RealTalk: Real-time and Realistic Audio-driven Face Generation with 3D Facial Prior-guided Identity Alignment Network

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18284v1
• Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 12:09:59 GMT
• Title: RealTalk: Real-time and Realistic Audio-driven Face Generation with 3D Facial Prior-guided Identity Alignment Network
• Authors: Xiaozhong Ji, Chuming Lin, Zhonggan Ding, Ying Tai, Jian Yang, Junwei Zhu, Xiaobin Hu, Jiangning Zhang, Donghao Luo, Chengjie Wang,
• Abstract summary: RealTalk is an audio-to-expression transformer and a high-fidelity expression-to-face framework. In the first component, we consider both identity and intra-personal variation features related to speaking lip movements. In the second component, we design a lightweight facial identity alignment (FIA) module. This novel design allows us to generate fine details in real-time, without depending on sophisticated and inefficient feature alignment modules.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Person-generic audio-driven face generation is a challenging task in computer vision. Previous methods have achieved remarkable progress in audio-visual synchronization, but there is still a significant gap between current results and practical applications. The challenges are two-fold: 1) Preserving unique individual traits for achieving high-precision lip synchronization. 2) Generating high-quality facial renderings in real-time performance. In this paper, we propose a novel generalized audio-driven framework RealTalk, which consists of an audio-to-expression transformer and a high-fidelity expression-to-face renderer. In the first component, we consider both identity and intra-personal variation features related to speaking lip movements. By incorporating cross-modal attention on the enriched facial priors, we can effectively align lip movements with audio, thus attaining greater precision in expression prediction. In the second component, we design a lightweight facial identity alignment (FIA) module which includes a lip-shape control structure and a face texture reference structure. This novel design allows us to generate fine details in real-time, without depending on sophisticated and inefficient feature alignment modules. Our experimental results, both quantitative and qualitative, on public datasets demonstrate the clear advantages of our method in terms of lip-speech synchronization and generation quality. Furthermore, our method is efficient and requires fewer computational resources, making it well-suited to meet the needs of practical applications.

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