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Streaming models are an essential component of real-time speech enhancement tools. The streaming regime constrains speech enhancement models to use only a tiny context of future information. As a result, the low-latency streaming setup is…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Pavel Andreev , Nicholas Babaev , Azat Saginbaev , Ivan Shchekotov , Aibek Alanov

Singing-driven 3D head animation is a challenging yet promising task with applications in virtual avatars, entertainment, and education. Unlike speech, singing involves richer emotional nuance, dynamic prosody, and lyric-based semantics,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zikai Huang , Yihan Zhou , Xuemiao Xu , Cheng Xu , Xiaofen Xing , Jing Qin , Shengfeng He

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

We propose DiffSHEG, a Diffusion-based approach for Speech-driven Holistic 3D Expression and Gesture generation with arbitrary length. While previous works focused on co-speech gesture or expression generation individually, the joint…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Junming Chen , Yunfei Liu , Jianan Wang , Ailing Zeng , Yu Li , Qifeng Chen

Portrait animation aims to synthesize talking videos from a static reference face, conditioned on audio and style frame cues (e.g., emotion and head poses), while ensuring precise lip synchronization and faithful reproduction of speaking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 He Feng , Yongjia Ma , Donglin Di , Lei Fan , Tonghua Su , Xiangqian Wu

Audio-driven 3D facial animation aims to map input audio to realistic facial motion. Despite significant progress, limitations arise from inconsistent 3D annotations, restricting previous models to training on specific annotations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Xiangyu Fan , Jiaqi Li , Zhiqian Lin , Weiye Xiao , Lei Yang

In this paper, we consider a novel and practical case for talking face video generation. Specifically, we focus on the scenarios involving multi-people interactions, where the talking context, such as audience or surroundings, is present.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Meidai Xuanyuan , Yuwang Wang , Honglei Guo , Qionghai Dai

The recent surge in popularity of diffusion models for image generation has brought new attention to the potential of these models in other areas of media generation. One area that has yet to be fully explored is the application of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Flavio Schneider

To the best of our knowledge, we first present a live system that generates personalized photorealistic talking-head animation only driven by audio signals at over 30 fps. Our system contains three stages. The first stage is a deep neural…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Yuanxun Lu , Jinxiang Chai , Xun Cao

We propose VLOGGER, a method for audio-driven human video generation from a single input image of a person, which builds on the success of recent generative diffusion models. Our method consists of 1) a stochastic human-to-3d-motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Enric Corona , Andrei Zanfir , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Nikos Kolotouros , Thiemo Alldieck , Cristian Sminchisescu

Talking-head generation requires joint modeling of identity, head pose, facial expression, and mouth dynamics. Existing methods typically address only a subset of these factors, and rely on fixed-weight or heuristic fusion when multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xinyan Ye , Jiankang Deng , Abbas Edalat

Person-generic audio-driven face generation is a challenging task in computer vision. Previous methods have achieved remarkable progress in audio-visual synchronization, but there is still a significant gap between current results and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Xiaozhong Ji , Chuming Lin , Zhonggan Ding , Ying Tai , Junwei Zhu , Xiaobin Hu , Donghao Luo , Yanhao Ge , Chengjie Wang

Audio-driven talking head synthesis strives to generate lifelike video portraits from provided audio. The diffusion model, recognized for its superior quality and robust generalization, has been explored for this task. However, establishing…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Fa-Ting Hong , Yunfei Liu , Yu Li , Changyin Zhou , Fei Yu , Dan Xu

Talking head generation intends to produce vivid and realistic talking head videos from a single portrait and speech audio clip. Although significant progress has been made in diffusion-based talking head generation, almost all methods rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Hanbo Cheng , Limin Lin , Chenyu Liu , Pengcheng Xia , Pengfei Hu , Jiefeng Ma , Jun Du , Jia Pan

While considerable progress has been made in achieving accurate lip synchronization for 3D speech-driven talking face generation, the task of incorporating expressive facial detail synthesis aligned with the speaker's speaking status…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yasheng Sun , Wenqing Chu , Hang Zhou , Kaisiyuan Wang , Hideki Koike

We study real-time audio-responsive character control as a deployment-faithful problem: strictly causal, bounded-latency streaming that must generate coherent full-body motion at interactive frame rates while the audio condition can change…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Kaiyang Ji , Bingsheng Qian , Binghuan Wu , Kangyi Chen , Ye Shi , Jingya Wang

Diffusion models are a class of generative models that have been recently used for speech enhancement with remarkable success but are computationally expensive at inference time. Therefore, these models are impractical for processing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Bunlong Lay , Rostislav Makarov , Timo Gerkmann

With the introduction of diffusion-based video generation techniques, audio-conditioned human video generation has recently achieved significant breakthroughs in both the naturalness of motion and the synthesis of portrait details. Due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Jianwen Jiang , Chao Liang , Jiaqi Yang , Gaojie Lin , Tianyun Zhong , Yanbo Zheng

Audio-driven facial animation is essential for immersive digital interaction, yet existing frameworks fail to reconcile real-time streaming with high-fidelity personalization. Current methods often rely on latency-inducing audio look-ahead,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xuangeng Chu , Yu Han , Wei Mao , Shih-En Wei

Different people have different facial expressions while speaking emotionally. A realistic facial animation system should consider such identity-specific speaking styles and facial idiosyncrasies to achieve high-degree of naturalness and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Elif Bozkurt