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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

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

In this work, we propose a joint system combining a talking face generation system with a text-to-speech system that can generate multilingual talking face videos from only the text input. Our system can synthesize natural multilingual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Hyoung-Kyu Song , Sang Hoon Woo , Junhyeok Lee , Seungmin Yang , Hyunjae Cho , Youseong Lee , Dongho Choi , Kang-wook Kim

Significant progress has been made for speech-driven 3D face animation, but most works focus on learning the motion of mesh/geometry, ignoring the impact of dynamic texture. In this work, we reveal that dynamic texture plays a key role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xuanchen Li , Jianyu Wang , Yuhao Cheng , Yikun Zeng , Xingyu Ren , Wenhan Zhu , Weiming Zhao , Yichao Yan

In this paper, we introduce an innovative vector quantization based action tokenizer built upon the largest-scale action trajectory dataset to date, leveraging over 100 times more data than previous approaches. This extensive dataset…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Yating Wang , Haoyi Zhu , Mingyu Liu , Jiange Yang , Hao-Shu Fang , Tong He

Audio-driven talking face generation is a challenging task in digital communication. Despite significant progress in the area, most existing methods concentrate on audio-lip synchronization, often overlooking aspects such as visual quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Fatemeh Nazarieh , Zhenhua Feng , Diptesh Kanojia , Muhammad Awais , Josef Kittler

Audio-driven 3D talking avatar generation is increasingly important in virtual communication, digital humans, and interactive media, where avatars must preserve identity, synchronize lip motion with speech, express emotion, and exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zhongju Wang , Zhenhong Sun , Beier Wang , Yifu Wang , Daoyi Dong , Huadong Mo , Hongdong Li

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

Real-world talking faces often accompany with natural head movement. However, most existing talking face video generation methods only consider facial animation with fixed head pose. In this paper, we address this problem by proposing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Ran Yi , Zipeng Ye , Juyong Zhang , Hujun Bao , Yong-Jin 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

This paper discusses the task of face-based speech synthesis, a kind of personalized speech synthesis where the synthesized voices are constrained to perceptually match with a reference face image. Due to the lack of TTS-quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Yao Shi , Yunfei Xu , Hongbin Suo , Yulong Wan , Haifeng Liu

Talking head video generation aims to generate a realistic talking head video that preserves the person's identity from a source image and the motion from a driving video. Despite the promising progress made in the field, it remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Shuling Zhao , Fa-Ting Hong , Xiaoshui Huang , Dan Xu

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

Speech-driven gesture generation is highly challenging due to the random jitters of human motion. In addition, there is an inherent asynchronous relationship between human speech and gestures. To tackle these challenges, we introduce a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Sicheng Yang , Zhiyong Wu , Minglei Li , Zhensong Zhang , Lei Hao , Weihong Bao , Haolin Zhuang

Although generative facial prior and geometric prior have recently demonstrated high-quality results for blind face restoration, producing fine-grained facial details faithful to inputs remains a challenging problem. Motivated by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Yuchao Gu , Xintao Wang , Liangbin Xie , Chao Dong , Gen Li , Ying Shan , Ming-Ming Cheng

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

Virtual humans have gained considerable attention in numerous industries, e.g., entertainment and e-commerce. As a core technology, synthesizing photorealistic face frames from target speech and facial identity has been actively studied…

We present a framework for generating full-bodied photorealistic avatars that gesture according to the conversational dynamics of a dyadic interaction. Given speech audio, we output multiple possibilities of gestural motion for an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Evonne Ng , Javier Romero , Timur Bagautdinov , Shaojie Bai , Trevor Darrell , Angjoo Kanazawa , Alexander Richard

Recent works on audio-driven talking head synthesis using Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have achieved impressive results. However, due to inadequate pose and expression control caused by NeRF implicit representation, these methods still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Hongyun Yu , Zhan Qu , Qihang Yu , Jianchuan Chen , Zhonghua Jiang , Zhiwen Chen , Shengyu Zhang , Jimin Xu , Fei Wu , Chengfei Lv , Gang Yu

This work proposes a novel method to generate realistic talking head videos using audio and visual streams. We animate a source image by transferring head motion from a driving video using a dense motion field generated using learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Madhav Agarwal , Rudrabha Mukhopadhyay , Vinay Namboodiri , C V Jawahar