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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

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

The task of lip synchronization (lip-sync) seeks to match the lips of human faces with different audio. It has various applications in the film industry as well as for creating virtual avatars and for video conferencing. This is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Soumik Mukhopadhyay , Saksham Suri , Ravi Teja Gadde , Abhinav Shrivastava

Although diffusion models in text-to-speech have become a popular choice due to their strong generative ability, the intrinsic complexity of sampling from diffusion models harms their efficiency. Alternatively, we propose VoiceFlow, an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Yiwei Guo , Chenpeng Du , Ziyang Ma , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

Lip synchronization, known as the task of aligning lip movements in an existing video with new input audio, is typically framed as a simpler variant of audio-driven facial animation. However, as well as suffering from the usual issues in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Antoni Bigata , Rodrigo Mira , Stella Bounareli , Michał Stypułkowski , Konstantinos Vougioukas , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

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

Most earlier researches on talking face generation have focused on the synchronization of lip motion and speech content. However, head pose and facial emotions are equally important characteristics of natural faces. While audio-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Changpeng Cai , Guinan Guo , Jiao Li , Junhao Su , Fei Shen , Chenghao He , Jing Xiao , Yuanxu Chen , Lei Dai , Feiyu Zhu

Talking-head video editing aims to efficiently insert, delete, and substitute the word of a pre-recorded video through a text transcript editor. The key challenge for this task is obtaining an editing model that generates new talking-head…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Songlin Yang , Wei Wang , Jun Ling , Bo Peng , Xu Tan , Jing Dong

As a key component of talking face generation, lip movements generation determines the naturalness and coherence of the generated talking face video. Prior literature mainly focuses on speech-to-lip generation while there is a paucity in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Jinglin Liu , Zhiying Zhu , Yi Ren , Wencan Huang , Baoxing Huai , Nicholas Yuan , Zhou Zhao

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

While considerable progress has been made in achieving accurate lip synchronization for 3D speech-driven talking face generation, the task of incorporating expressive facial detail synthesis aligned with the speaker's speaking status…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yasheng Sun , Wenqing Chu , Hang Zhou , Kaisiyuan Wang , Hideki Koike

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

Diffusion models have revolutionized the field of talking head generation, yet still face challenges in expressiveness, controllability, and stability in long-time generation. In this research, we propose an EmotiveTalk framework to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Haotian Wang , Yuzhe Weng , Yueyan Li , Zilu Guo , Jun Du , Shutong Niu , Jiefeng Ma , Shan He , Xiaoyan Wu , Qiming Hu , Bing Yin , Cong Liu , Qingfeng Liu

Audio-driven single-image talking portrait generation plays a crucial role in virtual reality, digital human creation, and filmmaking. Existing approaches are generally categorized into keypoint-based and image-based methods. Keypoint-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Chaolong Yang , Kai Yao , Yuyao Yan , Chenru Jiang , Weiguang Zhao , Jie Sun , Guangliang Cheng , Yifei Zhang , Bin Dong , Kaizhu Huang

Recent methods for audio-driven talking head synthesis often optimize neural radiance fields (NeRF) on a monocular talking portrait video, leveraging its capability to render high-fidelity and 3D-consistent novel-view frames. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Jaehoon Ko , Kyusun Cho , Joungbin Lee , Heeji Yoon , Sangmin Lee , Sangjun Ahn , Seungryong Kim

In recent years, DeepFake technology has achieved unprecedented success in high-quality video synthesis, but these methods also pose potential and severe security threats to humanity. DeepFake can be bifurcated into entertainment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Weifeng Liu , Tianyi She , Jiawei Liu , Boheng Li , Dongyu Yao , Ziyou Liang , Run Wang

While previous speech-driven talking face generation methods have made significant progress in improving the visual quality and lip-sync quality of the synthesized videos, they pay less attention to lip motion jitters which greatly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Jun Ling , Xu Tan , Liyang Chen , Runnan Li , Yuchao Zhang , Sheng Zhao , Li Song

Vivid talking face generation holds immense potential applications across diverse multimedia domains, such as film and game production. While existing methods accurately synchronize lip movements with input audio, they typically ignore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Jiadong Liang , Feng Lu

Lip sync has emerged as a promising technique for generating mouth movements from audio signals. However, synthesizing a high-resolution and photorealistic virtual news anchor is still challenging. Lack of natural appearance, visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Ruobing Zheng , Zhou Zhu , Bo Song , Changjiang Ji

In recent years, audio-driven 3D facial animation has gained significant attention, particularly in applications such as virtual reality, gaming, and video conferencing. However, accurately modeling the intricate and subtle dynamics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Guinan Su , Yanwu Yang , Zhifeng Li