ResearchResearch paperMultimodal Models · Speech & Audio · Image, Video & 3D Generation1 source · Oct 20, 2026

Edit in Sync: Unified End-to-End Audio-Visual Editing for Human-Centric Videos

Human-centric audio-visual editing requires precise alignment of lip movements, gestures, and expressions with speech.

Key points

  • Existing methods process inputs through independent video and audio pipelines, preventing cross-modal interaction between visual editing and audio dubbing.
  • We present AVE, the first unified end-to-end framework that jointly performs reference-guided person swapping, insertion, and deletion across both audio and video modalities without requiring spatial masks.
  • To overcome data scarcity, we design a synthesis pipeline and introduce AVE-Dataset, the first audio-visual editing dataset to provide 100K pairs with appearance and voice references.
  • AVE outperforms modality-separate audio-visual editing pipelines in editing realism, temporal consistency, and audio-visual alignment.

Sources (1)

  • [1]Edit in Sync: Unified End-to-End Audio-Visual Editing for Human-Centric Videos
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 20, 09:53 AM
    Human-centric audio-visual editing requires precise alignment of lip movements, gestures, and expressions with speech.
    Existing methods process inputs through independent video and audio pipelines, preventing cross-modal interaction between visual editing and audio dubbing.

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