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We present HighSync, an end-to-end diffusion-based framework for high-fidelity lip synchronization that generates photorealistic talking-face videos aligned with arbitrary input audio. Existing approaches consistently struggle to reconcile…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Saeed Firouzi Daghigh , Majid Iranpour Mobarekeh , Mostafa Alavi , Mehdi Bagheri

Talking face generation with great practical significance has attracted more attention in recent audio-visual studies. How to achieve accurate lip synchronization is a long-standing challenge to be further investigated. Motivated by xxx, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Ganglai Wang , Peng Zhang , Lei Xie , Wei Huang , Yufei Zha

To the best of our knowledge, we first present a live system that generates personalized photorealistic talking-head animation only driven by audio signals at over 30 fps. Our system contains three stages. The first stage is a deep neural…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Yuanxun Lu , Jinxiang Chai , Xun Cao

Talking-head video editing aims to efficiently insert, delete, and substitute the word of a pre-recorded video through a text transcript editor. The key challenge for this task is obtaining an editing model that generates new talking-head…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Songlin Yang , Wei Wang , Jun Ling , Bo Peng , Xu Tan , Jing Dong

Recent advancements in audio generation have been spurred by the evolution of large-scale deep learning models and expansive datasets. However, the task of video-to-audio (V2A) generation continues to be a challenge, principally because of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Xinhao Mei , Varun Nagaraja , Gael Le Lan , Zhaoheng Ni , Ernie Chang , Yangyang Shi , Vikas Chandra

Unlike existing methods that rely on source images as appearance references and use source speech to generate motion, this work proposes a novel approach that directly extracts information from the speech, addressing key challenges in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Jinting Wang , Jun Wang , Hei Victor Cheng , Li Liu

Speech-driven 3D facial animation aims to synthesize realistic facial motion sequences from given audio, matching the speaker's speaking style. However, previous works often require priors such as class labels of a speaker or additional 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Hyung Kyu Kim , Sangmin Lee , Hak Gu Kim

Talking head generation is to generate video based on a given source identity and target motion. However, current methods face several challenges that limit the quality and controllability of the generated videos. First, the generated face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yue Gao , Yuan Zhou , Jinglu Wang , Xiao Li , Xiang Ming , Yan Lu

Taking inspiration from recent developments in visual generative tasks using diffusion models, we propose a method for end-to-end speech-driven video editing using a denoising diffusion model. Given a video of a talking person, and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Dan Bigioi , Shubhajit Basak , Michał Stypułkowski , Maciej Zięba , Hugh Jordan , Rachel McDonnell , Peter Corcoran

In order to be widely applicable, speech-driven 3D head avatars must articulate their lips in accordance with speech, while also conveying the appropriate emotions with dynamically changing facial expressions. The key problem is that…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Radek Daněček , Carolin Schmitt , Senya Polikovsky , Michael J. Black

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

Generating synchronized and natural lip movement with speech is one of the most important tasks in creating realistic virtual characters. In this paper, we present a combined deep neural network of one-dimensional convolutions and LSTM to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Xiaohong Li , Xiang Wang , Kai Wang , Shiguo Lian

In light of the recent breakthroughs in automatic machine translation systems, we propose a novel approach that we term as "Face-to-Face Translation". As today's digital communication becomes increasingly visual, we argue that there is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Prajwal K R , Rudrabha Mukhopadhyay , Jerin Philip , Abhishek Jha , Vinay Namboodiri , C. V. Jawahar

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…

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

Understanding the lip movement and inferring the speech from it is notoriously difficult for the common person. The task of accurate lip-reading gets help from various cues of the speaker and its contextual or environmental setting. Every…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Munender Varshney , Ravindra Yadav , Vinay P. Namboodiri , Rajesh M Hegde

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

We aim to edit the lip movements in talking video according to the given speech while preserving the personal identity and visual details. The task can be decomposed into two sub-problems: (1) speech-driven lip motion generation and (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Runyi Yu , Tianyu He , Ailing Zhang , Yuchi Wang , Junliang Guo , Xu Tan , Chang Liu , Jie Chen , Jiang Bian

Recent works on language-guided image manipulation have shown great power of language in providing rich semantics, especially for face images. However, the other natural information, motions, in language is less explored. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Tiankai Hang , Huan Yang , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Xin Geng , Baining Guo

Audio-driven emotional 3D facial animation aims to generate synchronized lip movements and vivid facial expressions. However, most existing approaches focus on static and predefined emotion labels, limiting their diversity and naturalness.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Chang Liu , Ye Pan , Chenyang Ding , Susanto Rahardja , Xiaokang Yang