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SyncFlow: Creating Audio and Video in Harmony

SyncFlow merges audio and video generation for seamless content creation.

Haohe Liu, Gael Le Lan, Xinhao Mei, Zhaoheng Ni, Anurag Kumar, Varun Nagaraja, Wenwu Wang, Mark D. Plumbley, Yangyang Shi, Vikas Chandra

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Creating Audio and video together from text has been a tough nut to crack. While we have great tools to create either one at a time, making them work together smoothly has been tricky. This is where SyncFlow steps in, aiming to blend audio and video into a harmonious dance, rather than having them waltz separately.

The Problem with Previous Methods

In the past, generating audio or video from text usually meant doing each part one after the other. Imagine trying to bake a cake by mixing the ingredients after you’ve already baked the layers. Sounds messy, right? This approach often led to missed connections between the two, just like trying to make a phone call while playing the piano.

Some researchers tried to change this by making models that do both together. However, these models could only do so by sticking to particular styles or domains, like only creating dance Videos. This left a lot of untapped potential for creating a variety of content, and that’s something SyncFlow seeks to change.

Introducing SyncFlow

SyncFlow is like a digital chef, blending audio and video ingredients together from a recipe (in this case, text). What makes SyncFlow special is its dual-diffusion-transformer architecture, which allows it to build both audio and video at the same time, ensuring they are in sync.

How SyncFlow Works

SyncFlow sets up a system where it can break down the process into two parts. First, it learns to create individual parts – audio and video. Once that’s done, it combines them into one final dish, making sure everything is in harmony. This two-step cooking method helps keep things efficient without needing endless data that can slow down the process.

The magic happens in the model’s use of latent representations, which are like shorthand versions of the audio and video. By using these compressed versions, SyncFlow can work faster and more effectively, focusing on the essential details rather than drowning in the data.

The Training Process

Like any good recipe, training SyncFlow took a bit of preparation. It started with separate learning phases: first for video and then for audio. This allows each part to get a good grasp of what they need to do. Afterward, everything is fine-tuned together, ensuring that both audio and video know what the other is doing.

Data Efficiency

One of the best parts about SyncFlow is that it doesn’t need heaps of data to get started. It can learn from smaller batches of data, which is a good thing since getting lots of videos and audio paired together can be a hassle. With its innovative training method, SyncFlow becomes quite the efficient little worker bee.

Performance and Results

When put to the test, SyncFlow has shown impressive results, outperforming older methods that tried to do things in a more traditional way. It can generate clear, high-quality content that is well synchronized, making it a step above its predecessors.

Zero-shot Learning

Another cool feature of SyncFlow is its zero-shot learning ability. This means it can adapt quickly to new video types and resolutions without needing extra training. It’s like a seasoned chef who can whip up a dish they’ve never made before with just a bit of guidance. This opens up a world of possibilities for creating various media types from text, making it versatile and adaptable.

The Importance of Synchronized Audio and Video

Imagine watching a movie where the dialogue and sound effects don't match up with the visuals. It would be confusing and perhaps a bit funny in a cringe-worthy way. SyncFlow solves this problem by ensuring that audio and video are created together, leading to a natural flow that feels right. This synchronized production enhances the overall viewing experience, providing the audience with a seamless blend of sound and sight.

Conclusion

In a world where the demand for engaging content is skyrocketing, SyncFlow presents a fresh approach to generating audio and video. By learning to create both at the same time and ensuring they work together nicely, SyncFlow sets a new standard in content creation. Its efficiency, adaptability, and coordination can pave the way for more innovative uses in entertainment, education, and beyond.

So, as we embrace this new tool, we may just find ourselves enjoying a future filled with media that is not only engaging but also harmonious, making each experience more delightful. SyncFlow is ready to take the stage, and it’s certainly one to watch!

Original Source

Title: SyncFlow: Toward Temporally Aligned Joint Audio-Video Generation from Text

Abstract: Video and audio are closely correlated modalities that humans naturally perceive together. While recent advancements have enabled the generation of audio or video from text, producing both modalities simultaneously still typically relies on either a cascaded process or multi-modal contrastive encoders. These approaches, however, often lead to suboptimal results due to inherent information losses during inference and conditioning. In this paper, we introduce SyncFlow, a system that is capable of simultaneously generating temporally synchronized audio and video from text. The core of SyncFlow is the proposed dual-diffusion-transformer (d-DiT) architecture, which enables joint video and audio modelling with proper information fusion. To efficiently manage the computational cost of joint audio and video modelling, SyncFlow utilizes a multi-stage training strategy that separates video and audio learning before joint fine-tuning. Our empirical evaluations demonstrate that SyncFlow produces audio and video outputs that are more correlated than baseline methods with significantly enhanced audio quality and audio-visual correspondence. Moreover, we demonstrate strong zero-shot capabilities of SyncFlow, including zero-shot video-to-audio generation and adaptation to novel video resolutions without further training.

Authors: Haohe Liu, Gael Le Lan, Xinhao Mei, Zhaoheng Ni, Anurag Kumar, Varun Nagaraja, Wenwu Wang, Mark D. Plumbley, Yangyang Shi, Vikas Chandra

Last Update: 2024-12-03 00:00:00

Language: English

Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15220

Source PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.15220

Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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