MMAudio: Taming Multimodal Joint Training for High-Quality Video-to-Audio Synthesis
About
We propose to synthesize high-quality and synchronized audio, given video and optional text conditions, using a novel multimodal joint training framework MMAudio. In contrast to single-modality training conditioned on (limited) video data only, MMAudio is jointly trained with larger-scale, readily available text-audio data to learn to generate semantically aligned high-quality audio samples. Additionally, we improve audio-visual synchrony with a conditional synchronization module that aligns video conditions with audio latents at the frame level. Trained with a flow matching objective, MMAudio achieves new video-to-audio state-of-the-art among public models in terms of audio quality, semantic alignment, and audio-visual synchronization, while having a low inference time (1.23s to generate an 8s clip) and just 157M parameters. MMAudio also achieves surprisingly competitive performance in text-to-audio generation, showing that joint training does not hinder single-modality performance. Code and demo are available at: https://hkchengrex.github.io/MMAudio
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text-to-Audio Generation | AudioCaps (test) | KL Divergence1.37 | 213 | |
| Video-to-Audio Generation | VGGSound (test) | FAD0.97 | 95 | |
| Video-to-Audio Generation | VGGSound | FD_VGG0.97 | 32 | |
| Text-to-Audio | AudioCaps | FD (OpenL3)12.63 | 27 | |
| Video-to-Audio | VGGSound (test) | IB-score33.99 | 25 | |
| Joint audio-video generation | JavisBench 1.0 (test) | AV-IB0.198 | 18 | |
| Text-to-Audio Instruction Following | AudioTime | Ordering Accuracy98 | 18 | |
| Text-to-Audio Instruction Following | T2ABench | Count Accuracy (Cnt-acc)4.8 | 18 | |
| Text-to-Audio Generation | VGGSound | Fréchet Audio Distance (FAD)2.5 | 14 | |
| Text-to-Sounding-Video Generation | AVSync15 | FVD828.3 | 13 |