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Recent portrait animation methods have made significant strides in generating realistic lip synchronization. However, they often lack explicit control over head movements and facial expressions, and cannot produce videos from multiple…

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Creating a realistic animatable avatar from a single static portrait remains challenging. Existing approaches often struggle to capture subtle facial expressions, the associated global body movements, and the dynamic background. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mengchao Wang , Qiang Wang , Fan Jiang , Yaqi Fan , Yunpeng Zhang , Yonggang Qi , Kun Zhao , Mu Xu

Video-driven neural face reenactment aims to synthesize realistic facial images that successfully preserve the identity and appearance of a source face, while transferring the target head pose and facial expressions. Existing GAN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Stella Bounareli , Christos Tzelepis , Vasileios Argyriou , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Generating high-quality 360-degree views of human heads from single-view images is essential for enabling accessible immersive telepresence applications and scalable personalized content creation. While cutting-edge methods for full head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Yuming Gu , Phong Tran , Yujian Zheng , Hongyi Xu , Heyuan Li , Adilbek Karmanov , Hao Li

Existing facial reenactment methods struggle with a trade-off between expressiveness and fine-grained controllability. Holistic facial reenactment models often sacrifice granular control for expressiveness, while methods designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Chaonan Ji , Jinwei Qi , Sheng Xu , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang

Real-time interactive video-chat portraits have been increasingly recognized as the future trend, particularly due to the remarkable progress made in text and voice chat technologies. However, existing methods primarily focus on real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Jinwei Qi , Chaonan Ji , Sheng Xu , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Talking head synthesis is a promising approach for the video production industry. Recently, a lot of effort has been devoted in this research area to improve the generation quality or enhance the model generalization. However, there are few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Shuai Shen , Wenliang Zhao , Zibin Meng , Wanhua Li , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

One-shot video-driven talking face generation aims at producing a synthetic talking video by transferring the facial motion from a video to an arbitrary portrait image. Head pose and facial expression are always entangled in facial motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Youxin Pang , Yong Zhang , Weize Quan , Yanbo Fan , Xiaodong Cun , Ying Shan , Dong-ming Yan

Audio-driven emotional 3D facial animation encounters two significant challenges: (1) reliance on single-modal control signals (videos, text, or emotion labels) without leveraging their complementary strengths for comprehensive emotion…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Kangwei Liu , Junwu Liu , Xiaowei Yi , Jinlin Guo , Yun Cao

Audio-driven talking face generation is a challenging task in digital communication. Despite significant progress in the area, most existing methods concentrate on audio-lip synchronization, often overlooking aspects such as visual quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Fatemeh Nazarieh , Zhenhua Feng , Diptesh Kanojia , Muhammad Awais , Josef Kittler

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

We present X-Actor, a novel audio-driven portrait animation framework that generates lifelike, emotionally expressive talking head videos from a single reference image and an input audio clip. Unlike prior methods that emphasize lip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Chenxu Zhang , Zenan Li , Hongyi Xu , You Xie , Xiaochen Zhao , Tianpei Gu , Guoxian Song , Xin Chen , Chao Liang , Jianwen Jiang , Linjie Luo

Speech-driven 3D facial animation synthesis has been a challenging task both in industry and research. Recent methods mostly focus on deterministic deep learning methods meaning that given a speech input, the output is always the same.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Stefan Stan , Kazi Injamamul Haque , Zerrin Yumak

This study delves into the intricacies of synchronizing facial dynamics with multilingual audio inputs, focusing on the creation of visually compelling, time-synchronized animations through diffusion-based techniques. Diverging from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Rui Zhang , Yixiao Fang , Zhengnan Lu , Pei Cheng , Zebiao Huang , Bin Fu

Audio-driven portrait animation has made significant advances with diffusion-based models, improving video quality and lipsync accuracy. However, the increasing complexity of these models has led to inefficiencies in training and inference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Xuyang Cao , Guoxin Wang , Sheng Shi , Jun Zhao , Yang Yao , Jintao Fei , Minyu Gao , Pei Xie

In controllable generation tasks, flexibly manipulating the generated images to attain a desired appearance or structure based on a single input image cue remains a critical and longstanding challenge. Achieving this requires the effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xi Wang , Yichen Peng , Heng Fang , Yilin Wang , Haoran Xie , Xi Yang , Chuntao Li

We present Dynamic Neural Portraits, a novel approach to the problem of full-head reenactment. Our method generates photo-realistic video portraits by explicitly controlling head pose, facial expressions and eye gaze. Our proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Michail Christos Doukas , Stylianos Ploumpis , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Generating realistic talking faces is an interesting and long-standing topic in the field of computer vision. Although significant progress has been made, it is still challenging to generate high-quality dynamic faces with personalized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Bo Ding , Zhenfeng Fan , Shuang Yang , Shihong Xia

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

Millions of images of human faces are captured every single day; but these photographs portray the likeness of an individual with a fixed pose, expression, and appearance. Portrait image animation enables the post-capture adjustment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Connor Z. Lin , David B. Lindell , Eric R. Chan , Gordon Wetzstein