Expressive Speech-driven Facial Animation with controllable emotions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02008v2
• Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2024 12:20:15 GMT
• Title: Expressive Speech-driven Facial Animation with controllable emotions
• Authors: Yutong Chen, Junhong Zhao, Wei-Qiang Zhang
• Abstract summary: This paper presents a novel deep learning-based approach for expressive facial animation generation from speech. It can exhibit wide-spectrum facial expressions with controllable emotion type and intensity. It enables emotion-controllable facial animation, where the target expression can be continuously adjusted.
• Score: 12.201573788014622
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: It is in high demand to generate facial animation with high realism, but it remains a challenging task. Existing approaches of speech-driven facial animation can produce satisfactory mouth movement and lip synchronization, but show weakness in dramatic emotional expressions and flexibility in emotion control. This paper presents a novel deep learning-based approach for expressive facial animation generation from speech that can exhibit wide-spectrum facial expressions with controllable emotion type and intensity. We propose an emotion controller module to learn the relationship between the emotion variations (e.g., types and intensity) and the corresponding facial expression parameters. It enables emotion-controllable facial animation, where the target expression can be continuously adjusted as desired. The qualitative and quantitative evaluations show that the animation generated by our method is rich in facial emotional expressiveness while retaining accurate lip movement, outperforming other state-of-the-art methods.

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