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Speech-driven talking heads have recently emerged and enable interactive avatars. However, real-world applications are limited, as current methods achieve high visual fidelity but slow or fast yet temporally unstable. Diffusion methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Madhav Agarwal , Mingtian Zhang , Laura Sevilla-Lara , Steven McDonagh

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

The challenge of talking face generation from speech lies in aligning two different modal information, audio and video, such that the mouth region corresponds to input audio. Previous methods either exploit audio-visual representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Se Jin Park , Minsu Kim , Joanna Hong , Jeongsoo Choi , Yong Man Ro

Speech-driven 3D talking head generation aims to produce lifelike facial animations precisely synchronized with speech. While considerable progress has been made in achieving high lip-synchronization accuracy, existing methods largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Bin Wang , Yang Xu , Huan Zhao , Hao Zhang , Zixing Zhang

Recent advances in audio-driven talking head generation have achieved impressive results in lip synchronization and emotional expression. However, they largely overlook the crucial task of facial attribute editing. This capability is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Guanwen Feng , Zhiyuan Ma , Yunan Li , Jiahao Yang , Junwei Jing , Qiguang Miao

Recent advancements in speech-driven 3D talking head generation have made significant progress in lip synchronization. However, existing models still struggle to capture the perceptual alignment between varying speech characteristics and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Lee Chae-Yeon , Oh Hyun-Bin , Han EunGi , Kim Sung-Bin , Suekyeong Nam , Tae-Hyun Oh

We introduce FaceTalk, a novel generative approach designed for synthesizing high-fidelity 3D motion sequences of talking human heads from input audio signal. To capture the expressive, detailed nature of human heads, including hair, ears,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Shivangi Aneja , Justus Thies , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

Real-time video dubbing that preserves identity consistency while achieving accurate lip synchronization remains a critical challenge. Existing approaches face a trilemma: diffusion-based methods achieve high visual fidelity but suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Yue Zhang , Zhizhou Zhong , Minhao Liu , Zhaokang Chen , Bin Wu , Yubin Zeng , Chao Zhan , Yingjie He , Junxin Huang , Wenjiang Zhou

We introduce GaussianSpeech, a novel approach that synthesizes high-fidelity animation sequences of photo-realistic, personalized 3D human head avatars from spoken audio. To capture the expressive, detailed nature of human heads, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Shivangi Aneja , Artem Sevastopolsky , Tobias Kirschstein , Justus Thies , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

Speech-driven three-dimensional (3D) facial animation synthesis aims to build a mapping from one-dimensional (1D) speech signals to time-varying 3D facial motion signals. Current methods still face challenges in maintaining lip-sync…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Bin Liu , Zhixiang Xiong , Zhifen He , Bo Li

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

Speech-driven 3D talking face method should offer both accurate lip synchronization and controllable expressions. Previous methods solely adopt discrete emotion labels to globally control expressions throughout sequences while limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Hejia Chen , Haoxian Zhang , Shoulong Zhang , Xiaoqiang Liu , Sisi Zhuang , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Shuai Li

Significant progress has been made in talking-face video generation research; however, precise lip-audio synchronization and high visual quality remain challenging in editing lip shapes based on input audio. This paper introduces JoyGen, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Qili Wang , Dajiang Wu , Zihang Xu , Junshi Huang , Jun Lv

The generation of emotional talking faces from a single portrait image remains a significant challenge. The simultaneous achievement of expressive emotional talking and accurate lip-sync is particularly difficult, as expressiveness is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Chenxu Zhang , Chao Wang , Jianfeng Zhang , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , You Xie , Linjie Luo , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo , Jiashi Feng

Talking head synthesis is a promising approach for the video production industry. Recently, a lot of effort has been devoted in this research area to improve the generation quality or enhance the model generalization. However, there are few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Shuai Shen , Wenliang Zhao , Zibin Meng , Wanhua Li , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Speech-driven 3D talking heads generation has emerged as a significant area of interest among researchers, presenting numerous challenges. Existing methods are constrained by animating faces with fixed topologies, wherein point-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Federico Nocentini , Thomas Besnier , Claudio Ferrari , Sylvain Arguillere , Stefano Berretti , Mohamed Daoudi

We propose a novel talking head synthesis pipeline called "DiT-Head", which is based on diffusion transformers and uses audio as a condition to drive the denoising process of a diffusion model. Our method is scalable and can generalise to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Aaron Mir , Eduardo Alonso , Esther Mondragón

Talking head generation is to synthesize a lip-synchronized talking head video by inputting an arbitrary face image and corresponding audio clips. Existing methods ignore not only the interaction and relationship of cross-modal information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Sen Chen , Zhilei Liu , Jiaxing Liu , Longbiao Wang

High-quality, real-time talking head synthesis remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Existing reconstruction- and rendering-based methods typically rely on identity-specific models, limiting cross-identity generalization. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Peng Jia , Zhen Xiao , Jia Li , Xueliang Liu , Zhenzhen Hu , Lingyun Yu

We propose StyleTalker, a novel audio-driven talking head generation model that can synthesize a video of a talking person from a single reference image with accurately audio-synced lip shapes, realistic head poses, and eye blinks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Dongchan Min , Minyoung Song , Eunji Ko , Sung Ju Hwang