This paper introduces a Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAEs) approach that generates realistic, controllable emotional facial expressions for virtual humans. Trained on a small dataset of 7,680 samples covering six basic emotions at low and high intensity, the model learns latent representations that preserve key expressive characteristics across intensity levels. The method enables animators to produce emotionally expressive virtual characters without actor performances or manual artistic effort.
arXiv:2606. 28769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emotional body motion expressions are an essential element of non-verbal communication.
arXiv:2608. 15110v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emotional 3D talking head generation aims to synthesize expressive facial animations with accurate lip synchronization.
Emotional 3D talking head generation aims to synthesize expressive facial animations with accurate lip synchronization. However, existing methods often rely on discrete emotion categories, which fail...
arXiv:2604. 15280v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding emotions is a fundamental ability for intelligent systems to be able to interact with humans.
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:2601. 00664v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Talking head generation creates lifelike avatars from static portraits for virtual communication and content creation.
arXiv:2608. 19900v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For full-body avatars, modeling surface dynamics is crucial for overcoming the uncanny valley and achieving perceptual realism.
arXiv:2607. 22830v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In visual storytelling, human performances are central to creative intent and narrative meaning.
For full-body avatars, modeling surface dynamics is crucial for overcoming the uncanny valley and achieving perceptual realism. Person-agnostic methods recover static 3D avatars from monocular images, videos, or text prompts, but their skeleton-driven animations lack realistic surface dynamics such as clothing wrinkles.
arXiv:2606. 14922v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For the last couple of years, the field of speech synthesis has improved dramatically thanks to deep learning.
arXiv:2608.23279v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-driven human motion synthesis has made substantial development with two core modules of motion representation and generative architecture. For rep...
arXiv:2607. 16287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have enabled photorealistic novel-view synthesis of 3D scenes and, in the facial domain, have been extended to reconstruct and animate 3D face models from a small number of images.