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End-to-end audio-conditioned latent diffusion models (LDMs) have been widely adopted for audio-driven portrait animation, demonstrating their effectiveness in generating lifelike and high-resolution talking videos. However, direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Chunyu Li , Chao Zhang , Weikai Xu , Jingyu Lin , Jinghui Xie , Weiguo Feng , Bingyue Peng , Cunjian Chen , Weiwei Xing

Recent advancements in audio-driven talking face generation have made great progress in lip synchronization. However, current methods often lack sufficient control over facial animation such as speaking style and emotional expression,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Baiqin Wang , Xiangyu Zhu , Fan Shen , Hao Xu , Zhen Lei

We present HighSync, an end-to-end diffusion-based framework for high-fidelity lip synchronization that generates photorealistic talking-face videos aligned with arbitrary input audio. Existing approaches consistently struggle to reconcile…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Saeed Firouzi Daghigh , Majid Iranpour Mobarekeh , Mostafa Alavi , Mehdi Bagheri

Video-to-speech synthesis involves reconstructing the speech signal of a speaker from a silent video. The implicit assumption of this task is that the sound signal is either missing or contains a high amount of noise/corruption such that it…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Triantafyllos Kefalas , Yannis Panagakis , Maja Pantic

The task of Visual Text-to-Speech (VisualTTS), also known as video dubbing, aims to generate speech synchronized with the lip movements in an input video, in additional to being consistent with the content of input text and cloning the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yuyue Wang , Xin Cheng , Yihan Wu , Xihua Wang , Jinchuan Tian , Ruihua Song

High-quality AI-powered video dubbing demands precise audio-lip synchronization, high-fidelity visual generation, and faithful preservation of identity and background. Most existing methods rely on a mask-based training strategy, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Xindi Zhang , Dechao Meng , Steven Xiao , Qi Wang , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang

Our research introduces an innovative framework for video-to-audio synthesis, which solves the problems of audio-video desynchronization and semantic loss in the audio. By incorporating a semantic alignment adapter and a temporal…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Zhiqi Huang , Dan Luo , Jun Wang , Huan Liao , Zhiheng Li , Zhiyong Wu

Lip synchronization aims to generate realistic talking videos that match given audio, which is essential for high-quality video dubbing. However, current methods have fundamental drawbacks: mask-based approaches suffer from local color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Ruidi Fan , Yang Zhou , Siyuan Wang , Tian Yu , Yutong Jiang , Xusheng Liu

Articulatory-to-acoustic (A2A) synthesis refers to the generation of audible speech from captured movement of the speech articulators. This technique has numerous applications, such as restoring oral communication to people who cannot…

The emergence of commercial tools for real-time performance-based 2D animation has enabled 2D characters to appear on live broadcasts and streaming platforms. A key requirement for live animation is fast and accurate lip sync that allows…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Deepali Aneja , Wilmot Li

Recent advances in diffusion models have showcased promising results in the text-to-video (T2V) synthesis task. However, as these T2V models solely employ text as the guidance, they tend to struggle in modeling detailed temporal dynamics.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Seungwoo Lee , Chaerin Kong , Donghyeon Jeon , Nojun Kwak

Movie dubbing aims to synthesize speech that preserves the vocal identity of a reference audio while synchronizing with the lip movements in a target video. Existing methods fail to achieve precise lip-sync and lack naturalness due to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Gaoxiang Cong , Liang Li , Jiaxin Ye , Zhedong Zhang , Hongming Shan , Yuankai Qi , Qingming Huang

The goal of automatic dubbing is to perform speech-to-speech translation while achieving audiovisual coherence. This entails isochrony, i.e., translating the original speech by also matching its prosodic structure into phrases and pauses,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Yogesh Virkar , Marcello Federico , Robert Enyedi , Roberto Barra-Chicote

Recent studies have shown impressive performance in Lip-to-speech synthesis that aims to reconstruct speech from visual information alone. However, they have been suffering from synthesizing accurate speech in the wild, due to insufficient…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Minsu Kim , Joanna Hong , Yong Man Ro

Audiovisual synchronisation is the task of determining the time offset between speech audio and a video recording of the articulators. In child speech therapy, audio and ultrasound videos of the tongue are captured using instruments which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Aciel Eshky , Manuel Sam Ribeiro , Korin Richmond , Steve Renals

Given an arbitrary face image and an arbitrary speech clip, the proposed work attempts to generating the talking face video with accurate lip synchronization while maintaining smooth transition of both lip and facial movement over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Yang Song , Jingwen Zhu , Dawei Li , Xiaolong Wang , Hairong Qi

Dubbing is a type of audiovisual translation where dialogues are translated and enacted so that they give the impression that the media is in the target language. It requires a careful alignment of dubbed recordings with the lip movements…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Alp Öktem , Mireia Farrús , Antonio Bonafonte

Movie dubbing seeks to synthesize speech from a given script using a specific voice, while ensuring accurate lip synchronization and emotion-prosody alignment with the character's visual performance. However, existing alignment approaches…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Zhedong Zhang , Liang Li , Gaoxiang Cong , Chunshan Liu , Yuhan Gao , Xiaowan Wang , Tao Gu , Yuankai Qi

The objective of this paper is a temporal alignment network that ingests long term video sequences, and associated text sentences, in order to: (1) determine if a sentence is alignable with the video; and (2) if it is alignable, then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Tengda Han , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Automatic lyrics to polyphonic audio alignment is a challenging task not only because the vocals are corrupted by background music, but also there is a lack of annotated polyphonic corpus for effective acoustic modeling. In this work, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Chitralekha Gupta , Emre Yılmaz , Haizhou Li