Audio Video Synchronization Detection Using Mouth Feature Extraction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for audio and video synchronization detection in video editing, encoding, and playback often result in false detections, requiring manual verification and consuming significant time and manpower.

Innovation Solution

An audio and video synchronization detection method that extracts image and audio data from a target-length video segment, performs face detection and tracking to obtain face image lists, extracts mouth features to characterize lip movements, and determines synchronization based on audio data and mouth features.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If reference-based methods or non-reference methods are used for audio and video synchronization detection, then the detection process can be performed, but the detection accuracy is low and false detections occur frequently

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection accuracyVSAvoidfalse detection rate
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the detection process into multiple specialized modules: face detection module, mouth region extraction module, audio feature extraction module, and synchronization detection module. Each module focuses on a specific aspect of the synchronization problem, improving overall detection accuracy by breaking down the complex task into manageable, optimized components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces mouth feature vectors as an intermediary representation that bridges visual mouth movements and audio speech content. By extracting and comparing mouth feature vectors from video frames with audio feature vectors from audio data, the system creates a reliable intermediate representation that enables accurate synchronization detection without direct comparison of raw audio and video streams.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If manual secondary verification is performed to confirm false detections, then detection reliability can be improved, but time consumption and manpower requirements increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection reliabilityVSAvoidverification time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-verification through multiple detection mechanisms working together. The face detection module verifies the presence of valid face regions, the mouth feature extraction ensures proper mouth region identification, and the audio-visual feature comparison provides cross-modal verification. This self-service approach eliminates the need for external manual verification while maintaining high reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback loops where detection results are continuously refined. The system uses face detection results to guide mouth region extraction, uses extracted mouth features to inform audio-visual comparison, and adjusts detection parameters based on synchronization results. This feedback mechanism ensures high reliability without requiring manual intervention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Measurement precision

If face detection and tracking are performed on video data, then mouth features can be accurately extracted, but the processing complexity and computational requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemouth feature extraction accuracyVSAvoidprocessing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs face detection and mouth region extraction as preliminary actions before the main synchronization detection task. By pre-identifying and isolating mouth regions in video frames and extracting mouth feature vectors in advance, the system simplifies the subsequent audio-visual comparison process. This preliminary processing organizes the data structure and reduces the complexity of the main detection algorithm.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20250203154A1Audio and video synchronization detection method, device, electronic equipment and terminal
Publication Date: 2025.06.19 BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCI & TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

The disclosure provides an audio and video synchronization detection method, an audio and video synchronization detection device, an electronic equipment and a terminal, and relates to a field of image processing, in particular to the technical fields of computer vision, artificial intelligence and the like. The method includes: extracting image data and audio data of a video segment of a target length; obtaining a plurality of face image lists by performing face detection and tracking based on the extracted image data; extracting mouth features corresponding to each face image list based on a traversal result of the face image list, in which the mouth features are used for representing changes in lip shape; and determining a synchronization result of the video segment based on the audio data and the mouth features.