# MuVi: Video-to-Music Generation with Semantic Alignment and Rhythmic Synchronization

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12957 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.12957/

## Key facts

- Cited by 14 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 54 of its 65 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 16 Oct 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 54)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.00020/) (2021)
- [An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.11929/) (2020)
- [Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.11239/) (2020)
- [High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10752/) (2021)
- [LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.13971/) (2023)
- [Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.09288/) (2023)
- [Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.09748/) (2022)
- [Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.12598/) (2022)
- [Flow Matching for Generative Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.02747/) (2022)
- [RoFormer: Enhanced Transformer with Rotary Position Embedding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.09864/) (2021)
- [Flow Straight and Fast: Learning to Generate and Transfer Data with Rectified Flow](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.03003/) (2022)
- [FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.14135/) (2022)
- [ViViT: A Video Vision Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.15691/) (2021)
- [Root Mean Square Layer Normalization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.07467/) (2019)
- [VideoMAE: Masked Autoencoders are Data-Efficient Learners for Self-Supervised Video Pre-Training](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.12602/) (2022)
- [HiFi-GAN: Generative Adversarial Networks for Efficient and High Fidelity Speech Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.05646/) (2020)
- [CNN Architectures for Large-Scale Audio Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1609.09430/) (2016)
- [AudioLDM: Text-to-Audio Generation with Latent Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.12503/) (2023)
- [PANNs: Large-Scale Pretrained Audio Neural Networks for Audio Pattern Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.10211/) (2019)
- [Jukebox: A Generative Model for Music](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.00341/) (2020)
- [VideoMAE V2: Scaling Video Masked Autoencoders with Dual Masking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.16727/) (2023)
- [Simple and Controllable Music Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.05284/) (2023)
- [DiffuSeq: Sequence to Sequence Text Generation with Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.08933/) (2022)
- [MusicLM: Generating Music From Text](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.11325/) (2023)
- [Rectified Flow: A Marginal Preserving Approach to Optimal Transport](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.14577/) (2022)
- [Masked Autoencoders that Listen](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.06405/) (2022)
- [Noise2Music: Text-conditioned Music Generation with Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.03917/) (2023)
- [Taming Visually Guided Sound Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.08791/) (2021)
- [Diff-Foley: Synchronized Video-to-Audio Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.17203/) (2023)

## Built on by (most cited first, 14 of 14)

- [AudioX: A Unified Framework for Anything-to-Audio Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.10522/) (2025)
- [AV-Link: Temporally-Aligned Diffusion Features for Cross-Modal Audio-Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.15191/) (2024)
- [HarmonySet: A Comprehensive Dataset for Understanding Video-Music Semantic Alignment and Temporal Synchronization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.01725/) (2025)
- [Zero-Shot Audio-Visual Editing via Cross-Modal Delta Denoising](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.20782/) (2025)
- [A Comprehensive Survey on Generative AI for Video-to-Music Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.12489/) (2025)
- [Vision-to-Music Generation: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.21254/) (2025)
- [Extending Visual Dynamics for Video-to-Music Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.07594/) (2025)
- [Controllable Video-to-Music Generation with Multiple Time-Varying Conditions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.20627/) (2025)
- [V2M-Zero: Zero-Pair Time-Aligned Video-to-Music Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.11042/) (2026)
- [AudioX-Turbo: A Unified Framework for Efficient Anything-to-Audio Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.12555/) (2026)
- [Dialogue-Aware Video-to-Music Generation Using Public Domain Film Collections](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.11576/) (2026)
- [EXPOTION: Facial Expression and Motion Control for Multimodal Music Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.04955/) (2025)
- [NarraScore: Bridging Visual Narrative and Musical Dynamics via Hierarchical Affective Control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.09070/) (2026)
- [JenBridge: Adaptive Long-Form Video Soundtracking across Scene Transitions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.01703/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Generating music that aligns with the visual content of a video has been a challenging task, as it requires a deep understanding of visual semantics and involves generating music whose melody, rhythm, and dynamics harmonize with the visual narratives. This paper presents MuVi, a novel framework that effectively addresses these challenges to enhance the cohesion and immersive experience of audio-visual content. MuVi analyzes video content through a specially designed visual adaptor to extract contextually and temporally relevant features. These features are used to generate music that not only matches the video's mood and theme but also its rhythm and pacing. We also introduce a contrastive music-visual pre-training scheme to ensure synchronization, based on the periodicity nature of music phrases. In addition, we demonstrate that our flow-matching-based music generator has in-context learning ability, allowing us to control the style and genre of the generated music. Experimental results show that MuVi demonstrates superior performance in both audio quality and temporal synchronization. The generated music video samples are available at https://muvi-v2m.github.io.