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Talking head video generation aims to generate a realistic talking head video that preserves the person's identity from a source image and the motion from a driving video. Despite the promising progress made in the field, it remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Shuling Zhao , Fa-Ting Hong , Xiaoshui Huang , Dan Xu

Given an arbitrary audio clip, audio-driven 3D facial animation aims to generate lifelike lip motions and facial expressions for a 3D head. Existing methods typically rely on training their models using limited public 3D datasets that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Liying Lu , Tianke Zhang , Yunfei Liu , Xuangeng Chu , Yu Li

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved audio-driven human video generation, surpassing traditional methods in both quality and controllability. However, existing approaches still face challenges in lip-sync…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xingpei Ma , Shenneng Huang , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shen Zheng , Hanfeng Zhao , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang

We introduce Follow-Your-Creation, a novel 4D video creation framework capable of both generating and editing 4D content from a single monocular video input. By leveraging a powerful video inpainting foundation model as a generative prior,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yue Ma , Kunyu Feng , Xinhua Zhang , Hongyu Liu , David Junhao Zhang , Jinbo Xing , Yinhan Zhang , Ayden Yang , Zeyu Wang , Qifeng Chen

We present a novel approach for synthesizing 3D facial motions from audio sequences using key motion embeddings. Despite recent advancements in data-driven techniques, accurately mapping between audio signals and 3D facial meshes remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhihao Xu , Shengjie Gong , Jiapeng Tang , Lingyu Liang , Yining Huang , Haojie Li , Shuangping Huang

Human conversation involves continuous exchanges of speech and nonverbal cues such as head nods, gaze shifts, and facial expressions that convey attention and emotion. Modeling these bidirectional dynamics in 3D is essential for building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Junjie Chen , Fei Wang , Zhihao Huang , Qing Zhou , Kun Li , Dan Guo , Linfeng Zhang , Xun Yang

Audio-Driven Talking Face Generation aims at generating realistic videos of talking faces, focusing on accurate audio-lip synchronization without deteriorating any identity-related visual details. Recent state-of-the-art methods are based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Dogucan Yaman , Fevziye Irem Eyiokur , Leonard Bärmann , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Alexander Waibel

We present SentiAvatar, a framework for building expressive interactive 3D digital humans, and use it to create SuSu, a virtual character that speaks, gestures, and emotes in real time. Achieving such a system remains challenging, as it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chuhao Jin , Rui Zhang , Qingzhe Gao , Haoyu Shi , Dayu Wu , Yichen Jiang , Yihan Wu , Ruihua Song

Conversational systems must be robust to user interactions that naturally exhibit diverse conversational traits. Capturing and simulating these diverse traits coherently and efficiently presents a complex challenge. This paper introduces…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Rafael Ferreira , David Semedo , João Magalhães

The task of video-to-speech aims to translate silent video of lip movement to its corresponding audio signal. Previous approaches to this task are generally limited to the case of a single speaker, but a method that accounts for multiple…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-21 Dan Oneata , Adriana Stan , Horia Cucu

Talking head generation is to generate video based on a given source identity and target motion. However, current methods face several challenges that limit the quality and controllability of the generated videos. First, the generated face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yue Gao , Yuan Zhou , Jinglu Wang , Xiao Li , Xiang Ming , Yan Lu

We present a novel framework for generating high-quality, animatable 4D avatar from a single image. While recent advances have shown promising results in 4D avatar creation, existing methods either require extensive multiview data or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Fei Yin , Mallikarjun B R , Chun-Han Yao , Rafał Mantiuk , Varun Jampani

We leverage the modern advancements in talking head generation to propose an end-to-end system for talking head video compression. Our algorithm transmits pivot frames intermittently while the rest of the talking head video is generated by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Madhav Agarwal , Anchit Gupta , Rudrabha Mukhopadhyay , Vinay P. Namboodiri , C V Jawahar

Talking head generation is to synthesize a lip-synchronized talking head video by inputting an arbitrary face image and corresponding audio clips. Existing methods ignore not only the interaction and relationship of cross-modal information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Sen Chen , Zhilei Liu , Jiaxing Liu , Longbiao Wang

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

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

Recent studies in speech-driven 3D talking head generation have achieved convincing results in verbal articulations. However, generating accurate lip-syncs degrades when applied to input speech in other languages, possibly due to the lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Kim Sung-Bin , Lee Chae-Yeon , Gihun Son , Oh Hyun-Bin , Janghoon Ju , Suekyeong Nam , Tae-Hyun Oh

Portrait animation aims to synthesize talking videos from a static reference face, conditioned on audio and style frame cues (e.g., emotion and head poses), while ensuring precise lip synchronization and faithful reproduction of speaking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 He Feng , Yongjia Ma , Donglin Di , Lei Fan , Tonghua Su , Xiangqian Wu

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

Text-to-story visualization is challenging due to the need for consistent interaction among multiple characters across frames. Existing methods struggle with character consistency, leading to artifact generation and inaccurate dialogue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ayan Banerjee , Josep Llados , Umapada Pal , Anjan Dutta