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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

In order to be widely applicable, speech-driven 3D head avatars must articulate their lips in accordance with speech, while also conveying the appropriate emotions with dynamically changing facial expressions. The key problem is that…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Radek Daněček , Carolin Schmitt , Senya Polikovsky , Michael J. Black

Achieving high synchronization in the synthesis of realistic, speech-driven talking head videos presents a significant challenge. Traditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) struggle to maintain consistent facial identity, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Ziqiao Peng , Wentao Hu , Yue Shi , Xiangyu Zhu , Xiaomei Zhang , Hao Zhao , Jun He , Hongyan Liu , Zhaoxin Fan

Talking face generation, also known as speech-to-lip generation, reconstructs facial motions concerning lips given coherent speech input. The previous studies revealed the importance of lip-speech synchronization and visual quality. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Jiadong Wang , Xinyuan Qian , Malu Zhang , Robby T. Tan , Haizhou Li

Audio-driven talking head generation is crucial for applications in virtual reality, digital avatars, and film production. While NeRF-based methods enable high-fidelity reconstruction, they suffer from low rendering efficiency and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Tianheng Zhu , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang , Fuchun Sun , Wendong Zheng

Human face-to-face conversation is an ideal model for human-computer dialogue. One of the major features of face-to-face communication is its multiplicity of communication channels that act on multiple modalities. To realize a natural…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Katashi Nagao , Akikazu Takeuchi

Generating synchronized and natural lip movement with speech is one of the most important tasks in creating realistic virtual characters. In this paper, we present a combined deep neural network of one-dimensional convolutions and LSTM to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Xiaohong Li , Xiang Wang , Kai Wang , Shiguo Lian

Current audio-driven facial animation methods achieve impressive results for short videos but suffer from error accumulation and identity drift when extended to longer durations. Existing methods attempt to mitigate this through external…

Talking head synthesis is a promising approach for the video production industry. Recently, a lot of effort has been devoted in this research area to improve the generation quality or enhance the model generalization. However, there are few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Shuai Shen , Wenliang Zhao , Zibin Meng , Wanhua Li , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

We introduce FaceTalk, a novel generative approach designed for synthesizing high-fidelity 3D motion sequences of talking human heads from input audio signal. To capture the expressive, detailed nature of human heads, including hair, ears,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Shivangi Aneja , Justus Thies , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has been widely studied, yet there is still a gap to achieving realism and vividness due to the highly ill-posed nature and scarcity of audio-visual data. Existing works typically formulate the cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jinbo Xing , Menghan Xia , Yuechen Zhang , Xiaodong Cun , Jue Wang , Tien-Tsin Wong

Generating realistic talking-head videos remains challenging due to persistent issues such as imperfect lip synchronization, unnatural motion, and evaluation metrics that correlate poorly with human perception. We propose FlowPortrait, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Weiting Tan , Andy T. Liu , Ming Tu , Xinghua Qu , Philipp Koehn , Lu Lu

Generative models have surged in popularity recently due to their ability to produce high-quality images and video. However, steering these models to produce images with specific attributes and precise control remains challenging. Humans,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Tuomas Varanka , Huai-Qian Khor , Yante Li , Mengting Wei , Hanwei Kung , Nicu Sebe , Guoying Zhao

Recent advances in audio-driven portrait animation have demonstrated impressive capabilities. However, existing methods struggle to align with fine-grained human preferences across multiple dimensions, such as motion naturalness, lip-sync…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 MengChao Wang , Qiang Wang , Fan Jiang , Mu Xu

Audio-driven talking head generation is a core component of digital avatars, and 3D Gaussian Splatting has shown strong performance in real-time rendering of high-fidelity talking heads. However, achieving precise control over fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Shaoyang Xie , Xiaofeng Cong , Baosheng Yu , Zhipeng Gui , Jie Gui , Yuan Yan Tang , James Tin-Yau Kwok

The existing methods for audio-driven talking head video editing have the limitations of poor visual effects. This paper tries to tackle this problem through editing talking face images seamless with different emotions based on two modules:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jiacheng Su , Kunhong Liu , Liyan Chen , Junfeng Yao , Qingsong Liu , Dongdong Lv

Speech-driven facial animation aims to synthesize lip-synchronized 3D talking faces following the given speech signal. Prior methods to this task mostly focus on pursuing realism with deterministic systems, yet characterizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Chunzhi Gu , Shigeru Kuriyama , Katsuya Hotta

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

Audio driven talking head synthesis is a challenging task that attracts increasing attention in recent years. Although existing methods based on 2D landmarks or 3D face models can synthesize accurate lip synchronization and rhythmic head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Yichen Han , Ya Li , Yingming Gao , Jinlong Xue , Songpo Wang , Lei Yang

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