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Direct speech-to-speech translation achieves high-quality results through the introduction of discrete units obtained from self-supervised learning. This approach circumvents delays and cascading errors associated with model cascading.…

Lip synchronization is the task of aligning a speaker's lip movements in video with corresponding speech audio, and it is essential for creating realistic, expressive video content. However, existing methods often rely on reference frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Ziqiao Peng , Jiwen Liu , Haoxian Zhang , Xiaoqiang Liu , Songlin Tang , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Hongyan Liu , Jun He

Speech-to-face generation is an intriguing area of research that focuses on generating realistic facial images based on a speaker's audio speech. However, state-of-the-art methods employing GAN-based architectures lack stability and cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Jinting Wang , Li Liu , Jun Wang , Hei Victor Cheng

Most lip-to-speech (LTS) synthesis models are trained and evaluated under the assumption that the audio-video pairs in the dataset are perfectly synchronized. In this work, we show that the commonly used audio-visual datasets, such as GRID,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Zhe Niu , Brian Mak

Conventional GAN-based models for talking head generation often suffer from limited quality and unstable training. Recent approaches based on diffusion models aimed to address these limitations and improve fidelity. However, they still face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Seyeon Kim , Siyoon Jin , Jihye Park , Kihong Kim , Jiyoung Kim , Jisu Nam , Seungryong Kim

Audio-driven talking head synthesis strives to generate lifelike video portraits from provided audio. The diffusion model, recognized for its superior quality and robust generalization, has been explored for this task. However, establishing…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Fa-Ting Hong , Yunfei Liu , Yu Li , Changyin Zhou , Fei Yu , Dan Xu

Significant progress has been made in talking-face video generation research; however, precise lip-audio synchronization and high visual quality remain challenging in editing lip shapes based on input audio. This paper introduces JoyGen, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Qili Wang , Dajiang Wu , Zihang Xu , Junshi Huang , Jun Lv

Researchers have shown a growing interest in Audio-driven Talking Head Generation. The primary challenge in talking head generation is achieving audio-visual coherence between the lips and the audio, known as lip synchronization. This paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhipeng Chen , Xinheng Wang , Lun Xie , Haijie Yuan , Hang Pan

Audio-driven talking head generation is critical for applications such as virtual assistants, video games, and films, where natural lip movements are essential. Despite progress in this field, challenges remain in producing both consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yucheng Wang , Dan Xu

Lip synchronization, known as the task of aligning lip movements in an existing video with new input audio, is typically framed as a simpler variant of audio-driven facial animation. However, as well as suffering from the usual issues in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Antoni Bigata , Rodrigo Mira , Stella Bounareli , Michał Stypułkowski , Konstantinos Vougioukas , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Automatically generating videos in which synthesized speech is synchronized with lip movements in a talking head has great potential in many human-computer interaction scenarios. In this paper, we present an automatic method to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-29 Xinsheng Wang , Qicong Xie , Jihua Zhu , Lei Xie , Scharenborg

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

Lip sync is a fundamental audio-visual task. However, existing lip sync methods fall short of being robust in the wild. One important cause could be distracting factors on the visual input side, making extracting lip motion information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Chun Wang

The task of few-shot visual dubbing focuses on synchronizing the lip movements with arbitrary speech input for any talking head video. Albeit moderate improvements in current approaches, they commonly require high-quality homologous data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Tianyi Xie , Liucheng Liao , Cheng Bi , Benlai Tang , Xiang Yin , Jianfei Yang , Mingjie Wang , Jiali Yao , Yang Zhang , Zejun Ma

We present a novel one-shot talking head synthesis method that achieves disentangled and fine-grained control over lip motion, eye gaze&blink, head pose, and emotional expression. We represent different motions via disentangled latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Duomin Wang , Yu Deng , Zixin Yin , Heung-Yeung Shum , Baoyuan Wang

Audio-driven talking-head generation has advanced rapidly with diffusion-based generative models, yet producing temporally coherent videos with fine-grained motion control remains challenging. We propose DEMO, a flow-matching generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Peiyin Chen , Zhuowei Yang , Hui Feng , Sheng Jiang , Rui Yan

The generation of emotional talking faces from a single portrait image remains a significant challenge. The simultaneous achievement of expressive emotional talking and accurate lip-sync is particularly difficult, as expressiveness is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Chenxu Zhang , Chao Wang , Jianfeng Zhang , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , You Xie , Linjie Luo , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo , Jiashi Feng

Speech-driven 3D facial animation is challenging due to the scarcity of large-scale visual-audio datasets despite extensive research. Most prior works, typically focused on learning regression models on a small dataset using the method of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Inkyu Park , Jaewoong Cho

Audio-driven lip sync has recently drawn significant attention due to its widespread application in the multimedia domain. Individuals exhibit distinct lip shapes when speaking the same utterance, attributed to the unique speaking styles of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Weizhi Zhong , Jichang Li , Yinqi Cai , Ming Li , Feng Gao , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

Recent advancements in video diffusion models have significantly enhanced audio-driven portrait animation. However, current methods still suffer from flickering, identity drift, and poor audio-visual synchronization. These issues primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Zhenjie Liu , Jianzhang Lu , Renjie Lu , Cong Liang , Shangfei Wang