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Talking head generation is to generate video based on a given source identity and target motion. However, current methods face several challenges that limit the quality and controllability of the generated videos. First, the generated face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yue Gao , Yuan Zhou , Jinglu Wang , Xiao Li , Xiang Ming , Yan Lu

Recent talking avatar generation models have made strides in achieving realistic and accurate lip synchronization with the audio, but often fall short in controlling and conveying detailed expressions and emotions of the avatar, making the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yuchi Wang , Junliang Guo , Jianhong Bai , Runyi Yu , Tianyu He , Xu Tan , Xu Sun , Jiang Bian

From the patter of rain to the crunch of snow, the sounds we hear often convey the visual textures that appear within a scene. In this paper, we present a method for learning visual styles from unlabeled audio-visual data. Our model learns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Tingle Li , Yichen Liu , Andrew Owens , Hang Zhao

When people deliver a speech, they naturally move heads, and this rhythmic head motion conveys prosodic information. However, generating a lip-synced video while moving head naturally is challenging. While remarkably successful, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Lele Chen , Guofeng Cui , Celong Liu , Zhong Li , Ziyi Kou , Yi Xu , Chenliang Xu

Speech-driven 3D facial animation seeks to produce lifelike facial expressions that are synchronized with the speech content and its emotional nuances, finding applications in various multimedia fields. However, previous methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yixuan Zhang , Qing Chang , Yuxi Wang , Guang Chen , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Junran Peng

This paper explores multi-modal controllable Text-to-Speech Synthesis (TTS) where the voice can be generated from face image, and the characteristics of output speech (e.g., pace, noise level, distance, tone, place) can be controllable with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Minsu Kim , Pingchuan Ma , Honglie Chen , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Attribute control in generative tasks aims to modify personal attributes, such as age and gender while preserving the identity information in the source sample. Although significant progress has been made in controlling facial attributes in…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Xuyuan Li , Zengqiang Shang. Li Wang , Pengyuan Zhang

The generation and editing of audio-conditioned talking portraits guided by multimodal inputs, including text, images, and videos, remains under explored. In this paper, we present SkyReels-Audio, a unified framework for synthesizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zhengcong Fei , Hao Jiang , Di Qiu , Baoxuan Gu , Youqiang Zhang , Jiahua Wang , Jialin Bai , Debang Li , Mingyuan Fan , Guibin Chen , Yahui Zhou

Despite previous success in generating audio-driven talking heads, most of the previous studies focus on the correlation between speech content and the mouth shape. Facial emotion, which is one of the most important features on natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Xinya Ji , Hang Zhou , Kaisiyuan Wang , Wayne Wu , Chen Change Loy , Xun Cao , Feng Xu

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

For the last decades, the concern of producing convincing facial animation has garnered great interest, that has only been accelerating with the recent explosion of 3D content in both entertainment and professional activities. The use of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Eloïse Berson , Catherine Soladié , Nicolas Stoiber

Audio-driven 3D facial animation aims to map input audio to realistic facial motion. Despite significant progress, limitations arise from inconsistent 3D annotations, restricting previous models to training on specific annotations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Xiangyu Fan , Jiaqi Li , Zhiqian Lin , Weiye Xiao , Lei Yang

The area of portrait image animation, propelled by audio input, has witnessed notable progress in the generation of lifelike and dynamic portraits. Conventional methods are limited to utilizing either audios or facial key points to drive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Zhiyuan Chen , Jiajiong Cao , Zhiquan Chen , Yuming Li , Chenguang Ma

Over recent years, diffusion models have facilitated significant advancements in video generation. Yet, the creation of face-related videos still confronts issues such as low facial fidelity, lack of frame consistency, limited editability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Linze Li , Sunqi Fan , Hengjun Pu , Zhaodong Bing , Yao Tang , Tianzhu Ye , Tong Yang , Liangyu Chen , Jiajun Liang

Digital humans and, especially, 3D facial avatars have raised a lot of attention in the past years, as they are the backbone of several applications like immersive telepresence in AR or VR. Despite the progress, facial avatars reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Berna Kabadayi , Wojciech Zielonka , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Gerard Pons-Moll , Justus Thies

Existing automated dubbing methods are usually designed for Professionally Generated Content (PGC) production, which requires massive training data and training time to learn a person-specific audio-video mapping. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Linsen Song , Wayne Wu , Chaoyou Fu , Chen Change Loy , Ran He

Speech-driven 3D facial animation is challenging due to the scarcity of large-scale visual-audio datasets despite extensive research. Most prior works, typically focused on learning regression models on a small dataset using the method of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Inkyu Park , Jaewoong Cho

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

Audio-Driven Face Animation is an eagerly anticipated technique for applications such as VR/AR, games, and movie making. With the rapid development of 3D engines, there is an increasing demand for driving 3D faces with audio. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Haozhe Wu , Jia Jia , Junliang Xing , Hongwei Xu , Xiangyuan Wang , Jelo Wang

Audio-driven portrait animation has made significant advances with diffusion-based models, improving video quality and lipsync accuracy. However, the increasing complexity of these models has led to inefficiencies in training and inference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Xuyang Cao , Guoxin Wang , Sheng Shi , Jun Zhao , Yang Yao , Jintao Fei , Minyu Gao , Pei Xie