Summary of Vidtwin: Video Vae with Decoupled Structure and Dynamics, by Yuchi Wang et al.
VidTwin: Video VAE with Decoupled Structure and Dynamics
by Yuchi Wang, Junliang Guo, Xinyi Xie, Tianyu He, Xu Sun, Jiang Bian
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed VidTwin video autoencoder decouples video into two latent spaces: structure and dynamics. The encoder-decoder backbone is augmented with submodules that extract these spaces using a Q-Former for low-frequency motion trends and downsampling blocks to remove redundant content details. Another submodule averages spatial dimensions to capture rapid motion. This approach achieves high compression rates (0.20%) and reconstruction quality (PSNR 28.14 on the MCL-JCV dataset), with efficient and effective performance in generative tasks. The model demonstrates explainability and scalability, making it a promising tool for future research in video latent representation and generation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary VidTwin is a new way to understand videos by breaking them down into two parts: what’s happening (structure) and how things are moving (dynamics). This helps computers generate better videos. The team created a special model that does this, using a combination of different techniques to extract these two parts. The results show that VidTwin can compress video files without losing quality, making it useful for tasks like generating new videos or summarizing what’s happening in a long video. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Autoencoder » Encoder decoder
