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  1. Emo-LiveSync: Real-Time Universal Lip Synchronization with Explicit Emotion Control

    Nov 6, 2026Sangjoon Yu, Seungeun Lee, JoonHeyok Shin +1Lip SynchronizationAudio-Driven Facial Animation

    Klleon AI Research, Seoul, South Korea · Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea

  2. Blendshape Generation for Models with Disconnected Parts: Adding ARKit/MediaPipe Blendshapes to Anime-Style Character Models

    Oct 26, 2026Pramook Khungurn3D Mesh Deformation3D Asset Generation

    pixiv Inc., Tokyo, Japan

  3. Stable Signer V3: 4D Deformable Primitive Splatting Is All You Need for Sign Language Production

    Oct 18, 2026Sen Fang, Liwei Che, Dimitris N. MetaxasHuman Avatar Animation3D Avatar Generation

    Rutgers University

  4. JAVIS: Joint Audio-Visual Interaction and Streaming for Real-Time Conversational Agents

    Oct 15, 2026Junseok Ahn, Jaehyun Park, Jeongsoo Choi +2Audio-Video GenerationConversational Agents

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea · Chung-Ang University, South Korea

  5. Full-Duplex Interaction with Speech, Expressions and Gestures

    Oct 15, 2026Siyin Wang, Wenyi Yu, Terumi Chiba +5Facial Expression SynthesisMultimodal Generation

    Tsinghua University · ByteDance

  6. No Distillation Needed: Single-Pass Real-Time Talking Heads via Acausal Noise Shaping

    Oct 8, 2026Yu Han, Dejan Markovic, Alexander Richard +4Talking Head GenerationAudio-Driven Facial Animation

    Meta Reality Labs

  7. emg2face: Expressive Facial Animation with High-Density Surface EMG

    Oct 7, 2026Ganidhu Abey, Wendy Greening, Ashika Kamboj +5Facial Expression SynthesisHuman Avatar Animation

    University of British Columbia · Google · Imperial College London +1

  8. ResDiffFRG: Residual Diffusion for Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation

    Sep 27, 2026Shizhe Liu, Jiayan Gu, Xiangyu Kong +1Conditional Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Models

    Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom · School of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, Hefei University, Hefei, China · Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

  9. REALM: A Coarse-to-Fine Generative Framework for Embodied Reactive Listening

    Sep 27, 2026Peizhen Li, Longbing Cao, Yang ZhangAudio-Driven Facial AnimationFacial Expression Synthesis

    Macquarie University, Australia · University of North Texas, USA

  10. TopoRig: Topology-Agnostic Facial Rigging via Multi-Source Supervision

    Sep 14, 2026Andrew Fleet, Soroush Mehraban, Vida Adeli +2Facial Expression Synthesis

    1Queen’s University · 2Pickford AI · University of Toronto +1

  11. ECHO: Dyadic 3D Facial Motion Generation with Asymmetric Deterministic Articulation and Stochastic Reaction

    Aug 29, 2026Zhuoqiang Cai, Yujie Sun, Chaoyue Niu +4Human Avatar AnimationAudio-Driven Facial Animation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Alibaba Group, Hangzhou, China

  12. CETalk: Continuous Valence-Arousal Control for Audio-Driven 3D Talking Head Generation

    Aug 15, 2026Peng Jia, Li Dai, Zhen Xiao +2Talking Head GenerationAudio-Driven Facial Animation

    Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, Anhui, China

  13. Automated Synthesis of Facial Mechanisms for Conversational Animatronic Robots

    Jul 13, 2026Zongzheng Zhang, Zi Lin, Jiawen Yang +6RoboticsAudio-Driven Facial Animation

    Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) · Beihang University +1

  14. See the Emotion: A Facial Emoji Proxy Modeling for EEG Emotion Recognition

    Jul 3, 2026Jingjing Hu, Guo Dan, Haofan Cheng +4Facial Expression SynthesisMultimodal Model Interpretability

    Hefei University of Technology · Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center · The Key Laboratory of Knowledge Engineering with Big Data, Hefei University of Technology +3

  15. EmoteGPT: 3D Human Facial Expressions from Natural Language Descriptions

    Jul 2, 2026Haoran Wang, Mohit Mendiratta, Christian Theobalt +1Text-to-3D GenerationFacial Expression Synthesis

    Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus · CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

  16. GaussianEmoTalker: Real-Time Emotional Talking Head Synthesis with Audio-Driven and Blendshape-Based 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Jul 1, 2026Haijie Yang, Zhenyu Zhang, Yixuan Dong +23D Gaussian SplattingTalking Head Generation

    PCA Lab, Key Lab of Intelligent Perception and Systems for High-Dimensional Information of Ministry of Education, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China · School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Suzhou, 215000, China · Tsientang Institute for Advanced Study, Hangzhou, 310000, China

  17. Customizing Video Portraits via Identity-ActionDecoupling

    Jun 21, 2026Junxiong Lin, Haoran Wang, Xinji Mai +4Facial Expression SynthesisT2V Generation

    College of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing, Fudan University · The University of Hong Kong · College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University

  18. EmoZone-Talker: Regional Semantic Control of Audio-Driven 3DGS Talking Heads via Facial Action Units

    Jun 14, 2026Tingting Chen, Shaojun Wang, Huaye Zhang +23D Gaussian SplattingAudio-Driven Facial Animation

    China University of Petroleum (East China)

  19. MEGMAG: Micro-Expression Generation via MAGnification

    Jun 11, 2026Sliman Jammal, Andrei SharfFacial Expression Synthesis

    Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

  20. TokTalk: Expressive Real-time Facial Animation from Audio-LLM Tokens

    May 29, 2026Qingcheng Zhao, Yifang Pan, Karan SinghTalking Head GenerationHuman Avatar Animation

    University of Toronto · Toronto, Canada

  21. SEDTalker: Emotion-Aware 3D Facial Animation Using Frame-Level Speech Emotion Diarization

    Apr 14, 2026Farzaneh Jafari, Stefano Berretti, Anup BasuAudio-Driven Facial AnimationTalking Head Generation

    University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada · University of Florence, Florence, Italy

  22. EmoTaG: Emotion-Aware Talking Head Synthesis on Gaussian Splatting with Few-Shot Personalization

    Mar 22, 2026Haolan Xu, Keli Cheng, Lei Wang +2Talking Head GenerationAudio-Driven Facial Animation

    Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 · Qualcomm Technologies Inc., San Diego, CA 92121 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

  23. A Novel FACS-Aligned Anatomical Text Description Paradigm for Fine-Grained Facial Behavior Synthesis

    Mar 19, 2026Jiahe Wang, Cong Liang, Xuandong Huang +5Facial Expression SynthesisT2I Generation

    University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

  24. Facial Expression Generation Aligned with Human Preference for Natural Dyadic Interaction

    Mar 7, 2026Xu Chen, Rui Gao, Xinjie Zhang +5Facial Expression Synthesis

  25. Text-Driven Emotionally Continuous Talking Face Generation

    Mar 6, 2026Hao Yang, Yanyan Zhao, Tian Zheng +7Facial Expression SynthesisTalking Head Generation

    Harbin Institute of Technology · SERES

  26. Improving Generative Adversarial Network Generalization for Facial Expression Synthesis

    Mar 4, 2026Arbish Akram, Nazar Khan, Arif MahmoodFacial Expression SynthesisGenerative Adversarial Networks

    Department of Computer Science, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan · Department of Computer Science, Information Technology University, Lahore, Pakistan

  27. Motion Manipulation via Unsupervised Keypoint Positioning in Face Animation

    Mar 4, 2026Hong Li, Boyu Liu, Xuhui Liu +1Facial Expression SynthesisMotion Representation Learning

    BUAA · KAUST

  28. MIBURI: Towards Expressive Interactive Gesture Synthesis

    Mar 3, 2026M. Hamza Mughal, Rishabh Dabral, Vera Demberg +1Facial Expression SynthesisEmbodied Conversational Agents

    Max Planck Institute for Informatics, SIC · Saarland University

  29. LiftAvatar: Kinematic-Space Completion for Expression-Controlled 3D Gaussian Avatar Animation

    Mar 2, 2026Hualiang Wei, Shunran Jia, Jialun Liu +1Facial Expression SynthesisHuman Avatar Animation

    College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, No. 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun, 130012, Jilin, China · Impressed Inc DBA SocialBook, 950 Tower Ln, Foster City, 94404, California, USA · Institute of Artificial Intelligence of China Telecom, Zhonghui Building, Dongcheng District, 100007, Beijing, China

  30. UniTAF: A Modular Framework for Joint Text-to-Speech and Audio-to-Face Modeling

    Feb 17, 2026Qiangong Zhou, Nagasaka TomohiroUnified Multimodal ModelsAudio-Video Generation

    Sumeru AI Technology Co., Ltd.