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Speech-driven 3D facial animation has been widely explored, with applications in gaming, character animation, virtual reality, and telepresence systems. State-of-the-art methods deform the face topology of the target actor to sync the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Balamurugan Thambiraja , Ikhsanul Habibie , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Darren Cosker , Christian Theobalt , Justus Thies

Different people speak with diverse personalized speaking styles. Although existing one-shot talking head methods have made significant progress in lip sync, natural facial expressions, and stable head motions, they still cannot generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Yifeng Ma , Suzhen Wang , Zhipeng Hu , Changjie Fan , Tangjie Lv , Yu Ding , Zhidong Deng , Xin Yu

Recent advances in talking face generation have significantly improved facial animation synthesis. However, existing approaches face fundamental limitations: 3DMM-based methods maintain temporal consistency but lack fine-grained regional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kangwei Liu , Junwu Liu , Yun Cao , Jinlin Guo , Xiaowei Yi

We propose an audio-driven talking-head method to generate photo-realistic talking-head videos from a single reference image. In this work, we tackle two key challenges: (i) producing natural head motions that match speech prosody, and (ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Suzhen Wang , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Changjie Fan , Xin Yu

Although significant progress has been made in the field of speech-driven 3D facial animation recently, the speech-driven animation of an indispensable facial component, eye gaze, has been overlooked by recent research. This is primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yixiang Zhuang , Chunshan Ma , Yao Cheng , Xuan Cheng , Jing Liao , Juncong Lin

Vivid talking face generation holds immense potential applications across diverse multimedia domains, such as film and game production. While existing methods accurately synchronize lip movements with input audio, they typically ignore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Jiadong Liang , Feng Lu

Despite exhibiting impressive performance in synthesizing lifelike personalized 3D talking heads, prevailing methods based on radiance fields suffer from high demands for training data and time for each new identity. This paper introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jiahe Li , Jiawei Zhang , Xiao Bai , Jin Zheng , Jun Zhou , Lin Gu

The goal of this paper is to synthesise talking faces with controllable facial motions. To achieve this goal, we propose two key ideas. The first is to establish a canonical space where every face has the same motion patterns but different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Youngjoon Jang , Kyeongha Rho , Jong-Bin Woo , Hyeongkeun Lee , Jihwan Park , Youshin Lim , Byeong-Yeol Kim , Joon Son Chung

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

Audio-driven talking face generation has gained significant attention for applications in digital media and virtual avatars. While recent methods improve audio-lip synchronization, they often struggle with temporal consistency, identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Fatemeh Nazarieh , Zhenhua Feng , Diptesh Kanojia , Muhammad Awais , Josef Kittler

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

Speech-driven 3D facial animation aims to generate realistic and expressive facial motions directly from audio. While recent methods achieve high-quality lip synchronization, they often rely on discrete emotion categories, limiting…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Diqiong Jiang , Kai Zhu , Dan Song , Jian Chang , Chenglizhao Chen , Zhenyu Wu

Emotional Talking Face synthesis is pivotal in multimedia and signal processing, yet existing 3D methods suffer from two critical challenges: poor audio-vision emotion alignment, manifested as difficult audio emotion extraction and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Nanhan Shen , Zhilei Liu

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

Speech-driven facial animation is the process that automatically synthesizes talking characters based on speech signals. The majority of work in this domain creates a mapping from audio features to visual features. This approach often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Konstantinos Vougioukas , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jisoo Kim , Jungbin Cho , Joonho Park , Soonmin Hwang , Da Eun Kim , Geon Kim , Youngjae Yu

For realistic talking head generation, creating natural head motion while maintaining accurate lip synchronization is essential. To fulfill this challenging task, we propose DisCoHead, a novel method to disentangle and control head pose and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Geumbyeol Hwang , Sunwon Hong , Seunghyun Lee , Sungwoo Park , Gyeongsu Chae

Unsupervised point cloud segmentation is critical for embodied artificial intelligence and autonomous driving, as it mitigates the prohibitive cost of dense point-level annotations required by fully supervised methods. While integrating 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yixiao Song , Qingyong Li , Wen Wang , Zhicheng Yan

Talking face generation has a wide range of potential applications in the field of virtual digital humans. However, rendering high-fidelity facial video while ensuring lip synchronization is still a challenge for existing audio-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yaosen Chen , Yu Yao , Zhiqiang Li , Wei Wang , Yanru Zhang , Han Yang , Xuming Wen

Speech-driven 3D facial animation aims to synthesize vivid facial animations that accurately synchronize with speech and match the unique speaking style. However, existing works primarily focus on achieving precise lip synchronization while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Hui Fu , Zeqing Wang , Ke Gong , Keze Wang , Tianshui Chen , Haojie Li , Haifeng Zeng , Wenxiong Kang