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48 results for video synthesis

Generative models of natural images have progressed towards high fidelity samples by the strong leveraging of scale. We attempt to carry this success to the field of video modeling by showing that large Generative Adversarial Networks trained on the complex Kinetics-600 dataset are able to produce video samples of subs…

2019-07-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Introduces Motion Programs for better video analysis of human motion.

problem Current video analysis focuses on raw pixels or keypoints, missing higher-level motion primitives.
method Introduces Motion Programs as a neuro-symbolic representation of motions as a composition of high-level primitives.
result Motion Programs accurately describe diverse human motions and improve downstream tasks.

We present LumièreNet, a simple, modular, and completely deep-learning based architecture that synthesizes, high quality, full-pose headshot lecture videos from instructor's new audio narration of any length. Unlike prior works, LumièreNet is entirely composed of trainable neural network modules to learn mapping functi…

2019-07-04abs ↗pdf ↗

A new video prediction model treats videos as continuous processes, reducing sampling steps and improving efficiency.

problem Efficiency and temporal coherence in video prediction models.
method Treats videos as a continuous multi-dimensional process, reducing sampling steps.
result Reduction of 75% sampling steps, state-of-the-art performance on benchmark datasets.

Video sequences contain rich dynamic patterns, such as dynamic texture patterns that exhibit stationarity in the temporal domain, and action patterns that are non-stationary in either spatial or temporal domain. We show that a spatial-temporal generative ConvNet can be used to model and synthesize dynamic patterns. The…

2016-06-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Speech-driven facial animation involves using a speech signal to generate realistic videos of talking faces. Recent deep learning approaches to facial synthesis rely on extracting low-dimensional representations and concatenating them, followed by a decoding step of the concatenated vector. This accounts for only first…

2019-12-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Procedural terrain generation for video games has been traditionally been done with smartly designed but handcrafted algorithms that generate heightmaps. We propose a first step toward the learning and synthesis of these using recent advances in deep generative modelling with openly available satellite imagery from NAS…

2017-07-11abs ↗pdf ↗

This abstract extends on the previous work (arXiv:1407.2646, arXiv:1606.00075) on program induction using probabilistic programming. It describes possible further steps to extend that work, such that, ultimately, automatic probabilistic program synthesis can generalise over any reasonable set of inputs and outputs, in …

2018-10-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Worldsheet wraps a 3D mesh sheet onto a single image to synthesize novel views.

problem Synthesizing novel views from a single image with large viewpoint changes.
method Shrink-wrapping a planar mesh sheet onto the input image, consistent with learned depth.
result Worldsheet consistently outperforms prior methods on single-image view synthesis.

Generative adversarial networks fix aliasing issues by making signals continuous.

problem Alias-free generation in GANs to prevent unwanted information leakage.
method Interpreting all signals as continuous, deriving small architectural changes.
result Generative models match FID of StyleGAN2 but have better internal representations.

Paper explores how generative models can be made more creative.

problem Limitation of generative models in diverging from original data distribution.
method Proposes a novel training objective called Bounded Adversarial Divergence (BAD) to enable creative divergence.
result Preliminary results suggest BAD can enable creative divergence in generative models.

Deep generative models have been wildly successful at learning coherent latent representations for continuous data such as video and audio. However, generative modeling of discrete data such as arithmetic expressions and molecular structures still poses significant challenges. Crucially, state-of-the-art methods often …

2017-03-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Ground-A-Video edits videos without training, preserving intended changes.

problem Complex multi-attribute video editing with omitted or wrong changes.
method Grounding-guided video-to-video translation with Cross-Frame Gated Attention.
result Zero-shot multi-attribute video editing with improved accuracy and frame consistency.

Paper introduces a method for generating interlocutor-aware facial gestures in dyadic settings.

problem Generating appropriate non-verbal behavior for conversational agents in dyadic settings.
method Probabilistic method using multi-modal cues from the interlocutor to synthesize facial gestures.
result The model successfully leverages multi-modal input from the interlocutor to generate more appropriate behavior.

FaceSigns embeds a secret watermark in images to authenticate and detect deepfakes.

problem Realistic image and video manipulation threats, especially deepfakes.
method Semi-fragile watermarking using neural networks, robust to face-swapping but fragile to deepfake manipulations.
result FaceSigns can reliably detect deepfake content with high accuracy.

The recent success of raw audio waveform synthesis models like WaveNet motivates a new approach for music synthesis, in which the entire process --- creating audio samples from a score and instrument information --- is modeled using generative neural networks. This paper describes a neural music synthesis model with fl…

2018-11-01abs ↗pdf ↗

SummaryNet automates video summarisation using deep learning.

problem Creating informative video summaries from videos.
method Two-stream convolutional network for spatial and temporal features, encoder-decoder model for salient features, sigmoid regression with LSTM for frame probability.
result SummaryNet achieves comparable or better results than state-of-the-art methods on benchmark datasets.

In generative modeling, the Wasserstein distance (WD) has emerged as a useful metric to measure the discrepancy between generated and real data distributions. Unfortunately, it is challenging to approximate the WD of high-dimensional distributions. In contrast, the sliced Wasserstein distance (SWD) factorizes high-dime…

2017-06-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes SMFN for high-res spherical video super-resolution.

problem Super-resolution of 360-degree panoramic videos is expensive and challenging.
method Deformable convolutions, mixed attention mechanism, dual learning strategy, weighted mean square error loss function.
result The proposed SMFN method improves super-resolution of equatorial regions in 360-degree videos.

Paper proposes new principles and framework for AVC learning from user-generated videos.

problem Challenges in learning audio-visual correspondence from short-term user-generated videos.
method Introduced new principles and a framework to facilitate AVC learning from videos' themes.
result Proposed approach outperformed baseline by 23.15% on KWAI-AD-AudVis corpus.

RFC enhances humanoid control to imitate complex human motions.

problem Dynamics mismatch between humanoid models and real humans.
method Residual Force Control (RFC) augments control policies with external forces.
result RFC outperforms state-of-the-art methods in convergence speed and motion quality.

Recent advances in deep generative models have lead to remarkable progress in synthesizing high quality images. Following their successful application in image processing and representation learning, an important next step is to consider videos. Learning generative models of video is a much harder task, requiring a mod…

2018-12-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Conventional sequential learning methods such as Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) focus on interactions between consecutive inputs, i.e. first-order Markovian dependency. However, most of sequential data, as seen with videos, have complex temporal dependencies that imply variable-length semantic flows and their composi…

2019-07-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Finding compact representation of videos is an essential component in almost every problem related to video processing or understanding. In this paper, we propose a generative model to learn compact latent codes that can efficiently represent and reconstruct a video sequence from its missing or under-sampled measuremen…

2019-02-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper introduces adversarial lossy compression for video artifacts reduction.

problem Unpleasant reconstruction artifacts in standard video coding schemes at low bit-rates.
method Adversarial lossy video compression model minimizing an adversarial distortion objective.
result Reduction of perceptual artifacts and detail reconstruction under extreme compression.