Snap Video: Scaled Spatiotemporal Transformers for Text-to-Video Synthesis

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Main Authors: Menapace, Willi, Siarohin, Aliaksandr, Skorokhodov, Ivan, Deyneka, Ekaterina, Chen, Tsai-Shien, Kag, Anil, Fang, Yuwei, Stoliar, Aleksei, Ricci, Elisa, Ren, Jian, Tulyakov, Sergey
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author Menapace, Willi
Siarohin, Aliaksandr
Skorokhodov, Ivan
Deyneka, Ekaterina
Chen, Tsai-Shien
Kag, Anil
Fang, Yuwei
Stoliar, Aleksei
Ricci, Elisa
Ren, Jian
Tulyakov, Sergey
author_facet Menapace, Willi
Siarohin, Aliaksandr
Skorokhodov, Ivan
Deyneka, Ekaterina
Chen, Tsai-Shien
Kag, Anil
Fang, Yuwei
Stoliar, Aleksei
Ricci, Elisa
Ren, Jian
Tulyakov, Sergey
contents Contemporary models for generating images show remarkable quality and versatility. Swayed by these advantages, the research community repurposes them to generate videos. Since video content is highly redundant, we argue that naively bringing advances of image models to the video generation domain reduces motion fidelity, visual quality and impairs scalability. In this work, we build Snap Video, a video-first model that systematically addresses these challenges. To do that, we first extend the EDM framework to take into account spatially and temporally redundant pixels and naturally support video generation. Second, we show that a U-Net - a workhorse behind image generation - scales poorly when generating videos, requiring significant computational overhead. Hence, we propose a new transformer-based architecture that trains 3.31 times faster than U-Nets (and is ~4.5 faster at inference). This allows us to efficiently train a text-to-video model with billions of parameters for the first time, reach state-of-the-art results on a number of benchmarks, and generate videos with substantially higher quality, temporal consistency, and motion complexity. The user studies showed that our model was favored by a large margin over the most recent methods. See our website at https://snap-research.github.io/snapvideo/.
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spellingShingle Snap Video: Scaled Spatiotemporal Transformers for Text-to-Video Synthesis
Menapace, Willi
Siarohin, Aliaksandr
Skorokhodov, Ivan
Deyneka, Ekaterina
Chen, Tsai-Shien
Kag, Anil
Fang, Yuwei
Stoliar, Aleksei
Ricci, Elisa
Ren, Jian
Tulyakov, Sergey
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Contemporary models for generating images show remarkable quality and versatility. Swayed by these advantages, the research community repurposes them to generate videos. Since video content is highly redundant, we argue that naively bringing advances of image models to the video generation domain reduces motion fidelity, visual quality and impairs scalability. In this work, we build Snap Video, a video-first model that systematically addresses these challenges. To do that, we first extend the EDM framework to take into account spatially and temporally redundant pixels and naturally support video generation. Second, we show that a U-Net - a workhorse behind image generation - scales poorly when generating videos, requiring significant computational overhead. Hence, we propose a new transformer-based architecture that trains 3.31 times faster than U-Nets (and is ~4.5 faster at inference). This allows us to efficiently train a text-to-video model with billions of parameters for the first time, reach state-of-the-art results on a number of benchmarks, and generate videos with substantially higher quality, temporal consistency, and motion complexity. The user studies showed that our model was favored by a large margin over the most recent methods. See our website at https://snap-research.github.io/snapvideo/.
title Snap Video: Scaled Spatiotemporal Transformers for Text-to-Video Synthesis
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14797