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Audio to Video generation is an interesting problem that has numerous applications across industry verticals including film making, multi-media, marketing, education and others. High-quality video generation with expressive facial movements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Neeraj Kumar , Srishti Goel , Ankur Narang , Mujtaba Hasan

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…

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Zero-shot talking avatar generation aims at synthesizing natural talking videos from speech and a single portrait image. Previous methods have relied on domain-specific heuristics such as warping-based motion representation and 3D Morphable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Tianyu He , Junliang Guo , Runyi Yu , Yuchi Wang , Jialiang Zhu , Kaikai An , Leyi Li , Xu Tan , Chunyu Wang , Han Hu , HsiangTao Wu , Sheng Zhao , Jiang Bian

Lip synchronization and audio-visual editing have emerged as fundamental challenges in multimodal learning, underpinning a wide range of applications, including film production, virtual avatars, and telepresence. Despite recent progress,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Lixiang Lin , Siyuan Jin , Jinshan Zhang

We present Livatar, a real-time audio-driven talking heads videos generation framework. Existing baselines suffer from limited lip-sync accuracy and long-term pose drift. We address these limitations with a flow matching based framework.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Haiyang Liu , Xiaolin Hong , Xuancheng Yang , Yudi Ruan , Xiang Lian , Michael Lingelbach , Hongwei Yi , Wei Li

Audio-driven talking face generation is a challenging task in digital communication. Despite significant progress in the area, most existing methods concentrate on audio-lip synchronization, often overlooking aspects such as visual quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Fatemeh Nazarieh , Zhenhua Feng , Diptesh Kanojia , Muhammad Awais , Josef Kittler

Generating talking person portraits with arbitrary speech audio is a crucial problem in the field of digital human and metaverse. A modern talking face generation method is expected to achieve the goals of generalized audio-lip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Zhenhui Ye , Jinzheng He , Ziyue Jiang , Rongjie Huang , Jiawei Huang , Jinglin Liu , Yi Ren , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma , Zhou Zhao

This paper focuses on the task of speech-driven 3D facial animation, which aims to generate realistic and synchronized facial motions driven by speech inputs. Recent methods have employed audio-conditioned diffusion models for 3D facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yifan Yang , Zhi Cen , Sida Peng , Xiangwei Chen , Yifu Deng , Xinyu Zhu , Fan Jia , Xiaowei Zhou , Hujun Bao

Despite significant advances in talking avatar generation, existing methods face critical challenges: insufficient text-following capability for diverse actions, lack of temporal alignment between actions and audio content, and dependency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ziqiao Peng , Yi Chen , Yifeng Ma , Guozhen Zhang , Zhiyao Sun , Zixiang Zhou , Youliang Zhang , Zhengguang Zhou , Zhaoxin Fan , Hongyan Liu , Yuan Zhou , Qinglin Lu , Jun He

Animating still face images with deep generative models using a speech input signal is an active research topic and has seen important recent progress.However, much of the effort has been put into lip syncing and rendering quality while the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Louis Airale , Dominique Vaufreydaz , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Audio-driven portrait animation has made significant advances with diffusion-based models, improving video quality and lipsync accuracy. However, the increasing complexity of these models has led to inefficiencies in training and inference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Xuyang Cao , Guoxin Wang , Sheng Shi , Jun Zhao , Yang Yao , Jintao Fei , Minyu Gao , Pei Xie

Recent advances in diffusion-based video generation have enabled photo-realistic short clips, but current methods still struggle to achieve multi-modal consistency when jointly generating whole-body motion and natural speech. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Xinhan Di , Kristin Qi , Pengqian Yu

Audio-driven facial animation presents an effective solution for animating digital avatars. In this paper, we detail the technical aspects of NVIDIA Audio2Face-3D, including data acquisition, network architecture, retargeting methodology,…

This study delves into the intricacies of synchronizing facial dynamics with multilingual audio inputs, focusing on the creation of visually compelling, time-synchronized animations through diffusion-based techniques. Diverging from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Rui Zhang , Yixiao Fang , Zhengnan Lu , Pei Cheng , Zebiao Huang , Bin Fu

Audio-driven human animation methods, such as talking head and talking body generation, have made remarkable progress in generating synchronized facial movements and appealing visual quality videos. However, existing methods primarily focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zhe Kong , Feng Gao , Yong Zhang , Zhuoliang Kang , Xiaoming Wei , Xunliang Cai , Guanying Chen , Wenhan Luo

The task of audio-driven portrait animation involves generating a talking head video using an identity image and an audio track of speech. While many existing approaches focus on lip synchronization and video quality, few tackle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Jian Zhang , Weijian Mai , Zhijun Zhang

Speech-driven facial video generation has been a complex problem due to its multi-modal aspects namely audio and video domain. The audio comprises lots of underlying features such as expression, pitch, loudness, prosody(speaking style) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Neeraj Kumar , Srishti Goel , Ankur Narang , Brejesh Lall

We present a method that generates expressive talking heads from a single facial image with audio as the only input. In contrast to previous approaches that attempt to learn direct mappings from audio to raw pixels or points for creating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Yang Zhou , Xintong Han , Eli Shechtman , Jose Echevarria , Evangelos Kalogerakis , Dingzeyu Li

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, remote conferencing and school-teaching have become important tools. The previous applications aim to save the commuting cost with real-time interactions. However, our application is going to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Aolan Sun , Xulong Zhang , Tiandong Ling , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao