3 papers
cs.CV2026
AudioFace: Language-Assisted Speech-Driven Facial Animation with Multimodal Language Models
Kai Zheng, Zejian Kang, Rui Mao +4
Speech-driven facial animation requires accurate correspondence between acoustic signals and facial motion, especially for articulation-related mouth movements. However, directly m…
cs.CV2026
SuperFace: Preference-Aligned Facial Expression Estimation Beyond Pseudo Supervision
Zejian Kang, Xuanyang Xu, Wentao Yang +6
Accurate facial estimation is crucial for realistic digital human animation, and ARKit blendshape coefficients offer an interpretable representation by mapping facial motions to se…
cs.CV2026
SemanticFace: Semantic Facial Action Estimation via Semantic Distillation in Interpretable Space
Zejian Kang, Kai Zheng, Yuanchen Fei +3
Facial action estimation from a single image is often formulated as predicting or fitting parameters in compact expression spaces, which lack explicit semantic interpretability. Ho…