In plain words: It turns a teacher's new audio narration into a realistic headshot lecture video of any length by first guessing head poses from the speech, then building the frames. Unlike earlier systems that mix in hand-built steps, every part is learned from data.
Abstract · LumièreNet: Lecture Video Synthesis from Audio
We present LumièreNet, a simple, modular, and completely deep-learning based architecture that synthesizes, high quality, full-pose headshot lecture videos from instructor's new audio narration of any length. Unlike prior works, LumièreNet is entirely composed of trainable neural network modules to learn mapping functions from the audio to video through (intermediate) estimated pose-based compact and abstract latent codes. Our video demos are available at [22] and [23].
Byung-Hak Kim, Varun Ganapathi
arXiv:1907.02253 · cs.LG, cs.CV, eess.AS, stat.ML · submitted Jul 4, 2019
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