FreeInit: bridging initialization gap in video diffusion models
Though diffusion-based video generation has witnessed rapid progress, the inference results of existing models still exhibit unsatisfactory temporal consistency and unnatural dynamics. In this paper, we delve deep into the noise initialization of video diffusion models, and discover an implicit...
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| author | Wu, Tianxing Si, Chenyang Jiang, Yuming Huang, Ziqi Liu, Ziwei |
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| description | Though diffusion-based video generation has witnessed rapid progress, the
inference results of existing models still exhibit unsatisfactory temporal
consistency and unnatural dynamics. In this paper, we delve deep into the noise
initialization of video diffusion models, and discover an implicit
training-inference gap that attributes to the unsatisfactory inference
quality.Our key findings are: 1) the spatial-temporal frequency distribution of
the initial noise at inference is intrinsically different from that for
training, and 2) the denoising process is significantly influenced by the
low-frequency components of the initial noise. Motivated by these observations,
we propose a concise yet effective inference sampling strategy, FreeInit, which
significantly improves temporal consistency of videos generated by diffusion
models. Through iteratively refining the spatial-temporal low-frequency
components of the initial latent during inference, FreeInit is able to
compensate the initialization gap between training and inference, thus
effectively improving the subject appearance and temporal consistency of
generation results. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FreeInit
consistently enhances the generation quality of various text-to-video diffusion
models without additional training or fine-tuning. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1802652024-10-01T06:08:39Z FreeInit: bridging initialization gap in video diffusion models Wu, Tianxing Si, Chenyang Jiang, Yuming Huang, Ziqi Liu, Ziwei College of Computing and Data Science 2024 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) S-Lab Computer and Information Science Computer vision Pattern recognition Though diffusion-based video generation has witnessed rapid progress, the inference results of existing models still exhibit unsatisfactory temporal consistency and unnatural dynamics. In this paper, we delve deep into the noise initialization of video diffusion models, and discover an implicit training-inference gap that attributes to the unsatisfactory inference quality.Our key findings are: 1) the spatial-temporal frequency distribution of the initial noise at inference is intrinsically different from that for training, and 2) the denoising process is significantly influenced by the low-frequency components of the initial noise. Motivated by these observations, we propose a concise yet effective inference sampling strategy, FreeInit, which significantly improves temporal consistency of videos generated by diffusion models. Through iteratively refining the spatial-temporal low-frequency components of the initial latent during inference, FreeInit is able to compensate the initialization gap between training and inference, thus effectively improving the subject appearance and temporal consistency of generation results. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FreeInit consistently enhances the generation quality of various text-to-video diffusion models without additional training or fine-tuning. Ministry of Education (MOE) Nanyang Technological University Submitted/Accepted version This study is supported by the Ministry of Education, Singapore, under its MOE AcRF Tier 2 (MOET2EP20221- 0012), NTU NAP, and under the RIE2020 Industry Alignment Fund – Industry Collaboration Projects (IAF-ICP) Funding Initiative, as well as cash and in-kind contribution from the industry partner(s). 2024-09-26T01:02:22Z 2024-09-26T01:02:22Z 2024 Conference Paper Wu, T., Si, C., Jiang, Y., Huang, Z. & Liu, Z. (2024). FreeInit: bridging initialization gap in video diffusion models. 2024 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.07537 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/180265 10.48550/arXiv.2312.07537 http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07537v2 en MOET2EP20221- 0012 RIE2020 doi:10.21979/N9/JMCW1W © 2024 ECCV. All rights reserved. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the copyright holder. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Computer and Information Science Computer vision Pattern recognition Wu, Tianxing Si, Chenyang Jiang, Yuming Huang, Ziqi Liu, Ziwei FreeInit: bridging initialization gap in video diffusion models |
| title | FreeInit: bridging initialization gap in video diffusion models |
| title_full | FreeInit: bridging initialization gap in video diffusion models |
| title_fullStr | FreeInit: bridging initialization gap in video diffusion models |
| title_full_unstemmed | FreeInit: bridging initialization gap in video diffusion models |
| title_short | FreeInit: bridging initialization gap in video diffusion models |
| title_sort | freeinit bridging initialization gap in video diffusion models |
| topic | Computer and Information Science Computer vision Pattern recognition |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/180265 http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07537v2 |
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