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arxiv: 2607.00959 · v1 · pith:HUQMHGTWnew · submitted 2026-07-01 · 💻 cs.CV

GaussianEmoTalker: Real-Time Emotional Talking Head Synthesis with Audio-Driven and Blendshape-Based 3D Gaussian Splatting

Haijie Yang , Zhenyu Zhang , Yixuan Dong , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.CV
keywords Gaussian splattingtalking head synthesisemotional animationaudio-driven synthesis3D avatarsreal-time renderingblendshapesresidual deformation
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GaussianEmoTalker generates emotional talking heads in real time by deforming neutral 3D Gaussian blendshapes with audio and emotion signals.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents GaussianEmoTalker as a framework that formulates emotional talking head synthesis as a residual deformation task on top of a neutral Gaussian space. It first builds identity-specific neutral motion using GaussianBlendshapes to deliver high-fidelity attributes and phoneme-synchronized animation. An emotion-conditioned residual is then predicted from mesh displacements, audio features, emotion labels, and intensity values, fused inside a spatial-audio-emotion attention module that outputs stable Gaussian attribute offsets. The result is controllable emotional expression, accurate lip synchronization, and real-time rendering that matches recent methods in visual quality.

Core claim

Emotional animation reduces to a neutral-to-emotional residual deformation problem inside 3D Gaussian Splatting, where GaussianBlendshapes supply the neutral base and a spatial-audio-emotion attention module produces the attribute offsets needed for expressive, intensity-controllable, temporally stable output.

What carries the argument

The spatial-audio-emotion attention module, which combines mesh displacement cues, audio features, emotion categories, and intensity encodings to compute offsets on Gaussian attributes.

If this is right

  • Real-time rendering becomes feasible for emotional avatars without sacrificing lip accuracy.
  • Emotion intensity can be controlled independently while preserving identity-specific neutral motion.
  • Heterogeneous signals from audio, mesh, and emotion labels can be fused into a single set of Gaussian offsets.
  • Competitive visual quality is maintained relative to prior emotional talking-head systems.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The residual-deformation pattern could be tested on non-talking facial animations such as expressions in virtual reality.
  • Replacing the current audio encoder with a different speech model might reveal whether the attention module remains stable across input types.
  • The GaussianBlendshapes base could support identity swapping by exchanging only the neutral component.

Load-bearing premise

An emotion-conditioned residual deformation predicted from mesh displacement cues, audio features, emotion categories, and intensity encodings will produce expressive and temporally stable Gaussian attribute offsets.

What would settle it

Videos generated under rapidly changing emotion intensities that exhibit unstable expressions or loss of lip synchronization.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.00959 by Haijie Yang, Jianjun Qian, Jian Yang, Yixuan Dong, Zhenyu Zhang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Given the audio, emotion category, and intensity, our method can real-time render high-fidelity, emotion-driven avatars [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview. GaussianEmoTalker uses the expression basis of GaussianBlendshapes to construct the neutral state space for the talking head (Stage 1). Through a pre-trained audio-to-expression model, it obtains the neutral expression coefficients and emotional expression coefficients. The former is initialized with the corresponding mesh and Gaussian attributes obtained in Stage 1. The latter is derived from th… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: The results of different facial expression types and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative Comparison in the cross-driven setting. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Ablation study results on Gaussian initialization: com [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Ablation study results on Neutral Gaussian Deformation: comparison of landmark displacement magnitude. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Ablation study results on Gaussian initialization: com [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Ablation study results of gaussian deformation and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_10.png] view at source ↗
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Audio-driven talking head synthesis has achieved impressive progress in lip synchronization and visual quality, yet generating expressive emotional avatars with controllable intensity remains challenging, especially under real-time constraints. In this paper, we present GaussianEmoTalker, an audio-driven framework for real-time emotional talking head synthesis based on 3D Gaussian Splatting. Instead of directly predicting the final emotional avatar from speech, we formulate emotional animation as a neutral-to-emotional residual deformation problem. GaussianEmoTalker first constructs an identity-specific neutral talking space with GaussianBlendshapes, which provides high-fidelity Gaussian attributes and phoneme-synchronized neutral motion. It then predicts an emotion-conditioned residual deformation by combining mesh displacement cues, audio features, emotion categories, and intensity encodings. To fuse these heterogeneous signals, we introduce a spatial-audio-emotion attention module that estimates the offsets of Gaussian attributes for expressive and temporally stable rendering. Extensive experiments demonstrate that GaussianEmoTalker achieves competitive video quality, accurate lip synchronization, controllable emotional expression, and real-time rendering compared with recent emotional talking head methods. Our project page is available at https://njust-yang.github.io/GaussianEmoTalker.github.io/

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper presents GaussianEmoTalker, an audio-driven framework for real-time emotional talking head synthesis based on 3D Gaussian Splatting. It constructs an identity-specific neutral talking space with GaussianBlendshapes for high-fidelity attributes and phoneme-synchronized motion, then predicts emotion-conditioned residual deformations by fusing mesh displacement cues, audio features, emotion categories, and intensity encodings via a spatial-audio-emotion attention module that estimates Gaussian attribute offsets. The manuscript claims competitive video quality, accurate lip synchronization, controllable emotional expression, and real-time rendering relative to recent emotional talking head methods.

Significance. If the experimental claims hold, the work could advance real-time controllable emotional avatar synthesis by combining blendshape-based neutral animation with efficient residual deformation in the Gaussian Splatting domain, offering potential advantages in speed and expressiveness over prior approaches.

major comments (2)
  1. Abstract: the central claim of competitive performance on quality, lip sync, emotion control, and speed is stated without any quantitative results, baselines, or error analysis, which is load-bearing for assessing whether the residual deformation approach delivers the claimed gains.
  2. Abstract (spatial-audio-emotion attention module description): the assumption that fusing heterogeneous signals (mesh displacement, audio, emotion categories, intensity) via attention will yield expressive and temporally stable Gaussian attribute offsets is presented without the module's formulation, loss terms, or ablation evidence, making it difficult to evaluate robustness of the residual deformation construction.
minor comments (1)
  1. The project page URL is referenced but its content (videos, code) is not described in the manuscript, which would aid reproducibility assessment.

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address the two major comments point by point below.

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  1. Referee: Abstract: the central claim of competitive performance on quality, lip sync, emotion control, and speed is stated without any quantitative results, baselines, or error analysis, which is load-bearing for assessing whether the residual deformation approach delivers the claimed gains.

    Authors: The abstract is intended as a concise summary of the method and high-level claims. The manuscript provides the requested quantitative support in Section 4, including direct comparisons against recent baselines on standard metrics (PSNR, SSIM, LPIPS for visual quality; LSE for lip synchronization; user-study scores for emotion controllability and intensity) together with runtime measurements confirming real-time performance. These results substantiate the gains from the neutral-to-emotional residual deformation. We are willing to insert one or two key numerical highlights into the abstract if the editor considers it beneficial. revision: partial

  2. Referee: Abstract (spatial-audio-emotion attention module description): the assumption that fusing heterogeneous signals (mesh displacement, audio, emotion categories, intensity) via attention will yield expressive and temporally stable Gaussian attribute offsets is presented without the module's formulation, loss terms, or ablation evidence, making it difficult to evaluate robustness of the residual deformation construction.

    Authors: The abstract supplies only a high-level description of the module. Its complete formulation (multi-head attention over the four heterogeneous feature streams), the loss terms (reconstruction, emotion consistency, and temporal smoothness), and the ablation studies that quantify the contribution to expressiveness and stability appear in Sections 3.3 and 4.4. Readers can therefore assess the robustness of the residual deformation construction from the body of the paper. revision: no

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full rationale

The provided abstract and description outline a residual deformation approach and spatial-audio-emotion attention module without any equations, fitted parameters presented as predictions, or self-citations that reduce the claimed results to inputs by construction. The neutral-to-emotional formulation is introduced as a modeling choice rather than derived from prior self-referential results. No load-bearing steps match the enumerated circularity patterns.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Review is abstract-only so ledger is minimal; the method relies on standard 3D rendering assumptions and introduces new named components without independent evidence listed.

axioms (1)
  • standard math Standard assumptions of 3D Gaussian Splatting and attention-based fusion hold for animation tasks.
    The framework builds directly on established Gaussian Splatting and neural attention techniques.
invented entities (2)
  • GaussianBlendshapes no independent evidence
    purpose: Construct identity-specific neutral talking space with high-fidelity Gaussian attributes and phoneme-synchronized motion.
    New named component introduced to provide the neutral base.
  • spatial-audio-emotion attention module no independent evidence
    purpose: Fuse mesh, audio, emotion, and intensity signals to estimate Gaussian attribute offsets.
    New module proposed to handle heterogeneous inputs for emotional deformation.

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