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We present a novel approach for synthesizing 3D facial motions from audio sequences using key motion embeddings. Despite recent advancements in data-driven techniques, accurately mapping between audio signals and 3D facial meshes remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhihao Xu , Shengjie Gong , Jiapeng Tang , Lingyu Liang , Yining Huang , Haojie Li , Shuangping Huang

We present a novel approach for synthesizing 3D talking heads with controllable emotion, featuring enhanced lip synchronization and rendering quality. Despite significant progress in the field, prior methods still suffer from multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Qianyun He , Xinya Ji , Yicheng Gong , Yuanxun Lu , Zhengyu Diao , Linjia Huang , Yao Yao , Siyu Zhu , Zhan Ma , Songcen Xu , Xiaofei Wu , Zixiao Zhang , Xun Cao , Hao Zhu

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

Synthesizing high-fidelity and emotion-controllable talking video portraits, with audio-lip sync, vivid expressions, realistic head poses, and eye blinks, has been an important and challenging task in recent years. Most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yibo Xia , Lizhen Wang , Xiang Deng , Xiaoyan Luo , Yunhong Wang , Yebin Liu

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

Gaussian-based human avatars have achieved an unprecedented level of visual fidelity. However, existing approaches based on high-capacity neural networks typically require a desktop GPU to achieve real-time performance for a single avatar,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Forrest Iandola , Stanislav Pidhorskyi , Igor Santesteban , Divam Gupta , Anuj Pahuja , Nemanja Bartolovic , Frank Yu , Emanuel Garbin , Tomas Simon , Shunsuke Saito

Reconstruction and rendering-based talking head synthesis methods achieve high-quality results with strong identity preservation but are limited by their dependence on identity-specific models. Each new identity requires training from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Hong Nie , Fuyuan Cao , Lu Chen , Fengxin Chen , Yuefeng Zou , Jun Yu

Achieving high synchronization in the synthesis of realistic, speech-driven talking head videos presents a significant challenge. A lifelike talking head requires synchronized coordination of subject identity, lip movements, facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ziqiao Peng , Wentao Hu , Junyuan Ma , Xiangyu Zhu , Xiaomei Zhang , Hao Zhao , Hui Tian , Jun He , Hongyan Liu , Zhaoxin Fan

Creating relightable and animatable avatars from multi-view or monocular videos is a challenging task for digital human creation and virtual reality applications. Previous methods rely on neural radiance fields or ray tracing, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Youyi Zhan , Tianjia Shao , He Wang , Yin Yang , Kun Zhou

Creating a realistic animatable avatar from a single static portrait remains challenging. Existing approaches often struggle to capture subtle facial expressions, the associated global body movements, and the dynamic background. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mengchao Wang , Qiang Wang , Fan Jiang , Yaqi Fan , Yunpeng Zhang , Yonggang Qi , Kun Zhao , Mu Xu

Many works have succeeded in reconstructing Gaussian human avatars from multi-view videos. However, they either struggle to capture pose-dependent appearance details with a single MLP, or rely on a computationally intensive neural network…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Youyi Zhan , Tianjia Shao , Yin Yang , Kun Zhou

Real-time synthesis of high-fidelity 3D character motion from audio is a pivotal component for next-generation interactive avatars and virtual assistants. However, most existing approaches are limited to offline processing of complete audio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Bohong Chen , Yumeng Li , Yinglin Xu , Youyi Zheng , Yanlin Weng , Kun Zhou

We leverage increasingly popular three-dimensional neural representations in order to construct a unified and consistent explanation of a collection of uncalibrated images of the human face. Our approach utilizes Gaussian Splatting, since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Haodi He , Jihun Yu , Ronald Fedkiw

Realistic animatable human avatars from monocular videos are crucial for advancing human-robot interaction and enhancing immersive virtual experiences. While recent research on 3DGS-based human avatars has made progress, it still struggles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Guangan Jiang , Tianzi Zhang , Dong Li , Zhenjun Zhao , Haoang Li , Mingrui Li , Hongyu Wang

Significant progress has been made in audio-driven human animation, while most existing methods focus mainly on facial movements, limiting their ability to create full-body animations with natural synchronization and fluidity. They also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Qijun Gan , Ruizi Yang , Jianke Zhu , Shaofei Xue , Steven Hoi

State-of-the-art novel view synthesis methods achieve impressive results for multi-view captures of static 3D scenes. However, the reconstructed scenes still lack "liveliness," a key component for creating engaging 3D experiences. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Thomas Wimmer , Michael Oechsle , Michael Niemeyer , Federico Tombari

Creating realistic avatars from a single RGB image is an attractive yet challenging problem. Due to its ill-posed nature, recent works leverage powerful prior from 2D diffusion models pretrained on large datasets. Although 2D diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yuxuan Xue , Xianghui Xie , Riccardo Marin , Gerard Pons-Moll

We present CrowdSplat, a novel approach that leverages 3D Gaussian Splatting for real-time, high-quality crowd rendering. Our method utilizes 3D Gaussian functions to represent animated human characters in diverse poses and outfits, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xiaohan Sun , Yinghan Xu , John Dingliana , Carol O'Sullivan

Recent photo-realistic 3D talking head via 3D Gaussian Splatting still has significant shortcoming in emotional expression manipulation, especially for fine-grained and expansive dynamics emotional editing using multi-modal control. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Chang Liu , Tianjiao Jing , Chengcheng Ma , Xuanqi Zhou , Zhengxuan Lian , Qin Jin , Hongliang Yuan , Shi-Sheng Huang

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