VSTAR: Generative Temporal Nursing for Longer Dynamic Video Synthesis
Keywords: Text-to-Video, Diffusion Models, Temporal Attention
TL;DR: VSTAR enables pretrained text-to-video models to generate longer videos with dynamic visual evolution in a single pass, without finetuning needed.
Abstract: Despite tremendous progress in the field of text-to-video (T2V) synthesis, open-sourced T2V diffusion models struggle to generate longer videos with dynamically varying and evolving content. They tend to synthesize quasi-static videos, ignoring the necessary visual change-over-time implied in the text prompt. Meanwhile, scaling these models to enable longer, more dynamic video synthesis often remains computationally intractable. To tackle this challenge, we introduce the concept of Generative Temporal Nursing (GTN), where we adjust the generative process on the fly during inference to improve control over the temporal dynamics and enable generation of longer videos. We propose a method for GTN, dubbed VSTAR, which consists of two key ingredients: Video Synopsis Prompting (VSP) and Temporal Attention Regularization (TAR), the latter being our core contribution. Based on a systematic analysis, we discover that the temporal units in pretrained T2V models are crucial to control the video dynamics. Upon this finding, we propose a novel regularization technique to refine the temporal attention, enabling training-free longer video synthesis in a single inference pass. For prompts involving visual progression, we leverage LLMs to generate video synopsis - description of key visual states - based on the original prompt to provide better guidance along the temporal axis. We experimentally showcase the superiority of our method in synthesizing longer, visually appealing videos over open-sourced T2V models.
Primary Area: generative models
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