TempoSyncDiff: Distilled Temporally-Consistent Diffusion for Low-Latency Audio-Driven Talking Head Generation
Diffusion models have recently advanced photorealistic human synthesis, although practical talking-head generation (THG) remains constrained by high inference latency, temporal instability such as flicker and identity drift, and imperfect audio-visual alignment under challenging speech conditions. This paper introduces TempoSyncDiff, a reference-conditioned latent diffusion framework that explores few-step inference for efficient audio-driven talking-head generation. The approach adopts a teacher-student distillation formulation in which a diffusion teacher trained with a standard noise prediction objective guides a lightweight student denoiser capable of operating with significantly fewer inference steps to improve generation stability. The framework incorporates identity anchoring and temporal regularization designed to mitigate identity drift and frame-to-frame flicker during synthesis, while viseme-based audio conditioning provides coarse lip motion control. Experiments on the LRS3 dataset report denoising-stage component-level metrics relative to VAE reconstructions and preliminary latency characterization, including CPU-only and edge computing measurements and feasibility estimates for edge deployment. The results suggest that distilled diffusion models can retain much of the reconstruction behaviour of a stronger teacher while enabling substantially lower latency inference. The study is positioned as an initial step toward practical diffusion-based talking-head generation under constrained computational settings. GitHub: https://mazumdarsoumya.github.io/TempoSyncDiff
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