# harlanhong/awesome-talking-head-generation

Repository: https://github.com/harlanhong/awesome-talking-head-generation
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/awesome-talking-head-generation
License Family: other
Topics: face-reenactment, image-animation, motion-transfer, talking-head
Last push: 2026-04-27T04:48:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 68/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 79, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1683, "days_push": 128, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1930, forks 138 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:56.132008+00:00)

## What it is
A curated awesome-list of papers, datasets, and surveys on talking head generation, covering face animation, audio-driven synthesis, portrait animation, and NeRF/3D approaches. It serves as a research index rather than executable software.

## Use cases
- find papers on audio-driven talking head generation
- discover datasets for portrait animation research
- survey face reenactment and motion transfer methods
- keep up with new talking head synthesis research
- find NeRF and 3D avatar animation papers
- locate benchmarks for lip sync and face animation

## When to choose
- you are researching talking head generation or face animation
- you need a starting point for datasets like VoxCeleb or MEAD
- you want a regularly updated index of related papers

## When to avoid
- you need runnable code or a library rather than a paper list
- you need production face animation tooling
- you need a general computer vision resource list

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: machine-learning, video-processing, audio-processing, computer-vision
- domain: deep-learning, computer-vision, artificial-intelligence, awesome-lists
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: awesome-list, talking-head-generation, face-reenactment, audio-driven-synthesis, portrait-animation, research-papers, datasets

## Member repositories
- harlanhong/awesome-talking-head-generation (main) score 68

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:56.132008+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:08:47.514524+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/harlanhong/awesome-talking-head-generation (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:56.132008+00:00, sha 6437c0991ede)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.