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Audio2Face-3D: Audio-driven Realistic Facial Animation For Digital Avatars

Published: August 22, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2508.16401v1

By: NVIDIA , : , Chaeyeon Chung and more

Potential Business Impact:

Makes cartoon faces move and talk like real people.

Business Areas:
3D Technology Hardware, Software

Audio-driven facial animation presents an effective solution for animating digital avatars. In this paper, we detail the technical aspects of NVIDIA Audio2Face-3D, including data acquisition, network architecture, retargeting methodology, evaluation metrics, and use cases. Audio2Face-3D system enables real-time interaction between human users and interactive avatars, facilitating facial animation authoring for game characters. To assist digital avatar creators and game developers in generating realistic facial animations, we have open-sourced Audio2Face-3D networks, SDK, training framework, and example dataset.

Page Count
33 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Graphics