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A key challenge in 3D talking head synthesis lies in the reliance on a long-duration talking head video to train a new model for each target identity from scratch. Recent methods have attempted to address this issue by extracting general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yuhang Guo , Kaijun Deng , Siyang Song , Jindong Xie , Wenhui Ma , Linlin Shen

Lip synchronization aims to generate realistic talking videos that match given audio, which is essential for high-quality video dubbing. However, current methods have fundamental drawbacks: mask-based approaches suffer from local color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Ruidi Fan , Yang Zhou , Siyuan Wang , Tian Yu , Yutong Jiang , Xusheng Liu

Speech-driven facial animation methods usually contain two main classes, 3D and 2D talking face, both of which attract considerable research attention in recent years. However, to the best of our knowledge, the research on 3D talking face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Yixiang Zhuang , Baoping Cheng , Yao Cheng , Yuntao Jin , Renshuai Liu , Chengyang Li , Xuan Cheng , Jing Liao , Juncong Lin

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

In this work, we revisit the effectiveness of 3DMM for talking head synthesis by jointly learning a 3D face reconstruction model and a talking head synthesis model. This enables us to obtain a FACS-based blendshape representation of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Sungjoon Park , Minsik Park , Haneol Lee , Jaesub Yun , Donggeon Lee

Synthesizing consistent and photorealistic 3D scenes is an open problem in computer vision. Video diffusion models generate impressive videos but cannot directly synthesize 3D representations, i.e., lack 3D consistency in the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Katja Schwarz , Norman Mueller , Peter Kontschieder

We propose a novel 3D deepfake generation framework based on 3D Gaussian Splatting that enables realistic, identity-preserving face swapping and reenactment in a fully controllable 3D space. Compared to conventional 2D deepfake approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Wending Liu , Siyun Liang , Huy H. Nguyen , Isao Echizen

The semantic synthesis of unseen scenes from multiple viewpoints is crucial for research in 3D scene understanding. Current methods are capable of rendering novel-view images and semantic maps by reconstructing generalizable Neural Radiance…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Feng Xiao , Hongbin Xu , Wanlin Liang , Wenxiong Kang

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

Recent advances in diffusion models have led to significant progress in audio-driven lip synchronization. However, existing methods typically rely on constrained audio-visual alignment priors or multi-stage learning of intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Junxian Ma , Shiwen Wang , Jian Yang , Junyi Hu , Jian Liang , Guosheng Lin , Jingbo chen , Kai Li , Yu Meng

Talking head synthesis, also known as speech-to-lip synthesis, reconstructs the facial motions that align with the given audio tracks. The synthesized videos are evaluated on mainly two aspects, lip-speech synchronization and image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Xulin Fan , Heting Gao , Ziyi Chen , Peng Chang , Mei Han , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

We aim to edit the lip movements in talking video according to the given speech while preserving the personal identity and visual details. The task can be decomposed into two sub-problems: (1) speech-driven lip motion generation and (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Runyi Yu , Tianyu He , Ailing Zhang , Yuchi Wang , Junliang Guo , Xu Tan , Chang Liu , Jie Chen , Jiang Bian

This paper presents EGSTalker, a real-time audio-driven talking head generation framework based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Designed to enhance both speed and visual fidelity, EGSTalker requires only 3-5 minutes of training video to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Tianheng Zhu , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang , Fuchun Sun , Wendong Zheng

Lip sync has emerged as a promising technique for generating mouth movements from audio signals. However, synthesizing a high-resolution and photorealistic virtual news anchor is still challenging. Lack of natural appearance, visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Ruobing Zheng , Zhou Zhu , Bo Song , Changjiang Ji

Talking head synthesis has emerged as a prominent research topic in computer graphics and multimedia, yet most existing methods often struggle to strike a balance between generation quality and computational efficiency, particularly under…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Shuai Shen , Wanhua Li , Yunpeng Zhang , Yap-Peng Tan , Jiwen Lu

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

Talking face generation aims to create realistic videos with accurate lip synchronization and high visual quality, using given audio and reference video while preserving identity and visual characteristics. In this paper, we start by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Dogucan Yaman , Fevziye Irem Eyiokur , Leonard Bärmann , Hazim Kemal Ekenel , Alexander Waibel

Reconstruction and rendering-based talking head synthesis methods achieve high-quality results with strong identity preservation but are limited by their dependence on identity-specific models. Each new identity requires training from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Hong Nie , Fuyuan Cao , Lu Chen , Fengxin Chen , Yuefeng Zou , Jun Yu

Most current audio-driven facial animation research primarily focuses on generating videos with neutral emotions. While some studies have addressed the generation of facial videos driven by emotional audio, efficiently generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Chuhang Ma , Shuai Tan , Ye Pan , Jiaolong Yang , Xin Tong

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