Achieving high synchronization in the synthesis of realistic speech-driven talking head
videos presents a significant challenge. Traditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) …

Virtual Humans are becoming more and more popular and used in many applications such
as the entertainment industry (in both film and games) and medical applications. This …

A real-time speech-driven synthetic talking face provides an effective multimodal
communication interface in distributed collaboration environments. Nonverbal gestures such …

Intelligent virtual characters has been subject to exponential growth in the last decades and
they are utilized in many application areas such as education, training, human-computer …

Visual and auditory modalities are two of the most commonly used media in interactions
between humans. The authors describe a system to continuously monitor the user's voice …

This paper presents an initial implementation and evaluation of a system that synthesizes
visual speech directly from the acoustic waveform. An artifical neural network (ANN) was …

This thesis presents work in the area of computer animated talking heads. A system for
multimodal speech synthesis has been developed, capable of generating audiovisual …

This invention is directed toward a system and method for lip Synchronization. More
specifically, this invention is directed towards a system and method for generating a …

The audio/visual mapping problem of speech-driven facial animation has intrigued
researchers for years. Recent research efforts have demonstrated that hidden Markov model …

Audio-driven talking head animation is a challenging research topic with many real-world
applications. Recent works have focused on creating photo-realistic 2D animation, while …