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You said that? (arxiv.org)
1 point by lainon on May 9, 2017 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Feed it photos of a face and a speech clip, and it builds a video of that face saying those words, learning from raw unlabelled video. It runs in real time and works on faces and voices it never saw in training.

Abstract

We present a method for generating a video of a talking face. The method takes as inputs: (i) still images of the target face, and (ii) an audio speech segment; and outputs a video of the target face lip synched with the audio. The method runs in real time and is applicable to faces and audio not seen at training time. To achieve this we propose an encoder-decoder CNN model that uses a joint embedding of the face and audio to generate synthesised talking face video frames. The model is trained on tens of hours of unlabelled videos. We also show results of re-dubbing videos using speech from a different person.

Joon Son Chung, Amir Jamaludin, Andrew Zisserman
arXiv:1705.02966 · cs.CV · submitted May 8, 2017 · updated Jul 18, 2017
abstract · pdf · html · https://youtu.be/LeufDSb15Kc British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2017

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