MuseTalk: Real-Time High-Fidelity Video Dubbing via Spatio-Temporal Sampling
About
Real-time video dubbing that preserves identity consistency while achieving accurate lip synchronization remains a critical challenge. Existing approaches face a trilemma: diffusion-based methods achieve high visual fidelity but suffer from prohibitive computational costs, while GAN-based solutions sacrifice lip-sync accuracy or dental details for real-time performance. We present MuseTalk, a novel two-stage training framework that resolves this trade-off through latent space optimization and spatio-temporal data sampling strategy. Our key innovations include: (1) During the Facial Abstract Pretraining stage, we propose Informative Frame Sampling to temporally align reference-source pose pairs, eliminating redundant feature interference while preserving identity cues. (2) In the Lip-Sync Adversarial Finetuning stage, we employ Dynamic Margin Sampling to spatially select the most suitable lip-movement-promoting regions, balancing audio-visual synchronization and dental clarity. (3) MuseTalk establishes an effective audio-visual feature fusion framework in the latent space, delivering 30 FPS output at 256*256 resolution on an NVIDIA V100 GPU. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MuseTalk outperforms state-of-the-art methods in visual fidelity while achieving comparable lip-sync accuracy. %The codes and models will be made publicly available upon acceptance. The code is made available at \href{https://github.com/TMElyralab/MuseTalk}{https://github.com/TMElyralab/MuseTalk}
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talking Head Generation | HDTF (test) | FID27.91 | 73 | |
| Talking Head Generation | HDTF | FID7.25 | 48 | |
| Talking Head Generation | TalkVid self-driven 30 clips (held-out) | FVD136.2 | 16 | |
| Talking Head Generation | CelebV-HQ | FID8.37 | 15 | |
| Lip synchronization | HDTF 52 (test) | Sync-C7.94 | 12 | |
| Talking Face Generation | MEAD Neutral | LSE-C3.55 | 10 | |
| Video-to-Video lip-syncing | TalkVid Self-Reenactment | FID47.78 | 9 | |
| Audio-driven Lip Synchronization | HDTF (Cross-identity) | Sync-C Score6.43 | 8 | |
| Lip synchronization | HDTF | FID8.759 | 8 | |
| Lip synchronization | AIGC-LipSync | FID17.668 | 8 |