AI killed the video star. Audio-driven diffusion model for expressive talking head generation

Baptiste Chopin, Tashvik Dhamija, Pranav Balaji, Yaohui Wang, Antitza Dantcheva
11/27/2025
cs.CV

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We propose Dimitra++, a novel framework for audio-driven talking head generation, streamlined to learn lip motion, facial expression, as well as head pose motion. Specifically, we propose a conditional Motion Diffusion Transformer (cMDT) to model facial motion sequences, employing a 3D representation. The cMDT is conditioned on two inputs: a reference facial image, which determines appearance, as well as an audio sequence, which drives the motion. Quantitative and qualitative experiments, as well as a user study on two widely employed datasets, i.e., VoxCeleb2 and CelebV-HQ, suggest that Dimitra++ is able to outperform existing approaches in generating realistic talking heads imparting lip motion, facial expression, and head pose.

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@article{chopin2025killed,
  title  = {AI killed the video star. Audio-driven diffusion model for expressive talking head generation},
  author = {Baptiste Chopin and Tashvik Dhamija and Pranav Balaji and Yaohui Wang and Antitza Dantcheva},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2511.22488},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.22488v1}
}

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