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Diverse Video Generation using a Gaussian Process Trigger

9 Jul 2021ICLR 2021 1arXiv:2107.04619archive 2025-07-28

Gaurav Shrivastava, Abhinav Shrivastava

Generating future frames given a few context (or past) frames is a challenging task. It requires modeling the temporal coherence of videos and multi-modality in terms of diversity in the potential future states. Current variational approaches for video generation tend to marginalize over multi-modal future outcomes. Instead, we propose to explicitly model the multi-modality in the future outcomes and leverage it to sample diverse futures. Our approach, Diverse Video Generator, uses a Gaussian Process (GP) to learn priors on future states given the past and maintains a probability distribution over possible futures given a particular sample. In addition, we leverage the changes in this distribution over time to control the sampling of diverse future states by estimating the end of ongoing sequences. That is, we use the variance of GP over the output function space to trigger a change in an action sequence. We achieve state-of-the-art results on diverse future frame generation in terms of reconstruction quality and diversity of the generated sequences.

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DiversityVideo GenerationVideo Prediction

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Video Prediction BAIR Robot Pushing DVG FVD 120.03 #6 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Video Prediction KTH DVG Diversity 0.483 #31 of 31 Archive leaderboard report

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ConvLSTMConvolutionGaussian ProcessSigmoid ActivationTanh Activation

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