ReAtCo: Changing Video Editing Forever
Discover how ReAtCo improves video editing with text prompts.
Yuanzhi Wang, Yong Li, Mengyi Liu, Xiaoya Zhang, Xin Liu, Zhen Cui, Antoni B. Chan
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In today's world, editing videos has become a breeze, thanks to technology. You no longer need to be a film expert or a wizard with complicated software. Now, if you can type, you can tell your video exactly what to change, and it will try to follow your commands. Sounds like magic, right? Well, it's not exactly magic, but it's pretty close!
Imagine you have a video of a dolphin frolicking in the ocean. If you want to change that dolphin into a jellyfish, all you need to do is type out your request, and with the right tools, the Video Editing software should make that happen. However, sometimes things can go hilariously wrong, leading to weird results like jellyfish that look like they are stuck in the wrong universe!
How Does It Work?
So how does this magic happen? It’s all about using special Models that can transform words into images. These models have been trained using a variety of videos and images to understand how to create visuals based on Text Prompts. When you type a prompt, the model analyzes it and tries to create a corresponding video with the changes you want.
But here’s the catch: while these models are impressive, they can’t always get things right. For instance, imagine you want to replace two dolphins with two goldfish. If the model misunderstands your prompt, it might end up giving you one dolphin and two goldfish, which is not what you asked for! Also, the timing might be off, making the video look choppy or disjointed.
The Challenge of Control
One of the main challenges in text-guided video editing is control. The models often struggle to understand the specific locations of objects. If you say, “The jellyfish is to the left of the goldfish,” and the model doesn't get that right, you’ll end up with a jellyfish and goldfish dancing all over the screen in a chaotic manner.
This lack of control becomes particularly tricky if you want to edit multiple objects. You could end up with a situation where one fish is confused with another, or an object might appear where it shouldn’t be at all. It's like trying to organize a party where no one knows where they should stand.
Enter the Re-Attentional Method
To solve these issues, researchers are working on a new approach called the Re-Attentional Controllable Video Diffusion Editing, or simply ReAtCo. Quite a mouthful, huh? This method aims to give much better control over how videos are edited based on the text prompts provided.
ReAtCo does this by improving how the model focuses on different parts of the video during the editing process. Think of it like giving the model a set of glasses that allows it to see exactly where each object is, making it easier to move and manipulate them according to your wishes.
Focusing on the Right Places
In this method, the main goal is to focus on the specific areas in the video that need to be changed. When you point to an object in your video, ReAtCo tracks its position and tries to ensure that when you say “change this,” it really alters that exact spot. It’s like having a very attentive friend who never forgets where you said to
Title: Re-Attentional Controllable Video Diffusion Editing
Abstract: Editing videos with textual guidance has garnered popularity due to its streamlined process which mandates users to solely edit the text prompt corresponding to the source video. Recent studies have explored and exploited large-scale text-to-image diffusion models for text-guided video editing, resulting in remarkable video editing capabilities. However, they may still suffer from some limitations such as mislocated objects, incorrect number of objects. Therefore, the controllability of video editing remains a formidable challenge. In this paper, we aim to challenge the above limitations by proposing a Re-Attentional Controllable Video Diffusion Editing (ReAtCo) method. Specially, to align the spatial placement of the target objects with the edited text prompt in a training-free manner, we propose a Re-Attentional Diffusion (RAD) to refocus the cross-attention activation responses between the edited text prompt and the target video during the denoising stage, resulting in a spatially location-aligned and semantically high-fidelity manipulated video. In particular, to faithfully preserve the invariant region content with less border artifacts, we propose an Invariant Region-guided Joint Sampling (IRJS) strategy to mitigate the intrinsic sampling errors w.r.t the invariant regions at each denoising timestep and constrain the generated content to be harmonized with the invariant region content. Experimental results verify that ReAtCo consistently improves the controllability of video diffusion editing and achieves superior video editing performance.
Authors: Yuanzhi Wang, Yong Li, Mengyi Liu, Xiaoya Zhang, Xin Liu, Zhen Cui, Antoni B. Chan
Last Update: Dec 16, 2024
Language: English
Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11710
Source PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.11710
Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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