Adversarial Video Generation on Complex Datasets

Aidan Clark, Jeff Donahue, Karen Simonyan

TL;DR: We propose DVD-GAN, a large video generative model that is state of the art on several tasks and produces highly complex videos when trained on large real world datasets.

Abstract: Generative models of natural images have progressed towards high fidelity samples by the strong leveraging of scale. We attempt to carry this success to the field of video modeling by showing that large Generative Adversarial Networks trained on the complex Kinetics-600 dataset are able to produce video samples of substantially higher complexity and fidelity than previous work. Our proposed model, Dual Video Discriminator GAN (DVD-GAN), scales to longer and higher resolution videos by leveraging a computationally efficient decomposition of its discriminator. We evaluate on the related tasks of video synthesis and video prediction, and achieve new state-of-the-art Fréchet Inception Distance for prediction for Kinetics-600, as well as state-of-the-art Inception Score for synthesis on the UCF-101 dataset, alongside establishing a strong baseline for synthesis on Kinetics-600.

Keywords: GAN, generative model, generative adversarial network, video prediction