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harlanhong/awesome-talking-head-generation

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# Awesome Talking Head Generation [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) ![Last Updated](https://img.shields.io/badge/Last%20Updated-April%202026-blue)

A curated list of papers and resources for **Talking Head Generation**, including face animation, audio-driven synthesis, portrait animation, and related tasks.

> Contributions welcome! Open an issue, pull request, or contact `[email protected]`. Discord: `Fa-Ting Hong#6563`

> 🔍 **I'm actively looking for remote full-time positions and full-time postdoc opportunities** in talking head generation, generative models, or related areas. If you're interested, feel free to reach out at `[email protected]`.

:fire: **New**: [ACTalker](https://harlanhong.github.io/publications/actalker/index.html) — portrait video generation driven by audio and expression simultaneously. `ICCV 2025`

## Table of Contents

- [Datasets](#datasets)
- [Survey](#survey)
- [Image-driven](#image-driven)
- [Audio-driven](#audio-driven)
- [Nerf & 3D](#nerf--3d)

## Related Groups

- [MMLab@NTU](https://www.mmlab-ntu.com)
- [Alibaba TongYi XR](https://github.com/HumanAIGC)
- [Hedra](https://hedra.com)

## Datasets

0. VoxCeleb1 [[`Download link`](https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/voxceleb/vox1.html)].
1. VoxCeleb2 [[`Download link`](https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/voxceleb/vox2.html)].
2. Faceforensics++ [[`Download link`](https://github.com/ondyari/FaceForensics)].
3. CelebV [[`Download link`](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jQ6d76T5GQuvQH4dq8_Wq1T0cxvN0_xp/view)].
4. TalkingHead-1KH [[`Download link`](https://github.com/tcwang0509/TalkingHead-1KH)].
5. LRW (Lip Reading in the Wild) [[`Download link`](https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/lip_reading/lrw1.html)].
6. MEAD [[`Download link`](https://github.com/uniBruce/Mead)].
7. CelebV-HQ [[`Download link`](https://github.com/CelebV-HQ/CelebV-HQ)].
8. CHDTF [[`Download link`](https://medialab.sjtu.edu.cn/post/chdtf/)].
9. MultiTalk [[`Download link`](https://github.com/postech-ami/MultiTalk/tree/main/MultiTalk_dataset)].
10. VFHQ [[`Download link`](https://github.com/anjieyang/VFHQ-downloader)].
11. Hallo3 [[`Download link`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/fudan-generative-ai/hallo3_training_data)].
12. AVSpeech [[`Download link`](https://looking-to-listen.github.io/avspeech/)].

---

## Survey

| Year | Paper | Venue | Links |
|------|-------|-------|-------|
| 2026 | [Talking-Head Generation in Practice: A Longitudinal Analysis 2021–2025](https://openreview.net/forum?id=ns3TgZYQTZ) | OpenReview | |
| 2025 | [Advancing Talking Head Generation: A Comprehensive Survey of Multi-Modal Methodologies, Datasets, Evaluation Metrics, and Loss Functions](https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02900) | arXiv | |
| 2025 | [Advancements in Talking Head Generation: A Comprehensive Review of Techniques, Metrics, and Challenges](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00371-025-04232-w) | The Visual Computer | |
| 2024 | [A Survey of Talking Head Synthesis: Portrait Generation, Driving Mechanisms, and Editing](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3785656) | ACM CSUR | |
| 2024 | [A Comprehensive Taxonomy and Analysis of Talking Head Synthesis](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10553) | arXiv | |
| 2024 | [Audio-Driven Facial Animation with Deep Learning: A Survey](https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/15/11/675) | MDPI Information | |
| 2024 | [A Comparative Study of Perceptual Quality Metrics for Audio-driven Talking Head Videos](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06421) | arXiv | [Code](https://github.com/zwx8981/ADTH-QA) |
| 2023 | [From Pixels to Portraits: A Comprehensive Survey of Talking Head Generation Techniques and Applications](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16041) | arXiv | |
| 2023 | [Talking Human Face Generation: A Survey](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417423001793) | Expert Systems with Applications | |
| 2022 | [Human-Computer Interaction Sy

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53/10053

Maintenance: 45%; How recently the default branch was pushed to
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Community: 50%; Contributor breadth and bus factor
Issue backlog: 100%; Open issues measured against the size of the audience
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harlanhong/awesome-talking-head-generation

53No licence

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Stars: 1,926
Forks: 138
Watchers: 90
Open issues: 3
Contributors: 14

Star history, last 90 days— over 5 snapshots

2026-07-24 · 1,9262026-08-06 · 1,926

Star history, last 90 days
Date	Stars
2026-07-24	1926
2026-07-25	1926
2026-07-28	1926
2026-07-30	1926
2026-08-06	1926

Today

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From the README

# Awesome Talking Head Generation [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) ![Last Updated](https://img.shields.io/badge/Last%20Updated-April%202026-blue)

A curated list of papers and resources for **Talking Head Generation**, including face animation, audio-driven synthesis, portrait animation, and related tasks.

> Contributions welcome! Open an issue, pull request, or contact `[email protected]`. Discord: `Fa-Ting Hong#6563`

> 🔍 **I'm actively looking for remote full-time positions and full-time postdoc opportunities** in talking head generation, generative models, or related areas. If you're interested, feel free to reach out at `[email protected]`.

:fire: **New**: [ACTalker](https://harlanhong.github.io/publications/actalker/index.html) — portrait video generation driven by audio and expression simultaneously. `ICCV 2025`

## Table of Contents

- [Datasets](#datasets)
- [Survey](#survey)
- [Image-driven](#image-driven)
- [Audio-driven](#audio-driven)
- [Nerf & 3D](#nerf--3d)

## Related Groups

- [MMLab@NTU](https://www.mmlab-ntu.com)
- [Alibaba TongYi XR](https://github.com/HumanAIGC)
- [Hedra](https://hedra.com)

## Datasets

0. VoxCeleb1 [[`Download link`](https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/voxceleb/vox1.html)].
1. VoxCeleb2 [[`Download link`](https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/voxceleb/vox2.html)].
2. Faceforensics++ [[`Download link`](https://github.com/ondyari/FaceForensics)].
3. CelebV [[`Download link`](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jQ6d76T5GQuvQH4dq8_Wq1T0cxvN0_xp/view)].
4. TalkingHead-1KH [[`Download link`](https://github.com/tcwang0509/TalkingHead-1KH)].
5. LRW (Lip Reading in the Wild) [[`Download link`](https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/lip_reading/lrw1.html)].
6. MEAD [[`Download link`](https://github.com/uniBruce/Mead)].
7. CelebV-HQ [[`Download link`](https://github.com/CelebV-HQ/CelebV-HQ)].
8. CHDTF [[`Download link`](https://medialab.sjtu.edu.cn/post/chdtf/)].
9. MultiTalk [[`Download link`](https://github.com/postech-ami/MultiTalk/tree/main/MultiTalk_dataset)].
10. VFHQ [[`Download link`](https://github.com/anjieyang/VFHQ-downloader)].
11. Hallo3 [[`Download link`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/fudan-generative-ai/hallo3_training_data)].
12. AVSpeech [[`Download link`](https://looking-to-listen.github.io/avspeech/)].

---

## Survey

| Year | Paper | Venue | Links |
|------|-------|-------|-------|
| 2026 | [Talking-Head Generation in Practice: A Longitudinal Analysis 2021–2025](https://openreview.net/forum?id=ns3TgZYQTZ) | OpenReview | |
| 2025 | [Advancing Talking Head Generation: A Comprehensive Survey of Multi-Modal Methodologies, Datasets, Evaluation Metrics, and Loss Functions](https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02900) | arXiv | |
| 2025 | [Advancements in Talking Head Generation: A Comprehensive Review of Techniques, Metrics, and Challenges](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00371-025-04232-w) | The Visual Computer | |
| 2024 | [A Survey of Talking Head Synthesis: Portrait Generation, Driving Mechanisms, and Editing](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3785656) | ACM CSUR | |
| 2024 | [A Comprehensive Taxonomy and Analysis of Talking Head Synthesis](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10553) | arXiv | |
| 2024 | [Audio-Driven Facial Animation with Deep Learning: A Survey](https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/15/11/675) | MDPI Information | |
| 2024 | [A Comparative Study of Perceptual Quality Metrics for Audio-driven Talking Head Videos](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06421) | arXiv | [Code](https://github.com/zwx8981/ADTH-QA) |
| 2023 | [From Pixels to Portraits: A Comprehensive Survey of Talking Head Generation Techniques and Applications](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16041) | arXiv | |
| 2023 | [Talking Human Face Generation: A Survey](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417423001793) | Expert Systems with Applications | |
| 2022 | [Human-Computer Interaction Sy

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Quality score

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53/10053

Maintenance: 45%; How recently the default branch was pushed to
Releases: 25%; Recency and cadence of tagged releases
Community: 50%; Contributor breadth and bus factor
Issue backlog: 100%; Open issues measured against the size of the audience
Documentation: 99%; README depth, plus a homepage and topics
Licensing: 0%; How freely the code can be adopted

What to know before adopting

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Created: 5 years ago
Last push: 3 months ago
Last release: none
Release tag: —
Releases in the last year: 0
Default branch: master
Size: 190 KB
Owner type: User
Owner location: —
Discovered via: topic:talking-head
First indexed: 13 days ago
Last synced: 12 days ago

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