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Talking face generation aims to synthesize a sequence of face images that correspond to a clip of speech. This is a challenging task because face appearance variation and semantics of speech are coupled together in the subtle movements of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Hang Zhou , Yu Liu , Ziwei Liu , Ping Luo , Xiaogang Wang

Talking head synthesis, also known as speech-to-lip synthesis, reconstructs the facial motions that align with the given audio tracks. The synthesized videos are evaluated on mainly two aspects, lip-speech synchronization and image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Xulin Fan , Heting Gao , Ziyi Chen , Peng Chang , Mei Han , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has recently garnered attention due to its cost-effective usability in multimedia production. However, most current advances overlook the intelligibility of lip movements, limiting the realism of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Han EunGi , Oh Hyun-Bin , Kim Sung-Bin , Corentin Nivelet Etcheberry , Suekyeong Nam , Janghoon Joo , Tae-Hyun Oh

In this paper, we present a video-based learning framework for animating personalized 3D talking faces from audio. We introduce two training-time data normalizations that significantly improve data sample efficiency. First, we isolate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Avisek Lahiri , Vivek Kwatra , Christian Frueh , John Lewis , Chris Bregler

When we speak, the prosody and content of the speech can be inferred from the movement of our lips. In this work, we explore the task of lip to speech synthesis, i.e., learning to generate speech given only the lip movements of a speaker…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Christen Millerdurai , Lotfy Abdel Khaliq , Timon Ulrich

Speech production is a dynamic procedure, which involved multi human organs including the tongue, jaw and lips. Modeling the dynamics of the vocal tract deformation is a fundamental problem to understand the speech, which is the most common…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-23 Haiyang Liu , Jihan Zhang

Lip reading, also known as visual speech recognition, aims to recognize the speech content from videos by analyzing the lip dynamics. There have been several appealing progress in recent years, benefiting much from the rapidly developed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Dalu Feng , Shuang Yang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Most lip-to-speech (LTS) synthesis models are trained and evaluated under the assumption that the audio-video pairs in the dataset are perfectly synchronized. In this work, we show that the commonly used audio-visual datasets, such as GRID,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Zhe Niu , Brian Mak

Speech-driven 3D facial animation aims to generate realistic lip movements and facial expressions for 3D head models from arbitrary audio clips. Although existing diffusion-based methods are capable of producing natural motions, their slow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Xuangeng Chu , Nabarun Goswami , Ziteng Cui , Hanqin Wang , Tatsuya Harada

Lipreading has a lot of potential applications such as in the domain of surveillance and video conferencing. Despite this, most of the work in building lipreading systems has been limited to classifying silent videos into classes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-03 Yaman Kumar , Rohit Jain , Khwaja Mohd. Salik , Rajiv Ratn Shah , Yifang yin , Roger Zimmermann

The goal of this work is to recognise phrases and sentences being spoken by a talking face, with or without the audio. Unlike previous works that have focussed on recognising a limited number of words or phrases, we tackle lip reading as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Triantafyllos Afouras , Joon Son Chung , Andrew Senior , Oriol Vinyals , Andrew Zisserman

Lip reading has witnessed unparalleled development in recent years thanks to deep learning and the availability of large-scale datasets. Despite the encouraging results achieved, the performance of lip reading, unfortunately, remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Ya Zhao , Rui Xu , Xinchao Wang , Peng Hou , Haihong Tang , Mingli Song

Lip reading aims to predict speech based on lip movements alone. As it focuses on visual information to model the speech, its performance is inherently sensitive to personal lip appearances and movements. This makes the lip reading models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Minsu Kim , Hyunjun Kim , Yong Man Ro

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

Lip-to-speech involves generating a natural-sounding speech synchronized with a soundless video of a person talking. Despite recent advances, current methods still cannot produce high-quality speech with high levels of intelligibility for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-29 Yochai Yemini , Aviv Shamsian , Lior Bracha , Sharon Gannot , Ethan Fetaya

Talking face generation is the challenging task of synthesizing a natural and realistic face that requires accurate synchronization with a given audio. Due to co-articulation, where an isolated phone is influenced by the preceding or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Se Jin Park , Minsu Kim , Jeongsoo Choi , Yong Man Ro

Audio-driven 3D facial animation aims to generate synchronized lip movements and vivid facial expressions from arbitrary audio clips. While existing methods can produce synchronized lip motions, they often rely on predefined identity or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xuangeng Chu , Yuan Gan , Ziteng Cui , Shuhong Liu , Jian Wang , Bing Zhou , Tatsuya Harada

Audio-driven facial animation is essential for immersive digital interaction, yet existing frameworks fail to reconcile real-time streaming with high-fidelity personalization. Current methods often rely on latency-inducing audio look-ahead,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xuangeng Chu , Yu Han , Wei Mao , Shih-En Wei

Cross-modality generation is an emerging topic that aims to synthesize data in one modality based on information in a different modality. In this paper, we consider a task of such: given an arbitrary audio speech and one lip image of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Lele Chen , Zhiheng Li , Ross K. Maddox , Zhiyao Duan , Chenliang Xu

Synthesizing personalized talking faces that uphold and highlight a speaker's unique style while maintaining lip-sync accuracy remains a significant challenge. A primary limitation of existing approaches is the intrinsic confounding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Renjie Lu , Xulong Zhang , Xiaoyang Qu , Jianzong Wang , Shangfei Wang