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Neighbor Correspondence Matching for Flow-based Video Frame Synthesis

14 Jul 2022arXiv:2207.06763archive 2025-07-28

Zhaoyang Jia, Yan Lu, Houqiang Li

Video frame synthesis, which consists of interpolation and extrapolation, is an essential video processing technique that can be applied to various scenarios. However, most existing methods cannot handle small objects or large motion well, especially in high-resolution videos such as 4K videos. To eliminate such limitations, we introduce a neighbor correspondence matching (NCM) algorithm for flow-based frame synthesis. Since the current frame is not available in video frame synthesis, NCM is performed in a current-frame-agnostic fashion to establish multi-scale correspondences in the spatial-temporal neighborhoods of each pixel. Based on the powerful motion representation capability of NCM, we further propose to estimate intermediate flows for frame synthesis in a heterogeneous coarse-to-fine scheme. Specifically, the coarse-scale module is designed to leverage neighbor correspondences to capture large motion, while the fine-scale module is more computationally efficient to speed up the estimation process. Both modules are trained progressively to eliminate the resolution gap between training dataset and real-world videos. Experimental results show that NCM achieves state-of-the-art performance on several benchmarks. In addition, NCM can be applied to various practical scenarios such as video compression to achieve better performance.

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4kVideo CompressionVideo Frame Interpolation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Video Frame Interpolation UCF101 NCM-Base PSNR 35.36 #11 of 19 Archive leaderboard report
Video Frame Interpolation UCF101 NCM-Base SSIM 0.9695 #11 of 19 Archive leaderboard report
Video Frame Interpolation Vimeo90K NCM-Base PSNR 35.88 #10 of 23 Archive leaderboard report
Video Frame Interpolation Vimeo90K NCM-Base SSIM 0.9795 #10 of 23 Archive leaderboard report
Video Frame Interpolation X4K1000FPS NCM-Base PSNR 31.63 #4 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Video Frame Interpolation X4K1000FPS NCM-Base SSIM 0.9185 #4 of 20 Archive leaderboard report

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