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Audio-driven 3D facial animation has several virtual humans applications for content creation and editing. While several existing methods provide solutions for speech-driven animation, precise control over content (what) and style (how) of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Qingju Liu , Hyeongwoo Kim , Gaurav Bharaj

Most current audio-driven facial animation research primarily focuses on generating videos with neutral emotions. While some studies have addressed the generation of facial videos driven by emotional audio, efficiently generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Chuhang Ma , Shuai Tan , Ye Pan , Jiaolong Yang , Xin Tong

Social interactions incorporate nonverbal signals to convey emotions alongside speech, including facial expressions and body gestures. Generative models have demonstrated promising results in creating full-body nonverbal animations…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Kiran Chhatre , Renan Guarese , Andrii Matviienko , Christopher Peters

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

Emotional talking head synthesis aims to generate talking portrait videos with vivid expressions. Existing methods still exhibit limitations in control flexibility, motion naturalness, and expression quality. Moreover, currently available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yiguo Jiang , Xiaodong Cun , Yong Zhang , Yudian Zheng , Fan Tang , Chi-Man Pun

We introduce FaceTalk, a novel generative approach designed for synthesizing high-fidelity 3D motion sequences of talking human heads from input audio signal. To capture the expressive, detailed nature of human heads, including hair, ears,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Shivangi Aneja , Justus Thies , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

PESTalk is a novel method for generating 3D facial animations with personalized emotional styles directly from speech. It overcomes key limitations of existing approaches by introducing a Dual-Stream Emotion Extractor (DSEE) that captures…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Tianshun Han , Benjia Zhou , Ajian Liu , Yanyan Liang , Du Zhang , Zhen Lei , Jun Wan

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

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

Existing 3D facial emotion modeling have been constrained by limited emotion classes and insufficient datasets. This paper introduces "Emo3D", an extensive "Text-Image-Expression dataset" spanning a wide spectrum of human emotions, each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mahshid Dehghani , Amirahmad Shafiee , Ali Shafiei , Neda Fallah , Farahmand Alizadeh , Mohammad Mehdi Gholinejad , Hamid Behroozi , Jafar Habibi , Ehsaneddin Asgari

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

Audio-driven talking head generation has drawn much attention in recent years, and many efforts have been made in lip-sync, expressive facial expressions, natural head pose generation, and high video quality. However, no model has yet led…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Xusen Sun , Longhao Zhang , Hao Zhu , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Xinya Ji , Kangneng Zhou , Daiheng Gao , Liefeng Bo , Xun Cao

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has been widely studied, yet there is still a gap to achieving realism and vividness due to the highly ill-posed nature and scarcity of audio-visual data. Existing works typically formulate the cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jinbo Xing , Menghan Xia , Yuechen Zhang , Xiaodong Cun , Jue Wang , Tien-Tsin Wong

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

Audio-driven 3D talking head synthesis has advanced rapidly with Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). By leveraging rich pre-trained priors, few-shot methods enable instant personalization from just a few seconds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Haolan Xu , Keli Cheng , Lei Wang , Ning Bi , Xiaoming Liu

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

Recent advancements in audio-driven talking face generation have made great progress in lip synchronization. However, current methods often lack sufficient control over facial animation such as speaking style and emotional expression,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Baiqin Wang , Xiangyu Zhu , Fan Shen , Hao Xu , Zhen Lei

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

This paper presents FaceXHuBERT, a text-less speech-driven 3D facial animation generation method that allows to capture personalized and subtle cues in speech (e.g. identity, emotion and hesitation). It is also very robust to background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Kazi Injamamul Haque , Zerrin Yumak

Speech-driven 3D facial animation with accurate lip synchronization has been widely studied. However, synthesizing realistic motions for the entire face during speech has rarely been explored. In this work, we present a joint audio-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yingruo Fan , Zhaojiang Lin , Jun Saito , Wenping Wang , Taku Komura