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Emotion recognition based on Electroencephalography (EEG) has gained significant attention and diversified development in fields such as neural signal processing and affective computing. However, the unique brain anatomy of individuals…

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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…

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Emotion is an experience associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity along with different physiological, behavioral and cognitive changes. One behavioral change is facial expression, which has been studied extensively…

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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

Despite advancements in artificial intelligence, object recognition models still lag behind in emulating visual information processing in human brains. Recent studies have highlighted the potential of using neural data to mimic brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Zitong Lu , Yile Wang , Julie D. Golomb

Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals have attracted significant attention from researchers due to their non-invasive nature and high temporal sensitivity in decoding visual stimuli. However, most recent studies have focused solely on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Kaifan Zhang , Lihuo He , Xin Jiang , Wen Lu , Di Wang , Xinbo Gao

With recent advancements in neural rendering and motion capture algorithms, remarkable progress has been made in photorealistic human avatar modeling, unlocking immense potential for applications in virtual reality, augmented reality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Hendrik Junkawitsch , Guoxing Sun , Heming Zhu , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann

Human's perception of the visual world is shaped by the stereo processing of 3D information. Understanding how the brain perceives and processes 3D visual stimuli in the real world has been a longstanding endeavor in neuroscience. Towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Zhanqiang Guo , Jiamin Wu , Yonghao Song , Jiahui Bu , Weijian Mai , Qihao Zheng , Wanli Ouyang , Chunfeng Song

Neural networks have recently become good at engaging in dialog. However, current approaches are based solely on verbal text, lacking the richness of a real face-to-face conversation. We propose a neural conversation model that aims to read…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Hang Chu , Daiqing Li , Sanja Fidler

Video-driven 3D facial animation transfer aims to drive avatars to reproduce the expressions of actors. Existing methods have achieved remarkable results by constraining both geometric and perceptual consistency. However, geometric…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Feng Qiu , Wei Zhang , Chen Liu , Rudong An , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu , Xin Yu

Speech-driven 3D face animation aims to generate realistic facial expressions that match the speech content and emotion. However, existing methods often neglect emotional facial expressions or fail to disentangle them from speech content.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Ziqiao Peng , Haoyu Wu , Zhenbo Song , Hao Xu , Xiangyu Zhu , Jun He , Hongyan Liu , Zhaoxin Fan

Visual decoding from brain signals is a key challenge at the intersection of computer vision and neuroscience, requiring methods that bridge neural representations and computational models of vision. We introduce a tri-modal contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zexuan Chen , Sichao Liu , Runhao Lu , Huichao Qi , Alexandra Woolgar , Xi Vincent Wang , Lihui Wang

Faithful real-time facial animation is essential for avatar-mediated telepresence in Virtual Reality (VR). To emulate authentic communication, avatar animation needs to be efficient and accurate: able to capture both extreme and subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Shaojie Bai , Te-Li Wang , Chenghui Li , Akshay Venkatesh , Tomas Simon , Chen Cao , Gabriel Schwartz , Ryan Wrench , Jason Saragih , Yaser Sheikh , Shih-En Wei

How to decode human vision through neural signals has attracted a long-standing interest in neuroscience and machine learning. Modern contrastive learning and generative models improved the performance of visual decoding and reconstruction…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Dongyang Li , Chen Wei , Shiying Li , Jiachen Zou , Haoyang Qin , Quanying Liu

Covert speech involves imagining speaking without audible sound or any movements. Decoding covert speech from electroencephalogram (EEG) is challenging due to a limited understanding of neural pronunciation mapping and the low…

Decoding the human brain has been a hallmark of neuroscientists and Artificial Intelligence researchers alike. Reconstruction of visual images from brain Electroencephalography (EEG) signals has garnered a lot of interest due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Prajwal Singh , Dwip Dalal , Gautam Vashishtha , Krishna Miyapuram , Shanmuganathan Raman

We present an audio-driven real-time system for animating photorealistic 3D facial avatars with minimal latency, designed for social interactions in virtual reality for anyone. Central to our approach is an encoder model that transforms…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jiye Lee , Chenghui Li , Linh Tran , Shih-En Wei , Jason Saragih , Alexander Richard , Hanbyul Joo , Shaojie Bai

Dynamic facial emotion is essential for believable AI-generated avatars, yet most systems remain visually static, limiting their use in simulations like virtual training for investigative interviews with abused children. We present a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Pegah Salehi , Sajad Amouei Sheshkal , Vajira Thambawita , Michael A. Riegler , Pål Halvorsen

Emotion recognition (ER) technology is an integral part for developing innovative applications such as drowsiness detection and health monitoring that plays a pivotal role in contemporary society. This study delves into ER using…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Haseeb ur Rahman Abbasi , Zeeshan Rashid , Muhammad Majid , Syed Muhammad Anwar

Visual decoding from electroencephalography (EEG) has emerged as a highly promising avenue for non-invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Existing EEG-based decoding methods predominantly align brain signals with the final-layer…

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