tencent-ailab/V-Express

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

V-Express is a Python research project from Tencent AI Lab that generates talking head portrait videos from a reference image, audio, and V-Kps pose images using progressive conditional dropout to balance weak and strong control signals. It includes inference and training code with pretrained models hosted on Hugging Face.

Use cases

• generate a talking head video from a photo and audio
• make a portrait lip-sync to an audio clip
• animate a single face image with speech
• create avatar videos driven by voice
• research on audio-conditioned portrait video generation

When to choose

• you need audio-driven talking head video generation from a single reference image
• you want to reproduce or extend research on balancing weak/strong control signals in diffusion-based video generation
• you need pose, image, and audio jointly controlled portrait animation

When to avoid

• you need a production-ready product with a license guarantee (no license is provided)
• you need real-time or low-latency generation on modest hardware
• you want a polished GUI application rather than Python scripts and model checkpoints

Facets

library · maturity active

video-processing machine-learning deep-learning image-processing deep-learning computer-vision artificial-intelligence python talking-head-generation portrait-video audio-driven-animation diffusion-models face-animation research-code video linux gpu

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