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Expressions are fundamental to conveying human emotions. With the rapid advancement of AI-generated content (AIGC), realistic and expressive 3D facial animation has become increasingly crucial. Despite recent progress in speech-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yuxiang Mao , Zhijie Zhang , Zhiheng Zhang , Jiawei Liu , Chen Zeng , Shihong Xia

Talking head generation is to generate video based on a given source identity and target motion. However, current methods face several challenges that limit the quality and controllability of the generated videos. First, the generated face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yue Gao , Yuan Zhou , Jinglu Wang , Xiao Li , Xiang Ming , Yan Lu

Speech-driven 3D face animation technique, extending its applications to various multimedia fields. Previous research has generated promising realistic lip movements and facial expressions from audio signals. However, traditional regression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Ziqiao Peng , Yihao Luo , Yue Shi , Hao Xu , Xiangyu Zhu , Jun He , Hongyan Liu , Zhaoxin Fan

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

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

This paper presents a novel approach for generating 3D talking heads from raw audio inputs. Our method grounds on the idea that speech related movements can be comprehensively and efficiently described by the motion of a few control points…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Federico Nocentini , Claudio Ferrari , Stefano Berretti

Talking Head Generation (THG) has emerged as a transformative technology in computer vision, enabling the synthesis of realistic human faces synchronized with image, audio, text, or video inputs. This paper provides a comprehensive review…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Vineet Kumar Rakesh , Soumya Mazumdar , Research Pratim Maity , Sarbajit Pal , Amitabha Das , Tapas Samanta

Recent frameworks like ToFu and TEMPEH provide an automated alternative to classical registration pipelines by predicting 3D meshes in dense semantic correspondence directly from calibrated multi-view images. However, these learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Panagiotis P. Filntisis , George Retsinas , Radek Daněček , Vanessa Sklyarova , Petros Maragos , Timo Bolkart

When people deliver a speech, they naturally move heads, and this rhythmic head motion conveys prosodic information. However, generating a lip-synced video while moving head naturally is challenging. While remarkably successful, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Lele Chen , Guofeng Cui , Celong Liu , Zhong Li , Ziyi Kou , Yi Xu , Chenliang Xu

Given an arbitrary audio clip, audio-driven 3D facial animation aims to generate lifelike lip motions and facial expressions for a 3D head. Existing methods typically rely on training their models using limited public 3D datasets that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Liying Lu , Tianke Zhang , Yunfei Liu , Xuangeng Chu , Yu Li

Talking-head video editing aims to efficiently insert, delete, and substitute the word of a pre-recorded video through a text transcript editor. The key challenge for this task is obtaining an editing model that generates new talking-head…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Songlin Yang , Wei Wang , Jun Ling , Bo Peng , Xu Tan , Jing Dong

Laughter is a unique expression, essential to affirmative social interactions of humans. Although current 3D talking head generation methods produce convincing verbal articulations, they often fail to capture the vitality and subtleties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Kim Sung-Bin , Lee Hyun , Da Hye Hong , Suekyeong Nam , Janghoon Ju , Tae-Hyun Oh

While accurate lip synchronization has been achieved for arbitrary-subject audio-driven talking face generation, the problem of how to efficiently drive the head pose remains. Previous methods rely on pre-estimated structural information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Hang Zhou , Yasheng Sun , Wayne Wu , Chen Change Loy , Xiaogang Wang , Ziwei Liu

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

The creation of lifelike speech-driven 3D facial animation requires a natural and precise synchronization between audio input and facial expressions. However, existing works still fail to render shapes with flexible head poses and natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Wei Zhao , Yijun Wang , Tianyu He , Lianying Yin , Jianxin Lin , Xin Jin

Audio-driven 3D facial animation aims to map input audio to realistic facial motion. Despite significant progress, limitations arise from inconsistent 3D annotations, restricting previous models to training on specific annotations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Xiangyu Fan , Jiaqi Li , Zhiqian Lin , Weiye Xiao , Lei Yang

Image-based 3D reconstruction has increasingly stunning results over the past few years with the latest improvements in computer vision and graphics. Geometry and topology are two fundamental concepts when dealing with 3D mesh structures.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Gaëtan Landreau , Mohamed Tamaazousti

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

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 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