Diffusion Models for Video Prediction and Infilling

15 Jun 2022  ·  Tobias Höppe, Arash Mehrjou, Stefan Bauer, Didrik Nielsen, Andrea Dittadi ·

Predicting and anticipating future outcomes or reasoning about missing information in a sequence are critical skills for agents to be able to make intelligent decisions. This requires strong, temporally coherent generative capabilities. Diffusion models have shown remarkable success in several generative tasks, but have not been extensively explored in the video domain. We present Random-Mask Video Diffusion (RaMViD), which extends image diffusion models to videos using 3D convolutions, and introduces a new conditioning technique during training. By varying the mask we condition on, the model is able to perform video prediction, infilling, and upsampling. Due to our simple conditioning scheme, we can utilize the same architecture as used for unconditional training, which allows us to train the model in a conditional and unconditional fashion at the same time. We evaluate RaMViD on two benchmark datasets for video prediction, on which we achieve state-of-the-art results, and one for video generation. High-resolution videos are provided at https://sites.google.com/view/video-diffusion-prediction.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Video Generation BAIR Robot Pushing RaMViD FVD score 84.20 # 2
Cond 1 # 1
Pred 15 # 8
Train 20 # 1
Video Prediction Kinetics-600 12 frames, 64x64 RaMViD FVD 16.46 # 6
Cond 5 # 2
Pred 11 # 2

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