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Most earlier researches on talking face generation have focused on the synchronization of lip motion and speech content. However, head pose and facial emotions are equally important characteristics of natural faces. While audio-driven…

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Speech-driven facial animation is the process which uses speech signals to automatically synthesize a talking character. The majority of work in this domain creates a mapping from audio features to visual features. This often requires…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-20 Konstantinos Vougioukas , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

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

In recent years, the field of talking faces generation has attracted considerable attention, with certain methods adept at generating virtual faces that convincingly imitate human expressions. However, existing methods face challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Bingyuan Zhang , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jun Yu , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

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

Realistic talking-head video generation is critical for virtual avatars, film production, and interactive systems. Current methods struggle with nuanced emotional expressions due to the lack of fine-grained emotion control. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiayi Lyu , Leigang Qu , Wenjing Zhang , Hanyu Jiang , Kai Liu , Zhenglin Zhou , Xiaobo Xia , Jian Xue , Tat-Seng Chua

Speech-driven facial animation requires accurate correspondence between acoustic signals and facial motion, especially for articulation-related mouth movements. However, directly mapping speech audio to facial coefficients often overlooks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Kai Zheng , Zejian Kang , Rui Mao , Hongyuan Zou , Yuanchen Fei , Xuanyang Xu , Xiangru Huang

Audio-driven talking-head generation has advanced rapidly with diffusion-based generative models, yet producing temporally coherent videos with fine-grained motion control remains challenging. We propose DEMO, a flow-matching generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Peiyin Chen , Zhuowei Yang , Hui Feng , Sheng Jiang , Rui Yan

Person-generic audio-driven face generation is a challenging task in computer vision. Previous methods have achieved remarkable progress in audio-visual synchronization, but there is still a significant gap between current results and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Xiaozhong Ji , Chuming Lin , Zhonggan Ding , Ying Tai , Junwei Zhu , Xiaobin Hu , Donghao Luo , Yanhao Ge , Chengjie Wang

We propose a novel method for generating high-resolution videos of talking-heads from speech audio and a single 'identity' image. Our method is based on a convolutional neural network model that incorporates a pre-trained StyleGAN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Mohammed M. Alghamdi , He Wang , Andrew J. Bulpitt , David C. Hogg

Recent diffusion-based talking face generation models have demonstrated impressive potential in synthesizing videos that accurately match a speech audio clip with a given reference identity. However, existing approaches still encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xingpei Ma , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shenneng Huang , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang

Audio-driven talking head animation is a challenging research topic with many real-world applications. Recent works have focused on creating photo-realistic 2D animation, while learning different talking or singing styles remains an open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Trong-Thang Pham , Nhat Le , Tuong Do , Hung Nguyen , Erman Tjiputra , Quang D. Tran , Anh Nguyen

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has garnered lots of attention thanks to its broad range of applications. Despite recent advancements in achieving realistic lip motion, current methods fail to capture the nuanced emotional undertones…

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Many datasets have been designed to further the development of fake audio detection, such as datasets of the ASVspoof and ADD challenges. However, these datasets do not consider a situation that the emotion of the audio has been changed…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Yan Zhao , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao , Chenglong Wang , Xiaohui Zhang , Yongfeng Dong

Achieving disentangled control over multiple facial motions and accommodating diverse input modalities greatly enhances the application and entertainment of the talking head generation. This necessitates a deep exploration of the decoupling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Shuai Tan , Bin Ji , Mengxiao Bi , Ye Pan

Recent advances in Talking Head Generation (THG) have achieved impressive lip synchronization and visual quality through diffusion models; yet existing methods struggle to generate emotionally expressive portraits while preserving speaker…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Weipeng Tan , Chuming Lin , Chengming Xu , FeiFan Xu , Xiaobin Hu , Xiaozhong Ji , Junwei Zhu , Chengjie Wang , Yanwei Fu

In this paper, we consider a novel and practical case for talking face video generation. Specifically, we focus on the scenarios involving multi-people interactions, where the talking context, such as audience or surroundings, is present.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Meidai Xuanyuan , Yuwang Wang , Honglei Guo , Qionghai Dai

Audio-driven 3D facial animation synthesis has been an active field of research with attention from both academia and industry. While there are promising results in this area, recent approaches largely focus on lip-sync and identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Sichun Wu , Kazi Injamamul Haque , Zerrin Yumak

Audio-driven facial reenactment is a crucial technique that has a range of applications in film-making, virtual avatars and video conferences. Existing works either employ explicit intermediate face representations (e.g., 2D facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Ricong Huang , Peiwen Lai , Yipeng Qin , Guanbin Li

Emotionally talking head video generation aims to generate expressive portrait videos with accurate lip synchronization and emotional facial expressions. Current methods rely on simple emotional labels, leading to insufficient semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yahui Li , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang , Shengjie Shen