2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extracting Knowledge from Information

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Paper Detail

Paper IDMMSP-5.5
Paper Title LEARNING POSE-ADAPTIVE LIP SYNC WITH CASCADED TEMPORAL CONVOLUTIONAL NETWORK
Authors Ruobing Zheng, Bo Song, Changjiang Ji, Moviebook, China
SessionMMSP-5: Human Centric Multimedia 1
LocationGather.Town
Session Time:Thursday, 10 June, 14:00 - 14:45
Presentation Time:Thursday, 10 June, 14:00 - 14:45
Presentation Poster
Topic Multimedia Signal Processing: Signal Processing for Multimedia Applications
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Abstract Speech-driven lip sync has become a promising technique for generating and editing talking-head videos. These studies mainly use 3D morphable models or 2D facial landmarks as the intermediate face representations. However, 2D-based methods have been stagnant recently due to their inability to handle out-of-plane rotations, even though the 2D landmarks have the advantage of fast and accurate extraction. In this paper, we design a cascaded temporal convolutional network to successively generate mouth shapes and corresponding jawlines based on audio signals and template headposes. Instead of explicitly calibrating the rotation between the predicted mouth and the template face, we employ neural networks to learn the pose-adaptive mapping implicitly. We also propose an image-to-image translation-based neural rendering method for producing high-resolution and photo-realistic videos. Experiments show our solution improves both the mapping accuracy and visual performance than baselines. This work could benefit many real-world applications like virtual anchors, telepresence, and conversational agents.