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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

We present a novel approach for synthesizing 3D talking heads with controllable emotion, featuring enhanced lip synchronization and rendering quality. Despite significant progress in the field, prior methods still suffer from multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Qianyun He , Xinya Ji , Yicheng Gong , Yuanxun Lu , Zhengyu Diao , Linjia Huang , Yao Yao , Siyu Zhu , Zhan Ma , Songcen Xu , Xiaofei Wu , Zixiao Zhang , Xun Cao , Hao Zhu

Speech-driven 3D talking face method should offer both accurate lip synchronization and controllable expressions. Previous methods solely adopt discrete emotion labels to globally control expressions throughout sequences while limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Hejia Chen , Haoxian Zhang , Shoulong Zhang , Xiaoqiang Liu , Sisi Zhuang , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Shuai Li

Different people speak with diverse personalized speaking styles. Although existing one-shot talking head methods have made significant progress in lip sync, natural facial expressions, and stable head motions, they still cannot generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Yifeng Ma , Suzhen Wang , Zhipeng Hu , Changjie Fan , Tangjie Lv , Yu Ding , Zhidong Deng , Xin Yu

The generation of emotional talking faces from a single portrait image remains a significant challenge. The simultaneous achievement of expressive emotional talking and accurate lip-sync is particularly difficult, as expressiveness is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Chenxu Zhang , Chao Wang , Jianfeng Zhang , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , You Xie , Linjie Luo , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo , Jiashi Feng

In recent years, audio-driven 3D facial animation has gained significant attention, particularly in applications such as virtual reality, gaming, and video conferencing. However, accurately modeling the intricate and subtle dynamics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Guinan Su , Yanwu Yang , Zhifeng Li

Combining face swapping with lip synchronization technology offers a cost-effective solution for customized talking face generation. However, directly cascading existing models together tends to introduce significant interference between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Zeren Zhang , Haibo Qin , Jiayu Huang , Yixin Li , Hui Lin , Yitao Duan , Jinwen Ma

A key challenge in 3D talking head synthesis lies in the reliance on a long-duration talking head video to train a new model for each target identity from scratch. Recent methods have attempted to address this issue by extracting general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yuhang Guo , Kaijun Deng , Siyang Song , Jindong Xie , Wenhui Ma , Linlin Shen

Talking head synthesis is to synthesize a lip-synchronized talking head video using audio. Recently, the capability of NeRF to enhance the realism and texture details of synthesized talking heads has attracted the attention of researchers.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Xiaoxing Liu , Zhilei Liu , Chongke Bi

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

In this paper, we abstract the process of people hearing speech, extracting meaningful cues, and creating various dynamically audio-consistent talking faces, termed Listening and Imagining, into the task of high-fidelity diverse talking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Chao Xu , Yang Liu , Jiazheng Xing , Weida Wang , Mingze Sun , Jun Dan , Tianxin Huang , Siyuan Li , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Ying Tai , Baigui Sun

Speech-driven 3D talking heads generation has emerged as a significant area of interest among researchers, presenting numerous challenges. Existing methods are constrained by animating faces with fixed topologies, wherein point-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Federico Nocentini , Thomas Besnier , Claudio Ferrari , Sylvain Arguillere , Stefano Berretti , Mohamed Daoudi

The generation of stylistic 3D facial animations driven by speech presents a significant challenge as it requires learning a many-to-many mapping between speech, style, and the corresponding natural facial motion. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Zhiyao Sun , Tian Lv , Sheng Ye , Matthieu Lin , Jenny Sheng , Yu-Hui Wen , Minjing Yu , Yong-Jin Liu

Current co-speech motion generation approaches usually focus on upper body gestures following speech contents only, while lacking supporting the elaborate control of synergistic full-body motion based on text prompts, such as talking while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Bohong Chen , Yumeng Li , Yao-Xiang Ding , Tianjia Shao , Kun Zhou

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has advanced rapidly, yet most approaches remain tied to registered template meshes, preventing effective deployment on raw 3D scans with arbitrary topology. At the same time, modeling controllable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Federico Nocentini , Thomas Besnier , Claudio Ferrari , Stefano Berretti , Mohamed Daoudi

Talking head generation is a significant research topic that still faces numerous challenges. Previous works often adopt generative adversarial networks or regression models, which are plagued by generation quality and average facial shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ziyu Yao , Xuxin Cheng , Zhiqi Huang

In this paper, we propose a novel text-based talking-head video generation framework that synthesizes high-fidelity facial expressions and head motions in accordance with contextual sentiments as well as speech rhythm and pauses. To be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Lincheng Li , Suzhen Wang , Zhimeng Zhang , Yu Ding , Yixing Zheng , Xin Yu , Changjie Fan

While previous audio-driven talking head generation (THG) methods generate head poses from driving audio, the generated poses or lips cannot match the audio well or are not editable. In this study, we propose \textbf{PoseTalk}, a THG system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Jun Ling , Yiwen Wang , Han Xue , Rong Xie , Li Song

Despite previous success in generating audio-driven talking heads, most of the previous studies focus on the correlation between speech content and the mouth shape. Facial emotion, which is one of the most important features on natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Xinya Ji , Hang Zhou , Kaisiyuan Wang , Wayne Wu , Chen Change Loy , Xun Cao , Feng Xu

Speech-driven facial animation methods usually contain two main classes, 3D and 2D talking face, both of which attract considerable research attention in recent years. However, to the best of our knowledge, the research on 3D talking face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Yixiang Zhuang , Baoping Cheng , Yao Cheng , Yuntao Jin , Renshuai Liu , Chengyang Li , Xuan Cheng , Jing Liao , Juncong Lin