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Facial animation in virtual reality environments is essential for applications that necessitate clear visibility of the user's face and the ability to convey emotional signals. In our scenario, we animate the face of an operator who…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Andre Rochow , Max Schwarz , Sven Behnke

Speech-driven 3D facial animation seeks to produce lifelike facial expressions that are synchronized with the speech content and its emotional nuances, finding applications in various multimedia fields. However, previous methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yixuan Zhang , Qing Chang , Yuxi Wang , Guang Chen , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Junran Peng

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 talking head videos through a face image and a piece of speech audio still contains many challenges. ie, unnatural head movement, distorted expression, and identity modification. We argue that these issues are mainly because of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Wenxuan Zhang , Xiaodong Cun , Xuan Wang , Yong Zhang , Xi Shen , Yu Guo , Ying Shan , Fei Wang

Facial animation is a core component for creating digital characters in Computer Graphics (CG) industry. A typical production workflow relies on sparse, semantically meaningful keyframes to precisely control facial expressions. Enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jingchao Wu , Zejian Kang , Haibo Liu , Yuanchen Fei , Xiangru Huang

Medical image analysis is essential to clinical diagnosis and treatment, which is increasingly supported by multi-modal large language models (MLLMs). However, previous research has primarily focused on 2D medical images, leaving 3D images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Fan Bai , Yuxin Du , Tiejun Huang , Max Q. -H. Meng , Bo Zhao

Recent studies in speech-driven 3D talking head generation have achieved convincing results in verbal articulations. However, generating accurate lip-syncs degrades when applied to input speech in other languages, possibly due to the lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Kim Sung-Bin , Lee Chae-Yeon , Gihun Son , Oh Hyun-Bin , Janghoon Ju , Suekyeong Nam , Tae-Hyun Oh

Audio-driven 3D facial animation has been widely explored, but achieving realistic, human-like performance is still unsolved. This is due to the lack of available 3D datasets, models, and standard evaluation metrics. To address this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Daniel Cudeiro , Timo Bolkart , Cassidy Laidlaw , Anurag Ranjan , Michael J. Black

A 3D avatar typically has one of six cardinal facial expressions. To simulate realistic emotional variation, we should be able to render a facial transition between two arbitrary expressions. This study presents a new framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Anh H. Vo , Tae-Seok Kim , Hulin Jin , Soo-Mi Choi , Yong-Guk Kim

Speech-driven 3D facial animation aims to synthesize realistic facial motion sequences from given audio, matching the speaker's speaking style. However, previous works often require priors such as class labels of a speaker or additional 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Hyung Kyu Kim , Sangmin Lee , Hak Gu Kim

Audio-driven talking head generation necessitates seamless integration of audio and visual data amidst the challenges posed by diverse input portraits and intricate correlations between audio and facial motions. In response, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Ziqi Zhou , Weize Quan , Hailin Shi , Wei Li , Lili Wang , Dong-Ming Yan

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

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

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

The rapid advancement of AI-generated multimodal video-audio content has raised significant concerns regarding information security and content authenticity. Existing synthetic video datasets predominantly focus on the visual modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mengxue Hu , Yunfeng Diao , Changtao Miao , Zhiqing Guo , Jianshu Li , Zhe Li , Joey Tianyi Zhou

We tackle the challenging task of generating complete 3D facial animations for two interacting, co-located participants from a mixed audio stream. While existing methods often produce disembodied "talking heads" akin to a video conference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mengyi Shan , Shouchieh Chang , Ziqian Bai , Shichen Liu , Yinda Zhang , Luchuan Song , Rohit Pandey , Sean Fanello , Zeng Huang

Emerging Metaverse applications demand accessible, accurate, and easy-to-use tools for 3D digital human creations in order to depict different cultures and societies as if in the physical world. Recent large-scale vision-language advances…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Longwen Zhang , Qiwei Qiu , Hongyang Lin , Qixuan Zhang , Cheng Shi , Wei Yang , Ye Shi , Sibei Yang , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu

Audio-driven 3D face animation is increasingly vital in live streaming and augmented reality applications. While remarkable progress has been observed, most existing approaches are designed for specific individuals with predefined speaking…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Xukun Zhou , Fengxin Li , Ziqiao Peng , Kejian Wu , Jun He , Biao Qin , Zhaoxin Fan , Hongyan Liu

Video retargeting for digital face animation is used in virtual reality, social media, gaming, movies, and video conference, aiming to animate avatars' facial expressions based on videos of human faces. The standard method to represent…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ariel Larey , Omri Asraf , Adam Kelder , Itzik Wilf , Ofer Kruzel , Nati Daniel

Facial expression captioning has found widespread application across various domains. Recently, the emergence of video Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has shown promise in general video understanding tasks. However, describing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Jiaxing Zhao , Boyuan Sun , Xiang Chen , Xihan Wei