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The tremendous development in deep learning has led facial expression recognition (FER) to receive much attention in the past few years. Although 3D FER has an inherent edge over its 2D counterpart, work on 2D images has dominated the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Faizan Farooq Khan , Syed Zulqarnain Gilani

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

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) has consistently been a focal point in the field of facial analysis. In the context of existing methodologies for 3D FER or 2D+3D FER, the extraction of expression features often gets entangled with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Hebeizi Li , Hongyu Yang , Di Huang

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

In this paper, we present Export3D, a one-shot 3D-aware portrait animation method that is able to control the facial expression and camera view of a given portrait image. To achieve this, we introduce a tri-plane generator with an effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Taekyung Ki , Dongchan Min , Gyeongsu Chae

In this paper, we focus on the facial expression translation task and propose a novel Expression Conditional GAN (ECGAN) which can learn the mapping from one image domain to another one based on an additional expression attribute. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Hao Tang , Wei Wang , Songsong Wu , Xinya Chen , Dan Xu , Nicu Sebe , Yan Yan

We present a deep learning framework for real-time speech-driven 3D facial animation from just raw waveforms. Our deep neural network directly maps an input sequence of speech audio to a series of micro facial action unit activations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Hai X. Pham , Yuting Wang , Vladimir Pavlovic

Affective computing and cognitive theory are widely used in modern human-computer interaction scenarios. Human faces, as the most prominent and easily accessible features, have attracted great attention from researchers. Since humans have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Wenxuan Wang , Yanwei Fu , Qiang Sun , Tao Chen , Chenjie Cao , Ziqi Zheng , Guoqiang Xu , Han Qiu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Xiangyang Xue

Learned 3D representations of human faces are useful for computer vision problems such as 3D face tracking and reconstruction from images, as well as graphics applications such as character generation and animation. Traditional models learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Anurag Ranjan , Timo Bolkart , Soubhik Sanyal , Michael J. Black

Tuning-free approaches adapting large-scale pre-trained video diffusion models for identity-preserving text-to-video generation (IPT2V) have gained popularity recently due to their efficacy and scalability. However, significant challenges…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Yunpeng Zhang , Qiang Wang , Fan Jiang , Yaqi Fan , Mu Xu , Yonggang Qi

The synthesis of 3D facial animations from speech has garnered considerable attention. Due to the scarcity of high-quality 4D facial data and well-annotated abundant multi-modality labels, previous methods often suffer from limited realism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Qingcheng Zhao , Pengyu Long , Qixuan Zhang , Dafei Qin , Han Liang , Longwen Zhang , Yingliang Zhang , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu

Facial expression recognition (FER) in 3D and 4D domains presents a significant challenge in affective computing due to the complexity of spatial and temporal facial dynamics. Its success is crucial for advancing applications in human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Muzammil Behzad

The recent research of facial expression recognition has made a lot of progress due to the development of deep learning technologies, but some typical challenging problems such as the variety of rich facial expressions and poses are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Wenxuan Wang , Qiang Sun , Tao Chen , Chenjie Cao , Ziqi Zheng , Guoqiang Xu , Han Qiu , Yanwei Fu

To be widely adopted, 3D facial avatars must be animated easily, realistically, and directly from speech signals. While the best recent methods generate 3D animations that are synchronized with the input audio, they largely ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Radek Daněček , Kiran Chhatre , Shashank Tripathi , Yandong Wen , Michael J. Black , Timo Bolkart

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly embedded in our daily life, the ability to recognize and adapt to human emotions is essential for effective human-computer interaction. Facial expression recognition (FER) provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Thibault Geoffroy , Myriam Maumy , Lionel Prevost

Recent diffusion-based talking face generation models have demonstrated impressive potential in synthesizing videos that accurately match a speech audio clip with a given reference identity. However, existing approaches still encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xingpei Ma , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shenneng Huang , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang

Talking face editing and face generation have often been studied as distinct problems. In this work, we propose viewing both not as separate tasks but as subtasks of a unifying formulation, speech-conditional facial motion infilling. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Kim Sung-Bin , Joohyun Chang , David Harwath , Tae-Hyun Oh

Facial expression perception in humans inherently relies on prior knowledge and contextual cues, contributing to efficient and flexible processing. For instance, multi-modal emotional context (such as voice color, affective text, body pose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Florian Blume , Runfeng Qu , Pia Bideau , Martin Maier , Rasha Abdel Rahman , Olaf Hellwich

Although existing speech-driven talking face generation methods achieve significant progress, they are far from real-world application due to the avatar-specific training demand and unstable lip movements. To address the above issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Haiming Zhang , Zhihao Yuan , Chaoda Zheng , Xu Yan , Baoyuan Wang , Guanbin Li , Song Wu , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Current expressive avatar systems rely heavily on visual cues, failing when faces are occluded or when emotions remain internal. We present Mind-to-Face, the first framework that decodes non-invasive electroencephalogram (EEG) signals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Haolin Xiong , Tianwen Fu , Pratusha Bhuvana Prasad , Yunxuan Cai , Haiwei Chen , Wenbin Teng , Hanyuan Xiao , Yajie Zhao