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OmniSync: Towards Universal Lip Synchronization via Diffusion Transformers

arXiv 2505.21448 ↗First posted 27 May 2025cs.CVcited by 27

On the map: Diffusion models → Audio, speech and music

Abstract (arXiv)

Lip synchronization is the task of aligning a speaker's lip movements in video with corresponding speech audio, and it is essential for creating realistic, expressive video content. However, existing methods often rely on reference frames and masked-frame inpainting, which limit their robustness to identity consistency, pose variations, facial occlusions, and stylized content. In addition, since audio signals provide weaker conditioning than visual cues, lip shape leakage from the original video will affect lip sync quality. In this paper, we present OmniSync, a universal lip synchronization framework for diverse visual scenarios. Our approach introduces a mask-free training paradigm using Diffusion Transformer models for direct frame editing without explicit masks, enabling unlimited-duration inference while maintaining natural facial dynamics and preserving character identity. During inference, we propose a flow-matching-based progressive noise initialization to ensure pose and identity consistency, while allowing precise mouth-region editing. To address the weak conditioning signal of audio, we develop a Dynamic Spatiotemporal Classifier-Free Guidance (DS-CFG) mechanism that adaptively adjusts guidance strength over time and space. We also establish the AIGC-LipSync Benchmark, the first evaluation suite for lip synchronization in diverse AI-generated videos. Extensive experiments demonstrate that OmniSync significantly outperforms prior methods in both visual quality and lip sync accuracy, achieving superior results in both real-world and AI-generated videos.

Key facts. Cited by 27 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Audio, speech and music, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 45 of its 57 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 27 May 2025.

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  6. 2023Diff2Lip: Audio Conditioned Diffusion Models for Lip-Synchronization18 Aug
  7. 2023Diffused Heads: Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Talking-Face Generation6 Jan

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  3. 2026OmniHuman: A Large-scale Dataset and Benchmark for Human-Centric Video Generationcited by 3
  4. 2026OmniDance: Multimodal Driven Dance Video Generation with Large-scale Internet Datacited by 3
  5. 2025SyncAnyone: Implicit Disentanglement via Progressive Self-Correction for Lip-Syncing in the wildcited by 2
  6. 2026EditYourself: Audio-Driven Generation and Manipulation of Talking Head Videos with Diffusion Transformerscited by 2
  7. 2026Lip Forcing: Few-Step Autoregressive Diffusion for Real-time Lip Synchronizationcited by 2
  8. 2025Assessing Identity Leakage in Talking Face Generation: Metrics and Evaluation Frameworkcited by 1
  9. 2026InterDyad: Interactive Dyadic Speech-to-Video Generation by Querying Intermediate Visual Guidancecited by 1
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  11. 2026UniSync: Towards Generalizable and High-Fidelity Lip Synchronization for Challenging Scenarioscited by 0
  12. 2026SyncEdit: Rethinking Lip Synchronization as Editing with Audio-Driven Diffusion Modelscited by 0
  13. 2026Multimodal Large Language Model-Enabled Video Translation: A Role-Oriented Surveycited by 0
  14. 2026ComplexSync: High-Fidelity and Real-Time Lip Sync in Complex Scenarioscited by 0
  15. 2026Ariadne's Thread of LipSync: Unraveling Forgeries via Inconsistency between Lip Motions and Head Posescited by 0

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