necessitates seamless integration of audio and visual data amidst the challenges posed by diverse input portraits and intricate correlations between audio and facial motions. In response, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Ziqi Zhou , Weize Quan , Hailin Shi , Wei Li , Lili Wang , Dong-Ming Yan

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

Researchers have shown a growing interest in Audio-driven Talking Head Generation. The primary challenge in talking head generation is achieving audio-visual coherence between the lips and the audio, known as lip synchronization. This paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhipeng Chen , Xinheng Wang , Lun Xie , Haijie Yuan , Hang Pan

Portrait video editing focuses on modifying specific attributes of portrait videos, guided by audio or video streams. Previous methods typically either concentrate on lip-region reenactment or require training specialized models to extract…

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