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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 has gained significant attention for its ability to create realistic and expressive facial animations in 3D space based on speech. Learning-based methods have shown promising progress in achieving accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Se Jin Park , Joanna Hong , Minsu Kim , Yong Man Ro

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

Speech-driven 3D face animation poses significant challenges due to the intricacy and variability inherent in human facial movements. This paper emphasizes the importance of considering both the composite and regional natures of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Haozhe Wu , Songtao Zhou , Jia Jia , Junliang Xing , Qi Wen , Xiang Wen

In this paper, we present a method for reprogramming pre-trained audio-driven talking face synthesis models to operate in a text-driven manner. Consequently, we can easily generate face videos that articulate the provided textual sentences,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Jeongsoo Choi , Minsu Kim , Se Jin Park , Yong Man Ro

Audio-driven 3D facial animation synthesis has been an active field of research with attention from both academia and industry. While there are promising results in this area, recent approaches largely focus on lip-sync and identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Sichun Wu , Kazi Injamamul Haque , Zerrin Yumak

Text-guided human body animation has advanced rapidly, yet facial animation lags due to the scarcity of well-annotated, text-paired facial corpora. To close this gap, we leverage foundation generative models to synthesize a large, balanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Luchuan Song , Pinxin Liu , Haiyang Liu , Zhenchao Jin , Yolo Yunlong Tang , Zichong Xu , Susan Liang , Jing Bi , Jason J Corso , Chenliang Xu

Speech-driven facial animation is the process that automatically synthesizes talking characters based on speech signals. The majority of work in this domain creates a mapping from audio features to visual features. This approach often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Konstantinos Vougioukas , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Speech-driven 3D face animation aims to generate realistic facial expressions that match the speech content and emotion. However, existing methods often neglect emotional facial expressions or fail to disentangle them from speech content.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Ziqiao Peng , Haoyu Wu , Zhenbo Song , Hao Xu , Xiangyu Zhu , Jun He , Hongyan Liu , Zhaoxin Fan

We consider the task of animating 3D facial geometry from speech signal. Existing works are primarily deterministic, focusing on learning a one-to-one mapping from speech signal to 3D face meshes on small datasets with limited speakers.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Karren D. Yang , Anurag Ranjan , Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Raviteja Vemulapalli , Oncel Tuzel

We present 3DiFACE, a novel method for personalized speech-driven 3D facial animation and editing. While existing methods deterministically predict facial animations from speech, they overlook the inherent one-to-many relationship between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Balamurugan Thambiraja , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Darren Cosker , Justus Thies

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has advanced rapidly, yet most approaches remain tied to registered template meshes, preventing effective deployment on raw 3D scans with arbitrary topology. At the same time, modeling controllable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Federico Nocentini , Thomas Besnier , Claudio Ferrari , Stefano Berretti , Mohamed Daoudi

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

We present a novel approach for synthesizing 3D talking heads with controllable emotion, featuring enhanced lip synchronization and rendering quality. Despite significant progress in the field, prior methods still suffer from multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Qianyun He , Xinya Ji , Yicheng Gong , Yuanxun Lu , Zhengyu Diao , Linjia Huang , Yao Yao , Siyu Zhu , Zhan Ma , Songcen Xu , Xiaofei Wu , Zixiao Zhang , Xun Cao , Hao Zhu

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

We present a method that generates expressive talking heads from a single facial image with audio as the only input. In contrast to previous approaches that attempt to learn direct mappings from audio to raw pixels or points for creating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Yang Zhou , Xintong Han , Eli Shechtman , Jose Echevarria , Evangelos Kalogerakis , Dingzeyu Li

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

Different people have different facial expressions while speaking emotionally. A realistic facial animation system should consider such identity-specific speaking styles and facial idiosyncrasies to achieve high-degree of naturalness and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Elif Bozkurt

Audio-driven talking head generation faces a fundamental trade-off between personalization and generalization, limiting its practical application. Implicit models often achieve generalization at the cost of structural incoherence, resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Shiyu Liu , Kui Jiang , Junjun Jiang , Xianming Liu , Xiaocheng Feng , Hongxun Yao , Qi Tian

Speech-driven facial animation involves using a speech signal to generate realistic videos of talking faces. Recent deep learning approaches to facial synthesis rely on extracting low-dimensional representations and concatenating them,…