Abstract
We study the problem of talking head animation from a single image. Most of the existing methods focus on generating talking heads for human. However, little attention has been paid to the creation of talking head anime. In this paper, our goal is to synthesize vivid talking heads from a single anime image. To this end, we propose cascade pose transform network, termed CPTNet, that consists of a face pose transform network and a head pose transform network. Specifically, we introduce a mask generator to animate facial expression (e.g., close eyes and open mouth) and a grid generator for head movement animation, followed by a fusion module to generate talking heads. In order to handle large motion and obtain more accurate results, we design a pose vector decomposition and cascaded refinement strategy. In addition, we create an anime talking head dataset, that includes various anime characters and poses, to train our model. Extensive experiments on our dataset demonstrate that our model outperforms other methods, generating more accurate and vivid talking heads from a single anime image.
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This work was funded by the DigiX Joint Innovation Center of Huawei-HUST.
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Zhang, J., Xian, K., Liu, C., Chen, Y., Cao, Z., Zhong, W. (2021). CPTNet: Cascade Pose Transform Network for Single Image Talking Head Animation. In: Ishikawa, H., Liu, CL., Pajdla, T., Shi, J. (eds) Computer Vision – ACCV 2020. ACCV 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12625. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69538-5_30
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