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Given an arbitrary face image and an arbitrary speech clip, the proposed work attempts to generating the talking face video with accurate lip synchronization while maintaining smooth transition of both lip and facial movement over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Yang Song , Jingwen Zhu , Dawei Li , Xiaolong Wang , Hairong Qi

Understanding speech production both visually and kinematically can inform second language learning system designs, as well as the creation of speaking characters in video games and animations. In this work, we introduce a data-driven…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Hong Nguyen , Sean Foley , Kevin Huang , Xuan Shi , Tiantian Feng , Shrikanth Narayanan

The intrinsic link between facial motion and speech is often overlooked in generative modeling, where talking head synthesis and text-to-speech (TTS) are typically addressed as separate tasks. This paper introduces JAM-Flow, a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Mingi Kwon , Joonghyuk Shin , Jaeseok Jung , Jaesik Park , Youngjung Uh

Audio-driven talking face generation has received growing interest, particularly for applications requiring expressive and natural human-avatar interaction. However, most existing emotion-aware methods rely on a single modality (either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Phyo Thet Yee , Dimitrios Kollias , Sudeepta Mishra , Abhinav Dhall

We introduce a novel method for joint expression and audio-guided talking face generation. Recent approaches either struggle to preserve the speaker identity or fail to produce faithful facial expressions. To address these challenges, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Sai Tanmay Reddy Chakkera , Aggelina Chatziagapi , Dimitris Samaras

Recent advances in co-speech gesture and talking head generation have been impressive, yet most methods focus on only one of the two tasks. Those that attempt to generate both often rely on separate models or network modules, increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Steven Hogue , Chenxu Zhang , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo

Audio-driven talking head generation aims to create vivid and realistic videos from a static portrait and speech. Existing AR-based methods rely on intermediate facial representations, which limit their expressiveness and realism.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yuzhe Weng , Haotian Wang , Yuanhong Yu , Jun Du , Shan He , Xiaoyan Wu , Haoran Xu

Existing methods for synthesizing 3D human gestures from speech have shown promising results, but they do not explicitly model the impact of emotions on the generated gestures. Instead, these methods directly output animations from speech…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Kiran Chhatre , Radek Daněček , Nikos Athanasiou , Giorgio Becherini , Christopher Peters , Michael J. Black , Timo Bolkart

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

Generating realistic listener facial motions in dyadic conversations remains challenging due to the high-dimensional action space and temporal dependency requirements. Existing approaches usually consider extracting 3D Morphable Model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zesheng Wang , Alexandre Bruckert , Patrick Le Callet , Guangtao Zhai

Audio-driven facial reenactment is a crucial technique that has a range of applications in film-making, virtual avatars and video conferences. Existing works either employ explicit intermediate face representations (e.g., 2D facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Ricong Huang , Peiwen Lai , Yipeng Qin , Guanbin Li

Interpreting EEG signals linked to spoken language presents a complex challenge, given the data's intricate temporal and spatial attributes, as well as the various noise factors. Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs), which have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Soowon Kim , Seo-Hyun Lee , Young-Eun Lee , Ji-Won Lee , Ji-Ha Park , Seong-Whan Lee

Diffusion-based talking head generation has achieved remarkable visual quality, yet scaling it to long-term videos remains challenging. The widely adopted chunk-wise paradigm introduces two fundamental failures: (1) temporal-spatial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yuxin Lu , Jiayang Sun , Guibo Zhu , Min Cao

Movie dubbing aims to synthesize speech that preserves the vocal identity of a reference audio while synchronizing with the lip movements in a target video. Existing methods fail to achieve precise lip-sync and lack naturalness due to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Gaoxiang Cong , Liang Li , Jiaxin Ye , Zhedong Zhang , Hongming Shan , Yuankai Qi , Qingming Huang

Speech-driven 3D facial animation aims at generating facial movements that are synchronized with the driving speech, which has been widely explored recently. Existing works mostly neglect the person-specific talking style in generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Liyang Chen , Weihong Bao , Shun Lei , Boshi Tang , Zhiyong Wu , Shiyin Kang , Haozhi Huang , Helen Meng

Lip motion reflects behavior characteristics of speakers, and thus can be used as a new kind of biometrics in speaker recognition. In the literature, lots of works used two-dimensional (2D) lip images to recognize speaker in a textdependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Jianrong Wang , Tong Wu , Shanyu Wang , Mei Yu , Qiang Fang , Ju Zhang , Li Liu

Audio-driven single-image talking portrait generation plays a crucial role in virtual reality, digital human creation, and filmmaking. Existing approaches are generally categorized into keypoint-based and image-based methods. Keypoint-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Chaolong Yang , Kai Yao , Yuyao Yan , Chenru Jiang , Weiguang Zhao , Jie Sun , Guangliang Cheng , Yifei Zhang , Bin Dong , Kaizhu Huang

Audio-Driven Talking Face Generation aims at generating realistic videos of talking faces, focusing on accurate audio-lip synchronization without deteriorating any identity-related visual details. Recent state-of-the-art methods are based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Dogucan Yaman , Fevziye Irem Eyiokur , Leonard Bärmann , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Alexander Waibel

Talking head synthesis with arbitrary speech audio is a crucial challenge in the field of digital humans. Recently, methods based on radiance fields have received increasing attention due to their ability to synthesize high-fidelity and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yifan Xie , Tao Feng , Xin Zhang , Xiangyang Luo , Zixuan Guo , Weijiang Yu , Heng Chang , Fei Ma , Fei Richard Yu

Audio-driven portrait animation has made significant advances with diffusion-based models, improving video quality and lipsync accuracy. However, the increasing complexity of these models has led to inefficiencies in training and inference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Xuyang Cao , Guoxin Wang , Sheng Shi , Jun Zhao , Yang Yao , Jintao Fei , Minyu Gao , Pei Xie