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We present READ Avatars, a 3D-based approach for generating 2D avatars that are driven by audio input with direct and granular control over the emotion. Previous methods are unable to achieve realistic animation due to the many-to-many…

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Audio-driven human animation has attracted wide attention thanks to its practical applications. However, critical challenges remain in generating high-resolution, long-duration videos with consistent appearance and natural hand motions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Xiaodi Li , Pan Xie , Yi Ren , Qijun Gan , Chen Zhang , Fangyuan Kong , Xiang Yin , Bingyue Peng , Zehuan Yuan

Video-driven 3D facial animation transfer aims to drive avatars to reproduce the expressions of actors. Existing methods have achieved remarkable results by constraining both geometric and perceptual consistency. However, geometric…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Feng Qiu , Wei Zhang , Chen Liu , Rudong An , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu , Xin Yu

Avatar video generation models have achieved remarkable progress in recent years. However, prior work exhibits limited efficiency in generating long-duration high-resolution videos, suffering from temporal drifting, quality degradation, and…

Audio-driven 3D facial animation aims to generate synchronized lip movements and vivid facial expressions from arbitrary audio clips. While existing methods can produce synchronized lip motions, they often rely on predefined identity or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xuangeng Chu , Yuan Gan , Ziteng Cui , Shuhong Liu , Jian Wang , Bing Zhou , Tatsuya Harada

We propose an audio-driven talking-head method to generate photo-realistic talking-head videos from a single reference image. In this work, we tackle two key challenges: (i) producing natural head motions that match speech prosody, and (ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Suzhen Wang , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Changjie Fan , Xin Yu

Speech-driven 3D facial animation aims to generate realistic lip movements and facial expressions for 3D head models from arbitrary audio clips. Although existing diffusion-based methods are capable of producing natural motions, their slow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Xuangeng Chu , Nabarun Goswami , Ziteng Cui , Hanqin Wang , Tatsuya Harada

Existing for audio- and pose-driven human animation methods often struggle with stiff head movements and blurry hands, primarily due to the weak correlation between audio and head movements and the structural complexity of hands. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Donglin Huang , Yongyuan Li , Tianhang Liu , Junming Huang , Xiaoda Yang , Chi Wang , Weiwei Xu

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has been widely explored, with applications in gaming, character animation, virtual reality, and telepresence systems. State-of-the-art methods deform the face topology of the target actor to sync the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Balamurugan Thambiraja , Ikhsanul Habibie , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Darren Cosker , Christian Theobalt , Justus Thies

Generating and editing dynamic 3D head avatars are crucial tasks in virtual reality and film production. However, existing methods often suffer from facial distortions, inaccurate head movements, and limited fine-grained editing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yangyang Qian , Yuan Sun , Yu Guo

Due to the increasing demand in films and games, synthesizing 3D avatar animation has attracted much attention recently. In this work, we present a production-ready text/speech-driven full-body animation synthesis system. Given the text and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Wenlin Zhuang , Jinwei Qi , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Ping Tan

Whole-body audio-driven avatar pose and expression generation is a critical task for creating lifelike digital humans and enhancing the capabilities of interactive virtual agents, with wide-ranging applications in virtual reality, digital…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Tianbao Zhang , Jian Zhao , Yuer Li , Zheng Zhu , Ping Hu , Zhaoxin Fan , Wenjun Wu , Xuelong Li

Recent years have witnessed significant progress in audio-driven human animation. However, critical challenges remain in (i) generating highly dynamic videos while preserving character consistency, (ii) achieving precise emotion alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yi Chen , Sen Liang , Zixiang Zhou , Ziyao Huang , Yifeng Ma , Junshu Tang , Qin Lin , Yuan Zhou , Qinglin Lu

Recent advances in audio-driven avatar video generation have significantly enhanced audio-visual realism. However, existing methods treat instruction conditioning merely as low-level tracking driven by acoustic or visual cues, without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yikang Ding , Jiwen Liu , Wenyuan Zhang , Zekun Wang , Wentao Hu , Liyuan Cui , Mingming Lao , Yingchao Shao , Hui Liu , Xiaohan Li , Ming Chen , Xiaoqiang Liu , Yu-Shen Liu , Pengfei Wan

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

We consider the challenging problem of audio to animated video generation. We propose a novel method OneShotAu2AV to generate an animated video of arbitrary length using an audio clip and a single unseen image of a person as an input. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Neeraj Kumar , Srishti Goel , Ankur Narang , Brejesh Lall , Mujtaba Hasan , Pranshu Agarwal , Dipankar Sarkar

Audio-driven emotional 3D face animation aims to generate emotionally expressive talking heads with synchronized lip movements. However, previous research has often overlooked the influence of diverse emotions on facial expressions or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Chang Liu , Qunfen Lin , Zijiao Zeng , Ye Pan

Talking face generation aims to synthesize realistic speaking portraits from a single image, yet existing methods often rely on explicit optical flow and local warping, which fail to model complex global motions and cause identity drift. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Bo Chen , Tao Liu , Qi Chen , Xie Chen , Zilong Zheng

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…

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