MirrorMe: Towards Realtime and High Fidelity Audio-Driven Halfbody Animation

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Main Authors: Meng, Dechao, Xiao, Steven, Zhang, Xindi, Wang, Guangyuan, Zhang, Peng, Wang, Qi, Zhang, Bang, Bo, Liefeng
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author Meng, Dechao
Xiao, Steven
Zhang, Xindi
Wang, Guangyuan
Zhang, Peng
Wang, Qi
Zhang, Bang
Bo, Liefeng
author_facet Meng, Dechao
Xiao, Steven
Zhang, Xindi
Wang, Guangyuan
Zhang, Peng
Wang, Qi
Zhang, Bang
Bo, Liefeng
contents Audio-driven portrait animation, which synthesizes realistic videos from reference images using audio signals, faces significant challenges in real-time generation of high-fidelity, temporally coherent animations. While recent diffusion-based methods improve generation quality by integrating audio into denoising processes, their reliance on frame-by-frame UNet architectures introduces prohibitive latency and struggles with temporal consistency. This paper introduces MirrorMe, a real-time, controllable framework built on the LTX video model, a diffusion transformer that compresses video spatially and temporally for efficient latent space denoising. To address LTX's trade-offs between compression and semantic fidelity, we propose three innovations: 1. A reference identity injection mechanism via VAE-encoded image concatenation and self-attention, ensuring identity consistency; 2. A causal audio encoder and adapter tailored to LTX's temporal structure, enabling precise audio-expression synchronization; and 3. A progressive training strategy combining close-up facial training, half-body synthesis with facial masking, and hand pose integration for enhanced gesture control. Extensive experiments on the EMTD Benchmark demonstrate MirrorMe's state-of-the-art performance in fidelity, lip-sync accuracy, and temporal stability.
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spellingShingle MirrorMe: Towards Realtime and High Fidelity Audio-Driven Halfbody Animation
Meng, Dechao
Xiao, Steven
Zhang, Xindi
Wang, Guangyuan
Zhang, Peng
Wang, Qi
Zhang, Bang
Bo, Liefeng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Audio-driven portrait animation, which synthesizes realistic videos from reference images using audio signals, faces significant challenges in real-time generation of high-fidelity, temporally coherent animations. While recent diffusion-based methods improve generation quality by integrating audio into denoising processes, their reliance on frame-by-frame UNet architectures introduces prohibitive latency and struggles with temporal consistency. This paper introduces MirrorMe, a real-time, controllable framework built on the LTX video model, a diffusion transformer that compresses video spatially and temporally for efficient latent space denoising. To address LTX's trade-offs between compression and semantic fidelity, we propose three innovations: 1. A reference identity injection mechanism via VAE-encoded image concatenation and self-attention, ensuring identity consistency; 2. A causal audio encoder and adapter tailored to LTX's temporal structure, enabling precise audio-expression synchronization; and 3. A progressive training strategy combining close-up facial training, half-body synthesis with facial masking, and hand pose integration for enhanced gesture control. Extensive experiments on the EMTD Benchmark demonstrate MirrorMe's state-of-the-art performance in fidelity, lip-sync accuracy, and temporal stability.
title MirrorMe: Towards Realtime and High Fidelity Audio-Driven Halfbody Animation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22065