Synchronized Video-to-Audio Generation via Mel Quantization-Continuum Decomposition

CVPR 2025

1 Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2 Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group,
* equal contribution, † project lead, ‡ corresponding author

Abstract

Video-to-audio generation is essential for synthesizing realistic audio tracks that synchronize effectively with silent videos. Following the perspective of extracting essential signals from videos that can precisely control the mature text-to-audio generative diffusion models, this paper presents how to balance the representation of mel-spectrograms in terms of completeness and complexity through a new approach called Mel Quantization-Continuum Decomposition (Mel-QCD). We decompose the mel-spectrogram into three distinct types of signals, employing quantization or continuity to them, we can effectively predict them from video by a devised video-to-all (V2X) predictor. Then, the predicted signals are recomposed and fed into a ControlNet, along with a textual inversion design, to control the audio generation process. Our proposed Mel-QCD method demonstrates state-of-the-art performance across eight metrics, evaluating dimensions such as quality, synchronization, and semantic consistency.

Comparison on AVSync-15

Ground Truth

Foley Crafter

VTA-LDM

Ours Results



Comparison on VGGSound

Ground Truth

Foley Crafter

VTA-LDM

Ours Results



Audio Synthesis for Anime



Audio Synthesis for Game


* These eight samples (anime and game videos) are sourced from the internet and are intended for academic research and effect demonstration purpose only. If there is any copyright infringement, please contact us (jc2830.wang@connect.polyu.hk), and we will take them down.

BibTeX

@article{wang2025synchronized,
      title={Synchronized Video-to-Audio Generation via Mel Quantization-Continuum Decomposition},
      author={Wang, Juncheng and Xu, Chao and Yu, Cheng and Shang, Lei and Hu, Zhe and Wang, Shujun and Bo, Liefeng},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.06984},
      year={2025}
    }