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Although significant progress has been made in the field of speech-driven 3D facial animation recently, the speech-driven animation of an indispensable facial component, eye gaze, has been overlooked by recent research. This is primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yixiang Zhuang , Chunshan Ma , Yao Cheng , Xuan Cheng , Jing Liao , Juncong Lin

Speech-driven 3D facial animation plays a key role in applications such as virtual avatars, gaming, and digital content creation. While existing methods have made significant progress in achieving accurate lip synchronization and generating…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yifang Pan , Karan Singh , Luiz Gustavo Hafemann

In this paper, we propose a novel text-based talking-head video generation framework that synthesizes high-fidelity facial expressions and head motions in accordance with contextual sentiments as well as speech rhythm and pauses. To be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Lincheng Li , Suzhen Wang , Zhimeng Zhang , Yu Ding , Yixing Zheng , Xin Yu , Changjie Fan

Realistic, high-fidelity 3D facial animations are crucial for expressive avatar systems in human-computer interaction and accessibility. Although prior methods show promising quality, their reliance on the mesh domain limits their ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Alexandre Symeonidis-Herzig , Özge Mercanoğlu Sincan , Richard Bowden

Expressions are fundamental to conveying human emotions. With the rapid advancement of AI-generated content (AIGC), realistic and expressive 3D facial animation has become increasingly crucial. Despite recent progress in speech-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yuxiang Mao , Zhijie Zhang , Zhiheng Zhang , Jiawei Liu , Chen Zeng , Shihong Xia

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

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has improved a lot recently while most related works only utilize acoustic modality and neglect the influence of visual and textual cues, leading to unsatisfactory results in terms of precision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Tianshun Han , Shengnan Gui , Yiqing Huang , Baihui Li , Lijian Liu , Benjia Zhou , Ning Jiang , Quan Lu , Ruicong Zhi , Yanyan Liang , Du Zhang , Jun Wan

The creation of increasingly vivid 3D talking face has become a hot topic in recent years. Currently, most speech-driven works focus on lip synchronisation but neglect to effectively capture the correlations between emotions and facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Yihong Lin , Liang Peng , Zhaoxin Fan , Xianjia Wu , Jianqiao Hu , Xiandong Li , Wenxiong Kang , Songju Lei

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

Speech-driven 3D talking head generation aims to produce lifelike facial animations precisely synchronized with speech. While considerable progress has been made in achieving high lip-synchronization accuracy, existing methods largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Bin Wang , Yang Xu , Huan Zhao , Hao Zhang , Zixing Zhang

We present a deep learning framework for real-time speech-driven 3D facial animation from just raw waveforms. Our deep neural network directly maps an input sequence of speech audio to a series of micro facial action unit activations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Hai X. Pham , Yuting Wang , Vladimir Pavlovic

Speech-driven 3D facial animation is challenging due to the complex geometry of human faces and the limited availability of 3D audio-visual data. Prior works typically focus on learning phoneme-level features of short audio windows with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Yingruo Fan , Zhaojiang Lin , Jun Saito , Wenping Wang , Taku Komura

Despite exhibiting impressive performance in synthesizing lifelike personalized 3D talking heads, prevailing methods based on radiance fields suffer from high demands for training data and time for each new identity. This paper introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jiahe Li , Jiawei Zhang , Xiao Bai , Jin Zheng , Jun Zhou , Lin Gu

Person-generic audio-driven face generation is a challenging task in computer vision. Previous methods have achieved remarkable progress in audio-visual synchronization, but there is still a significant gap between current results and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Xiaozhong Ji , Chuming Lin , Zhonggan Ding , Ying Tai , Junwei Zhu , Xiaobin Hu , Donghao Luo , Yanhao Ge , Chengjie Wang

The performance of automatic speech recognition systems can be improved by adapting an acoustic model to compensate for the mismatch between training and testing conditions, for example by adapting to unseen speakers. The success of speaker…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Ondřej Klejch , Joachim Fainberg , Peter Bell

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models demonstrate outstanding performance on high-resource languages but face significant challenges when applied to low-resource languages due to limited training data and insufficient cross-lingual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Ming-Hao Hsu , Hung-yi Lee

With rapid progress in neural text-to-speech (TTS) models, personalized speech generation is now in high demand for many applications. For practical applicability, a TTS model should generate high-quality speech with only a few audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Dongchan Min , Dong Bok Lee , Eunho Yang , Sung Ju Hwang

This paper presents a generic method for generating full facial 3D animation from speech. Existing approaches to audio-driven facial animation exhibit uncanny or static upper face animation, fail to produce accurate and plausible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Alexander Richard , Michael Zollhoefer , Yandong Wen , Fernando de la Torre , Yaser Sheikh

To be widely adopted, 3D facial avatars must be animated easily, realistically, and directly from speech signals. While the best recent methods generate 3D animations that are synchronized with the input audio, they largely ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Radek Daněček , Kiran Chhatre , Shashank Tripathi , Yandong Wen , Michael J. Black , Timo Bolkart

Best-performing speech models are trained on large amounts of data in the language they are meant to work for. However, most languages have sparse data, making training models challenging. This shortage of data is even more prevalent in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 David-Gabriel Ion , Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Florin Pop , Mihaela-Claudia Cercel