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Generating high-fidelity talking head video by fitting with the input audio sequence is a challenging problem that receives considerable attentions recently. In this paper, we address this problem with the aid of neural scene representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Yudong Guo , Keyu Chen , Sen Liang , Yong-Jin Liu , Hujun Bao , Juyong Zhang

Achieving disentangled control over multiple facial motions and accommodating diverse input modalities greatly enhances the application and entertainment of the talking head generation. This necessitates a deep exploration of the decoupling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Shuai Tan , Bin Ji

Generating vivid and emotional 3D co-speech gestures is crucial for virtual avatar animation in human-machine interaction applications. While the existing methods enable generating the gestures to follow a single emotion label, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Xingqun Qi , Jiahao Pan , Peng Li , Ruibin Yuan , Xiaowei Chi , Mengfei Li , Wenhan Luo , Wei Xue , Shanghang Zhang , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

We introduce FaceTalk, a novel generative approach designed for synthesizing high-fidelity 3D motion sequences of talking human heads from input audio signal. To capture the expressive, detailed nature of human heads, including hair, ears,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Shivangi Aneja , Justus Thies , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

This paper presents Generative Adversarial Talking Head (GATH), a novel deep generative neural network that enables fully automatic facial expression synthesis of an arbitrary portrait with continuous action unit (AU) coefficients.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Hai X. Pham , Yuting Wang , Vladimir Pavlovic

We propose a novel talking head synthesis pipeline called "DiT-Head", which is based on diffusion transformers and uses audio as a condition to drive the denoising process of a diffusion model. Our method is scalable and can generalise to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Aaron Mir , Eduardo Alonso , Esther Mondragón

Emotional Talking Face synthesis is pivotal in multimedia and signal processing, yet existing 3D methods suffer from two critical challenges: poor audio-vision emotion alignment, manifested as difficult audio emotion extraction and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Nanhan Shen , Zhilei Liu

Joint audio-video generation models have shown that unified generation yields stronger cross-modal coherence than cascaded approaches. However, existing models couple modalities throughout denoising via pervasive attention, treating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zhen Ye , Xu Tan , Aoxiong Yin , Hongzhan Lin , Guangyan Zhang , Peiwen Sun , Yiming Li , Chi-Min Chan , Wei Ye , Shikun Zhang , Wei Xue

Given an arbitrary audio clip, audio-driven 3D facial animation aims to generate lifelike lip motions and facial expressions for a 3D head. Existing methods typically rely on training their models using limited public 3D datasets that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Liying Lu , Tianke Zhang , Yunfei Liu , Xuangeng Chu , Yu Li

Recent advancements in deep learning and computer vision have led to a surge of interest in generating realistic talking heads. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art methods for talking head generation. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Shreyank N Gowda , Dheeraj Pandey , Shashank Narayana Gowda

Realistic digital avatars require expressive and dynamic hair motion; however, most existing head avatar methods assume rigid hair movement. These methods often fail to disentangle hair from the head, representing it as a simple outer shell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Berna Kabadayi , Vanessa Sklyarova , Wojciech Zielonka , Justus Thies , Gerard Pons-Moll

Talking head generation with arbitrary identities and speech audio remains a crucial problem in the realm of the virtual metaverse. Recently, diffusion models have become a popular generative technique in this field with their strong…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Xinyang Li , Gen Li , Zhihui Lin , Yichen Qian , GongXin Yao , Weinan Jia , Aowen Wang , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang

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

With the rapid development of AI-generated content (AIGC), video generation has emerged as one of its most dynamic and impactful subfields. In particular, the advancement of video generation foundation models has led to growing demand for…

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

The advent of ChatGPT has introduced innovative methods for information gathering and analysis. However, the information provided by ChatGPT is limited to text, and the visualization of this information remains constrained. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Zhichao Wang , Mengyu Dai , Keld Lundgaard

Audio-driven talking head synthesis strives to generate lifelike video portraits from provided audio. The diffusion model, recognized for its superior quality and robust generalization, has been explored for this task. However, establishing…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Fa-Ting Hong , Yunfei Liu , Yu Li , Changyin Zhou , Fei Yu , Dan Xu

Emotion recognition and generation have emerged as crucial topics in Artificial Intelligence research, playing a significant role in enhancing human-computer interaction within healthcare, customer service, and other fields. Although…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Rebecca Mobbs , Dimitrios Makris , Vasileios Argyriou

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

To bring digital avatars into people's lives, it is highly demanded to efficiently generate complete, realistic, and animatable head avatars. This task is challenging, and it is difficult for existing methods to satisfy all the requirements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Sijing Wu , Yichao Yan , Yunhao Li , Yuhao Cheng , Wenhan Zhu , Ke Gao , Xiaobo Li , Guangtao Zhai