Emotional Talking Head Generation based on Memory-Sharing and Attention-Augmented Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03594v1
• Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 11:31:29 GMT
• Title: Emotional Talking Head Generation based on Memory-Sharing and Attention-Augmented Networks
• Authors: Jianrong Wang, Yaxin Zhao, Li Liu, Tianyi Xu, Qi Li, Sen Li
• Abstract summary: We propose a talking head generation model consisting of a Memory-Sharing Emotion Feature extractor and an Attention-Augmented Translator based on U-net. MSEF can extract implicit emotional auxiliary features from audio to estimate more accurate emotional face landmarks. AATU acts as a translator between the estimated landmarks and the photo-realistic video frames.
• Score: 21.864200803678003
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Given an audio clip and a reference face image, the goal of the talking head generation is to generate a high-fidelity talking head video. Although some audio-driven methods of generating talking head videos have made some achievements in the past, most of them only focused on lip and audio synchronization and lack the ability to reproduce the facial expressions of the target person. To this end, we propose a talking head generation model consisting of a Memory-Sharing Emotion Feature extractor (MSEF) and an Attention-Augmented Translator based on U-net (AATU). Firstly, MSEF can extract implicit emotional auxiliary features from audio to estimate more accurate emotional face landmarks.~Secondly, AATU acts as a translator between the estimated landmarks and the photo-realistic video frames. Extensive qualitative and quantitative experiments have shown the superiority of the proposed method to the previous works. Codes will be made publicly available.

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