EAMM: One-Shot Emotional Talking Face via Audio-Based
Emotion-Aware Motion Model


Xinya Ji
Hang Zhou
Kaisiyuan Wang
Qianyi Wu
Wayne Wu
Feng Xu
Xun Cao
Nanjing University
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The University of Sydney
Monash University
SenseTime Research
Tsinghua University
 
SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings 2022
[Paper]
[Supp]
[GitHub]
Given a single portrait image, we can synthesize emotional talking faces, where mouth movements match the input audio and facial emotion dynamics follow the emotion source video.

Abstract

Although significant progress has been made to audio-driven talking face generation, existing methods either neglect facial emotion or cannot be applied to arbitrary subjects. In this paper, we propose the Emotion-Aware Motion Model (EAMM) to generate oneshot emotional talking faces by involving an emotion source video. Specifically, we first propose an Audio2Facial-Dynamics module, which renders talking faces from audio-driven unsupervised zeroand first-order key-points motion. Then through exploring the motion model’s properties, we further propose an Implicit Emotion Displacement Learner to represent emotion-related facial dynamics as linearly additive displacements to the previously acquired motion representations. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that by incorporating the results from both modules, our method can generate satisfactory talking face results on arbitrary subjects with realistic emotion patterns.


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Code

Overview of our Emotion-Aware Motion Model.

 [GitHub]


Paper

EAMM: One-Shot Emotional Talking Face via Audio-Based Emotion-Aware Motion Model.
In SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings, 2022.
(hosted on ArXiv)


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Acknowledgements

TThis work was supported by the NSFC (No.62025108, 62021002, 61727808), the NSFJS (BK20192003), the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (JQ19015), the National Key R&D Program of China 2018YFA0704000. This work was supported by the Institute for Brain and Cognitive Science, Tsinghua University (THUIBCS) and Beijing Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Intelligence, Beijing Municipal Education Commission (BLBCI).