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Understanding the lip movement and inferring the speech from it is notoriously difficult for the common person. The task of accurate lip-reading gets help from various cues of the speaker and its contextual or environmental setting. Every…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Munender Varshney , Ravindra Yadav , Vinay P. Namboodiri , Rajesh M Hegde

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

Recent works on audio-driven talking head synthesis using Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have achieved impressive results. However, due to inadequate pose and expression control caused by NeRF implicit representation, these methods still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Hongyun Yu , Zhan Qu , Qihang Yu , Jianchuan Chen , Zhonghua Jiang , Zhiwen Chen , Shengyu Zhang , Jimin Xu , Fei Wu , Chengfei Lv , Gang Yu

Recent advances in audio-driven talking head generation have achieved impressive results in lip synchronization and emotional expression. However, they largely overlook the crucial task of facial attribute editing. This capability is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Guanwen Feng , Zhiyuan Ma , Yunan Li , Jiahao Yang , Junwei Jing , Qiguang Miao

Audio-driven human animation methods, such as talking head and talking body generation, have made remarkable progress in generating synchronized facial movements and appealing visual quality videos. However, existing methods primarily focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zhe Kong , Feng Gao , Yong Zhang , Zhuoliang Kang , Xiaoming Wei , Xunliang Cai , Guanying Chen , Wenhan Luo

A key challenge in 3D talking head synthesis lies in the reliance on a long-duration talking head video to train a new model for each target identity from scratch. Recent methods have attempted to address this issue by extracting general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yuhang Guo , Kaijun Deng , Siyang Song , Jindong Xie , Wenhui Ma , Linlin Shen

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

Although existing speech-driven talking face generation methods achieve significant progress, they are far from real-world application due to the avatar-specific training demand and unstable lip movements. To address the above issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Haiming Zhang , Zhihao Yuan , Chaoda Zheng , Xu Yan , Baoyuan Wang , Guanbin Li , Song Wu , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Real-world talking faces often accompany with natural head movement. However, most existing talking face video generation methods only consider facial animation with fixed head pose. In this paper, we address this problem by proposing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Ran Yi , Zipeng Ye , Juyong Zhang , Hujun Bao , Yong-Jin Liu

Speech-driven 3D facial animation technology has been developed for years, but its practical application still lacks expectations. The main challenges lie in data limitations, lip alignment, and the naturalness of facial expressions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xiangyu Liang , Wenlin Zhuang , Tianyong Wang , Guangxing Geng , Guangyue Geng , Haifeng Xia , Siyu Xia

Automatically generating videos in which synthesized speech is synchronized with lip movements in a talking head has great potential in many human-computer interaction scenarios. In this paper, we present an automatic method to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-29 Xinsheng Wang , Qicong Xie , Jihua Zhu , Lei Xie , Scharenborg

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

The goal of this paper is to synthesise talking faces with controllable facial motions. To achieve this goal, we propose two key ideas. The first is to establish a canonical space where every face has the same motion patterns but different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Youngjoon Jang , Kyeongha Rho , Jong-Bin Woo , Hyeongkeun Lee , Jihwan Park , Youshin Lim , Byeong-Yeol Kim , Joon Son Chung

Lipreading is the task of decoding text from the movement of a speaker's mouth. Traditional approaches separated the problem into two stages: designing or learning visual features, and prediction. More recent deep lipreading approaches are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Yannis M. Assael , Brendan Shillingford , Shimon Whiteson , Nando de Freitas

Talking Head Generation (THG) has emerged as a transformative technology in computer vision, enabling the synthesis of realistic human faces synchronized with image, audio, text, or video inputs. This paper provides a comprehensive review…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Vineet Kumar Rakesh , Soumya Mazumdar , Research Pratim Maity , Sarbajit Pal , Amitabha Das , Tapas Samanta

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

Generating talking head videos through a face image and a piece of speech audio still contains many challenges. ie, unnatural head movement, distorted expression, and identity modification. We argue that these issues are mainly because of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Wenxuan Zhang , Xiaodong Cun , Xuan Wang , Yong Zhang , Xi Shen , Yu Guo , Ying Shan , Fei Wang

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

Emotional talking head generation has attracted growing attention. Previous methods, which are mainly GAN-based, still struggle to consistently produce satisfactory results across diverse emotions and cannot conveniently specify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yifeng Ma , Shiwei Zhang , Jiayu Wang , Xiang Wang , Yingya Zhang , Zhidong Deng

Whenever we speak, our voice is accompanied by facial movements and expressions. Several recent works have shown the synthesis of highly photo-realistic videos of talking faces, but they either require a source video to drive the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Prateek Manocha , Prithwijit Guha