# Linking Faces and Voices Across Languages: Insights from the FAME 2026 Challenge

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20376 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.20376/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 16 of its 22 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 23 Dec 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 16 of 16)

- [Seeing Voices and Hearing Faces: Cross-modal biometric matching](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.00326/) (2018)
- [Learnable PINs: Cross-Modal Embeddings for Person Identity](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1805.00833/) (2018)
- [Utterance-level Aggregation For Speaker Recognition In The Wild](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1902.10107/) (2019)
- [Fusion and Orthogonal Projection for Improved Face-Voice Association](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10483/) (2021)
- [Cross-modal Speaker Verification and Recognition: A Multilingual Perspective](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.13780/) (2020)
- [Audio-visual Speaker Recognition with a Cross-modal Discriminative Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.03894/) (2020)
- [Deep Latent Space Learning for Cross-modal Mapping of Audio and Visual Signals](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.08685/) (2019)
- [Single-branch Network for Multimodal Training](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.06129/) (2023)
- [Speaker Recognition in Realistic Scenario Using Multimodal Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.13033/) (2023)
- [PAEFF: Precise Alignment and Enhanced Gated Feature Fusion for Face-Voice Association](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.17002/) (2025)
- [Face-voice Association in Multilingual Environments (FAME) 2026 Challenge Evaluation Plan](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.04592/) (2025)
- [Face-voice Association in Multilingual Environments (FAME) Challenge 2024 Evaluation Plan](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.09342/) (2024)
- [Towards Language-Independent Face-Voice Association with Multimodal Foundation Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.02759/) (2025)
- [Shared Multi-modal Embedding Space for Face-Voice Association](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.04814/) (2025)
- [RFOP: Rethinking Fusion and Orthogonal Projection for Face-Voice Association](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.02860/) (2025)
- [XM-ALIGN: Unified Cross-Modal Embedding Alignment for Face-Voice Association](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.06757/) (2025)

## Built on by (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [Face-Voice Association with Inductive Bias for Maximum Class Separation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.13651/) (2026)
- [POLY-SIM: Polyglot Speaker Identification with Missing Modality Grand Challenge 2026 Evaluation Plan](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.24569/) (2026)
- [AMR: Adaptive Modality Routing for Multimodal Polyglot Speaker Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.29335/) (2026)
- [Learning Speaker Identity Beyond Language and Modality Constraints: Insights from the POLY-SIM 2026 Challenge](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.13669/) (2026)
- [Face-voice Association across LAnguages and Gender (FLAG) 2027 Challenge Evaluation Plan](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.17913/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Over half of the world's population is bilingual and people often communicate under multilingual scenarios. The Face-Voice Association in Multilingual Environments (FAME) 2026 Challenge, held at ICASSP 2026, focuses on developing methods for face-voice association that are effective when the language at test-time is different than the training one. This report provides a brief summary of the challenge.