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SubtleTalk: Generating Controllable Weakly-correlated Facial Dynamics for 3D Talking Heads via Residual Flow Matching
SubtleTalk tackles a long-standing problem in audio-driven 3D talking heads: believable motion above the mouth. The system adds controllable eyebrow, blink, head, and affect cues on top of lip sync …
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arXiv cs.GR
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1 month, 2 weeks ago
ETHead: Generating Expressive 3D Facial Animation and Head Movement from Speech
ETHead is a new speech-to-animation method aimed at making 3D talking heads look less robotic and more emotionally alive. It uses self-distillation from large-scale 2D talking videos to train a …
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arXiv cs.GR
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1 month, 3 weeks ago
Learn2Chat: Rethinking Dyadic Talking Heads via Interaction-Modulated Monologic Priors
Learn2Chat tackles dyadic talking-head animation by separating speech-driven motion from interaction-driven behavior. The system reuses pretrained monologic motion priors, then modulates them with learned interaction latents to produce synchronized two-person …
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arXiv cs.GR
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2 months, 1 week ago