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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

Speech-driven 3D facial animation aims to synthesize realistic facial motion sequences from given audio, matching the speaker's speaking style. However, previous works often require priors such as class labels of a speaker or additional 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Hyung Kyu Kim , Sangmin Lee , Hak Gu Kim

Impressive progress has been made in audio-driven 3D facial animation recently, but synthesizing 3D talking-head with rich emotion is still unsolved. This is due to the lack of 3D generative models and available 3D emotional dataset with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Qianyun Wang , Zhenfeng Fan , Shihong Xia

Speech-driven 3D facial animation aims to generate realistic lip movements and facial expressions for 3D head models from arbitrary audio clips. Although existing diffusion-based methods are capable of producing natural motions, their slow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Xuangeng Chu , Nabarun Goswami , Ziteng Cui , Hanqin Wang , Tatsuya Harada

The task of audio-driven portrait animation involves generating a talking head video using an identity image and an audio track of speech. While many existing approaches focus on lip synchronization and video quality, few tackle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Jian Zhang , Weijian Mai , Zhijun Zhang

Speech-driven three-dimensional (3D) facial animation synthesis aims to build a mapping from one-dimensional (1D) speech signals to time-varying 3D facial motion signals. Current methods still face challenges in maintaining lip-sync…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Bin Liu , Zhixiang Xiong , Zhifen He , Bo Li

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has advanced rapidly, yet most approaches remain tied to registered template meshes, preventing effective deployment on raw 3D scans with arbitrary topology. At the same time, modeling controllable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Federico Nocentini , Thomas Besnier , Claudio Ferrari , Stefano Berretti , Mohamed Daoudi

Speech-driven 3D talking face method should offer both accurate lip synchronization and controllable expressions. Previous methods solely adopt discrete emotion labels to globally control expressions throughout sequences while limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Hejia Chen , Haoxian Zhang , Shoulong Zhang , Xiaoqiang Liu , Sisi Zhuang , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Shuai Li

The creation of lifelike speech-driven 3D facial animation requires a natural and precise synchronization between audio input and facial expressions. However, existing works still fail to render shapes with flexible head poses and natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Wei Zhao , Yijun Wang , Tianyu He , Lianying Yin , Jianxin Lin , Xin Jin

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

The generation of emotional talking faces from a single portrait image remains a significant challenge. The simultaneous achievement of expressive emotional talking and accurate lip-sync is particularly difficult, as expressiveness is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Chenxu Zhang , Chao Wang , Jianfeng Zhang , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , You Xie , Linjie Luo , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo , Jiashi Feng

3D Gaussian splatting-based talking head synthesis has recently gained attention for its ability to render high-fidelity images with real-time inference speed. However, since it is typically trained on only a short video that lacks the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Junuk Cha , Seongro Yoon , Valeriya Strizhkova , Francois Bremond , Seungryul Baek

Speech-driven 3D face animation technique, extending its applications to various multimedia fields. Previous research has generated promising realistic lip movements and facial expressions from audio signals. However, traditional regression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Ziqiao Peng , Yihao Luo , Yue Shi , Hao Xu , Xiangyu Zhu , Jun He , Hongyan Liu , Zhaoxin Fan

Audio-driven 3D talking avatar generation is increasingly important in virtual communication, digital humans, and interactive media, where avatars must preserve identity, synchronize lip motion with speech, express emotion, and exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zhongju Wang , Zhenhong Sun , Beier Wang , Yifu Wang , Daoyi Dong , Huadong Mo , Hongdong Li

Diffusion models have revolutionized the field of talking head generation, yet still face challenges in expressiveness, controllability, and stability in long-time generation. In this research, we propose an EmotiveTalk framework to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Haotian Wang , Yuzhe Weng , Yueyan Li , Zilu Guo , Jun Du , Shutong Niu , Jiefeng Ma , Shan He , Xiaoyan Wu , Qiming Hu , Bing Yin , Cong Liu , Qingfeng Liu

This paper presents a generic method for generating full facial 3D animation from speech. Existing approaches to audio-driven facial animation exhibit uncanny or static upper face animation, fail to produce accurate and plausible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Alexander Richard , Michael Zollhoefer , Yandong Wen , Fernando de la Torre , Yaser Sheikh

Recent photo-realistic 3D talking head via 3D Gaussian Splatting still has significant shortcoming in emotional expression manipulation, especially for fine-grained and expansive dynamics emotional editing using multi-modal control. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Chang Liu , Tianjiao Jing , Chengcheng Ma , Xuanqi Zhou , Zhengxuan Lian , Qin Jin , Hongliang Yuan , Shi-Sheng Huang

Audio-driven 3D facial animation has several virtual humans applications for content creation and editing. While several existing methods provide solutions for speech-driven animation, precise control over content (what) and style (how) of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Qingju Liu , Hyeongwoo Kim , Gaurav Bharaj

The domain of 3D talking head generation has witnessed significant progress in recent years. A notable challenge in this field consists in blending speech-related motions with expression dynamics, which is primarily caused by the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Federico Nocentini , Claudio Ferrari , Stefano Berretti

Speech-driven 3D facial animation aims to synthesize vivid facial animations that accurately synchronize with speech and match the unique speaking style. However, existing works primarily focus on achieving precise lip synchronization while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Hui Fu , Zeqing Wang , Ke Gong , Keze Wang , Tianshui Chen , Haojie Li , Haifeng Zeng , Wenxiong Kang