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Visual emotion expression plays an important role in audiovisual speech communication. In this work, we propose a novel approach to rendering visual emotion expression in speech-driven talking face generation. Specifically, we design an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-23 Sefik Emre Eskimez , You Zhang , Zhiyao Duan

Generating appropriate emotions for responses is essential for dialog systems to provide human-like interaction in various application scenarios. Most previous dialog systems tried to achieve this goal by learning empathetic manners from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Zhiyuan Wen , Jiannong Cao , Jiaxing Shen , Ruosong Yang , Shuaiqi Liu , Maosong Sun

A key component of dyadic spoken interactions is the contextually relevant non-verbal gestures, such as head movements that reflect a listener's response to the interlocutor's speech. Although significant progress has been made in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Bishal Ghosh , Emma Li , Tanaya Guha

Despite progress in speech-to-video synthesis, existing methods often struggle to capture cross-individual dependencies and provide fine-grained control over reactive behaviors in dyadic settings. To address these challenges, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Dongwei Pan , Longwei Guo , Jiazhi Guan , Luying Huang , Yiding Li , Haojie Liu , Haocheng Feng , Wei He , Kaisiyuan Wang , Hang Zhou

Human face-to-face conversation is an ideal model for human-computer dialogue. One of the major features of face-to-face communication is its multiplicity of communication channels that act on multiple modalities. To realize a natural…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Katashi Nagao , Akikazu Takeuchi

Generating personalized responses is one of the major challenges in natural human-robot interaction. Current researches in this field mainly focus on generating responses consistent with the robot's pre-assigned persona, while ignoring the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Bin Li , Hanjun Deng

Current works in the generation of personalized dialogue primarily contribute to the agent presenting a consistent personality and driving a more informative response. However, we found that the generated responses from most previous models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Itsugun Cho , Dongyang Wang , Ryota Takahashi , Hiroaki Saito

Researchers have proposed to use data of human preference feedback to fine-tune text-to-image generative models. However, the scalability of human feedback collection has been limited by its reliance on manual annotation. Therefore, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Shuangquan Feng , Junhua Ma , Virginia R. de Sa

A 3D avatar typically has one of six cardinal facial expressions. To simulate realistic emotional variation, we should be able to render a facial transition between two arbitrary expressions. This study presents a new framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Anh H. Vo , Tae-Seok Kim , Hulin Jin , Soo-Mi Choi , Yong-Guk Kim

An important application of interactive machine learning is extending or amplifying the cognitive and physical capabilities of a human. To accomplish this, machines need to learn about their human users' intentions and adapt to their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Vivek Veeriah , Patrick M. Pilarski , Richard S. Sutton

The facial expression generation capability of humanoid social robots is critical for achieving natural and human-like interactions, playing a vital role in enhancing the fluidity of human-robot interactions and the accuracy of emotional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yongtong Zhu , Lei Li , Iggy Qian , WenBin Zhou , Ye Yuan , Qingdu Li , Na Liu , Jianwei Zhang

Facial expressions are an ideal means of communicating one's emotions or intentions to others. This overview will focus on human facial expression recognition as well as robotic facial expression generation. In the case of human facial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Niyati Rawal , Ruth Maria Stock-Homburg

In dyadic interactions, a broad spectrum of human facial reactions might be appropriate for responding to each human speaker behaviour. Following the successful organisation of the REACT 2023 and REACT 2024 challenges, we are proposing the…

In this paper, we propose a novel text-based talking-head video generation framework that synthesizes high-fidelity facial expressions and head motions in accordance with contextual sentiments as well as speech rhythm and pauses. To be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Lincheng Li , Suzhen Wang , Zhimeng Zhang , Yu Ding , Yixing Zheng , Xin Yu , Changjie Fan

Person-generic audio-driven face generation is a challenging task in computer vision. Previous methods have achieved remarkable progress in audio-visual synchronization, but there is still a significant gap between current results and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Xiaozhong Ji , Chuming Lin , Zhonggan Ding , Ying Tai , Junwei Zhu , Xiaobin Hu , Donghao Luo , Yanhao Ge , Chengjie Wang

This work proposes to explore a new area of dynamic speech emotion recognition. Unlike traditional methods, we assume that each audio track is associated with a sequence of emotions active at different moments in time. The study…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ilya Fedorov , Dmitry Korobchenko

Human-like multimodal reaction generation is essential for natural group interactions between humans and embodied AI. However, existing approaches are limited to single-modality or speaking-only responses in dyadic interactions, making them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Zhi-Yi Lin , Thomas Markhorst , Jouh Yeong Chew , Xucong Zhang

Most earlier researches on talking face generation have focused on the synchronization of lip motion and speech content. However, head pose and facial emotions are equally important characteristics of natural faces. While audio-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Changpeng Cai , Guinan Guo , Jiao Li , Junhao Su , Fei Shen , Chenghao He , Jing Xiao , Yuanxu Chen , Lei Dai , Feiyu Zhu

Non verbal behaviours such as gestures, facial expressions, body posture, and para-linguistic cues have been shown to complement or clarify verbal messages. Hence to improve telepresence, in form of an avatar, it is important to model these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Chaitanya Ahuja , Shugao Ma , Louis-Philippe Morency , Yaser Sheikh

In this paper, we propose a talking face generation method that takes an audio signal as input and a short target video clip as reference, and synthesizes a photo-realistic video of the target face with natural lip motions, head poses, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Chenxu Zhang , Yifan Zhao , Yifei Huang , Ming Zeng , Saifeng Ni , Madhukar Budagavi , Xiaohu Guo