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HunyuanVideo-Foley: Multimodal Diffusion with Representation Alignment for High-Fidelity Foley Audio Generation

Audio and Speech Processing 2025-08-26 v1 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Sound

Abstract

Recent advances in video generation produce visually realistic content, yet the absence of synchronized audio severely compromises immersion. To address key challenges in video-to-audio generation, including multimodal data scarcity, modality imbalance and limited audio quality in existing methods, we propose HunyuanVideo-Foley, an end-to-end text-video-to-audio framework that synthesizes high-fidelity audio precisely aligned with visual dynamics and semantic context. Our approach incorporates three core innovations: (1) a scalable data pipeline curating 100k-hour multimodal datasets through automated annotation; (2) a representation alignment strategy using self-supervised audio features to guide latent diffusion training, efficiently improving audio quality and generation stability; (3) a novel multimodal diffusion transformer resolving modal competition, containing dual-stream audio-video fusion through joint attention, and textual semantic injection via cross-attention. Comprehensive evaluations demonstrate that HunyuanVideo-Foley achieves new state-of-the-art performance across audio fidelity, visual-semantic alignment, temporal alignment and distribution matching. The demo page is available at: https://szczesnys.github.io/hunyuanvideo-foley/.

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@article{arxiv.2508.16930,
  title  = {HunyuanVideo-Foley: Multimodal Diffusion with Representation Alignment for High-Fidelity Foley Audio Generation},
  author = {Sizhe Shan and Qiulin Li and Yutao Cui and Miles Yang and Yuehai Wang and Qun Yang and Jin Zhou and Zhao Zhong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.16930},
  year   = {2025}
}