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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

The area of portrait image animation, propelled by audio input, has witnessed notable progress in the generation of lifelike and dynamic portraits. Conventional methods are limited to utilizing either audios or facial key points to drive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Zhiyuan Chen , Jiajiong Cao , Zhiquan Chen , Yuming Li , Chenguang Ma

We propose an audio-driven talking-head method to generate photo-realistic talking-head videos from a single reference image. In this work, we tackle two key challenges: (i) producing natural head motions that match speech prosody, and (ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Suzhen Wang , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Changjie Fan , Xin Yu

This work proposes a novel method to generate realistic talking head videos using audio and visual streams. We animate a source image by transferring head motion from a driving video using a dense motion field generated using learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Madhav Agarwal , Rudrabha Mukhopadhyay , Vinay Namboodiri , C V Jawahar

Significant progress has been made in audio-driven human animation, while most existing methods focus mainly on facial movements, limiting their ability to create full-body animations with natural synchronization and fluidity. They also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Qijun Gan , Ruizi Yang , Jianke Zhu , Shaofei Xue , Steven Hoi

To the best of our knowledge, we first present a live system that generates personalized photorealistic talking-head animation only driven by audio signals at over 30 fps. Our system contains three stages. The first stage is a deep neural…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Yuanxun Lu , Jinxiang Chai , Xun Cao

Whenever we speak, our voice is accompanied by facial movements and expressions. Several recent works have shown the synthesis of highly photo-realistic videos of talking faces, but they either require a source video to drive the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Prateek Manocha , Prithwijit Guha

In this work, we tackle the challenge of enhancing the realism and expressiveness in talking head video generation by focusing on the dynamic and nuanced relationship between audio cues and facial movements. We identify the limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Linrui Tian , Qi Wang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

One-shot 3D talking portrait generation aims to reconstruct a 3D avatar from an unseen image, and then animate it with a reference video or audio to generate a talking portrait video. The existing methods fail to simultaneously achieve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zhenhui Ye , Tianyun Zhong , Yi Ren , Jiaqi Yang , Weichuang Li , Jiawei Huang , Ziyue Jiang , Jinzheng He , Rongjie Huang , Jinglin Liu , Chen Zhang , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma , Zhou Zhao

The challenge of talking face generation from speech lies in aligning two different modal information, audio and video, such that the mouth region corresponds to input audio. Previous methods either exploit audio-visual representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Se Jin Park , Minsu Kim , Joanna Hong , Jeongsoo Choi , Yong Man Ro

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

Audio-driven facial animation is essential for immersive digital interaction, yet existing frameworks fail to reconcile real-time streaming with high-fidelity personalization. Current methods often rely on latency-inducing audio look-ahead,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xuangeng Chu , Yu Han , Wei Mao , Shih-En Wei

Existing methodologies for animating portrait images face significant challenges, particularly in handling non-frontal perspectives, rendering dynamic objects around the portrait, and generating immersive, realistic backgrounds. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Jiahao Cui , Hui Li , Yun Zhan , Hanlin Shang , Kaihui Cheng , Yuqi Ma , Shan Mu , Hang Zhou , Jingdong Wang , Siyu Zhu

Real-world talking faces often accompany with natural head movement. However, most existing talking face video generation methods only consider facial animation with fixed head pose. In this paper, we address this problem by proposing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Ran Yi , Zipeng Ye , Juyong Zhang , Hujun Bao , Yong-Jin Liu

We propose X-Portrait, an innovative conditional diffusion model tailored for generating expressive and temporally coherent portrait animation. Specifically, given a single portrait as appearance reference, we aim to animate it with motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 You Xie , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , Chao Wang , Yichun Shi , Linjie Luo

Text-to-motion generation is driven by learning motion representations for semantic alignment with language. Existing methods rely on either continuous or discrete motion representations. However, continuous representations entangle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Dawei Guan , Di Yang , Chengjie Jin , Jiangtao Wang

Current diffusion-based acceleration methods for long-portrait animation struggle to ensure identity (ID) consistency. This paper presents FlashPortrait, an end-to-end video diffusion transformer capable of synthesizing ID-preserving,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Shuyuan Tu , Yueming Pan , Yinming Huang , Xintong Han , Zhen Xing , Qi Dai , Kai Qiu , Chong Luo , Zuxuan Wu

The field of portrait image animation, driven by speech audio input, has experienced significant advancements in the generation of realistic and dynamic portraits. This research delves into the complexities of synchronizing facial movements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mingwang Xu , Hui Li , Qingkun Su , Hanlin Shang , Liwei Zhang , Ce Liu , Jingdong Wang , Yao Yao , Siyu Zhu

Recent years have witnessed great progress in creating vivid audio-driven portraits from monocular videos. However, how to seamlessly adapt the created video avatars to other scenarios with different backgrounds and lighting conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Haonan Qiu , Zhaoxi Chen , Yuming Jiang , Hang Zhou , Xiangyu Fan , Lei Yang , Wayne Wu , Ziwei Liu

Head avatars animated by visual signals have gained popularity, particularly in cross-driving synthesis where the driver differs from the animated character, a challenging but highly practical approach. The recently presented MegaPortraits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Nikita Drobyshev , Antoni Bigata Casademunt , Konstantinos Vougioukas , Zoe Landgraf , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic