Bidirectional Learned Facial Animation Codec for Low Bitrate Talking Head Videos

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09787v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 19:39:09 GMT
• Title: Bidirectional Learned Facial Animation Codec for Low Bitrate Talking Head Videos
• Authors: Riku Takahashi, Ryugo Morita, Fuma Kimishima, Kosuke Iwama, Jinjia Zhou,
• Abstract summary: Deep facial animation techniques efficiently compress talking head videos by applying deep generative models.<n>In this paper, we propose a novel learned animation that generates natural facial videos using past and future frames.
• Score: 6.062921267681344
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Existing deep facial animation coding techniques efficiently compress talking head videos by applying deep generative models. Instead of compressing the entire video sequence, these methods focus on compressing only the keyframe and the keypoints of non-keyframes (target frames). The target frames are then reconstructed by utilizing a single keyframe, and the keypoints of the target frame. Although these unidirectional methods can reduce the bitrate, they rely on a single keyframe and often struggle to capture large head movements accurately, resulting in distortions in the facial region. In this paper, we propose a novel bidirectional learned animation codec that generates natural facial videos using past and future keyframes. First, in the Bidirectional Reference-Guided Auxiliary Stream Enhancement (BRG-ASE) process, we introduce a compact auxiliary stream for non-keyframes, which is enhanced by adaptively selecting one of two keyframes (past and future). This stream improves video quality with a slight increase in bitrate. Then, in the Bidirectional Reference-Guided Video Reconstruction (BRG-VRec) process, we animate the adaptively selected keyframe and reconstruct the target frame using both the animated keyframe and the auxiliary frame. Extensive experiments demonstrate a 55% bitrate reduction compared to the latest animation based video codec, and a 35% bitrate reduction compared to the latest video coding standard, Versatile Video Coding (VVC) on a talking head video dataset. It showcases the efficiency of our approach in improving video quality while simultaneously decreasing bitrate.

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