In plain words: A network turns a person's raw speech waveform straight into a face image, learning from videos where the voice and face are naturally in sync. Unlike usual setups, it needs no reference photo or identity label to draw the speaker.
Abstract · Wav2Pix: Speech-conditioned Face Generation using Generative Adversarial Networks
Speech is a rich biometric signal that contains information about the identity, gender and emotional state of the speaker. In this work, we explore its potential to generate face images of a speaker by conditioning a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) with raw speech input. We propose a deep neural network that is trained from scratch in an end-to-end fashion, generating a face directly from the raw speech waveform without any additional identity information (e.g reference image or one-hot encoding). Our model is trained in a self-supervised approach by exploiting the audio and visual signals naturally aligned in videos. With the purpose of training from video data, we present a novel dataset collected for this work, with high-quality videos of youtubers with notable expressiveness in both the speech and visual signals.
Amanda Duarte, Francisco Roldan, Miquel Tubau, Janna Escur, Santiago Pascual, Amaia Salvador, Eva Mohedano, Kevin McGuinness, Jordi Torres, Xavier Giro-i-Nieto
arXiv:1903.10195 · cs.MM, cs.CV · submitted Mar 25, 2019
abstract · pdf · html · ICASSP 2019. Projevct website at https://imatge-upc.github.io/wav2pix/