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Long Video Generation with Time-Agnostic VQGAN and Time-Sensitive Transformer

7 Apr 2022arXiv:2204.03638archive 2025-07-28

Songwei Ge, Thomas Hayes, Harry Yang, Xi Yin, Guan Pang, David Jacobs, Jia-Bin Huang, Devi Parikh

Videos are created to express emotion, exchange information, and share experiences. Video synthesis has intrigued researchers for a long time. Despite the rapid progress driven by advances in visual synthesis, most existing studies focus on improving the frames' quality and the transitions between them, while little progress has been made in generating longer videos. In this paper, we present a method that builds on 3D-VQGAN and transformers to generate videos with thousands of frames. Our evaluation shows that our model trained on 16-frame video clips from standard benchmarks such as UCF-101, Sky Time-lapse, and Taichi-HD datasets can generate diverse, coherent, and high-quality long videos. We also showcase conditional extensions of our approach for generating meaningful long videos by incorporating temporal information with text and audio. Videos and code can be found at https://songweige.github.io/projects/tats/index.html.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Video Generation UCF-101 TATS (128x128, class-conditional) FVD16 332 #25 of 48 Archive leaderboard report
Video Generation UCF-101 TATS (128x128, class-conditional) Inception Score 79.28 #25 of 48 Archive leaderboard report
Video Generation UCF-101 TATS (128x128, unconditional) FVD16 420 #34 of 48 Archive leaderboard report
Video Generation UCF-101 TATS (128x128, unconditional) Inception Score 57.63 #34 of 48 Archive leaderboard report
Video Generation UCF-101 TATS (256x256) FVD16 635 #41 of 48 Archive leaderboard report
Video Generation UCF-101 TATS (256x256) KVD16 55 #41 of 48 Archive leaderboard report

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