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Text-based Editing of Talking-head Video

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Fried, Ohad, Tewari, Ayush, Zollhöfer, Michael, Finkelstein, Adam, Shechtman, Eli, Goldman, Dan B, Genova, Kyle, Jin, Zeyu +2 more·2019·ACM Transactions on Graphics

Abstract

Editing talking-head video to change the speech content or to remove filler words is challenging. We propose a novel method to edit talking-head video based on its transcript to produce a realistic output video in which the dialogue of the speaker has been modified, while maintaining a seamless audio-visual flow (i.e. no jump cuts). Our method automatically annotates an input talking-head video with phonemes, visemes, 3D face pose and geometry, reflectance, expression and scene illumination per frame. To edit a video, the user has to only edit the transcript, and an optimization strategy then chooses segments of the input corpus as base material. The annotated parameters corresponding to the selected segments are seamlessly stitched together and used to produce an intermediate video representation in which the lower half of the face is rendered with a parametric face model. Finally, a recurrent video generation network transforms this representation to a photorealistic video that matches the edited transcript. We demonstrate a large variety of edits, such as the addition, removal, and alteration of words, as well as convincing language translation and full sentence synthesis.

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  • In ForgeryNet, fake images are manipulated using 15 different manipulations while videos are manipulated using only 8 of them.

    “The fake images are manipulated using 15 different manipulations while the videos are manipulated using only 8 of them [27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36].”

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Authors
Fried, O., Tewari, A., Zollhöfer, M., Finkelstein, A., Shechtman, E., Goldman, D. B., Genova, K., Jin, Z., Theobalt, C., & Agrawala, M.
Affiliations
  • Stanford University (US)
  • Max Planck Institute for Informatics (DE)
  • Princeton University (US)
  • Adobe Systems (United States) (US)
Venue
ACM Transactions on Graphics
Published
2019-07-12
Volume
38
Issue
4
Pages
1-14
ISSN
  • 0730-0301 (ISSN-L)
  • 1557-7368
OpenAlex
W2948284812
Cited by
270
References
73
Citations by year
2026: 14 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 36 · 2023: 51 · 2022: 46 · 2021: 47 · 2020: 39 · 2019: 7
FWCI
15.55
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • ACM Transactions on Graphics (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • Adobe Systems
  • European Research Council (Consolidator Grant 4DRepLy #770784)
  • Princeton University
  • Brown Institute for Media Innovation
  • National Science Foundation (NSF GRFP #DGE-1656466)
  • Office of the Dean for Research, Princeton University
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Signal Processing › Speech and Audio Processing
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Face recognition and analysis
Keywords
speech modification, face geometry, reflectance estimation, facial expression estimation, video generation, speech translation, speech synthesis

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