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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 1

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
Oct 1

MegaAvatar: Controllable Talking Avatar Generation

arXiv:2609.39273v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This report presents \textbf{MegaAvatar}, a controllable talking avatar generation framework built on top of the Wan2.2-TI2V-5B model. Compared with pr...

By Junyao Gao, Sibo Liu, Weidong Zhang, Cairong Zhao, Jun Zhang
arXiv AI
Oct 19

OMEGA-Avatar: One-shot Modeling of 360{\deg} Gaussian Avatars

OMEGA-Avatar is a feed‑forward framework that creates a 360° complete, animatable 3D Gaussian head from a single image. It introduces a semantic‑aware mesh deformation module to improve hair modeling while preserving topology, and a multi‑view feature splatting module that builds a shared canonical UV representation for consistent, high‑frequency detail across all viewpoints. Experiments show it outperforms existing baselines in full‑head completeness and identity preservation.

By Zehao Xia, Yiqun Wang, Zhengda Lu, Kai Liu, Jun Xiao, Peter Wonka