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The objective of this study is to generate high-quality speech from silent talking face videos, a task also known as video-to-speech synthesis. A significant challenge in video-to-speech synthesis lies in the substantial modality gap…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Ji-Hoon Kim , Jeongsoo Choi , Jaehun Kim , Chaeyoung Jung , Joon Son Chung

Real-world talking faces often accompany with natural head movement. However, most existing talking face video generation methods only consider facial animation with fixed head pose. In this paper, we address this problem by proposing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Ran Yi , Zipeng Ye , Juyong Zhang , Hujun Bao , Yong-Jin Liu

Recent advances in diffusion-based lip-syncing generative models have demonstrated their ability to produce highly synchronized talking face videos for visual dubbing. Although these models excel at lip synchronization, they often struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yanyu Zhu , Lichen Bai , Jintao Xu , Hai-tao Zheng

Recent studies have shown impressive performance in Lip-to-speech synthesis that aims to reconstruct speech from visual information alone. However, they have been suffering from synthesizing accurate speech in the wild, due to insufficient…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Minsu Kim , Joanna Hong , Yong Man Ro

The introduction of diffusion models has brought significant advances to the field of audio-driven talking head generation. However, the extremely slow inference speed severely limits the practical implementation of diffusion-based talking…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Haotian Wang , Yuzhe Weng , Jun Du , Haoran Xu , Xiaoyan Wu , Shan He , Bing Yin , Cong Liu , Jianqing Gao , Qingfeng Liu

Recent advances in diffusion models have showcased promising results in the text-to-video (T2V) synthesis task. However, as these T2V models solely employ text as the guidance, they tend to struggle in modeling detailed temporal dynamics.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Seungwoo Lee , Chaerin Kong , Donghyeon Jeon , Nojun Kwak

Talking head generation is to synthesize a lip-synchronized talking head video by inputting an arbitrary face image and corresponding audio clips. Existing methods ignore not only the interaction and relationship of cross-modal information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Sen Chen , Zhilei Liu , Jiaxing Liu , Longbiao Wang

In this paper, we propose a talking face generation method that takes an audio signal as input and a short target video clip as reference, and synthesizes a photo-realistic video of the target face with natural lip motions, head poses, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Chenxu Zhang , Yifan Zhao , Yifei Huang , Ming Zeng , Saifeng Ni , Madhukar Budagavi , Xiaohu Guo

Recent research has demonstrated impressive results in video-to-speech synthesis which involves reconstructing speech solely from visual input. However, previous works have struggled to accurately synthesize speech due to a lack of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jeongsoo Choi , Joanna Hong , Yong Man Ro

Recent advances in audio-driven talking head generation have achieved impressive results in lip synchronization and emotional expression. However, they largely overlook the crucial task of facial attribute editing. This capability is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Guanwen Feng , Zhiyuan Ma , Yunan Li , Jiahao Yang , Junwei Jing , Qiguang Miao

Talking face generation aims to synthesize a face video with precise lip synchronization as well as a smooth transition of facial motion over the entire video via the given speech clip and facial image. Most existing methods mainly focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Hao Zhu , Huaibo Huang , Yi Li , Aihua Zheng , Ran He

Audio-driven cospeech video generation typically involves two stages: speech-to-gesture and gesture-to-video. While significant advances have been made in speech-to-gesture generation, synthesizing natural expressions and gestures remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Renda Li , Xiaohua Qi , Qiang Ling , Jun Yu , Ziyi Chen , Peng Chang , Mei HanJing Xiao

Talking head synthesis is to synthesize a lip-synchronized talking head video using audio. Recently, the capability of NeRF to enhance the realism and texture details of synthesized talking heads has attracted the attention of researchers.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Xiaoxing Liu , Zhilei Liu , Chongke Bi

Talking head synthesis, an advanced method for generating portrait videos from a still image driven by specific content, has garnered widespread attention in virtual reality, augmented reality and game production. Recently, significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Ming Meng , Yufei Zhao , Bo Zhang , Yonggui Zhu , Weimin Shi , Maxwell Wen , Zhaoxin Fan

The one-shot talking-head synthesis task aims to animate a source image to another pose and expression, which is dictated by a driving frame. Recent methods rely on warping the appearance feature extracted from the source, by using motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Kangning Liu , Yu-Chuan Su , Wei , Hong , Ruijin Cang , Xuhui Jia

Whole-body audio-driven avatar pose and expression generation is a critical task for creating lifelike digital humans and enhancing the capabilities of interactive virtual agents, with wide-ranging applications in virtual reality, digital…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Tianbao Zhang , Jian Zhao , Yuer Li , Zheng Zhu , Ping Hu , Zhaoxin Fan , Wenjun Wu , Xuelong Li

Recent advances in diffusion models have endowed talking head synthesis with subtle expressions and vivid head movements, but have also led to slow inference speed and insufficient control over generated results. To address these issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Tianqi Li , Ruobing Zheng , Minghui Yang , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang

We study the problem of syncing the lip movement in a video with the audio stream. Our solution finds an optimal alignment using a dual-domain recurrent neural network that is trained on synthetic data we generate by dropping and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Yoav Shalev , Lior Wolf

Joint audio-video generation models have shown that unified generation yields stronger cross-modal coherence than cascaded approaches. However, existing models couple modalities throughout denoising via pervasive attention, treating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zhen Ye , Xu Tan , Aoxiong Yin , Hongzhan Lin , Guangyan Zhang , Peiwen Sun , Yiming Li , Chi-Min Chan , Wei Ye , Shikun Zhang , Wei Xue

Emotional talking head generation has attracted growing attention. Previous methods, which are mainly GAN-based, still struggle to consistently produce satisfactory results across diverse emotions and cannot conveniently specify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yifeng Ma , Shiwei Zhang , Jiayu Wang , Xiang Wang , Yingya Zhang , Zhidong Deng