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This paper aims to bring fine-grained expression control while maintaining high-fidelity identity in portrait generation. This is challenging due to the mutual interference between expression and identity: (i) fine expression control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Liangwei Jiang , Ruida Li , Zhifeng Zhang , Shuo Fang , Chenguang Ma

This paper introduces a new control signal for facial motion generation: timeline control. Compared to audio and text signals, timelines provide more fine-grained control, such as generating specific facial motions with precise timing.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yifeng Ma , Jinwei Qi , Chaonan Ji , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Zhidong Deng , Liefeng Bo

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

Despite recent advances in syncing lip movements with any audio waves, current methods still struggle to balance generation quality and the model's generalization ability. Previous studies either require long-term data for training or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Jiazhi Guan , Zhanwang Zhang , Hang Zhou , Tianshu Hu , Kaisiyuan Wang , Dongliang He , Haocheng Feng , Jingtuo Liu , Errui Ding , Ziwei Liu , Jingdong Wang

Realistic talking-head video generation is critical for virtual avatars, film production, and interactive systems. Current methods struggle with nuanced emotional expressions due to the lack of fine-grained emotion control. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiayi Lyu , Leigang Qu , Wenjing Zhang , Hanyu Jiang , Kai Liu , Zhenglin Zhou , Xiaobo Xia , Jian Xue , Tat-Seng Chua

Generating semantically coherent and visually accurate talking faces requires bridging the gap between linguistic meaning and facial articulation. Although audio-driven methods remain prevalent, their reliance on high-quality paired audio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xu Wang , Shengeng Tang , Fei Wang , Lechao Cheng , Dan Guo , Feng Xue , Richang Hong

Speech-driven talking head generation is a critical yet challenging task with applications in augmented reality and virtual human modeling. While recent approaches using autoregressive and diffusion-based models have achieved notable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Yihong Lin , Zhaoxin Fan , Xianjia Wu , Lingyu Xiong , Liang Peng , Xiandong Li , Wenxiong Kang , Songju Lei , Huang Xu

Video dubbing aims to synthesize realistic, lip-synced videos from a reference video and a driving audio signal. Although existing methods can accurately generate mouth shapes driven by audio, they often fail to preserve identity-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Runzhen Liu , Qinjie Lin , Yunfei Liu , Lijian Lin , Ye Zhu , Yu Li , Chuhua Xian , Fa-Ting Hong

Taking inspiration from recent developments in visual generative tasks using diffusion models, we propose a method for end-to-end speech-driven video editing using a denoising diffusion model. Given a video of a talking person, and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Dan Bigioi , Shubhajit Basak , Michał Stypułkowski , Maciej Zięba , Hugh Jordan , Rachel McDonnell , Peter Corcoran

Audio-driven one-shot talking face generation methods are usually trained on video resources of various persons. However, their created videos often suffer unnatural mouth shapes and asynchronous lips because those methods struggle to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Suzhen Wang , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Xin Yu

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

We present 3DiFACE, a novel method for personalized speech-driven 3D facial animation and editing. While existing methods deterministically predict facial animations from speech, they overlook the inherent one-to-many relationship between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Balamurugan Thambiraja , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Darren Cosker , Justus Thies

The task of talking head generation is to synthesize a lip synchronized talking head video by inputting an arbitrary face image and audio clips. Most existing methods ignore the local driving information of the mouth muscles. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Sen Chen , Zhilei Liu , Jiaxing Liu , Zhengxiang Yan , Longbiao Wang

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

Speech-driven facial animation is the process which uses speech signals to automatically synthesize a talking character. The majority of work in this domain creates a mapping from audio features to visual features. This often requires…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-20 Konstantinos Vougioukas , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Emotional talking head synthesis aims to generate talking portrait videos with vivid expressions. Existing methods still exhibit limitations in control flexibility, motion naturalness, and expression quality. Moreover, currently available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yiguo Jiang , Xiaodong Cun , Yong Zhang , Yudian Zheng , Fan Tang , Chi-Man Pun

Speech-Preserving Facial Expression Manipulation (SPFEM) is an innovative technique aimed at altering facial expressions in images and videos while retaining the original mouth movements. Despite advancements, SPFEM still struggles with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zhenxuan Lu , Zhihua Xu , Zhijing Yang , Feng Gao , Yongyi Lu , Keze Wang , Tianshui Chen

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

Previous studies have explored generating accurately lip-synced talking faces for arbitrary targets given audio conditions. However, most of them deform or generate the whole facial area, leading to non-realistic results. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Yasheng Sun , Hang Zhou , Kaisiyuan Wang , Qianyi Wu , Zhibin Hong , Jingtuo Liu , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang , Ziwei Liu , Hideki Koike

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