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Creating realistic animations of human faces with computer graphic models is still a challenging task. It is often solved either with tedious manual work or motion capture based techniques that require specialised and costly hardware.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Wolfgang Paier , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

Recently audio-driven talking face video generation has attracted considerable attention. However, very few researches address the issue of emotional editing of these talking face videos with continuously controllable expressions, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zhiyao Sun , Yu-Hui Wen , Tian Lv , Yanan Sun , Ziyang Zhang , Yaoyuan Wang , Yong-Jin Liu

This study delves into the intricacies of synchronizing facial dynamics with multilingual audio inputs, focusing on the creation of visually compelling, time-synchronized animations through diffusion-based techniques. Diverging from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Rui Zhang , Yixiao Fang , Zhengnan Lu , Pei Cheng , Zebiao Huang , Bin Fu

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

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 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

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

The task of audio-driven portrait animation involves generating a talking head video using an identity image and an audio track of speech. While many existing approaches focus on lip synchronization and video quality, few tackle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Jian Zhang , Weijian Mai , Zhijun Zhang

Audio-driven talking face generation has received growing interest, particularly for applications requiring expressive and natural human-avatar interaction. However, most existing emotion-aware methods rely on a single modality (either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Phyo Thet Yee , Dimitrios Kollias , Sudeepta Mishra , Abhinav Dhall

Multimodal-driven talking face generation refers to animating a portrait with the given pose, expression, and gaze transferred from the driving image and video, or estimated from the text and audio. However, existing methods ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Chao Xu , Shaoting Zhu , Junwei Zhu , Tianxin Huang , Jiangning Zhang , Ying Tai , Yong Liu

Recent advances in talking face generation have significantly improved facial animation synthesis. However, existing approaches face fundamental limitations: 3DMM-based methods maintain temporal consistency but lack fine-grained regional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kangwei Liu , Junwu Liu , Yun Cao , Jinlin Guo , Xiaowei Yi

3D Gaussian splatting-based talking head synthesis has recently gained attention for its ability to render high-fidelity images with real-time inference speed. However, since it is typically trained on only a short video that lacks the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Junuk Cha , Seongro Yoon , Valeriya Strizhkova , Francois Bremond , Seungryul Baek

Audio-driven talking-head generation is a crucial and useful technology for virtual human interaction and film-making. While recent advances have focused on improving image fidelity and lip synchronization, generating accurate emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Wenqing Wang , Yun Fu

Generating speech-driven 3D talking heads presents numerous challenges; among those is dealing with varying mesh topologies where no point-wise correspondence exists across the meshes the model can animate. While previous literature works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Federico Nocentini , Thomas Besnier , Claudio Ferrari , Sylvain Arguillere , Mohamed Daoudi , Stefano Berretti

Audio-driven portrait animation aims to synthesize portrait videos that are conditioned by given audio. Animating high-fidelity and multimodal video portraits has a variety of applications. Previous methods have attempted to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Yunfei Liu , Lijian Lin , Fei Yu , Changyin Zhou , Yu Li

This paper addresses the problem of generating lifelike holistic co-speech motions for 3D avatars, focusing on two key aspects: variability and coordination. Variability allows the avatar to exhibit a wide range of motions even with similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yifei Liu , Qiong Cao , Yandong Wen , Huaiguang Jiang , Changxing Ding

Recently, emotional talking face generation has received considerable attention. However, existing methods only adopt one-hot coding, image, or audio as emotion conditions, thus lacking flexible control in practical applications and failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Chao Xu , Junwei Zhu , Jiangning Zhang , Yue Han , Wenqing Chu , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Zhifeng Xie , Yong Liu

We propose an audio-driven talking-head method to generate photo-realistic talking-head videos from a single reference image. In this work, we tackle two key challenges: (i) producing natural head motions that match speech prosody, and (ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Suzhen Wang , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Changjie Fan , Xin Yu

Audio-driven 3D talking avatar generation is increasingly important in virtual communication, digital humans, and interactive media, where avatars must preserve identity, synchronize lip motion with speech, express emotion, and exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zhongju Wang , Zhenhong Sun , Beier Wang , Yifu Wang , Daoyi Dong , Huadong Mo , Hongdong Li

Due to the increasing demand in films and games, synthesizing 3D avatar animation has attracted much attention recently. In this work, we present a production-ready text/speech-driven full-body animation synthesis system. Given the text and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Wenlin Zhuang , Jinwei Qi , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Ping Tan