Tempered Self-Similarity Alignment for Physically Plausible Video Generation

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Main Authors: Kim, Manjin, Kwak, Suha, Cho, Minsu
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author Kim, Manjin
Kwak, Suha
Cho, Minsu
author_facet Kim, Manjin
Kwak, Suha
Cho, Minsu
contents Despite remarkable advances in video generative models, they still struggle to generate physically realistic videos, frequently exhibiting appearance drift, implausible motion, and temporal inconsistencies. In this work, we address this limitation by transferring relational knowledge encoded in spatio-temporal self-similarity (STSS) from visual foundation models into video generative models. STSS represents pairwise similarities among features across space and time, revealing the relational structure of how objects interact with other entities throughout a video, effectively capturing real-world dynamics, including object motion and semantic transformations. To transfer this relational knowledge, we propose Tempered Self-similarity Alignment (TSA) loss, which transforms STSS into probabilistic correspondence distributions and trains the video generative model to align its correspondence distributions with those of the visual foundation model on dynamically changing regions. Evaluated on VideoPhy and VideoPhy2 benchmarks, our method demonstrates substantial improvements in physical plausibility across diverse interaction scenarios, validating the effectiveness of transferring relational knowledge for physically realistic video generation.
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spellingShingle Tempered Self-Similarity Alignment for Physically Plausible Video Generation
Kim, Manjin
Kwak, Suha
Cho, Minsu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Despite remarkable advances in video generative models, they still struggle to generate physically realistic videos, frequently exhibiting appearance drift, implausible motion, and temporal inconsistencies. In this work, we address this limitation by transferring relational knowledge encoded in spatio-temporal self-similarity (STSS) from visual foundation models into video generative models. STSS represents pairwise similarities among features across space and time, revealing the relational structure of how objects interact with other entities throughout a video, effectively capturing real-world dynamics, including object motion and semantic transformations. To transfer this relational knowledge, we propose Tempered Self-similarity Alignment (TSA) loss, which transforms STSS into probabilistic correspondence distributions and trains the video generative model to align its correspondence distributions with those of the visual foundation model on dynamically changing regions. Evaluated on VideoPhy and VideoPhy2 benchmarks, our method demonstrates substantial improvements in physical plausibility across diverse interaction scenarios, validating the effectiveness of transferring relational knowledge for physically realistic video generation.
title Tempered Self-Similarity Alignment for Physically Plausible Video Generation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24962