MegActor-Σ: Unlocking Flexible Mixed-Modal Control in Portrait Animation with Diffusion Transformer

Shurong Yang^*, Huadong Li^*, Juhao Wu^*, Minhao Jing^*, Linze Li, Renhe Ji^‡, Jiajun Liang^‡, Haoqiang Fan

MEGVII Technology

^*Equal contribution ^‡Corresponding author

News & TODO List

• [🔥🔥🔥 2024.12.11] The data process pipeline of MegActor-Sigma is released.
• [🎉🎉🎉 2024.12.10] MegActor-Sigma has been accepted by AAAI 2025!
• [🔥🔥🔥 2024.10.14] The weight and code of MegActor-Sigma based on SD1.5 is released.
• [🔥🔥🔥 2024.08.28] Arxiv MegActor-Sigma paper are released.
• [✨✨✨ 2024.07.02] For ease of replication, we provide a 10-minute dataset available on Google Drive, which should yield satisfactory performance..
• [🔥🔥🔥 2024.06.25] Training setup released. Please refer to Training for details.
• [🔥🔥🔥 2024.06.25] Integrated into OpenBayes, see the demo. Thank OpenBayes team!
• [🔥🔥🔥 2024.06.17] Demo Gradio Online are released .
• [🔥🔥🔥 2024.06.13] Data curation pipeline are released .
• [🔥🔥🔥 2024.05.31] Arxiv MegActor paper are released.
• [🔥🔥🔥 2024.05.24] Inference settings are released.

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Overview

Diffusion models have demonstrated superior performance in the field of portrait animation. However, current approaches relied on either visual or audio modality to control character movements, failing to exploit the potential of mixed-modal control. This challenge arises from the difficulty in balancing the weak control strength of audio modality and the strong control strength of visual modality.

To address this issue, we introduce MegActor-Σ: a mixed-modal conditional diffusion transformer (DiT), which can flexibly inject audio and visual modality control signals into portrait animation. Specifically, we make substantial advancements over its predecessor, MegActor, by leveraging the promising model structure of DiT and integrating audio and visual conditions through advanced modules within the DiT framework. To further achieve flexible combinations of mixed-modal control signals, we propose a "Modality Decoupling Control" training strategy to balance the control strength between visual and audio modalities, along with the "Amplitude Adjustment" inference strategy to freely regulate the motion amplitude of each modality.

Finally, to facilitate extensive studies in this field, we design several dataset evaluation metrics to filter out public datasets and solely use this filtered dataset to train MegActor-Σ.

Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of our approach in generating vivid portrait animations, outperforming previous closed-source methods.

The training code, model checkpoint and filtered dataset will be released, hoping to help further develop the open-source community.

Preparation

• Environments

  Detailed environment settings should be found with env_sigma.yml

  • Linux

    conda env create -f env_sigma.yml
    pip install -U openmim
    
    mim install mmengine
    mim install "mmcv>=2.0.1"
    mim install "mmdet>=3.1.0"
    mim install "mmpose>=1.1.0"
    
    conda install -c conda-forge cudatoolkit-dev -y
    submodule update detectron2/
    

• Dataset.

  Data process pipeline is coming soon.

• Pretrained weights

  Please find our pretrained weights at https://huggingface.co/HVSiniX/RawVideoDriven. Or simply use

  git clone https://huggingface.co/HVSiniX/RawVideoDriven && ln -s RawVideoDriven/weights weights

Training

We support 3-stage training on single node machines.

Stage1(Audio training):

bash train.sh train.py ./configs/train/megactor-sigma/train_stage1.yaml {number of gpus on this node}

Stage2(Visual training):

bash train.sh train.py ./configs/train/megactor-sigma/train_stage2.yaml {number of gpus on this node}

Stage3(Motion training):

bash train.sh train.py ./configs/train/megactor-sigma/train_stage3.yaml {number of gpus on this node}

Inference

single-pair generation

python eval_audio.py --config configs/inference/megactor-sigma/inference.yaml --output-path ./generated_result/--num-steps 25 --guidance-scale 2 --source {source_path} --driver {driver_path}

multi-pair generation

Specify source and driver paths in corresponding config file.

python eval_audio.py --config configs/inference/megactor-sigma/inference.yaml --output-path ./generated_result/--num-steps 25 --guidance-scale 2

Demo

For gradio interface, please run

python demo/run_gradio.py

BibTeX

@misc{yang2024megactorsigmaunlockingflexiblemixedmodal,
      title={MegActor-$\Sigma$: Unlocking Flexible Mixed-Modal Control in Portrait Animation with Diffusion Transformer}, 
      author={Shurong Yang and Huadong Li and Juhao Wu and Minhao Jing and Linze Li and Renhe Ji and Jiajun Liang and Haoqiang Fan and Jin Wang},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2408.14975},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14975}, 
}
@misc{yang2024megactor,
      title={MegActor: Harness the Power of Raw Video for Vivid Portrait Animation}, 
      author={Shurong Yang and Huadong Li and Juhao Wu and Minhao Jing and Linze Li and Renhe Ji and Jiajun Liang and Haoqiang Fan},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2405.20851},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}

Acknowledgement

Many thanks to the authors of mmengine, MagicAnimate, Controlnet_aux, and Detectron2.

Contact

If you have any questions, feel free to open an issue or contact us at [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected].

If you're seeking an internship and are interested in our work, please send your resume to [email protected] or [email protected].

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