11.14.4.6 Audio Video Synchronization, Analysis, Generation

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Face Animation. Facial Animation. Audio-Visual Speech. Audio Video Synchronization. Audio Video. Synchronization. Speech Synthesis. Talking Heads.
See also Combined Audio Visual Recognition and Analysis.
See also Face Synthesis Using Three-Dimensional Models.

Lavagetto, F.,
Time-Delay Neural Networks for Estimating Lip Movements from Speech Analysis: A Useful Tool in Audio Video Synchronization,
CirSysVideo(7), No. 5, October 1997, pp. 786-800.
IEEE Top Reference. 9710
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Gasper, E.[Elon], Matthews, III, J.H.[Joseph H.], Wesley, R.[Richard],
Advanced tools for speech synchronized animation,
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Haisma, N.[Nicoline], Sinke, J.G.[Johannes Govert], Bergevoet, B.A.J.[Bas Arnold Jan], van Gestel, H.A.W.[Henricus Antonius Wilhelmus],
Post-synchronizing an information stream including lip objects replacement,
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Huang, Y.[Ying], Lin, S.S.T.[Stephen Ssu-Te], Guo, B.N.[Bai-Ning], Shum, H.Y.[Heung-Yeung],
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US_Patent7,133,535, Nov 7, 2006
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Saenko, K.[Kate], Livescu, K.[Karen], Glass, J.[James], Darrell, T.J.[Trevor J.],
Multistream Articulatory Feature-Based Models for Visual Speech Recognition,
PAMI(31), No. 9, September 2009, pp. 1700-1707.
IEEE DOI 0907
Lip opening, lip rounding features. BibRef

Saenko, K.[Kate], Livescu, K.[Karen], Siracusa, M.[Michael], Wilson, K.[Kevin], Glass, J.[James], Darrell, T.J.[Trevor J.],
Visual Speech Recognition with Loosely Synchronized Feature Streams,
ICCV05(II: 1424-1431).
IEEE DOI 0510
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El-Sallam, A.A.[Amar A.], Mian, A.S.[Ajmal S.],
Correlation based speech-video synchronization,
PRL(32), No. 6, 15 April 2011, pp. 780-786.
Elsevier DOI 1103
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Earlier:
Speech-Video Synchronization Using Lips Movements and Speech Envelope Correlation,
ICIAR09(397-407).
Springer DOI 0907
Correlation; Lip sync; Formants; Estimation; AM,FM BibRef

Chen, Y.M., Huang, F.C., Guan, S.H., Chen, B.Y.,
Animating Lip-Sync Characters With Dominated Animeme Models,
CirSysVideo(22), No. 9, September 2012, pp. 1344-1353.
IEEE DOI 1209
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Srinivasan, V., Bethel, C.L., Murphy, R.R.,
Evaluation of Head Gaze Loosely Synchronized With Real-Time Synthetic Speech for Social Robots,
HMS(44), No. 6, December 2014, pp. 767-778.
IEEE DOI 1412
human-robot interaction BibRef

Liu, N.[Na], Zhou, T.[Tao], Ji, Y.F.[Yun-Feng], Zhao, Z.Y.[Zi-Yi], Wan, L.H.[Li-Hong],
Synthesizing Talking Faces from Text and Audio: An Autoencoder and Sequence-to-Sequence Convolutional Neural Network,
PR(102), 2020, pp. 107231.
Elsevier DOI 2003
Convolutional neural network, Autoencoder, Regression, Face landmark, Face tracking, Lip sync, Video, Audio BibRef

Yu, L., Yu, J., Li, M., Ling, Q.,
Multimodal Inputs Driven Talking Face Generation With Spatial-Temporal Dependency,
CirSysVideo(31), No. 1, January 2021, pp. 203-216.
IEEE DOI 2101
Face, Mouth, Lips, Generative adversarial networks, Synchronization, Facial animation, Video synthesis, self-attention mechanism BibRef

Liu, L., Feng, G., Beautemps, D., Zhang, X.P.,
Re-Synchronization Using the Hand Preceding Model for Multi-Modal Fusion in Automatic Continuous Cued Speech Recognition,
MultMed(23), 2021, pp. 292-305.
IEEE DOI 2012
Lips, Shape, Feature extraction, Hidden Markov models, Speech recognition, Organizations, Encoding, Cued speech, MSHMM BibRef

Beyan, C.[Cigdem], Shahid, M.[Muhammad], Murino, V.[Vittorio],
RealVAD: A Real-World Dataset and A Method for Voice Activity Detection by Body Motion Analysis,
MultMed(23), 2021, pp. 2071-2085.
IEEE DOI 2107
Feature extraction, Visualization, Lips, Voice activity detection, Task analysis, Benchmark testing, Synchronization, unsupervised domain adaptation BibRef

Eskimez, S.E.[Sefik Emre], Zhang, Y.[You], Duan, Z.Y.[Zhi-Yao],
Speech Driven Talking Face Generation From a Single Image and an Emotion Condition,
MultMed(24), 2022, pp. 3480-3490.
IEEE DOI 2207
Faces, Visualization, Face recognition, Emotion recognition, Synchronization, Speech processing, Lips, Audiovisual, emotion, talking face generation BibRef

Ghose, S.[Sanchita], Prevost, J.J.[John J.],
FoleyGAN: Visually Guided Generative Adversarial Network-Based Synchronous Sound Generation in Silent Videos,
MultMed(25), 2023, pp. 4508-4519.
IEEE DOI 2310
BibRef

Zhou, J.X.[Jin-Xing], Guo, D.[Dan], Wang, M.[Meng],
Contrastive Positive Sample Propagation Along the Audio-Visual Event Line,
PAMI(45), No. 6, June 2023, pp. 7239-7257.
IEEE DOI 2305
Visualization, Task analysis, Image segmentation, Synchronization, Roads, Aggregates, Representation learning, Audio-visual event, positive sample propagation BibRef

Zhou, J.X.[Jin-Xing], Zheng, L.[Liang], Zhong, Y.R.[Yi-Ran], Hao, S.J.[Shi-Jie], Wang, M.[Meng],
Positive Sample Propagation along the Audio-Visual Event Line,
CVPR21(8432-8440)
IEEE DOI 2111
Location awareness, Visualization, Correlation, Filtering, Feature extraction BibRef

Wang, X.S.[Xin-Sheng], Xie, Q.[Qicong], Zhu, J.[Jihua], Xie, L.[Lei], Scharenborg, O.[Odette],
AnyoneNet: Synchronized Speech and Talking Head Generation for Arbitrary Persons,
MultMed(25), 2023, pp. 6717-6728.
IEEE DOI 2311
BibRef

Yang, D.[Daowu], Huang, S.[Sheng], Jiang, W.[Wen], Zou, J.[Jin],
Implicit Memory-Based Variational Motion Talking Face Generation,
SPLetters(31), 2024, pp. 431-435.
IEEE DOI 2402
Training, Generators, Decoding, Synchronization, Feature extraction, Facial animation, Implicit memory, speech-driven facial, audio-to-motion BibRef

Cheng, H.[Harry], Guo, Y.Y.[Yang-Yang], Yin, J.H.[Jian-Hua], Chen, H.[Haonan], Wang, J.[Jiafang], Nie, L.Q.[Li-Qiang],
Audio-Driven Talking Video Frame Restoration,
MultMed(26), 2024, pp. 4110-4122.
IEEE DOI 2403
Streaming media, Faces, Lips, Task analysis, Image restoration, Visualization, Synchronization, Frame Restoration, Generative Adversial Network BibRef

Sheng, Z.C.[Zhi-Cheng], Nie, L.Q.[Li-Qiang], Zhang, M.[Min], Chang, X.J.[Xiao-Jun], Yan, Y.[Yan],
Stochastic Latent Talking Face Generation Toward Emotional Expressions and Head Poses,
CirSysVideo(34), No. 4, April 2024, pp. 2734-2748.
IEEE DOI 2404
Faces, Stochastic processes, Head, Dynamics, Mixers, Synchronization, Computational modeling, Talking face generation, continuous normalizing flow BibRef

Liu, M.[Meng], Li, D.[Da], Li, Y.Q.[Yong-Qiang], Song, X.M.[Xue-Meng], Nie, L.Q.[Li-Qiang],
Audio-Semantic Enhanced Pose-Driven Talking Head Generation,
CirSysVideo(34), No. 11, November 2024, pp. 11056-11069.
IEEE DOI 2412
Head, Semantics, Visualization, Synchronization, Lips, Dentistry, One-shot, talking head generation, head pose BibRef

Ahn, Y.[Youngdo], Chae, J.[Jongwook], Shin, J.W.[Jong Won],
Text-to-Speech With Lip Synchronization Based on Speech-Assisted Text-to-Video Alignment and Masked Unit Prediction,
SPLetters(32), 2025, pp. 961-965.
IEEE DOI 2503
Lips, Training, Text to video, Text to speech, Synchronization, Vocoders, Iodine, Speech recognition, Visualization, Vectors, multi-modality BibRef

Han, T.S.[Tian-Shun], Gui, S.N.[Sheng-Nan], Huang, Y.Q.[Yi-Qing], Li, B.H.[Bai-Hui], Liu, L.J.[Li-Jian], Zhou, B.J.[Ben-Jia], Jiang, N.[Ning], Lu, Q.[Quan], Zhi, R.C.[Rui-Cong], Liang, Y.Y.[Yan-Yan], Zhang, D.[Du], Wan, J.[Jun],
PMMTalk: Speech-Driven 3D Facial Animation From Complementary Pseudo Multi-Modal Features,
MultMed(27), 2025, pp. 2570-2581.
IEEE DOI 2505
Facial animation, Faces, Visualization, Feature extraction, Face recognition, Solid modeling, Synchronization, Decoding, 3D Chinese Audio-Visual Facial Animation (3D-CAVFA) dataset BibRef


Sinha, S.[Sanjana], Bhowmick, B.[Brojeshwar], Tiwari, L.[Lokender], Chanda, S.[Sushovan],
DisFlowEm: One-Shot Emotional Talking Head Generation Using Disentangled Pose and Expression Flow-Guidance,
WACV25(4841-4851)
IEEE DOI 2505
Head, Accuracy, Image synthesis, Lips, Animation, Synchronization, Faces, Optical flow, Videos, speech driven animation, video synthesis, generative modeling BibRef

Fan, X.[Xulin], Gao, H.[Heting], Chen, Z.[Ziyi], Chang, P.[Peng], Han, M.[Mei], Hasegawa-Johnson, M.[Mark],
SyncDiff: Diffusion-Based Talking Head Synthesis with Bottlenecked Temporal Visual Prior for Improved Synchronization,
WACV25(4554-4563)
IEEE DOI 2505
Training, Visualization, Tracking, Lips, Diffusion processes, Feature extraction, Generators, Synchronization, audiovisual BibRef

Zhang, L.[Lin], Mo, S.T.[Shen-Tong], Zhang, Y.J.[Yi-Jing], Morgado, P.[Pedro],
Audio-synchronized Visual Animation,
ECCV24(XLI: 1-18).
Springer DOI 2412
BibRef

Guan, J.Z.[Jia-Zhi], Xu, Z.L.[Zhi-Liang], Zhou, H.[Hang], Wang, K.Y.[Kaisi-Yuan], He, S.Y.[Sheng-Yi], Zhang, Z.W.[Zhan-Wang], Liang, B.R.[Bo-Rong], Feng, H.C.[Hao-Cheng], Ding, E.[Errui], Liu, J.T.[Jing-Tuo], Wang, J.D.[Jing-Dong], Zhao, Y.J.[You-Jian], Liu, Z.W.[Zi-Wei],
Resyncer: Rewiring Style-based Generator for Unified Audio-Visually Synced Facial Performer,
ECCV24(XLI: 348-367).
Springer DOI 2412
BibRef

Yaman, D.[Dogucan], Eyiokur, F.I.[Fevziye Irem], Bärmann, L.[Leonard], Ekenel, H.K.[Hazim Kemal], Waibel, A.[Alexander],
Audio-driven Talking Face Generation with Stabilized Synchronization Loss,
ECCV24(XIX: 417-435).
Springer DOI 2412
BibRef

Kim, H.K.[Hyung Kyu], Lee, S.[Sangmin], Kim, H.G.[Hak Gu],
Analyzing Visible Articulatory Movements in Speech Production for Speech-Driven 3D Facial Animation,
ICIP24(3575-3579)
IEEE DOI 2411
Visualization, Solid modeling, Analytical models, Lips, Production, Speech-driven 3D facial animation, Lip synchronization, Visible articulatory BibRef

Fernandez-Labrador, C.[Clara], Akçay, M.[Mertcan], Abecassis, E.[Eitan], Massich, J.[Joan], Schroers, C.[Christopher],
DiVAS: Video and Audio Synchronization with Dynamic Frame Rates,
CVPR24(26836-26844)
IEEE DOI 2410
Crops, Production, Media, Predictive models, Transformers, Motion pictures, Robustness BibRef

Peng, Z.Q.[Zi-Qiao], Hu, W.T.[Wen-Tao], Shi, Y.[Yue], Zhu, X.Y.[Xiang-Yu], Zhang, X.M.[Xiao-Mei], Zhao, H.[Hao], He, J.[Jun], Liu, H.Y.[Hong-Yan], Fan, Z.X.[Zhao-Xin],
SyncTalk: The Devil is in the Synchronization for Talking Head Synthesis,
CVPR24(666-676)
IEEE DOI Code:
WWW Link. 2410
Torso, Visualization, Technological innovation, Lips, Neural radiance field, Generative adversarial networks, Audio-driven BibRef

Zhang, C.X.[Chen-Xu], Wang, C.[Chao], Zhao, Y.F.[Yi-Fan], Cheng, S.[Shuo], Luo, L.J.[Lin-Jie], Guo, X.H.[Xiao-Hu],
DR2: Disentangled Recurrent Representation Learning for Data-efficient Speech Video Synthesis,
WACV24(6192-6202)
IEEE DOI 2404
Training, Representation learning, Computational modeling, Training data, Data models, Synchronization, Algorithms, Biometrics BibRef

Gupta, H.[Honey],
Perceptual Synchronization Scoring of Dubbed Content using Phoneme-Viseme Agreement,
VAQuality24(392-402)
IEEE DOI 2404
Correlation, Streaming media, Synchronization, History BibRef

Lee, D.[Dongyeun], Kim, C.[Chaewon], Yu, S.J.[Sang-Joon], Yoo, J.[Jaejun], Park, G.M.[Gyeong-Moon],
RADIO: Reference-Agnostic Dubbing Video Synthesis,
WACV24(4156-4166)
IEEE DOI 2404
Shape, Lips, Modulation, Robustness, Decoding, Synchronization, Mirrors, Algorithms, Computational photography, image and video synthesis BibRef

Sung-Bin, K.[Kim], Hyun, L.[Lee], Hong, D.H.[Da Hye], Nam, S.[Suekyeong], Ju, J.[Janghoon], Oh, T.H.[Tae-Hyun],
LaughTalk: Expressive 3D Talking Head Generation with Laughter,
WACV24(6392-6401)
IEEE DOI 2404
Training, Solid modeling, Lips, Fires, Synchronization, Algorithms, Biometrics, face, gesture, body pose, Algorithms, 3D computer vision BibRef

Mukhopadhyay, S.[Soumik], Suri, S.[Saksham], Gadde, R.T.[Ravi Teja], Shrivastava, A.[Abhinav],
Diff2Lip: Audio Conditioned Diffusion Models for Lip-Synchronization,
WACV24(5280-5290)
IEEE DOI Code:
WWW Link. 2404
Image quality, Measurement, Degradation, Lips, Entertainment industry, Synchronization, Task analysis, Algorithms, image and video synthesis BibRef

Niu, Z.[Zhe], Mak, B.[Brian],
On the Audio-visual Synchronization for Lip-to-Speech Synthesis,
ICCV23(7809-7818)
IEEE DOI 2401
BibRef

Ki, T.[Taekyung], Min, D.[Dongchan],
StyleLipSync: Style-based Personalized Lip-sync Video Generation,
ICCV23(22784-22793)
IEEE DOI 2401
BibRef

Guan, J.Z.[Jia-Zhi], Zhang, Z.W.[Zhan-Wang], Zhou, H.[Hang], Hu, T.S.[Tian-Shu], Wang, K.Y.[Kaisi-Yuan], He, D.L.[Dong-Liang], Feng, H.C.[Hao-Cheng], Liu, J.T.[Jing-Tuo], Ding, E.[Errui], Liu, Z.W.[Zi-Wei], Wang, J.D.[Jing-Dong],
StyleSync: High-Fidelity Generalized and Personalized Lip Sync in Style-Based Generator,
CVPR23(1505-1515)
IEEE DOI 2309
BibRef

Chatziagapi, A.[Aggelina], Athar, S.[ShahRukh], Jain, A.[Abhinav], MV, R.[Rohith], Bhat, V.[Vimal], Samaras, D.[Dimitris],
LipNeRF: What is the right feature space to lip-sync a NeRF?,
FG23(1-8)
IEEE DOI 2303
Geometry, Solid modeling, Visualization, Lips, Face recognition, Lighting BibRef

Gupta, A.[Anchit], Mukhopadhyay, R.[Rudrabha], Balachandra, S.[Sindhu], Khan, F.F.[Faizan Farooq], Namboodiri, V.P.[Vinay P.], Jawahar, C.V.,
Towards Generating Ultra-High Resolution Talking-Face Videos with Lip synchronization,
WACV23(5198-5207)
IEEE DOI 2302
Industries, Shape, Lips, Motion pictures, Generators, Synchronization, Algorithms: Vision + language and/or other modalities, Education BibRef

Zheng, A.[Aihua], Zhu, F.X.[Fei-Xia], Zhu, H.[Hao], Luo, M.[Mandi], He, R.[Ran],
Talking Face Generation via Learning Semantic and Temporal Synchronous Landmarks,
ICPR21(3682-3689)
IEEE DOI 2105
Learning systems, Visualization, Face recognition, Semantics, Mouth, Detectors, Benchmark testing BibRef

Lee, J.Y.[Ji-Young], Chung, S.W.[Soo-Whan], Kim, S.[Sunok], Kang, H.G.[Hong-Goo], Sohn, K.H.[Kwang-Hoon],
Looking into Your Speech: Learning Cross-modal Affinity for Audio-visual Speech Separation,
CVPR21(1336-1345)
IEEE DOI 2111
Visualization, Stability criteria, Speech recognition, Jitter, Delays, Synchronization, Data mining BibRef

Zheng, R.B.[Ruo-Bing], Zhu, Z.[Zhou], Song, B.[Bo], Ji, C.J.[Chang-Jiang],
A Neural Lip-Sync Framework for Synthesizing Photorealistic Virtual News Anchors,
ICPR21(5286-5293)
IEEE DOI 2105
Deep learning, Visualization, Convolution, Lips, Neural networks, Mouth, Rendering (computer graphics), lip sync, virtual anchor, neural rendering BibRef

Kumar, N., Goel, S., Narang, A., Hasan, M.,
Robust One Shot Audio to Video Generation,
DeepVision20(3334-3343)
IEEE DOI 2008
Generators, Adaptation models, Synchronization, Lips, Mouth BibRef

Shalev, Y.[Yoav], Wolf, L.B.[Lior B.],
End to End Lip Synchronization with a Temporal AutoEncoder,
WACV20(330-339)
IEEE DOI 2006
Visualization, Streaming media, Decoding, Lips, Face, Tensile stress, Mouth BibRef

Wang, J., Fang, Z., Zhao, H.,
AlignNet: A Unifying Approach to Audio-Visual Alignment,
WACV20(3298-3306)
IEEE DOI 2006
Feature extraction, Synchronization, Visualization, Task analysis, Training, Rhythm, Face BibRef

Saidi, I., Zhang, L., Barriac, V., Déforges, O.,
Laboratory and Crowdsourcing Studies of Lip Sync Effect on the Audio-Video Quality Assessment for Videoconferencing Application,
ICIP19(3207-3211)
IEEE DOI 1910
Subjective test, crowdsourcing, quality assessment, audio-video synchronization, videoconferencing BibRef

Yu, J.[Jun],
Speech Synchronized Tongue Animation by Combining Physiology Modeling and X-ray Image Fitting,
MMMod17(I: 726-737).
Springer DOI 1701
BibRef

Chung, J.S.[Joon Son], Zisserman, A.[Andrew],
Out of Time: Automated Lip Sync in the Wild,
LipRead16(II: 251-263).
Springer DOI 1704
BibRef

Cadavid, S.[Steven], Abdel-Mottaleb, M.[Mohamed], Messinger, D.S.[Daniel S.], Mahoor, M.H.[Mohammad H.], Bahrick, L.E.[Lorraine E.],
Detecting local audio-visual synchrony in monologues utilizing vocal pitch and facial landmark trajectories,
BMVC09(xx-yy).
PDF File. 0909
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Kumar, K.[Kshitiz], Navratil, J.[Jiri], Marcheret, E.[Etienne], Libal, V.[Vit], Ramaswamy, G.[Ganesh], Potamianos, G.[Gerasimos],
Audio-visual speech synchronization detection using a bimodal linear prediction model,
Biometrics09(53-59).
IEEE DOI 0906
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Melek, Z.[Zeki], Akarun, L.[Lale],
Automated Lip Synchronized Speech Driven Facial Animation,
ICME00(TA1). 0007
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Chen, T.H.[Tsu-Han], Graf, H.P., Haskell, B.G., Petajan, E., Wang, Y.[Yao], Chen, H., Chou, W.[Wu],
Speech-assisted lip synchronization in audio-visual communications,
ICIP95(II: 579-582).
IEEE DOI 9510
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