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Speech-driven 3D facial animation is challenging due to the complex geometry of human faces and the limited availability of 3D audio-visual data. Prior works typically focus on learning phoneme-level features of short audio windows with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Yingruo Fan , Zhaojiang Lin , Jun Saito , Wenping Wang , Taku Komura

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

The synthesis of 3D facial animations from speech has garnered considerable attention. Due to the scarcity of high-quality 4D facial data and well-annotated abundant multi-modality labels, previous methods often suffer from limited realism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Qingcheng Zhao , Pengyu Long , Qixuan Zhang , Dafei Qin , Han Liang , Longwen Zhang , Yingliang Zhang , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu

Facial animation in virtual reality environments is essential for applications that necessitate clear visibility of the user's face and the ability to convey emotional signals. In our scenario, we animate the face of an operator who…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Andre Rochow , Max Schwarz , Sven Behnke

Audio-driven 3D facial animation has several virtual humans applications for content creation and editing. While several existing methods provide solutions for speech-driven animation, precise control over content (what) and style (how) of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Qingju Liu , Hyeongwoo Kim , Gaurav Bharaj

The creation of lifelike speech-driven 3D facial animation requires a natural and precise synchronization between audio input and facial expressions. However, existing works still fail to render shapes with flexible head poses and natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Wei Zhao , Yijun Wang , Tianyu He , Lianying Yin , Jianxin Lin , Xin Jin

Generating talking avatar driven by audio remains a significant challenge. Existing methods typically require high computational costs and often lack sufficient facial detail and realism, making them unsuitable for applications that demand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Yujian Liu , Shidang Xu , Jing Guo , Dingbin Wang , Zairan Wang , Xianfeng Tan , Xiaoli Liu

Most current audio-driven facial animation research primarily focuses on generating videos with neutral emotions. While some studies have addressed the generation of facial videos driven by emotional audio, efficiently generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Chuhang Ma , Shuai Tan , Ye Pan , Jiaolong Yang , Xin Tong

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

Audio-driven facial animation is essential for immersive digital interaction, yet existing frameworks fail to reconcile real-time streaming with high-fidelity personalization. Current methods often rely on latency-inducing audio look-ahead,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xuangeng Chu , Yu Han , Wei Mao , Shih-En Wei

In recent years, audio-driven 3D facial animation has gained significant attention, particularly in applications such as virtual reality, gaming, and video conferencing. However, accurately modeling the intricate and subtle dynamics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Guinan Su , Yanwu Yang , Zhifeng Li

This paper focuses on the task of speech-driven 3D facial animation, which aims to generate realistic and synchronized facial motions driven by speech inputs. Recent methods have employed audio-conditioned diffusion models for 3D facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yifan Yang , Zhi Cen , Sida Peng , Xiangwei Chen , Yifu Deng , Xinyu Zhu , Fan Jia , Xiaowei Zhou , Hujun Bao

Speech-driven facial animation involves using a speech signal to generate realistic videos of talking faces. Recent deep learning approaches to facial synthesis rely on extracting low-dimensional representations and concatenating them,…

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

We propose an end to end deep learning approach for generating real-time facial animation from just audio. Specifically, our deep architecture employs deep bidirectional long short-term memory network and attention mechanism to discover the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Guanzhong Tian , Yi Yuan , Yong liu

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

Recent advancements in video generation have significantly impacted various downstream applications, particularly in identity-preserving video generation (IPT2V). However, existing methods struggle with "copy-paste" artifacts and low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jiangchuan Wei , Shiyue Yan , Wenfeng Lin , Boyuan Liu , Renjie Chen , Mingyu Guo

Recent breakthroughs in video AIGC have ushered in a transformative era for audio-driven human animation. However, conventional video dubbing techniques remain constrained to mouth region editing, resulting in discordant facial expressions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Shaoshu Yang , Zhe Kong , Feng Gao , Meng Cheng , Xiangyu Liu , Yong Zhang , Zhuoliang Kang , Wenhan Luo , Xunliang Cai , Ran He , Xiaoming Wei

Over recent years, diffusion models have facilitated significant advancements in video generation. Yet, the creation of face-related videos still confronts issues such as low facial fidelity, lack of frame consistency, limited editability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Linze Li , Sunqi Fan , Hengjun Pu , Zhaodong Bing , Yao Tang , Tianzhu Ye , Tong Yang , Liangyu Chen , Jiajun Liang

We introduce FactorPortrait, a video diffusion method for controllable portrait animation that enables lifelike synthesis from disentangled control signals of facial expressions, head movement, and camera viewpoints. Given a single portrait…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jiapeng Tang , Kai Li , Chengxiang Yin , Liuhao Ge , Fei Jiang , Jiu Xu , Matthias Nießner , Christian Häne , Timur Bagautdinov , Egor Zakharov , Peihong Guo