Preprint
Aug 2026
ETHead: Generating Expressive 3D Facial Animation and Head Movement from Speech
A self-distillation framework that leverages large-scale 2D talking videos to pre-train a specialized speech encoder that aligns speech representations with expressive visual dynamics, allowing the encoder to extract features highly correlated with facial and head motions directly from audio.
Jiu-Cheng Xie, Ji-Wang Zheng, Yongkang Xia et al.
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