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arxiv: 2606.28568 · v1 · pith:W6I7HNDMnew · submitted 2026-06-26 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.GR· cs.LG

KM-Speaker: Keypoint-Based Style Control for High-Quality Speech-Driven 3D Facial Animation and Dialogue Localization

Arthur Josi , Emeline Got , Abdallah Dib , Luiz Gustavo Hafemann , Rafael M. O. Cruz This is my paper

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keywords 3D facial animationspeech-driven animationkeypoint conditioningstyle controlflow-based generative modeldisentanglementdialogue localizationlip synchronization
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KM-Speaker uses keypoint control to add precise style and timing to high-fidelity speech-driven 3D facial animation from limited data.

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

The paper introduces KM-Speaker as a keypoint-conditioned flow-based model that generates 3D facial animations from speech while allowing global style guidance and frame-level control drawn from reference performances. It relies on a disentanglement approach that drives lip motion from audio alone and upper-face dynamics from keypoints, plus a mechanism to keep overall style coherent across the full face. This setup targets production-quality results in settings where only constrained training data is available. Previous methods either needed large low-quality datasets that hurt realism or lacked the temporal precision needed for exact expression matching. A reader would care because the approach directly addresses dubbing and other dialogue tasks where both lip sync and specific facial expressions must align closely.

Core claim

We present KM-Speaker, a novel keypoint-conditioned flow-based generative framework that provides both global style guidance and frame-level temporal control from reference performances. We propose a disentanglement strategy that separates audio-driven lip motion from keypoint-driven upper-face dynamics, together with a global style context preservation mechanism to ensure coherent full-face expressiveness. KM-Speaker advances example-based 3D facial animation by achieving high-fidelity motion and flexible controllability in a data-constrained setting, consistently outperforming state-of-the-art methods in lip-sync accuracy, style adherence, and expressive temporal control.

What carries the argument

keypoint-conditioned flow-based generative framework with disentanglement of audio-driven lip motion from keypoint-driven upper-face dynamics plus global style preservation

If this is right

  • Outperforms prior methods on lip-sync accuracy when measured against ground-truth animations.
  • Delivers stronger adherence to the style of reference performances across entire sequences.
  • Supports frame-level temporal adjustments that improve expressive control during dialogue localization.
  • Maintains high motion quality even when training data is limited rather than large and noisy.
  • Enables more precise matching of specific facial expressions in dubbing tasks.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The separation of lip and upper-face control could let animators adjust emotional cues independently of spoken content.
  • Reference-based control might lower the volume of data needed for other motion synthesis domains that use sparse keypoints.
  • The framework could integrate with existing 3D pipelines by treating keypoints as an additional input channel.
  • If the style preservation holds across longer sequences, it could support extended dialogue scenes without drift.

Load-bearing premise

The disentanglement of lip motion from upper-face dynamics combined with the style preservation mechanism actually produces coherent full-face expressiveness without introducing artifacts or losing fidelity.

What would settle it

Side-by-side visual or metric evaluation on held-out sequences where the upper-face keypoint control produces visible artifacts, mismatched expressions, or lower fidelity than direct reference copying.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.28568 by Abdallah Dib, Arthur Josi, Emeline Got, Luiz Gustavo Hafemann, Rafael M. O. Cruz.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: KM-speaker enables two types of style control from a source animation (top): (i) dialogue localization (middle) that preserves [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: KM-Speaker architecture and applications. A source audio signal and two sets of target keypoints are processed independently. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Disentanglement strategy. We randomly exchange either [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Lip-synchronization (25 responses) and style-adherence [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Generation for the different baselines with a desired an [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: We visually present the keypoints used in Ours [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Qualitative comparison of MSMD retrain, MIMIC retrain, and Ours in the matching context scenario, where the target style matches the audio intent. We do not display the target to encourage focus on the lip-sync and naturalness. [24] Xingchao Liu, Chengyue Gong, et al. Flow straight and fast: Learning to generate and transfer data with rectified flow. In NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Score-Based Methods, 2022. 2… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Qualitative results for two different actors and target temporal style for the dialogue localization task. We compare perfor [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Raw geometry renderings for the different baselines with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Raw geometry renderings for qualitative comparison of MSMD [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Guidelines for the lip-synchronization (left) and style-adherence (right) user studies. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Videos and rating interface for the lip-synchronization (left) and style-adherence (right) studies. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Qualitative results for two distinct examples (left and right), given a target animation (first row), comparing the blending [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: KM-Speaker generalization results on in-the-wild audio, style, and varying face geometries. Given a target video providing the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_14.png] view at source ↗
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Speech-driven 3D facial animation methods face significant challenges in simultaneously achieving high-fidelity motion and precise artistic control at production quality. Existing controllable models typically learn global style control by relying on large-scale, low-quality \emph{in-the-wild} datasets that compromise overall animation realism. Furthermore, these frameworks often lack the fine-grained temporal precision required for demanding tasks such as dialogue localization (e.g., dubbing), where matching specific facial expressions is as critical as lip synchronization. We present KM-Speaker (Keypoint-Matching Speaker), a novel keypoint-conditioned flow-based generative framework that provides both global style guidance and frame-level temporal control from reference performances. We propose a disentanglement strategy that separates audio-driven lip motion from keypoint-driven upper-face dynamics, together with a global style context preservation mechanism to ensure coherent full-face expressiveness. KM-Speaker advances example-based 3D facial animation by achieving high-fidelity motion and flexible controllability in a data-constrained setting, consistently outperforming state-of-the-art methods in lip-sync accuracy, style adherence, and expressive temporal control.

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Summary. The manuscript introduces KM-Speaker, a keypoint-conditioned flow-based generative framework for speech-driven 3D facial animation. It proposes a disentanglement strategy separating audio-driven lip motion from keypoint-driven upper-face dynamics, along with a global style context preservation mechanism. The method aims to achieve high-fidelity motion and flexible controllability in data-constrained settings, outperforming state-of-the-art methods in lip-sync accuracy, style adherence, and expressive temporal control, with applications to dialogue localization.

Significance. If the empirical results hold, this work offers a significant advancement in controllable 3D facial animation by enabling precise style and temporal control without relying on large-scale low-quality datasets. The disentanglement approach and flow-based generation are strengths, and the support from architecture, losses, and ablations strengthens the contribution to production-quality animation and dubbing tasks.

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  1. Abstract: the claim of 'consistently outperforming state-of-the-art methods' would be strengthened by including one or two key quantitative metrics (e.g., lip-sync error or style similarity scores) rather than qualitative descriptors alone.
  2. The introduction could briefly expand on the specific data constraints (e.g., dataset size or quality characteristics) to better contextualize the data-constrained setting relative to prior work.

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We thank the referee for the positive summary, significance assessment, and recommendation of minor revision. We are pleased that the disentanglement strategy, flow-based generation, and empirical support were viewed as strengths.

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The manuscript presents an empirical neural architecture for speech-driven 3D facial animation, relying on a disentanglement strategy between audio-driven lip motion and keypoint-driven upper-face dynamics plus a global style preservation mechanism. No equations, uniqueness theorems, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citation chains appear in the provided text. Claims of high-fidelity motion and controllability are supported directly by architecture descriptions, losses, ablations, and quantitative/qualitative results rather than any derivation that reduces to its own inputs by construction. The work is self-contained against external benchmarks with no load-bearing circular steps.

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