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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

The recent successes of Vision-Language models raise the question of how to equivalently imbue a pretrained speech model with vision understanding, an important milestone towards building a multimodal speech model able to freely converse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Amélie Royer , Moritz Böhle , Gabriel de Marmiesse , Laurent Mazaré , Neil Zeghidour , Alexandre Défossez , Patrick Pérez

Emotional talking-head generation has emerged as a pivotal research area at the intersection of computer vision and multimodal artificial intelligence, with its core value lying in enhancing human-computer interaction through immersive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Hanlei Shi , Leyuan Qu , Yu Liu , Di Gao , Yuhua Zheng , Taihao Li

Achieving nuanced and accurate emulation of human voice has been a longstanding goal in artificial intelligence. Although significant progress has been made in recent years, the mainstream of speech synthesis models still relies on…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Weiwei Lin , Chenhang He , Man-Wai Mak , Jiachen Lian , Kong Aik Lee

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in image generation task, where users can create visually astonishing images with high-quality. However, existing text-to-image diffusion models are proficient in generating concrete concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Jingyuan Yang , Jiawei Feng , Hui Huang

Generating vivid and diverse 3D co-speech gestures is crucial for various applications in animating virtual avatars. While most existing methods can generate gestures from audio directly, they usually overlook that emotion is one of the key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Xingqun Qi , Chen Liu , Lincheng Li , Jie Hou , Haoran Xin , Xin Yu

This paper proposes visual-text to speech (vTTS), a method for synthesizing speech from visual text (i.e., text as an image). Conventional TTS converts phonemes or characters into discrete symbols and synthesizes a speech waveform from…

We present an Audio-Visual Language Model (AVLM) for expressive speech generation by integrating full-face visual cues into a pre-trained expressive speech model. We explore multiple visual encoders and multimodal fusion strategies during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Weiting Tan , Jiachen Lian , Hirofumi Inaguma , Paden Tomasello , Philipp Koehn , Xutai Ma

Implementing fine-grained emotion control is crucial for emotion generation tasks because it enhances the expressive capability of the generative model, allowing it to accurately and comprehensively capture and express various nuanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Guanwen Feng , Haoran Cheng , Yunan Li , Zhiyuan Ma , Chaoneng Li , Zhihao Qian , Qiguang Miao , Chi-Man Pun

While recent advances in Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology produce natural and expressive speech, they lack the option for users to select emotion and control intensity. We propose EmoKnob, a framework that allows fine-grained emotion control…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Haozhe Chen , Run Chen , Julia Hirschberg

We introduce SeeingSounds, a lightweight and modular framework for audio-to-image generation that leverages the interplay between audio, language, and vision-without requiring any paired audio-visual data or training on visual generative…

Recent advances in neural autoregressive models have improve the performance of speech synthesis (SS). However, as they lack the ability to model global characteristics of speech (such as speaker individualities or speaking styles),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Kei Akuzawa , Yusuke Iwasawa , Yutaka Matsuo

We present VoxelPrompt, an end-to-end image analysis agent that tackles free-form radiological tasks. Given any number of volumetric medical images and a natural language prompt, VoxelPrompt integrates a language model that generates…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Andrew Hoopes , Neel Dey , Victor Ion Butoi , John V. Guttag , Adrian V. Dalca

In this paper, we present a method for reprogramming pre-trained audio-driven talking face synthesis models to operate in a text-driven manner. Consequently, we can easily generate face videos that articulate the provided textual sentences,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Jeongsoo Choi , Minsu Kim , Se Jin Park , Yong Man Ro

Traditional RGB-based speech generation faces Temporal Granularity Mismatch since fixed camera exposure times inevitably blur the high-frequency articulatory transients essential for rendering emotional speech. To break this ceiling, we…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jingping Fang , Lin Chen , Chenyang Xu , Tong Zhao , Weidong Cai , Xiaoming Chen

Recently, emotional talking face generation has received considerable attention. However, existing methods only adopt one-hot coding, image, or audio as emotion conditions, thus lacking flexible control in practical applications and failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Chao Xu , Junwei Zhu , Jiangning Zhang , Yue Han , Wenqing Chu , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Zhifeng Xie , Yong Liu

In this work, we tackle a problem of speech emotion classification. One of the issues in the area of affective computation is that the amount of annotated data is very limited. On the other hand, the number of ways that the same emotion can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Egor Lakomkin , Cornelius Weber , Stefan Wermter

Lip-to-speech (L2S) synthesis, which reconstructs speech from visual cues, faces challenges in accuracy and naturalness due to limited supervision in capturing linguistic content, accents, and prosody. In this paper, we propose RESOUND, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Long-Khanh Pham , Thanh V. T. Tran , Minh-Tan Pham , Van Nguyen

There has been significant progress in emotional Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis technology in recent years. However, existing methods primarily focus on the synthesis of a limited number of emotion types and have achieved unsatisfactory…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Haobin Tang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Dynamic facial expression generation from natural language is a crucial task in Computer Graphics, with applications in Animation, Virtual Avatars, and Human-Computer Interaction. However, current generative models suffer from datasets that…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yaron Aloni , Rotem Shalev-Arkushin , Yonatan Shafir , Guy Tevet , Ohad Fried , Amit Haim Bermano