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SimVP: Simpler yet Better Video Prediction

9 Jun 2022CVPR 2022 1arXiv:2206.05099archive 2025-07-28

Zhangyang Gao, Cheng Tan, Lirong Wu, Stan Z. Li

From CNN, RNN, to ViT, we have witnessed remarkable advancements in video prediction, incorporating auxiliary inputs, elaborate neural architectures, and sophisticated training strategies. We admire these progresses but are confused about the necessity: is there a simple method that can perform comparably well? This paper proposes SimVP, a simple video prediction model that is completely built upon CNN and trained by MSE loss in an end-to-end fashion. Without introducing any additional tricks and complicated strategies, we can achieve state-of-the-art performance on five benchmark datasets. Through extended experiments, we demonstrate that SimVP has strong generalization and extensibility on real-world datasets. The significant reduction of training cost makes it easier to scale to complex scenarios. We believe SimVP can serve as a solid baseline to stimulate the further development of video prediction. The code is available at \href{https://github.com/gaozhangyang/SimVP-Simpler-yet-Better-Video-Prediction}{Github}.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Video Prediction Human3.6M SimVP MAE 1510 #4 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Video Prediction Human3.6M SimVP MSE 316 #4 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Video Prediction Human3.6M SimVP SSIM 0.904 #4 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Video Prediction Moving MNIST SimVP MSE 23.8 #18 of 31 Archive leaderboard report
Video Prediction Moving MNIST SimVP SSIM 0.948 #18 of 31 Archive leaderboard report

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