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Hauptverfasser: Liu, Shiyu, Jiang, Kui, Jiang, Junjun, Liu, Xianming, Feng, Xiaocheng, Yao, Hongxun, Tian, Qi
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Liu, Shiyu
Jiang, Kui
Jiang, Junjun
Liu, Xianming
Feng, Xiaocheng
Yao, Hongxun
Tian, Qi
author_facet Liu, Shiyu
Jiang, Kui
Jiang, Junjun
Liu, Xianming
Feng, Xiaocheng
Yao, Hongxun
Tian, Qi
contents Audio-driven talking head generation faces a fundamental trade-off between personalization and generalization, limiting its practical application. Implicit models often achieve generalization at the cost of structural incoherence, resulting in unstable head motion and inaccurate lip synchronization. While explicit methods incorporate geometric and anatomical priors such as 3D Morphable Models (3DMMs), which parameterize facial geometry, or Action Units (AUs), which code facial muscle movements--they tend to produce overly neutral expressions or suffer from limited generalization. To resolve this conflict, we present HM-Talker, an audio-driven talking head framework that synergistically integrates explicit articulatory cues with implicit prosodic features to characterize identity-specific dynamics while enabling audio-driven generalization. Its distinctive features can be summarized as: i) the Cross-Modal Mapping Module (CMMM) that extracts a comprehensive vocabulary of motion cues from audio and video, and ii) the Hybrid Motion Modeling Module (HMMM) that employs a Stochastic Feature Pairing (SFP) strategy to dynamically merge paired implicit and explicit features for motion synthesis. This design facilitates an iterative optimization of the lower face motion, alternating between identity-specific and identity-agnostic (audio-only) objectives. Extensive experiments demonstrate that HM-Talker outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both visual realism and lip-sync accuracy across diverse settings.
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spellingShingle HM-Talker: Hybrid Motion Modeling for High-Fidelity Talking Head Synthesis
Liu, Shiyu
Jiang, Kui
Jiang, Junjun
Liu, Xianming
Feng, Xiaocheng
Yao, Hongxun
Tian, Qi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Audio-driven talking head generation faces a fundamental trade-off between personalization and generalization, limiting its practical application. Implicit models often achieve generalization at the cost of structural incoherence, resulting in unstable head motion and inaccurate lip synchronization. While explicit methods incorporate geometric and anatomical priors such as 3D Morphable Models (3DMMs), which parameterize facial geometry, or Action Units (AUs), which code facial muscle movements--they tend to produce overly neutral expressions or suffer from limited generalization. To resolve this conflict, we present HM-Talker, an audio-driven talking head framework that synergistically integrates explicit articulatory cues with implicit prosodic features to characterize identity-specific dynamics while enabling audio-driven generalization. Its distinctive features can be summarized as: i) the Cross-Modal Mapping Module (CMMM) that extracts a comprehensive vocabulary of motion cues from audio and video, and ii) the Hybrid Motion Modeling Module (HMMM) that employs a Stochastic Feature Pairing (SFP) strategy to dynamically merge paired implicit and explicit features for motion synthesis. This design facilitates an iterative optimization of the lower face motion, alternating between identity-specific and identity-agnostic (audio-only) objectives. Extensive experiments demonstrate that HM-Talker outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both visual realism and lip-sync accuracy across diverse settings.
title HM-Talker: Hybrid Motion Modeling for High-Fidelity Talking Head Synthesis
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10566