MMAudio/README.md

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  <h2>MMAudio</h2>
  <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15322">Paper</a> | <a href="https://hkchengrex.github.io/MMAudio">Webpage</a> | <a href="https://huggingface.co/hkchengrex/MMAudio/tree/main">Models</a> | <a href="https://huggingface.co/spaces/hkchengrex/MMAudio"> Huggingface Demo</a> | <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1TAaXCY2-kPk4xE4PwKB3EqFbSnkUuzZ8?usp=sharing">Colab Demo</a> | <a href="https://replicate.com/zsxkib/mmaudio">Replicate Demo</a>
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## [Taming Multimodal Joint Training for High-Quality Video-to-Audio Synthesis](https://hkchengrex.github.io/MMAudio)

[Ho Kei Cheng](https://hkchengrex.github.io/), [Masato Ishii](https://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?user=RRIO1CcAAAAJ), [Akio Hayakawa](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sXAjHFIAAAAJ), [Takashi Shibuya](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XCRO260AAAAJ), [Alexander Schwing](https://www.alexander-schwing.de/), [Yuki Mitsufuji](https://www.yukimitsufuji.com/)

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Sony AI, and Sony Group Corporation

## Highlight

MMAudio generates synchronized audio given video and/or text inputs.
Our key innovation is multimodal joint training which allows training on a wide range of audio-visual and audio-text datasets.
Moreover, a synchronization module aligns the generated audio with the video frames.

## Results

(All audio from our algorithm MMAudio)

Videos from Sora:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/82afd192-0cee-48a1-86ca-bd39b8c8f330

Videos from Veo 2:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8a11419e-fee2-46e0-9e67-dfb03c48d00e

Videos from MovieGen/Hunyuan Video/VGGSound:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/29230d4e-21c1-4cf8-a221-c28f2af6d0ca

For more results, visit https://hkchengrex.com/MMAudio/video_main.html.





## Installation



We have only tested this on Ubuntu.



### Prerequisites



We recommend using a [miniforge](https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge) environment.



- Python 3.9+

- PyTorch **2.5.1+** and corresponding torchvision/torchaudio (pick your CUDA version https://pytorch.org/, pip install recommended)

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**1. Install prerequisite if not yet met:**



```bash

pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118 --upgrade

```



(Or any other CUDA versions that your GPUs/driver support)



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conda install -c conda-forge 'ffmpeg<7

```

(Optional, if you use miniforge and don't already have the appropriate ffmpeg) -->



**2. Clone our repository:**



```bash

git clone https://github.com/hkchengrex/MMAudio.git

```



**3. Install with pip (install pytorch first before attempting this!):**



```bash

cd MMAudio

pip install -e .

```



(If you encounter the File "setup.py" not found error, upgrade your pip with pip install --upgrade pip)





**Pretrained models:**



The models will be downloaded automatically when you run the demo script. MD5 checksums are provided in `mmaudio/utils/download_utils.py`.
The models are also available at https://huggingface.co/hkchengrex/MMAudio/tree/main
See [MODELS.md](docs/MODELS.md) for more details.

## Demo

By default, these scripts use the `large_44k_v2` model. 
In our experiments, inference only takes around 6GB of GPU memory (in 16-bit mode) which should fit in most modern GPUs.

### Command-line interface

With `demo.py`

```bash

python demo.py --duration=8 --video=<path to video> --prompt "your prompt" 

```

The output (audio in `.flac` format, and video in `.mp4` format) will be saved in `./output`.
See the file for more options.
Simply omit the `--video` option for text-to-audio synthesis.
The default output (and training) duration is 8 seconds. Longer/shorter durations could also work, but a large deviation from the training duration may result in a lower quality.

### Gradio interface

Supports video-to-audio and text-to-audio synthesis.
You can also try experimental image-to-audio synthesis which duplicates the input image to a video for processing. This might be interesting to some but it is not something MMAudio has been trained for.
Use [port forwarding](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/115897/whats-ssh-port-forwarding-and-whats-the-difference-between-ssh-local-and-remot) (e.g., `ssh -L 7860:localhost:7860 server`) if necessary. The default port is `7860` which you can specify with `--port`.

```bash

python gradio_demo.py

```

### FAQ

1. Video processing
    - Processing higher-resolution videos takes longer due to encoding and decoding (which can take >95% of the processing time!), but it does not improve the quality of results.
    - The CLIP encoder resizes input frames to 384×384 pixels. 
    - Synchformer resizes the shorter edge to 224 pixels and applies a center crop, focusing only on the central square of each frame.
2. Frame rates
    - The CLIP model operates at 8 FPS, while Synchformer works at 25 FPS.
    - Frame rate conversion happens on-the-fly via the video reader.
    - For input videos with a frame rate below 25 FPS, frames will be duplicated to match the required rate.
3. Failure cases
As with most models of this type, failures can occur, and the reasons are not always clear. Below are some known failure modes. If you notice a failure mode or believe there’s a bug, feel free to open an issue in the repository.
4. Performance variations
We notice that there can be subtle performance variations in different hardware and software environments. Some of the reasons include using/not using `torch.compile`, video reader library/backend, inference precision, batch sizes, random seeds, etc. We (will) provide pre-computed results on standard benchmark for reference. Results obtained from this codebase should be similar but might not be exactly the same.

### Known limitations

1. The model sometimes generates unintelligible human speech-like sounds
2. The model sometimes generates background music (without explicit training, it would not be high quality)
3. The model struggles with unfamiliar concepts, e.g., it can generate "gunfires" but not "RPG firing".

We believe all of these three limitations can be addressed with more high-quality training data.

## Training

See [TRAINING.md](docs/TRAINING.md).

## Evaluation

See [EVAL.md](docs/EVAL.md).

## Training Datasets

MMAudio was trained on several datasets, including [AudioSet](https://research.google.com/audioset/), [Freesound](https://github.com/LAION-AI/audio-dataset/blob/main/laion-audio-630k/README.md), [VGGSound](https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/vggsound/), [AudioCaps](https://audiocaps.github.io/), and [WavCaps](https://github.com/XinhaoMei/WavCaps). These datasets are subject to specific licenses, which can be accessed on their respective websites. We do not guarantee that the pre-trained models are suitable for commercial use. Please use them at your own risk.

## Update Logs

- 2024-12-23: Added training and batch evaluation scripts.
- 2024-12-14: Removed the `ffmpeg<7` requirement for the demos by replacing `torio.io.StreamingMediaDecoder` with `pyav` for reading frames. The read frames are also cached, so we are not reading the same frames again during reconstruction. This should speed things up and make installation less of a hassle.
- 2024-12-13: Improved for-loop processing in CLIP/Sync feature extraction by introducing a batch size multiplier. We can approximately use 40x batch size for CLIP/Sync without using more memory, thereby speeding up processing. Removed VAE encoder during inference -- we don't need it.
- 2024-12-11: Replaced `torio.io.StreamingMediaDecoder` with `pyav` for reading framerate when reconstructing the input video. `torio.io.StreamingMediaDecoder` does not work reliably in huggingface ZeroGPU's environment, and I suspect that it might not work in some other environments as well.

## Citation

```bibtex

@inproceedings{cheng2024taming,

  title={Taming Multimodal Joint Training for High-Quality Video-to-Audio Synthesis},

  author={Cheng, Ho Kei and Ishii, Masato and Hayakawa, Akio and Shibuya, Takashi and Schwing, Alexander and Mitsufuji, Yuki},

  booktitle={arXiv},

  year={2024}

}

```

## Relevant Repositories

- [av-benchmark](https://github.com/hkchengrex/av-benchmark) for benchmarking results.

## Disclaimer

We have no affiliation with and have no knowledge of the party behind the domain "mmaudio.net".

## Acknowledgement

Many thanks to:
- [Make-An-Audio 2](https://github.com/bytedance/Make-An-Audio-2) for the 16kHz BigVGAN pretrained model and the VAE architecture
- [BigVGAN](https://github.com/NVIDIA/BigVGAN)
- [Synchformer](https://github.com/v-iashin/Synchformer) 
- [EDM2](https://github.com/NVlabs/edm2) for the magnitude-preserving VAE network architecture