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Recent advancements in audio-driven talking face generation have made great progress in lip synchronization. However, current methods often lack sufficient control over facial animation such as speaking style and emotional expression,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Baiqin Wang , Xiangyu Zhu , Fan Shen , Hao Xu , Zhen Lei

Audio-driven talking head generation has drawn growing attention. To produce talking head videos with desired facial expressions, previous methods rely on extra reference videos to provide expression information, which may be difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yifeng Ma , Suzhen Wang , Yu Ding , Bowen Ma , Tangjie Lv , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu , Zhidong Deng , Xin Yu

It is in high demand to generate facial animation with high realism, but it remains a challenging task. Existing approaches of speech-driven facial animation can produce satisfactory mouth movement and lip synchronization, but show weakness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Yutong Chen , Junhong Zhao , Wei-Qiang Zhang

Talking face generation aims to synthesize a face video with precise lip synchronization as well as a smooth transition of facial motion over the entire video via the given speech clip and facial image. Most existing methods mainly focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Hao Zhu , Huaibo Huang , Yi Li , Aihua Zheng , Ran He

Audio-driven talking head generation is a significant and challenging task applicable to various fields such as virtual avatars, film production, and online conferences. However, the existing GAN-based models emphasize generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Jintao Tan , Xize Cheng , Lingyu Xiong , Lei Zhu , Xiandong Li , Xianjia Wu , Kai Gong , Minglei Li , Yi Cai

Audio-driven talking face generation has garnered significant interest within the domain of digital human research. Existing methods are encumbered by intricate model architectures that are intricately dependent on each other, complicating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Dong Zhao , Jiaying Shi , Wenjun Li , Shudong Wang , Shenghui Xu , Zhaoming Pan

Despite the recent progress of audio-driven video generation, existing methods mostly focus on driving facial movements, leading to non-coherent head and body dynamics. Moving forward, it is desirable yet challenging to generate holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jiazhi Guan , Kaisiyuan Wang , Zhiliang Xu , Quanwei Yang , Yasheng Sun , Shengyi He , Borong Liang , Yukang Cao , Yingying Li , Haocheng Feng , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang , Youjian Zhao , Hang Zhou , Ziwei Liu

Recent advances in audio-driven talking head generation have achieved impressive results in lip synchronization and emotional expression. However, they largely overlook the crucial task of facial attribute editing. This capability is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Guanwen Feng , Zhiyuan Ma , Yunan Li , Jiahao Yang , Junwei Jing , Qiguang Miao

In natural face-to-face interaction, participants seamlessly alternate between speaking and listening, producing facial behaviors (FBs) that are finely informed by long-range context and naturally exhibit contextual appropriateness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Xiangyu Kong , Xiaoyu Jin , Yihan Pan , Haoqin Sun , Hengde Zhu , Xiaoming Xu , Xiaoming Wei , Lu Liu , Siyang Song

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

Over the years, performance evaluation has become essential in computer vision, enabling tangible progress in many sub-fields. While talking-head video generation has become an emerging research topic, existing evaluations on this topic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Lele Chen , Guofeng Cui , Ziyi Kou , Haitian Zheng , Chenliang Xu

Despite the significant progress in recent years, very few of the AI-based talking face generation methods attempt to render natural emotions. Moreover, the scope of the methods is majorly limited to the characteristics of the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Sanjana Sinha , Sandika Biswas , Ravindra Yadav , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

Recently, animating portrait images using audio input is a popular task. Creating lifelike talking head videos requires flexible and natural movements, including facial and head dynamics, camera motion, realistic light and shadow effects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Wenzhang Sun , Xiang Li , Donglin Di , Zhuding Liang , Qiyuan Zhang , Hao Li , Wei Chen , Jianxun Cui

Generating lifelike conversational avatars requires modeling not just isolated speakers, but the dynamic, reciprocal interaction of speaking and listening. However, modeling the listener is exceptionally challenging: direct audio-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Xuangeng Chu , Ruicong Liu , Yifei Huang , Yun Liu , Yichen Peng , Bo Zheng

Audio-driven emotional 3D face animation aims to generate emotionally expressive talking heads with synchronized lip movements. However, previous research has often overlooked the influence of diverse emotions on facial expressions or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Chang Liu , Qunfen Lin , Zijiao Zeng , Ye Pan

Existing audio-driven facial animation methods face critical challenges, including expression leakage, ineffective subtle expression transfer, and imprecise audio-driven synchronization. We discovered that these issues stem from limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Bin Lin , Yanzhen Yu , Jianhao Ye , Ruitao Lv , Yuguang Yang , Ruoye Xie , Pan Yu , Hongbin Zhou

Recently, interactive digital human video generation has attracted widespread attention and achieved remarkable progress. However, building such a practical system that can interact with diverse input signals in real time remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Ming Chen , Liyuan Cui , Wenyuan Zhang , Haoxian Zhang , Yan Zhou , Xiaohan Li , Songlin Tang , Jiwen Liu , Borui Liao , Hejia Chen , Xiaoqiang Liu , Pengfei Wan

Speech-driven facial animation is the process that automatically synthesizes talking characters based on speech signals. The majority of work in this domain creates a mapping from audio features to visual features. This approach often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Konstantinos Vougioukas , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

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

Audio-driven emotional 3D facial animation aims to generate synchronized lip movements and vivid facial expressions. However, most existing approaches focus on static and predefined emotion labels, limiting their diversity and naturalness.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Chang Liu , Ye Pan , Chenyang Ding , Susanto Rahardja , Xiaokang Yang