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Audio-driven 3D talking head synthesis has advanced rapidly with Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). By leveraging rich pre-trained priors, few-shot methods enable instant personalization from just a few seconds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Haolan Xu , Keli Cheng , Lei Wang , Ning Bi , Xiaoming Liu

Predominant techniques on talking head generation largely depend on 2D information, including facial appearances and motions from input face images. Nevertheless, dense 3D facial geometry, such as pixel-wise depth, plays a critical role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Fa-Ting Hong , Li Shen , Dan Xu

Talking head generation aims to generate faces that maintain the identity information of the source image and imitate the motion of the driving image. Most pioneering methods rely primarily on 2D representations and thus will inevitably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Weichuang Li , Longhao Zhang , Dong Wang , Bin Zhao , Zhigang Wang , Mulin Chen , Bang Zhang , Zhongjian Wang , Liefeng Bo , Xuelong Li

Given an untrimmed video, temporal sentence grounding (TSG) aims to locate a target moment semantically according to a sentence query. Although previous respectable works have made decent success, they only focus on high-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiang Fang , Daizong Liu , Pan Zhou , Guoshun Nan

Recent advancements in deep learning and computer vision have led to a surge of interest in generating realistic talking heads. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art methods for talking head generation. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Shreyank N Gowda , Dheeraj Pandey , Shashank Narayana Gowda

Virtual humans have gained considerable attention in numerous industries, e.g., entertainment and e-commerce. As a core technology, synthesizing photorealistic face frames from target speech and facial identity has been actively studied…

Generating photo-realistic video portrait with arbitrary speech audio is a crucial problem in film-making and virtual reality. Recently, several works explore the usage of neural radiance field in this task to improve 3D realness and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Zhenhui Ye , Ziyue Jiang , Yi Ren , Jinglin Liu , JinZheng He , Zhou Zhao

While dynamic Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have shown success in high-fidelity 3D modeling of talking portraits, the slow training and inference speed severely obstruct their potential usage. In this paper, we propose an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Jiaxiang Tang , Kaisiyuan Wang , Hang Zhou , Xiaokang Chen , Dongliang He , Tianshu Hu , Jingtuo Liu , Gang Zeng , Jingdong Wang

We introduce a novel approach for high-resolution talking head generation from a single image and audio input. Prior methods using explicit face models, like 3D morphable models (3DMM) and facial landmarks, often fall short in generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Sejong Yang , Seoung Wug Oh , Yang Zhou , Seon Joo Kim

The demand for immersive and interactive communication has driven advancements in 3D video conferencing, yet achieving high-fidelity 3D talking face representation at low bitrates remains a challenge. Traditional 2D video compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Jianglong Li , Jun Xu , Bingcong Lu , Zhengxue Cheng , Hongwei Hu , Ronghua Wu , Li Song

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

Video generation has achieved remarkable progress, with generated videos increasingly resembling real ones. However, the rapid advance in generation has outpaced the development of adequate evaluation metrics. Currently, the assessment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Nabyl Quignon , Baptiste Chopin , Yaohui Wang , Antitza Dantcheva

Conversation is an essential component of virtual avatar activities in the metaverse. With the development of natural language processing, textual and vocal conversation generation has achieved a significant breakthrough. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yichao Yan , Zanwei Zhou , Zi Wang , Jingnan Gao , Xiaokang Yang

Whilst recent neural text-to-speech (TTS) approaches produce high-quality speech, they typically require a large amount of recordings from the target speaker. In previous work, a 3-step method was proposed to generate high-quality TTS while…

Talking Face Generation (TFG) aims to reconstruct facial movements to achieve high natural lip movements from audio and facial features that are under potential connections. Existing TFG methods have made significant advancements to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Yongyuan Li , Xiuyuan Qin , Chao Liang , Mingqiang Wei

High-quality, real-time talking head synthesis remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Existing reconstruction- and rendering-based methods typically rely on identity-specific models, limiting cross-identity generalization. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Peng Jia , Zhen Xiao , Jia Li , Xueliang Liu , Zhenzhen Hu , Lingyun Yu

While recent advances in deep neural networks have made it possible to render high-quality images, generating photo-realistic and personalized talking head remains challenging. With given audio, the key to tackling this task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Shunyu Yao , RuiZhe Zhong , Yichao Yan , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang

Significant progress has been made in talking-face video generation research; however, precise lip-audio synchronization and high visual quality remain challenging in editing lip shapes based on input audio. This paper introduces JoyGen, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Qili Wang , Dajiang Wu , Zihang Xu , Junshi Huang , Jun Lv

The talking head generation recently attracted considerable attention due to its widespread application prospects, especially for digital avatars and 3D animation design. Inspired by this practical demand, several works explored Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Tianyong Wang , Xiangyu Liang , Wangguandong Zheng , Dan Niu , Haifeng Xia , Siyu Xia

While large-scale datasets have driven significant progress in Text-to-Video (T2V) generative models, these models remain highly sensitive to input prompts, demonstrating that prompt design is critical to generation quality. Current methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zillur Rahman , Alex Sheng , Cristian Meo