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About this paper

Xinyuan Chen, Yaohui Wang, Lingjun Zhang, Shaobin Zhuang, Xin Ma, Jiashuo Yu, Yali Wang, Dahua Lin and 2 more

The SEINE model introduces a short-to-long video diffusion framework for generating creative transitions between diverse scenes and predicting extended video sequences. It extends a pre-trained text-to-video model, quantitatively surpassing traditional morphing and diffusion-based baselines in human evaluations and objective metrics for transition quality, and maintains visual coherence in long-form video generation.

Key insights

  • A random mask module can effectively enable a diffusion model to control which frames are generated versus conditioned upon, facilitating versatile short-to-long video generation tasks.
  • Training a diffusion model on partial, masked video inputs (visible and unseen frames) allows it to learn robust mechanisms for bridging semantic and temporal gaps between diverse scenes.
  • Extending pre-trained text-to-video diffusion models, rather than training from scratch, provides a strong foundation for advanced generative tasks like story-level video creation and complex transitions.

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