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Main Authors: Xie, Liangbin, Li, Yu, Du, Shian, Xia, Menghan, Wang, Xintao, Yu, Fanghua, Chen, Ziyan, Wan, Pengfei, Zhou, Jiantao, Dong, Chao
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19838
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author Xie, Liangbin
Li, Yu
Du, Shian
Xia, Menghan
Wang, Xintao
Yu, Fanghua
Chen, Ziyan
Wan, Pengfei
Zhou, Jiantao
Dong, Chao
author_facet Xie, Liangbin
Li, Yu
Du, Shian
Xia, Menghan
Wang, Xintao
Yu, Fanghua
Chen, Ziyan
Wan, Pengfei
Zhou, Jiantao
Dong, Chao
contents Latent diffusion models have emerged as a leading paradigm for efficient video generation. However, as user expectations shift toward higher-resolution outputs, relying solely on latent computation becomes inadequate. A promising approach involves decoupling the process into two stages: semantic content generation and detail synthesis. The former employs a computationally intensive base model at lower resolutions, while the latter leverages a lightweight cascaded video super-resolution (VSR) model to achieve high-resolution output. In this work, we focus on studying key design principles for latter cascaded VSR models, which are underexplored currently. First, we propose two degradation strategies to generate training pairs that better mimic the output characteristics of the base model, ensuring alignment between the VSR model and its upstream generator. Second, we provide critical insights into VSR model behavior through systematic analysis of (1) timestep sampling strategies, (2) noise augmentation effects on low-resolution (LR) inputs. These findings directly inform our architectural and training innovations. Finally, we introduce interleaving temporal unit and sparse local attention to achieve efficient training and inference, drastically reducing computational overhead. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of our framework over existing methods, with ablation studies confirming the efficacy of each design choice. Our work establishes a simple yet effective baseline for cascaded video super-resolution generation, offering practical insights to guide future advancements in efficient cascaded synthesis systems.
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spellingShingle SimpleGVR: A Simple Baseline for Latent-Cascaded Video Super-Resolution
Xie, Liangbin
Li, Yu
Du, Shian
Xia, Menghan
Wang, Xintao
Yu, Fanghua
Chen, Ziyan
Wan, Pengfei
Zhou, Jiantao
Dong, Chao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Latent diffusion models have emerged as a leading paradigm for efficient video generation. However, as user expectations shift toward higher-resolution outputs, relying solely on latent computation becomes inadequate. A promising approach involves decoupling the process into two stages: semantic content generation and detail synthesis. The former employs a computationally intensive base model at lower resolutions, while the latter leverages a lightweight cascaded video super-resolution (VSR) model to achieve high-resolution output. In this work, we focus on studying key design principles for latter cascaded VSR models, which are underexplored currently. First, we propose two degradation strategies to generate training pairs that better mimic the output characteristics of the base model, ensuring alignment between the VSR model and its upstream generator. Second, we provide critical insights into VSR model behavior through systematic analysis of (1) timestep sampling strategies, (2) noise augmentation effects on low-resolution (LR) inputs. These findings directly inform our architectural and training innovations. Finally, we introduce interleaving temporal unit and sparse local attention to achieve efficient training and inference, drastically reducing computational overhead. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of our framework over existing methods, with ablation studies confirming the efficacy of each design choice. Our work establishes a simple yet effective baseline for cascaded video super-resolution generation, offering practical insights to guide future advancements in efficient cascaded synthesis systems.
title SimpleGVR: A Simple Baseline for Latent-Cascaded Video Super-Resolution
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19838