DiffSpeaker: Speech-Driven 3D Facial Animation with Diffusion Transformer

Fuente: arXiv
Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Ma, Zhiyuan, Zhu, Xiangyu, Qi, Guojun, Qian, Chen, Zhang, Zhaoxiang, Lei, Zhen
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2024
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
_version_ 1866929237927133184
author Ma, Zhiyuan
Zhu, Xiangyu
Qi, Guojun
Qian, Chen
Zhang, Zhaoxiang
Lei, Zhen
author_facet Ma, Zhiyuan
Zhu, Xiangyu
Qi, Guojun
Qian, Chen
Zhang, Zhaoxiang
Lei, Zhen
contents Speech-driven 3D facial animation is important for many multimedia applications. Recent work has shown promise in using either Diffusion models or Transformer architectures for this task. However, their mere aggregation does not lead to improved performance. We suspect this is due to a shortage of paired audio-4D data, which is crucial for the Transformer to effectively perform as a denoiser within the Diffusion framework. To tackle this issue, we present DiffSpeaker, a Transformer-based network equipped with novel biased conditional attention modules. These modules serve as substitutes for the traditional self/cross-attention in standard Transformers, incorporating thoughtfully designed biases that steer the attention mechanisms to concentrate on both the relevant task-specific and diffusion-related conditions. We also explore the trade-off between accurate lip synchronization and non-verbal facial expressions within the Diffusion paradigm. Experiments show our model not only achieves state-of-the-art performance on existing benchmarks, but also fast inference speed owing to its ability to generate facial motions in parallel.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2402_05712
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle DiffSpeaker: Speech-Driven 3D Facial Animation with Diffusion Transformer
Ma, Zhiyuan
Zhu, Xiangyu
Qi, Guojun
Qian, Chen
Zhang, Zhaoxiang
Lei, Zhen
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Speech-driven 3D facial animation is important for many multimedia applications. Recent work has shown promise in using either Diffusion models or Transformer architectures for this task. However, their mere aggregation does not lead to improved performance. We suspect this is due to a shortage of paired audio-4D data, which is crucial for the Transformer to effectively perform as a denoiser within the Diffusion framework. To tackle this issue, we present DiffSpeaker, a Transformer-based network equipped with novel biased conditional attention modules. These modules serve as substitutes for the traditional self/cross-attention in standard Transformers, incorporating thoughtfully designed biases that steer the attention mechanisms to concentrate on both the relevant task-specific and diffusion-related conditions. We also explore the trade-off between accurate lip synchronization and non-verbal facial expressions within the Diffusion paradigm. Experiments show our model not only achieves state-of-the-art performance on existing benchmarks, but also fast inference speed owing to its ability to generate facial motions in parallel.
title DiffSpeaker: Speech-Driven 3D Facial Animation with Diffusion Transformer
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05712