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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

Creating high-fidelity, animatable 3D talking heads is crucial for immersive applications, yet often hindered by the prevalence of low-quality image or video sources, which yield poor 3D reconstructions. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Ding-Jiun Huang , Yuanhao Wang , Shao-Ji Yuan , Albert Mosella-Montoro , Francisco Vicente Carrasco , Cheng Zhang , Fernando De la Torre

Generating high-quality cartoon animations multimodal control is challenging due to the complexity of non-human characters, stylistically diverse motions and fine-grained emotions. There is a huge domain gap between real-world videos and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shuolin Xu , Bingyuan Wang , Zeyu Cai , Fangteng Fu , Yue Ma , Tongyi Lee , Hongchuan Yu , Zeyu Wang

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

Facial motion capture in mixed reality headsets enables real-time avatar animation, allowing users to convey non-verbal cues during virtual interactions. However, as facial motion data constitutes a behavioral biometric, its use raises…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Adriano Castro , Simon Hanisch , Matin Fallahi , Thorsten Strufe

The human face is central to communication. For immersive applications, the digital presence of a person should mirror the physical reality, capturing the users idiosyncrasies and detailed facial expressions. However, current 3D head avatar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jalees Nehvi , Timo Bolkart , Thabo Beeler , Justus Thies

Human face generation and editing represent an essential task in the era of computer vision and the digital world. Recent studies have shown remarkable progress in multi-modal face generation and editing, for instance, using face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Mohammadreza Mofayezi , Reza Alipour , Mohammad Ali Kakavand , Ehsaneddin Asgari

The objective of face animation is to generate dynamic and expressive talking head videos from a single reference face, utilizing driving conditions derived from either video or audio inputs. Current approaches often require fine-tuning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 He Feng , Donglin Di , Yongjia Ma , Wei Chen , Tonghua Su

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

Generating emotion-specific talking head videos from audio input is an important and complex challenge for human-machine interaction. However, emotion is highly abstract concept with ambiguous boundaries, and it necessitates disentangled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Xuli Shen , Hua Cai , Dingding Yu , Weilin Shen , Qing Xu , Xiangyang Xue

Recent portrait animation methods have made significant strides in generating realistic lip synchronization. However, they often lack explicit control over head movements and facial expressions, and cannot produce videos from multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yukang Lin , Hokit Fung , Jianjin Xu , Zeping Ren , Adela S. M. Lau , Guosheng Yin , Xiu Li

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has recently garnered attention due to its cost-effective usability in multimedia production. However, most current advances overlook the intelligibility of lip movements, limiting the realism of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Han EunGi , Oh Hyun-Bin , Kim Sung-Bin , Corentin Nivelet Etcheberry , Suekyeong Nam , Janghoon Joo , Tae-Hyun Oh

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

Speech-driven 3D facial animation aims to generate realistic and expressive facial motions directly from audio. While recent methods achieve high-quality lip synchronization, they often rely on discrete emotion categories, limiting…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Diqiong Jiang , Kai Zhu , Dan Song , Jian Chang , Chenglizhao Chen , Zhenyu Wu

Recent advances in deep learning have significantly pushed the state-of-the-art in photorealistic video animation given a single image. In this paper, we extrapolate those advances to the 3D domain, by studying 3D image-to-video translation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Jiali Zheng , Stylianos Ploumpis , Giorgos Bouritsas , Evangelos Ververas , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Reconstructing personalized animatable head avatars has significant implications in the fields of AR/VR. Existing methods for achieving explicit face control of 3D Morphable Models (3DMM) typically rely on multi-view images or videos of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Haoyu Ma , Tong Zhang , Shanlin Sun , Xiangyi Yan , Kun Han , Xiaohui Xie

Speech-driven 3D facial animation aims at generating facial movements that are synchronized with the driving speech, which has been widely explored recently. Existing works mostly neglect the person-specific talking style in generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Liyang Chen , Weihong Bao , Shun Lei , Boshi Tang , Zhiyong Wu , Shiyin Kang , Haozhi Huang , Helen Meng

The synthesis of 3D facial animations from speech has garnered considerable attention. Due to the scarcity of high-quality 4D facial data and well-annotated abundant multi-modality labels, previous methods often suffer from limited realism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Qingcheng Zhao , Pengyu Long , Qixuan Zhang , Dafei Qin , Han Liang , Longwen Zhang , Yingliang Zhang , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu

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

Talking head video generation aims to generate a realistic talking head video that preserves the person's identity from a source image and the motion from a driving video. Despite the promising progress made in the field, it remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Shuling Zhao , Fa-Ting Hong , Xiaoshui Huang , Dan Xu