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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

We present a multimodal learning-based method to simultaneously synthesize co-speech facial expressions and upper-body gestures for digital characters using RGB video data captured using commodity cameras. Our approach learns from sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Uttaran Bhattacharya , Aniket Bera , Dinesh Manocha

While deep learning technologies are now capable of generating realistic images confusing humans, the research efforts are turning to the synthesis of images for more concrete and application-specific purposes. Facial image generation based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Yeqi Bai , Tao Ma , Lipo Wang , Zhenjie Zhang

Expressions are fundamental to conveying human emotions. With the rapid advancement of AI-generated content (AIGC), realistic and expressive 3D facial animation has become increasingly crucial. Despite recent progress in speech-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yuxiang Mao , Zhijie Zhang , Zhiheng Zhang , Jiawei Liu , Chen Zeng , Shihong Xia

Creating personalized 3D animations with precise control and realistic head motions remains challenging for current speech-driven 3D facial animation methods. Editing these animations is especially complex and time consuming, requires…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Balamurugan Thambiraja , Malte Prinzler , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Darren Cosker , Justus Thies

This article presents a multimodal emotion recognition module integrated into a proactive Socially Interactive Agent (SIA) powered by generative artificial intelligence. The system evaluates real-time affective states through two distinct…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Adnana Dragut , Raquel Lacuesta , F. Xavier Gaya-Morey , Jose M. Buades-Rubio

PESTalk is a novel method for generating 3D facial animations with personalized emotional styles directly from speech. It overcomes key limitations of existing approaches by introducing a Dual-Stream Emotion Extractor (DSEE) that captures…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Tianshun Han , Benjia Zhou , Ajian Liu , Yanyan Liang , Du Zhang , Zhen Lei , Jun Wan

Audio-driven 3D facial animation aims to generate synchronized lip movements and vivid facial expressions from arbitrary audio clips. While existing methods can produce synchronized lip motions, they often rely on predefined identity or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xuangeng Chu , Yuan Gan , Ziteng Cui , Shuhong Liu , Jian Wang , Bing Zhou , Tatsuya Harada

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has improved a lot recently while most related works only utilize acoustic modality and neglect the influence of visual and textual cues, leading to unsatisfactory results in terms of precision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Tianshun Han , Shengnan Gui , Yiqing Huang , Baihui Li , Lijian Liu , Benjia Zhou , Ning Jiang , Quan Lu , Ruicong Zhi , Yanyan Liang , Du Zhang , Jun Wan

Facial expression analysis is central to understanding human behavior, yet existing coding systems such as the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) are constrained by limited coverage and costly manual annotation. In this work, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Minh Tran , Maksim Siniukov , Zhangyu Jin , Mohammad Soleymani

Emotional talking face generation aims to animate a human face in given reference images and generate a talking video that matches the content and emotion of driving audio. However, existing methods neglect that reference images may have a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Kangyi Wu , Pengna Li , Jingwen Fu , Yang Wu , Yuhan Liu , Sanping Zhou , Jinjun Wang

The goal of this work is to simultaneously generate natural talking faces and speech outputs from text. We achieve this by integrating Talking Face Generation (TFG) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems into a unified framework. We address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Youngjoon Jang , Ji-Hoon Kim , Junseok Ahn , Doyeop Kwak , Hong-Sun Yang , Yoon-Cheol Ju , Il-Hwan Kim , Byeong-Yeol Kim , Joon Son Chung

Recent advancements in audio-driven talking face generation have made great progress in lip synchronization. However, current methods often lack sufficient control over facial animation such as speaking style and emotional expression,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Baiqin Wang , Xiangyu Zhu , Fan Shen , Hao Xu , Zhen Lei

Recent advances in deep learning for sequential data have given rise to fast and powerful models that produce realistic videos of talking humans. The state of the art in talking face generation focuses mainly on lip-syncing, being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Georgios Milis , Panagiotis P. Filntisis , Anastasios Roussos , Petros Maragos

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in neural speech synthesis. While the deep neural network achieves the state-of-the-art result in text-to-speech (TTS) tasks, how to generate a more emotional and more expressive speech is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Chenye Cui , Yi Ren , Jinglin Liu , Feiyang Chen , Rongjie Huang , Ming Lei , Zhou Zhao

Talking face generation aims to synthesize a sequence of face images that correspond to a clip of speech. This is a challenging task because face appearance variation and semantics of speech are coupled together in the subtle movements of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Hang Zhou , Yu Liu , Ziwei Liu , Ping Luo , Xiaogang Wang

The generation of stylistic 3D facial animations driven by speech presents a significant challenge as it requires learning a many-to-many mapping between speech, style, and the corresponding natural facial motion. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Zhiyao Sun , Tian Lv , Sheng Ye , Matthieu Lin , Jenny Sheng , Yu-Hui Wen , Minjing Yu , Yong-Jin Liu

Audio-driven talking face generation has garnered significant interest within the domain of digital human research. Existing methods are encumbered by intricate model architectures that are intricately dependent on each other, complicating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Dong Zhao , Jiaying Shi , Wenjun Li , Shudong Wang , Shenghui Xu , Zhaoming Pan

Generating emotional language is a key step towards building empathetic natural language processing agents. However, a major challenge for this line of research is the lack of large-scale labeled training data, and previous studies are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Xianda Zhou , William Yang Wang

Existing 3D facial emotion modeling have been constrained by limited emotion classes and insufficient datasets. This paper introduces "Emo3D", an extensive "Text-Image-Expression dataset" spanning a wide spectrum of human emotions, each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mahshid Dehghani , Amirahmad Shafiee , Ali Shafiei , Neda Fallah , Farahmand Alizadeh , Mohammad Mehdi Gholinejad , Hamid Behroozi , Jafar Habibi , Ehsaneddin Asgari