  To the best of our knowledge, we first present a live system that generates
personalized photorealistic talking-head animation only driven by audio signals
at over 30 fps. Our system contains three stages. The first stage is a deep
neural network that extracts deep audio features along with a manifold
projection to project the features to the target person's speech space. In the
second stage, we learn facial dynamics and motions from the projected audio
features. The predicted motions include head poses and upper body motions,
where the former is generated by an autoregressive probabilistic model which
models the head pose distribution of the target person. Upper body motions are
deduced from head poses. In the final stage, we generate conditional feature
maps from previous predictions and send them with a candidate image set to an
image-to-image translation network to synthesize photorealistic renderings. Our
method generalizes well to wild audio and successfully synthesizes
high-fidelity personalized facial details, e.g., wrinkles, teeth. Our method
also allows explicit control of head poses. Extensive qualitative and
quantitative evaluations, along with user studies, demonstrate the superiority
of our method over state-of-the-art techniques.
