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Enabling digital humans to express rich emotions has significant applications in dialogue systems, gaming, and other interactive scenarios. While recent advances in talking head synthesis have achieved impressive results in lip…

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Social interactions incorporate nonverbal signals to convey emotions alongside speech, including facial expressions and body gestures. Generative models have demonstrated promising results in creating full-body nonverbal animations…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Kiran Chhatre , Renan Guarese , Andrii Matviienko , Christopher Peters

We propose a novel landmarks-assisted collaborative end-to-end deep framework for automatic 4D FER. Using 4D face scan data, we calculate its various geometrical images, and afterwards use rank pooling to generate their dynamic images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Muzammil Behzad , Nhat Vo , Xiaobai Li , Guoying Zhao

Diffusion models have revolutionized the field of talking head generation, yet still face challenges in expressiveness, controllability, and stability in long-time generation. In this research, we propose an EmotiveTalk framework to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Haotian Wang , Yuzhe Weng , Yueyan Li , Zilu Guo , Jun Du , Shutong Niu , Jiefeng Ma , Shan He , Xiaoyan Wu , Qiming Hu , Bing Yin , Cong Liu , Qingfeng Liu

The significance of emotion detection is increasing in education, entertainment, and various other domains. We are developing a system that can identify and transform facial expressions into emojis to provide immediate feedback.The project…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Abhilash Khuntia , Shubham Kale

Audio-driven talking head generation has drawn growing attention. To produce talking head videos with desired facial expressions, previous methods rely on extra reference videos to provide expression information, which may be difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yifeng Ma , Suzhen Wang , Yu Ding , Bowen Ma , Tangjie Lv , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu , Zhidong Deng , Xin Yu

The flow-based generative model is a deep learning generative model, which obtains the ability to generate data by explicitly learning the data distribution. Theoretically its ability to restore data is stronger than other generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Gao Xu , Yuanpeng Long , Siwei Liu , Lijia Yang , Shimei Xu , Xiaoming Yao , Kunxian Shu

This paper introduces a framework, called EMOTION, for generating expressive motion sequences in humanoid robots, enhancing their ability to engage in humanlike non-verbal communication. Non-verbal cues such as facial expressions, gestures,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Peide Huang , Yuhan Hu , Nataliya Nechyporenko , Daehwa Kim , Walter Talbott , Jian Zhang

In this paper we introduce AFFDEX 2.0 - a toolkit for analyzing facial expressions in the wild, that is, it is intended for users aiming to; a) estimate the 3D head pose, b) detect facial Action Units (AUs), c) recognize basic emotions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Mina Bishay , Kenneth Preston , Matthew Strafuss , Graham Page , Jay Turcot , Mohammad Mavadati

Speech-driven 3D face animation aims to generate realistic facial expressions that match the speech content and emotion. However, existing methods often neglect emotional facial expressions or fail to disentangle them from speech content.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Ziqiao Peng , Haoyu Wu , Zhenbo Song , Hao Xu , Xiangyu Zhu , Jun He , Hongyan Liu , Zhaoxin Fan

In recent years, the field of talking faces generation has attracted considerable attention, with certain methods adept at generating virtual faces that convincingly imitate human expressions. However, existing methods face challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Bingyuan Zhang , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jun Yu , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

Facial expressions of characters are a vital component of visual storytelling. While current AI image editing models hold promise for assisting artists in the task of stylized expression editing, these models introduce global noise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Kenan Tang , Jiasheng Guo , Jeffrey Lin , Yao Qin

In this work, we tackle the challenge of enhancing the realism and expressiveness in talking head video generation by focusing on the dynamic and nuanced relationship between audio cues and facial movements. We identify the limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Linrui Tian , Qi Wang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Generating vivid and emotional 3D co-speech gestures is crucial for virtual avatar animation in human-machine interaction applications. While the existing methods enable generating the gestures to follow a single emotion label, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Xingqun Qi , Jiahao Pan , Peng Li , Ruibin Yuan , Xiaowei Chi , Mengfei Li , Wenhan Luo , Wei Xue , Shanghang Zhang , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has been widely studied, yet there is still a gap to achieving realism and vividness due to the highly ill-posed nature and scarcity of audio-visual data. Existing works typically formulate the cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jinbo Xing , Menghan Xia , Yuechen Zhang , Xiaodong Cun , Jue Wang , Tien-Tsin Wong

We propose a simple yet powerful Landmark guided Generative Adversarial Network (LandmarkGAN) for the facial expression-to-expression translation using a single image, which is an important and challenging task in computer vision since the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Hao Tang , Nicu Sebe

The recent research of facial expression recognition has made a lot of progress due to the development of deep learning technologies, but some typical challenging problems such as the variety of rich facial expressions and poses are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Wenxuan Wang , Qiang Sun , Tao Chen , Chenjie Cao , Ziqi Zheng , Guoqiang Xu , Han Qiu , Yanwei Fu

Visual emotion analysis or recognition has gained considerable attention due to the growing interest in understanding how images can convey rich semantics and evoke emotions in human perception. However, visual emotion analysis poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Rahul Singh Maharjan , Marta Romeo , Angelo Cangelosi

Facial expression recognition (FER) in 3D and 4D domains presents a significant challenge in affective computing due to the complexity of spatial and temporal facial dynamics. Its success is crucial for advancing applications in human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Muzammil Behzad

Body and face motion play an integral role in communication. They convey crucial information on the participants. Advances in generative modeling and multi-modal learning have enabled motion generation from signals such as speech,…

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