Nikita Drobyshev — accepted AI-conference papers

2026

FlashLips: 100-FPS Mask-Free Latent Lip-Sync using Reconstruction Instead of Diffusion or GANs

Andreas Zinonos, Michał Stypułkowski, Antoni Bigata, Stavros Petridis, Maja Pantic, Nikita Drobyshev

CVPR 2026

We present FlashLips, a two-stage, mask-free lip-sync system that decouples lips control from rendering and achieves real-time performance, with our U-Net variant running at over 100 FPS on a single GPU, while matching the visual quality of larger state-of-the-art models. Stage 1 is a compact, one-s

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2025

KeyFace: Expressive Audio-Driven Facial Animation for Long Sequences via KeyFrame Interpolation

Antoni Bigata, Michał Stypułkowski, Rodrigo Mira, Stella Bounareli, Konstantinos Vougioukas, Zoe Landgraf +4

CVPR 2025poster

Current audio-driven facial animation methods achieve impressive results for short videos but suffer from error accumulation and identity drift when extended to longer durations. Existing methods attempt to mitigate this through external spatial control, increasing long-term consistency but compromi…

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2024

EMOPortraits: Emotion-enhanced Multimodal One-shot Head Avatars

Nikita Drobyshev, Antoni Bigata Casademunt, Konstantinos Vougioukas, Zoe Landgraf, Stavros Petridis, Maja Pantic

CVPR 2024poster

Head avatars animated by visual signals have gained popularity particularly in cross-driving synthesis where the driver differs from the animated character a challenging but highly practical approach. The recently presented MegaPortraits model has demonstrated state-of-the-art results in this domain…

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