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Audio-driven 3D facial animation has several virtual humans applications for content creation and editing. While several existing methods provide solutions for speech-driven animation, precise control over content (what) and style (how) of…

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Conventional GAN-based models for talking head generation often suffer from limited quality and unstable training. Recent approaches based on diffusion models aimed to address these limitations and improve fidelity. However, they still face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Seyeon Kim , Siyoon Jin , Jihye Park , Kihong Kim , Jiyoung Kim , Jisu Nam , Seungryong Kim

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,…

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Impressive progress has been made in audio-driven 3D facial animation recently, but synthesizing 3D talking-head with rich emotion is still unsolved. This is due to the lack of 3D generative models and available 3D emotional dataset with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Qianyun Wang , Zhenfeng Fan , Shihong Xia

Speech-driven 3D facial animation is a challenging cross-modal task that has attracted growing research interest. During speaking activities, the mouth displays strong motions, while the other facial regions typically demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Zhaojie Chu , Kailing Guo , Xiaofen Xing , Yilin Lan , Bolun Cai , Xiangmin Xu

The popular frameworks for self-supervised learning of speech representations have largely focused on frame-level masked prediction of speech regions. While this has shown promising downstream task performance for speech recognition and…

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The domain of 3D talking head generation has witnessed significant progress in recent years. A notable challenge in this field consists in blending speech-related motions with expression dynamics, which is primarily caused by the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Federico Nocentini , Claudio Ferrari , Stefano Berretti

Recent photo-realistic 3D talking head via 3D Gaussian Splatting still has significant shortcoming in emotional expression manipulation, especially for fine-grained and expansive dynamics emotional editing using multi-modal control. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Chang Liu , Tianjiao Jing , Chengcheng Ma , Xuanqi Zhou , Zhengxuan Lian , Qin Jin , Hongliang Yuan , Shi-Sheng Huang

Talking face synthesis driven by audio is one of the current research hotspots in the fields of multidimensional signal processing and multimedia. Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has recently been brought to this research field in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Chongke Bi , Xiaoxing Liu , Zhilei Liu

Several works have developed end-to-end pipelines for generating lip-synced talking faces with various real-world applications, such as teaching and language translation in videos. However, these prior works fail to create realistic-looking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Sahil Goyal , Shagun Uppal , Sarthak Bhagat , Yi Yu , Yifang Yin , Rajiv Ratn Shah

Talking head synthesis with arbitrary speech audio is a crucial challenge in the field of digital humans. Recently, methods based on radiance fields have received increasing attention due to their ability to synthesize high-fidelity and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yifan Xie , Tao Feng , Xin Zhang , Xiangyang Luo , Zixuan Guo , Weijiang Yu , Heng Chang , Fei Ma , Fei Richard Yu

Diffusion-based video generation techniques have significantly improved zero-shot talking-head avatar generation, enhancing the naturalness of both head motion and facial expressions. However, existing methods suffer from poor…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Lingzhou Mu , Baiji Liu , Ruonan Zhang , Guiming Mo , Jiawei Jin , Kai Zhang , Haozhi Huang

Although existing speech-driven talking face generation methods achieve significant progress, they are far from real-world application due to the avatar-specific training demand and unstable lip movements. To address the above issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Haiming Zhang , Zhihao Yuan , Chaoda Zheng , Xu Yan , Baoyuan Wang , Guanbin Li , Song Wu , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

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

Audio-driven talking-head generation is a crucial and useful technology for virtual human interaction and film-making. While recent advances have focused on improving image fidelity and lip synchronization, generating accurate emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Wenqing Wang , Yun Fu

Audio-driven facial animation has made significant progress in multimedia applications, with diffusion models showing strong potential for talking-face synthesis. However, most existing works treat speech features as a monolithic…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Tianle Lyu , Junchuan Zhao , Ye Wang

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

Over the last few decades, many aspects of human life have been enhanced with virtual domains, from the advent of digital assistants such as Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri to the latest metaverse efforts of the rebranded Meta. These trends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Siddarth Ravichandran , Ondřej Texler , Dimitar Dinev , Hyun Jae Kang

Diffusion-based audio-driven talking-head generation enables realistic portrait animation, but also introduces risks of misuse, such as fraud and misinformation. Existing protection methods are largely limited to a single modality, and…

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