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Synthesizing natural head motion to accompany speech for an embodied conversational agent is necessary for providing a rich interactive experience. Most prior works assess the quality of generated head motion by comparing them against a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-27 Trisha Mittal , Zakaria Aldeneh , Masha Fedzechkina , Anurag Ranjan , Barry-John Theobald

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

The interaction between the vestibular and ocular system has primarily been studied in controlled environments. Consequently, off-the shelf tools for categorization of gaze events (e.g. fixations, pursuits, saccade) fail when head movements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Rakshit Kothari , Zhizhuo Yang , Christopher Kanan , Reynold Bailey , Jeff Pelz , Gabriel Diaz

Given an arbitrary face image and an arbitrary speech clip, the proposed work attempts to generating the talking face video with accurate lip synchronization while maintaining smooth transition of both lip and facial movement over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Yang Song , Jingwen Zhu , Dawei Li , Xiaolong Wang , Hairong Qi

Human motion prediction is important for many virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) applications such as collision avoidance and realistic avatar generation. Existing methods have synthesised body motion only from observed past motion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Haodong Yan , Zhiming Hu , Syn Schmitt , Andreas Bulling

In this paper, we consider a novel and practical case for talking face video generation. Specifically, we focus on the scenarios involving multi-people interactions, where the talking context, such as audience or surroundings, is present.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Meidai Xuanyuan , Yuwang Wang , Honglei Guo , Qionghai Dai

Predicting human gaze in video is fundamental to advancing scene understanding and multimodal interaction. While traditional saliency maps provide spatial probability distributions and scanpaths offer ordered fixations, both abstractions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jenna Kang , Colin Groth , Tong Wu , Finley Torrens , Patsorn Sangkloy , Gordon Wetzstein , Qi Sun

Talking head generation is to synthesize a lip-synchronized talking head video by inputting an arbitrary face image and corresponding audio clips. Existing methods ignore not only the interaction and relationship of cross-modal information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Sen Chen , Zhilei Liu , Jiaxing Liu , Longbiao Wang

Audio-driven talking head generation necessitates seamless integration of audio and visual data amidst the challenges posed by diverse input portraits and intricate correlations between audio and facial motions. In response, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Ziqi Zhou , Weize Quan , Hailin Shi , Wei Li , Lili Wang , Dong-Ming Yan

The study and modeling of driver's gaze dynamics is important because, if and how the driver is monitoring the driving environment is vital for driver assistance in manual mode, for take-over requests in highly automated mode and for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Sujitha Martin , Sourabh Vora , Kevan Yuen , Mohan M. Trivedi

While accurate lip synchronization has been achieved for arbitrary-subject audio-driven talking face generation, the problem of how to efficiently drive the head pose remains. Previous methods rely on pre-estimated structural information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Hang Zhou , Yasheng Sun , Wayne Wu , Chen Change Loy , Xiaogang Wang , Ziwei Liu

Vision-based autonomous driving through imitation learning mimics the behaviors of human drivers by training on pairs of data of raw driver-view images and actions. However, there are other cues, e.g. gaze behavior, available from human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Congcong Liu , Yuying Chen , Lei Tai , Ming Liu , Bertram Shi

We present a generative adversarial learning approach to synthesize gaze behavior of a given personality. We train the model using an existing data set that comprises eye-tracking data and personality traits of 42 participants performing an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Funda Durupinar

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

We address the challenge of unsupervised mistake detection in egocentric video of skilled human activities through the analysis of gaze signals. While traditional methods rely on manually labeled mistakes, our approach does not require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Michele Mazzamuto , Antonino Furnari , Yoichi Sato , Giovanni Maria Farinella

In this paper, we present a survey of deep learning-based methods for the regression of gaze direction vector from head and eye images. We describe in detail numerous published methods with a focus on the input data, architecture of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Franko Šikić , Donik Vršnak , Sven Lončarić

This work seeks the possibility of generating the human face from voice solely based on the audio-visual data without any human-labeled annotations. To this end, we propose a multi-modal learning framework that links the inference stage and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Hyeong-Seok Choi , Changdae Park , Kyogu Lee

Unconstrained remote gaze estimation remains challenging mostly due to its vulnerability to the large variability in head-pose. Prior solutions struggle to maintain reliable accuracy in unconstrained remote gaze tracking. Among them,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Zhecan Wang , Jian Zhao , Cheng Lu , Han Huang , Fan Yang , Lianji Li , Yandong Guo

Emotion recognition,as a step toward mind reading,seeks to infer internal states from external cues.Most existing methods rely on explicit signals-such as facial expressions,speech,or gestures-that reflect only bodily responses and overlook…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Mengke Song , Yuge Xie , Qi Cui , Luming Li , Xinyu Liu , Guotao Wang , Chenglizhao Chen , Shanchen Pang

Human motion generation is a challenging task that aims to create realistic motion imitating natural human behaviour. We focus on the well-studied behaviour of priming an object/location for pick up or put down - that is, the spotting of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Masashi Hatano , Saptarshi Sinha , Jacob Chalk , Wei-Hong Li , Hideo Saito , Dima Damen