LaughTalk: Expressive 3D Talking Head Generation with Laughter. (arXiv:2311.00994v1 [cs.CV])

Laughter is a unique expression, essential to affirmative social interactions
of humans. Although current 3D talking head generation methods produce
convincing verbal articulations, they often fail to capture the vitality and
subtleties of laughter and smiles despite their importance in social context.
In this paper, we introduce a novel task to generate 3D talking heads capable
of both articulate speech and authentic laughter. Our newly curated dataset
comprises 2D laughing videos paired with pseudo-annotated and human-validated
3D FLAME parameters and …

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