A Lip Sync Expert Is All You Need For Speech To Lip Generation In The Wild

Published in ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2020 (ACM Multimedia), 2020

Recommended citation: K R Prajwal, Rudrabha Mukhopadhyay, Vinay P. Namboodiri, and C.V. Jawahar. 2020. A Lip Sync Expert Is All You Need for Speech to Lip Generation In the Wild. In Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 484–492. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3394171.3413532 https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.10010

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In this work, we investigate the problem of lip-syncing a talking face video of an arbitrary identity to match a target speech segment. Current works excel at producing accurate lip movements on a static image or videos of specific people seen during the training phase. However, they fail to accurately morph the lip movements of arbitrary identities in dynamic, unconstrained talking face videos, resulting in significant parts of the video being out-of-sync with the new audio. We identify key reasons pertaining to this and hence resolve them by learning from a powerful lip-sync discriminator. Next, we propose new, rigorous evaluation benchmarks and metrics to accurately measure lip synchronization in unconstrained videos. Extensive quantitative evaluations on our challenging benchmarks show that the lip-sync accuracy of the videos generated by our Wav2Lip model is almost as good as real synced videos.

Recommended citation: K R Prajwal, Rudrabha Mukhopadhyay, Vinay P. Namboodiri, and C.V. Jawahar. 2020. A Lip Sync Expert Is All You Need for Speech to Lip Generation In the Wild. In Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM ‘20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 484–492. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3394171.3413532