Cross-Modal Emotion Transfer for Emotion Editing in Talking Face Video
Choi, Chanhyuk, Kim, Taesoo, Lee, Donggyu, Jung, Siyeol, Kim, Taehwan
原文摘要
Talking face generation has gained significant attention as a core application of generative models.To enhance the expressiveness and realism of synthesized videos, emotion editing in talking face video plays a crucial role.However, existing approaches often limit expressive flexibility and struggle to generate extended emotions.Label-based methods represent emotions with discrete categories, which fail to capture a wide range of emotions.Audio-based methods can leverage emotionally rich speech signals--and even benefit from expressive text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis--but they fail to express the target emotions because emotions and linguistic contents are entangled in emotional speeches.Images-based methods, on the other hand, rely on target reference images to guide emotion transfer, yet they require high-quality frontal views and face challenges in acquiring reference data for extended emotions (e.g., sarcasm).To address these limitations, we propose Cross-Modal Emotion Transfer (C-MET), a novel approach that generates facial expressions based on speeches by modeling emotion semantic vectors between speech and visual feature spaces.C-MET leverages a large-scale pretrained audio encoder and a disentangled facial expression encoder to learn emotion semantic vectors that represent the difference between two different emotional embeddings across modalities.Extensive experiments on the MEAD and CREMA-D datasets demonstrate that our method improves emotion accuracy by 14% over state-of-the-art methods, while generating expressive talking face videos--even for unseen extended emotions. Code, checkpoint, and demo are available at https://chanhyeok-choi.github.io/C-MET/.
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Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2026 · 正式发表