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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

Accurately synthesizing talking face videos and capturing fine facial features for individuals with long hair presents a significant challenge. To tackle these challenges in existing methods, we propose a decomposed per-embedding Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Kaijun Deng , Dezhi Zheng , Jindong Xie , Jinbao Wang , Weicheng Xie , Linlin Shen , Siyang Song

We introduce GaussianSwap, a novel video face swapping framework that constructs a 3D Gaussian Splatting based face avatar from a target video while transferring identity from a source image to the avatar. Conventional video swapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Xuan Cheng , Jiahao Rao , Chengyang Li , Wenhao Wang , Weilin Chen , Lvqing Yang

Modeling and understanding the 3D world is crucial for various applications, from augmented reality to robotic navigation. Recent advancements based on 3D Gaussian Splatting have integrated semantic information from multi-view images into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Xingrui Wang , Cuiling Lan , Hanxin Zhu , Zhibo Chen , Yan Lu

When people deliver a speech, they naturally move heads, and this rhythmic head motion conveys prosodic information. However, generating a lip-synced video while moving head naturally is challenging. While remarkably successful, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Lele Chen , Guofeng Cui , Celong Liu , Zhong Li , Ziyi Kou , Yi Xu , Chenliang Xu

Although existing speech-driven talking face generation methods achieve significant progress, they are far from real-world application due to the avatar-specific training demand and unstable lip movements. To address the above issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Haiming Zhang , Zhihao Yuan , Chaoda Zheng , Xu Yan , Baoyuan Wang , Guanbin Li , Song Wu , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Generating synthetic images is a useful method for cheaply obtaining labeled data for training computer vision models. However, obtaining accurate 3D models of relevant objects is necessary, and the resulting images often have a gap in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Bram Vanherle , Brent Zoomers , Jeroen Put , Frank Van Reeth , Nick Michiels

Speech-driven 3D talking head generation aims to produce lifelike facial animations precisely synchronized with speech. While considerable progress has been made in achieving high lip-synchronization accuracy, existing methods largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Bin Wang , Yang Xu , Huan Zhao , Hao Zhang , Zixing Zhang

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

Speech-driven three-dimensional (3D) facial animation synthesis aims to build a mapping from one-dimensional (1D) speech signals to time-varying 3D facial motion signals. Current methods still face challenges in maintaining lip-sync…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Bin Liu , Zhixiang Xiong , Zhifen He , Bo Li

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) serves as a highly performant and efficient encoding of scene geometry, appearance, and semantics. Moreover, grounding language in 3D scenes has proven to be an effective strategy for 3D scene understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Mengjiao Ma , Qi Ma , Yue Li , Jiahuan Cheng , Runyi Yang , Bin Ren , Nikola Popovic , Mingqiang Wei , Nicu Sebe , Luc Van Gool , Theo Gevers , Martin R. Oswald , Danda Pani Paudel

Speech-driven talking heads have recently emerged and enable interactive avatars. However, real-world applications are limited, as current methods achieve high visual fidelity but slow or fast yet temporally unstable. Diffusion methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Madhav Agarwal , Mingtian Zhang , Laura Sevilla-Lara , Steven McDonagh

Person-generic audio-driven face generation is a challenging task in computer vision. Previous methods have achieved remarkable progress in audio-visual synchronization, but there is still a significant gap between current results and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Xiaozhong Ji , Chuming Lin , Zhonggan Ding , Ying Tai , Junwei Zhu , Xiaobin Hu , Donghao Luo , Yanhao Ge , Chengjie Wang

We present GStalker, a 3D audio-driven talking face generation model with Gaussian Splatting for both fast training (40 minutes) and real-time rendering (125 FPS) with a 3$\sim$5 minute video for training material, in comparison with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Bo Chen , Shoukang Hu , Qi Chen , Chenpeng Du , Ran Yi , Yanmin Qian , Xie Chen

We present a new approach, termed GPS-Gaussian, for synthesizing novel views of a character in a real-time manner. The proposed method enables 2K-resolution rendering under a sparse-view camera setting. Unlike the original Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Shunyuan Zheng , Boyao Zhou , Ruizhi Shao , Boning Liu , Shengping Zhang , Liqiang Nie , Yebin Liu

Synthesizing personalized talking faces that uphold and highlight a speaker's unique style while maintaining lip-sync accuracy remains a significant challenge. A primary limitation of existing approaches is the intrinsic confounding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Renjie Lu , Xulong Zhang , Xiaoyang Qu , Jianzong Wang , Shangfei Wang

Recent advancements in Generalizable Gaussian Splatting have enabled robust 3D reconstruction from sparse input views by utilizing feed-forward Gaussian Splatting models, achieving superior cross-scene generalization. However, while many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Zhicong Wu , Hongbin Xu , Gang Xu , Ping Nie , Zhixin Yan , Jinkai Zheng , Liangqiong Qu , Ming Li , Liqiang Nie

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

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

Modeling dynamic 3D scenes is challenging due to their high-dimensional nature, which requires aggregating information from multiple views to reconstruct time-evolving 3D geometry and motion. We present a novel multi-video 4D Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yonghan Lee , Tsung-Wei Huang , Shiv Gehlot , Jaehoon Choi , Guan-Ming Su , Dinesh Manocha