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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

Audio-driven talking head generation has drawn growing attention. To produce talking head videos with desired facial expressions, previous methods rely on extra reference videos to provide expression information, which may be difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yifeng Ma , Suzhen Wang , Yu Ding , Bowen Ma , Tangjie Lv , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu , Zhidong Deng , Xin Yu

Current talking avatars mostly generate co-speech gestures based on audio and text of the utterance, without considering the non-speaking motion of the speaker. Furthermore, previous works on co-speech gesture generation have designed…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Sicheng Yang , Zunnan Xu , Haiwei Xue , Yongkang Cheng , Shaoli Huang , Mingming Gong , Zhiyong Wu

Talking-head generation requires joint modeling of identity, head pose, facial expression, and mouth dynamics. Existing methods typically address only a subset of these factors, and rely on fixed-weight or heuristic fusion when multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xinyan Ye , Jiankang Deng , Abbas Edalat

In this paper, we propose a novel audio-driven talking head method capable of simultaneously generating highly expressive facial expressions and hand gestures. Unlike existing methods that focus on generating full-body or half-body poses,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Linrui Tian , Siqi Hu , Qi Wang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Different people speak with diverse personalized speaking styles. Although existing one-shot talking head methods have made significant progress in lip sync, natural facial expressions, and stable head motions, they still cannot generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Yifeng Ma , Suzhen Wang , Zhipeng Hu , Changjie Fan , Tangjie Lv , Yu Ding , Zhidong Deng , Xin Yu

Diffusion-based audio-driven talking-head generation enables realistic portrait animation, but also introduces risks of misuse, such as fraud and misinformation. Existing protection methods are largely limited to a single modality, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Wenli Zhang , Xianglong Shi , Sirui Zhao , Xinqi Chen , Guo Cheng , Yifan Xu , Tong Xu , Yong Liao

Audio-driven talking face video generation has attracted increasing attention due to its huge industrial potential. Some previous methods focus on learning a direct mapping from audio to visual content. Despite progress, they often struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Weizhi Zhong , Junfan Lin , Peixin Chen , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

Audio-driven talking video generation has advanced significantly, but existing methods often depend on video-to-video translation techniques and traditional generative networks like GANs and they typically generate taking heads and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Steven Hogue , Chenxu Zhang , Hamza Daruger , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo

Audio-driven talking face generation has gained significant attention for applications in digital media and virtual avatars. While recent methods improve audio-lip synchronization, they often struggle with temporal consistency, identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Fatemeh Nazarieh , Zhenhua Feng , Diptesh Kanojia , Muhammad Awais , Josef Kittler

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

We present MOFA-Video, an advanced controllable image animation method that generates video from the given image using various additional controllable signals (such as human landmarks reference, manual trajectories, and another even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Muyao Niu , Xiaodong Cun , Xintao Wang , Yong Zhang , Ying Shan , Yinqiang Zheng

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

Recent diffusion-based talking face generation models have demonstrated impressive potential in synthesizing videos that accurately match a speech audio clip with a given reference identity. However, existing approaches still encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xingpei Ma , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shenneng Huang , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang

Recent advances in conditional diffusion models have shown promise for generating realistic TalkingFace videos, yet challenges persist in achieving consistent head movement, synchronized facial expressions, and accurate lip synchronization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Fei Shen , Cong Wang , Junyao Gao , Qin Guo , Jisheng Dang , Jinhui Tang , Tat-Seng Chua

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

Diffusion models have shown impressive potential on talking head generation. While plausible appearance and talking effect are achieved, these methods still suffer from temporal, 3D or expression inconsistency due to the error accumulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Haijie Yang , Zhenyu Zhang , Hao Tang , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang

Individuals have unique facial expression and head pose styles that reflect their personalized speaking styles. Existing one-shot talking head methods cannot capture such personalized characteristics and therefore fail to produce diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Suzhen Wang , Yifeng Ma , Yu Ding , Zhipeng Hu , Changjie Fan , Tangjie Lv , Zhidong Deng , Xin Yu

Audio-driven talking face generation has garnered significant interest within the domain of digital human research. Existing methods are encumbered by intricate model architectures that are intricately dependent on each other, complicating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Dong Zhao , Jiaying Shi , Wenjun Li , Shudong Wang , Shenghui Xu , Zhaoming Pan

Diffusion models have revolutionized the field of talking head generation, yet still face challenges in expressiveness, controllability, and stability in long-time generation. In this research, we propose an EmotiveTalk framework to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Haotian Wang , Yuzhe Weng , Yueyan Li , Zilu Guo , Jun Du , Shutong Niu , Jiefeng Ma , Shan He , Xiaoyan Wu , Qiming Hu , Bing Yin , Cong Liu , Qingfeng Liu