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Over the last few decades, many aspects of human life have been enhanced with virtual domains, from the advent of digital assistants such as Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri to the latest metaverse efforts of the rebranded Meta. These trends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Siddarth Ravichandran , Ondřej Texler , Dimitar Dinev , Hyun Jae Kang

Synthesizing high-fidelity and emotion-controllable talking video portraits, with audio-lip sync, vivid expressions, realistic head poses, and eye blinks, has been an important and challenging task in recent years. Most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yibo Xia , Lizhen Wang , Xiang Deng , Xiaoyan Luo , Yunhong Wang , Yebin Liu

Generating speech-driven 3D talking heads presents numerous challenges; among those is dealing with varying mesh topologies where no point-wise correspondence exists across the meshes the model can animate. While previous literature works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Federico Nocentini , Thomas Besnier , Claudio Ferrari , Sylvain Arguillere , Mohamed Daoudi , Stefano Berretti

Due to the increasing demand in films and games, synthesizing 3D avatar animation has attracted much attention recently. In this work, we present a production-ready text/speech-driven full-body animation synthesis system. Given the text and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Wenlin Zhuang , Jinwei Qi , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Ping Tan

Long-duration talking video synthesis faces enduring challenges in achieving high video quality, portrait consistency, temporal coherence, and computational efficiency. As video length increases, issues such as visual degradation, portrait…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Haojie Zhang , Zhihao Liang , Ruibo Fu , Bingyan Liu , Zhengqi Wen , Xuefei Liu , Jianhua Tao , Yaling Liang

Achieving high synchronization in the synthesis of realistic, speech-driven talking head videos presents a significant challenge. A lifelike talking head requires synchronized coordination of subject identity, lip movements, facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ziqiao Peng , Wentao Hu , Junyuan Ma , Xiangyu Zhu , Xiaomei Zhang , Hao Zhao , Hui Tian , Jun He , Hongyan Liu , Zhaoxin Fan

Creating realistic animations of human faces with computer graphic models is still a challenging task. It is often solved either with tedious manual work or motion capture based techniques that require specialised and costly hardware.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Wolfgang Paier , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

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

Recently audio-driven talking face video generation has attracted considerable attention. However, very few researches address the issue of emotional editing of these talking face videos with continuously controllable expressions, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zhiyao Sun , Yu-Hui Wen , Tian Lv , Yanan Sun , Ziyang Zhang , Yaoyuan Wang , Yong-Jin Liu

Talking head synthesis, also known as speech-to-lip synthesis, reconstructs the facial motions that align with the given audio tracks. The synthesized videos are evaluated on mainly two aspects, lip-speech synchronization and image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Xulin Fan , Heting Gao , Ziyi Chen , Peng Chang , Mei Han , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

The intrinsic link between facial motion and speech is often overlooked in generative modeling, where talking head synthesis and text-to-speech (TTS) are typically addressed as separate tasks. This paper introduces JAM-Flow, a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Mingi Kwon , Joonghyuk Shin , Jaeseok Jung , Jaesik Park , Youngjung Uh

Audio-driven talking face generation, which aims to synthesize talking faces with realistic facial animations (including accurate lip movements, vivid facial expression details and natural head poses) corresponding to the audio, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Rongliang Wu , Yingchen Yu , Fangneng Zhan , Jiahui Zhang , Xiaoqin Zhang , Shijian Lu

Speech-driven 3D face animation aims to generate realistic facial expressions that match the speech content and emotion. However, existing methods often neglect emotional facial expressions or fail to disentangle them from speech content.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Ziqiao Peng , Haoyu Wu , Zhenbo Song , Hao Xu , Xiangyu Zhu , Jun He , Hongyan Liu , Zhaoxin Fan

Speech-driven 3D facial animation seeks to produce lifelike facial expressions that are synchronized with the speech content and its emotional nuances, finding applications in various multimedia fields. However, previous methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yixuan Zhang , Qing Chang , Yuxi Wang , Guang Chen , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Junran Peng

Talking Head Generation aims at synthesizing natural-looking talking videos from speech and a single portrait image. Previous 3D talking head generation methods have relied on domain-specific heuristics such as warping-based facial motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Tong Shi , Melonie de Almeida , Daniela Ivanova , Nicolas Pugeault , Paul Henderson

Combining face swapping with lip synchronization technology offers a cost-effective solution for customized talking face generation. However, directly cascading existing models together tends to introduce significant interference between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Zeren Zhang , Haibo Qin , Jiayu Huang , Yixin Li , Hui Lin , Yitao Duan , Jinwen Ma

Generating synchronized and natural lip movement with speech is one of the most important tasks in creating realistic virtual characters. In this paper, we present a combined deep neural network of one-dimensional convolutions and LSTM to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Xiaohong Li , Xiang Wang , Kai Wang , Shiguo Lian

Audio-driven talking head animation is a challenging research topic with many real-world applications. Recent works have focused on creating photo-realistic 2D animation, while learning different talking or singing styles remains an open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Trong-Thang Pham , Nhat Le , Tuong Do , Hung Nguyen , Erman Tjiputra , Quang D. Tran , Anh Nguyen

Speech-driven 3D face animation poses significant challenges due to the intricacy and variability inherent in human facial movements. This paper emphasizes the importance of considering both the composite and regional natures of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Haozhe Wu , Songtao Zhou , Jia Jia , Junliang Xing , Qi Wen , Xiang Wen

The synthesis of 3D facial animations from speech has garnered considerable attention. Due to the scarcity of high-quality 4D facial data and well-annotated abundant multi-modality labels, previous methods often suffer from limited realism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Qingcheng Zhao , Pengyu Long , Qixuan Zhang , Dafei Qin , Han Liang , Longwen Zhang , Yingliang Zhang , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu