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CCVS: Context-aware Controllable Video Synthesis

16 Jul 2021NeurIPS 2021 12arXiv:2107.08037archive 2025-07-28

Guillaume Le Moing, Jean Ponce, Cordelia Schmid

This presentation introduces a self-supervised learning approach to the synthesis of new video clips from old ones, with several new key elements for improved spatial resolution and realism: It conditions the synthesis process on contextual information for temporal continuity and ancillary information for fine control. The prediction model is doubly autoregressive, in the latent space of an autoencoder for forecasting, and in image space for updating contextual information, which is also used to enforce spatio-temporal consistency through a learnable optical flow module. Adversarial training of the autoencoder in the appearance and temporal domains is used to further improve the realism of its output. A quantizer inserted between the encoder and the transformer in charge of forecasting future frames in latent space (and its inverse inserted between the transformer and the decoder) adds even more flexibility by affording simple mechanisms for handling multimodal ancillary information for controlling the synthesis process (eg, a few sample frames, an audio track, a trajectory in image space) and taking into account the intrinsically uncertain nature of the future by allowing multiple predictions. Experiments with an implementation of the proposed approach give very good qualitative and quantitative results on multiple tasks and standard benchmarks.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Video Generation BAIR Robot Pushing CCVS Cond 1 #8 of 31 Archive leaderboard report
Video Generation BAIR Robot Pushing CCVS FVD score 99 ± 2 #8 of 31 Archive leaderboard report
Video Generation BAIR Robot Pushing CCVS Pred 15 #8 of 31 Archive leaderboard report
Video Generation BAIR Robot Pushing CCVS Train 15 #8 of 31 Archive leaderboard report
Video Prediction Kinetics-600 12 frames, 64x64 CCVS Cond 5 #12 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Video Prediction Kinetics-600 12 frames, 64x64 CCVS FVD 55±1 #12 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Video Prediction Kinetics-600 12 frames, 64x64 CCVS Pred 11 #12 of 16 Archive leaderboard report

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