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This paper proposes a new strategy for learning powerful cross-modal embeddings for audio-to-video synchronization. Here, we set up the problem as one of cross-modal retrieval, where the objective is to find the most relevant audio segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Soo-Whan Chung , Joon Son Chung , Hong-Goo Kang

Speech-driven 3D facial animation aims to synthesize vivid facial animations that accurately synchronize with speech and match the unique speaking style. However, existing works primarily focus on achieving precise lip synchronization while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Hui Fu , Zeqing Wang , Ke Gong , Keze Wang , Tianshui Chen , Haojie Li , Haifeng Zeng , Wenxiong Kang

Video-mapping is the process of coherent video-projection of images, animations or movies on static objects or buildings for shows. This paper focuses on the dynamic video-mapping of the suit of a puppet being moved by its puppeteer on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Guillaume Caron , Mounya Belghiti , Anthony Dessaux

Given a piece of text, a video clip and a reference audio, the movie dubbing (also known as visual voice clone V2C) task aims to generate speeches that match the speaker's emotion presented in the video using the desired speaker voice as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Gaoxiang Cong , Liang Li , Yuankai Qi , Zhengjun Zha , Qi Wu , Wenyu Wang , Bin Jiang , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Qingming Huang

Given a piece of text, a video clip, and a reference audio, the movie dubbing task aims to generate speech that aligns with the video while cloning the desired voice. The existing methods have two primary deficiencies: (1) They struggle to…

In this paper, we propose a neural end-to-end system for voice preserving, lip-synchronous translation of videos. The system is designed to combine multiple component models and produces a video of the original speaker speaking in the…

Dubbed series are gaining a lot of popularity in recent years with strong support from major media service providers. Such popularity is fueled by studies that showed that dubbed versions of TV shows are more popular than their subtitled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Massa Baali , Wassim El-Hajj , Ahmed Ali

Audio-visual alignment after dubbing is a challenging research problem. To this end, we propose a novel method, DubWise Multi-modal Large Language Model (LLM)-based Text-to-Speech (TTS), which can control the speech duration of synthesized…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Neha Sahipjohn , Ashishkumar Gudmalwar , Nirmesh Shah , Pankaj Wasnik , Rajiv Ratn Shah

Human speech is often accompanied by body gestures including arm and hand gestures. We present a method that reenacts a high-quality video with gestures matching a target speech audio. The key idea of our method is to split and re-assemble…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Yang Zhou , Jimei Yang , Dingzeyu Li , Jun Saito , Deepali Aneja , Evangelos Kalogerakis

Video dubbing aims to translate original speech in visual media programs from the source language to the target language, relying on neural machine translation and text-to-speech technologies. Due to varying information densities across…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Chaoqun Cui , Liangbin Huang , Shijing Wang , Zhe Tong , Zhaolong Huang , Xiao Zeng , Xiaofeng Liu

We describe a system for large-scale audiovisual translation and dubbing, which translates videos from one language to another. The source language's speech content is transcribed to text, translated, and automatically synthesized into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Yi Yang , Brendan Shillingford , Yannis Assael , Miaosen Wang , Wendi Liu , Yutian Chen , Yu Zhang , Eren Sezener , Luis C. Cobo , Misha Denil , Yusuf Aytar , Nando de Freitas

We introduce the task of isochrony-aware machine translation which aims at generating translations suitable for dubbing. Dubbing of a spoken sentence requires transferring the content as well as the speech-pause structure of the source into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Derek Tam , Surafel M. Lakew , Yogesh Virkar , Prashant Mathur , Marcello Federico

Given an arbitrary audio clip, audio-driven 3D facial animation aims to generate lifelike lip motions and facial expressions for a 3D head. Existing methods typically rely on training their models using limited public 3D datasets that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Liying Lu , Tianke Zhang , Yunfei Liu , Xuangeng Chu , Yu Li

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

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has improved a lot recently while most related works only utilize acoustic modality and neglect the influence of visual and textual cues, leading to unsatisfactory results in terms of precision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Tianshun Han , Shengnan Gui , Yiqing Huang , Baihui Li , Lijian Liu , Benjia Zhou , Ning Jiang , Quan Lu , Ruicong Zhi , Yanyan Liang , Du Zhang , Jun Wan

We investigate how humans perform the task of dubbing video content from one language into another, leveraging a novel corpus of 319.57 hours of video from 54 professionally produced titles. This is the first such large-scale study we are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-16 William Brannon , Yogesh Virkar , Brian Thompson

Given a script, the challenge in Movie Dubbing (Visual Voice Cloning, V2C) is to generate speech that aligns well with the video in both time and emotion, based on the tone of a reference audio track. Existing state-of-the-art V2C models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Gaoxiang Cong , Yuankai Qi , Liang Li , Amin Beheshti , Zhedong Zhang , Anton van den Hengel , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Chenggang Yan , Qingming Huang

Automatic dubbing aims at seamlessly replacing the speech in a video document with synthetic speech in a different language. The task implies many challenges, one of which is generating translations that not only convey the original…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Surafel M. Lakew , Marcello Federico , Yue Wang , Cuong Hoang , Yogesh Virkar , Roberto Barra-Chicote , Robert Enyedi

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

Video dubbing requires content accuracy, expressive prosody, high-quality acoustics, and precise lip synchronization, yet existing approaches struggle on all four fronts. To address these issues, we propose DiFlowDubber, the first video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Ngoc-Son Nguyen , Thanh V. T. Tran , Jeongsoo Choi , Hieu-Nghia Huynh-Nguyen , Truong-Son Hy , Van Nguyen