arXiv Computer Vision

EmoZone-Talker: Regional Semantic Control of Audio-Driven 3DGS Talking Heads via Facial Action Units

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GaussianEmoTalker: Real-Time Emotional Talking Head Synthesis with Audio-Driven and Blendshape-Based 3D Gaussian Splatting

Audio-driven talking head synthesis has achieved impressive progress in lip synchronization and visual quality, yet generating expressive emotional avatars with controllable intensity remains challenging, especially under real-time constraints. In this paper, we present GaussianEmoTalker, an audio-driven framework for real-time emotional talking head synthesis based on 3D Gaussian Splatting.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

EmbedTalk: Talking Head Synthesis using Gaussian Embeddings

EmbedTalk introduces per‑Gaussian embeddings to drive speech‑driven facial deformations in real‑time talking head synthesis, replacing traditional tri‑plane encodings. This approach improves rendering quality, lip synchronisation, and motion consistency compared to prior 3D Gaussian Splatting methods while producing more compact models that run at 60+ FPS on a laptop GPU. The technique demonstrates competitive performance against state‑of‑the‑art generative models.

By Arpita Saggar, Jonathan C. Darling, Duygu Sarikaya, David C. Hogg
arXiv Machine Learning
5d ago

Seeing Speech: Learning Visible Articulatory Dynamics for Speech-Driven 3D Facial Animation

The paper introduces a new framework for speech‑driven 3D facial animation that explicitly models visible articulatory dynamics. It uses a Speech‑Articulatory Memory (SAM) to link speech to three directional articulatory motions—spreading, opening, and protrusion—under phonetic context, and a Topology‑aware Articulatory Composition (TAC) to integrate these motions into surface‑consistent facial motion. Experiments on VOCASET and TFHP demonstrate state‑of‑the‑art reconstruction quality and improved lip articulation metrics, with a user study confirming better lip sync and realism.

By Hyung Kyu Kim, Byungchan Hwang, Hak Gu Kim