Beyond Lip Sync: Reference-Grounded Oral Refinement for Audio-Driven Portrait Animation

arXiv:2609.38019 · cs.CV · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Code: https://github.com/MRzzm/HDTF

Terminology

• Benchmark — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Diffusion Model — 7× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 6× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Reference-Grounded Oral Refinement — 4× in this paper
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Embeddings — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Model — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation study — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Grounding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adversarial Training — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

Sources

• MultiDiffusion: Fusing Diffusion Paths for Controlled Image Generation
• VideoReTalking: Audio-based Lip Synchronization for Talking Head Video Editing In the Wild
• Generative Adversarial Networks
• Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
• From Inpainting to Editing: Unlocking Robust Mask-Free Visual Dubbing via Generative Bootstrapping
• ReF-LDM: A Latent Diffusion Model for Reference-based Face Image Restoration
• Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial Networks
• Robust Reference-based Super-Resolution via C2-Matching
• Perceptual Losses for Real-Time Style Transfer and Super-Resolution
• Ensembling Off-the-shelf Models for GAN Training
• MaskGAN: Towards Diverse and Interactive Facial Image Manipulation
• LatentSync: Taming Audio-Conditioned Latent Diffusion Models for Lip Sync with SyncNet Supervision
• PhotoMaker: Customizing Realistic Human Photos via Stacked ID Embedding
• Identity-Preserving Video Dubbing Using Motion Warping
• FaceMe: Robust Blind Face Restoration with Personal Identification
• The Contextual Loss for Image Transformation with Non-Aligned Data
• Conditional Generative Adversarial Nets
• cGANs with Projection Discriminator

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