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Animating still face images with deep generative models using a speech input signal is an active research topic and has seen important recent progress.However, much of the effort has been put into lip syncing and rendering quality while the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Louis Airale , Dominique Vaufreydaz , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Although neural rendering has made significant advances in creating lifelike, animatable full-body and head avatars, incorporating detailed expressions into full-body avatars remains largely unexplored. We present DEGAS, the first 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Zhijing Shao , Duotun Wang , Qing-Yao Tian , Yao-Dong Yang , Hengyu Meng , Zeyu Cai , Bo Dong , Yu Zhang , Kang Zhang , Zeyu Wang

Recent advances in Video-to-Audio (V2A) generation have achieved impressive perceptual quality and temporal synchronization, yet most models remain appearance-driven, capturing visual-acoustic correlations without considering the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Oh Hyun-Bin , Yuhta Takida , Toshimitsu Uesaka , Tae-Hyun Oh , Yuki Mitsufuji

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to address the task of synthesizing speech from silent videos of any in-the-wild speaker solely based on lip movements. The traditional approach of directly generating speech from lip videos…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Sindhu Hegde , Rudrabha Mukhopadhyay , C. V. Jawahar , Vinay Namboodiri

Realistic talking-head video generation is critical for virtual avatars, film production, and interactive systems. Current methods struggle with nuanced emotional expressions due to the lack of fine-grained emotion control. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiayi Lyu , Leigang Qu , Wenjing Zhang , Hanyu Jiang , Kai Liu , Zhenglin Zhou , Xiaobo Xia , Jian Xue , Tat-Seng Chua

Real-time synthesis of high-fidelity 3D character motion from audio is a pivotal component for next-generation interactive avatars and virtual assistants. However, most existing approaches are limited to offline processing of complete audio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Bohong Chen , Yumeng Li , Yinglin Xu , Youyi Zheng , Yanlin Weng , Kun Zhou

This work addresses the problem of generating 3D holistic body motions from human speech. Given a speech recording, we synthesize sequences of 3D body poses, hand gestures, and facial expressions that are realistic and diverse. To achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Hongwei Yi , Hualin Liang , Yifei Liu , Qiong Cao , Yandong Wen , Timo Bolkart , Dacheng Tao , Michael J. Black

High-fidelity and efficient audio-driven talking head generation has been a key research topic in computer graphics and computer vision. In this work, we study vector image based audio-driven talking head generation. Compared with directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Hao Hu , Xuan Wang , Jingxiang Sun , Yanbo Fan , Yu Guo , Caigui Jiang

Speech-driven facial animation methods usually contain two main classes, 3D and 2D talking face, both of which attract considerable research attention in recent years. However, to the best of our knowledge, the research on 3D talking face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Yixiang Zhuang , Baoping Cheng , Yao Cheng , Yuntao Jin , Renshuai Liu , Chengyang Li , Xuan Cheng , Jing Liao , Juncong Lin

Although significant progress has been made to audio-driven talking face generation, existing methods either neglect facial emotion or cannot be applied to arbitrary subjects. In this paper, we propose the Emotion-Aware Motion Model (EAMM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Xinya Ji , Hang Zhou , Kaisiyuan Wang , Qianyi Wu , Wayne Wu , Feng Xu , Xun Cao

Gestures are essential for enhancing co-speech communication, offering visual emphasis and complementing verbal interactions. While prior work has concentrated on point-level motion or fully supervised data-driven methods, we focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Jiahui Chen , Yang Huan , Runhua Shi , Chanfan Ding , Xiaoqi Mo , Siyu Xiong , Yinong He

Audio-driven talking face generation has garnered significant interest within the domain of digital human research. Existing methods are encumbered by intricate model architectures that are intricately dependent on each other, complicating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Dong Zhao , Jiaying Shi , Wenjun Li , Shudong Wang , Shenghui Xu , Zhaoming Pan

Audio-driven talking head generation has drawn growing attention. To produce talking head videos with desired facial expressions, previous methods rely on extra reference videos to provide expression information, which may be difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yifeng Ma , Suzhen Wang , Yu Ding , Bowen Ma , Tangjie Lv , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu , Zhidong Deng , Xin Yu

Recently, talking-face video generation has received considerable attention. So far most methods generate results with neutral expressions or expressions that are implicitly determined by neural networks in an uncontrollable way. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Zipeng Ye , Zhiyao Sun , Yu-Hui Wen , Yanan Sun , Tian Lv , Ran Yi , Yong-Jin Liu

Conversation is an essential component of virtual avatar activities in the metaverse. With the development of natural language processing, textual and vocal conversation generation has achieved a significant breakthrough. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yichao Yan , Zanwei Zhou , Zi Wang , Jingnan Gao , Xiaokang Yang

Talking Head Generation aims at synthesizing natural-looking talking videos from speech and a single portrait image. Previous 3D talking head generation methods have relied on domain-specific heuristics such as warping-based facial motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Tong Shi , Melonie de Almeida , Daniela Ivanova , Nicolas Pugeault , Paul Henderson

Audio is indispensable for real-world video, yet generation models have largely overlooked audio components. Current approaches to producing audio-visual content often rely on cascaded pipelines, which increase cost, accumulate errors, and…

Recent diffusion-based talking face generation models have demonstrated impressive potential in synthesizing videos that accurately match a speech audio clip with a given reference identity. However, existing approaches still encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xingpei Ma , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shenneng Huang , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang

Audio-driven 3D talking avatar generation is increasingly important in virtual communication, digital humans, and interactive media, where avatars must preserve identity, synchronize lip motion with speech, express emotion, and exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zhongju Wang , Zhenhong Sun , Beier Wang , Yifu Wang , Daoyi Dong , Huadong Mo , Hongdong Li

Novel text-to-speech systems can generate entirely new voices that were not seen during training. However, it remains a difficult task to efficiently create personalized voices from a high-dimensional speaker space. In this work, we use…