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Align your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models

18 Apr 2023CVPR 2023 1arXiv:2304.08818archive 2025-07-28

Andreas Blattmann, Robin Rombach, Huan Ling, Tim Dockhorn, Seung Wook Kim, Sanja Fidler, Karsten Kreis

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) enable high-quality image synthesis while avoiding excessive compute demands by training a diffusion model in a compressed lower-dimensional latent space. Here, we apply the LDM paradigm to high-resolution video generation, a particularly resource-intensive task. We first pre-train an LDM on images only; then, we turn the image generator into a video generator by introducing a temporal dimension to the latent space diffusion model and fine-tuning on encoded image sequences, i.e., videos. Similarly, we temporally align diffusion model upsamplers, turning them into temporally consistent video super resolution models. We focus on two relevant real-world applications: Simulation of in-the-wild driving data and creative content creation with text-to-video modeling. In particular, we validate our Video LDM on real driving videos of resolution 512 x 1024, achieving state-of-the-art performance. Furthermore, our approach can easily leverage off-the-shelf pre-trained image LDMs, as we only need to train a temporal alignment model in that case. Doing so, we turn the publicly available, state-of-the-art text-to-image LDM Stable Diffusion into an efficient and expressive text-to-video model with resolution up to 1280 x 2048. We show that the temporal layers trained in this way generalize to different fine-tuned text-to-image LDMs. Utilizing this property, we show the first results for personalized text-to-video generation, opening exciting directions for future content creation. Project page: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/toronto-ai/VideoLDM/

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Tasks

Image GenerationSuper-ResolutionText-to-Video GenerationVideo GenerationVideo Super-ResolutionVocal Bursts Intensity Prediction

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Text-to-Video Generation MSR-VTT Video LDM CLIPSIM 0.2929 #13 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Text-to-Video Generation MSR-VTT CogVideo (Chinese) CLIP-FID 24.78 #16 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Text-to-Video Generation MSR-VTT CogVideo (Chinese) CLIPSIM 0.2614 #16 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Text-to-Video Generation UCF-101 Video LDM (Zero-shot, 320x512) FVD16 550.61 #9 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Video Generation UCF-101 Video LDM (320x512, text-conditional) FVD16 550.61 #38 of 48 Archive leaderboard report
Video Generation UCF-101 Video LDM (320x512, text-conditional) Inception Score 33.45 #38 of 48 Archive leaderboard report

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