arXiv Computer Vision

Single-step Diffusion-based Video Coding with Semantic-Temporal Guidance

arXiv AI
Sep 3

VoRTeC: Taming Foundation Flow for One-step Real time Video Compression

The paper introduces VoRTeC, a video compression framework that leverages a foundational flow model to encode latent video representations compactly and predict their positions along flow trajectories. By integrating multi‑scale priors and avoiding access to flow‑matching network parameters, VoRTeC achieves one‑step decoding with high perceptual fidelity, while maintaining temporal consistency through tail‑frame reuse and prior caching. Experiments show a 58% reduction in bit consumption compared to prior diffusion‑based methods and a decoding speed increase ranging from 3 to 197 times, reaching 13 FPS at 720p and 32 FPS at 480p.

By Yichong Xia, Qinhong Wu, Qinhong Wu, Jinpeng Wang, Zeyuan Chen, Haoqian Wang
arXiv AI
Sep 3

ContextAnyone: Context-Aware Diffusion for Character-Consistent Text-to-Video Generation

ContextAnyone is a context‑aware diffusion framework that treats a reference image as an explicitly preserved appearance anchor rather than a simple conditioning signal. By jointly reconstructing the reference image and generating the target video within a shared diffusion transformer, it provides direct supervision for maintaining identity and fine‑grained appearance throughout denoising. The method introduces asymmetric information flow and Gap‑RoPE positional representations to keep the reference stable while allowing selective access by video tokens, and demonstrates improved identity and appearance consistency on an OpenVid‑HD benchmark.

By Ziyang Mai, Yu-Wing Tai
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

MilliVid: Hierarchical Latents for Long-Range Consistency in Video Generation

arXiv:2606. 09056v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video generative models have become increasingly powerful, but long-range consistency remains challenging to achieve because even a few dozen frames require impractically long transformer sequence lengths.

By Ishaan Preetam Chandratreya, David Charatan, Basile Van Hoorick, Sergey Zakharov, Vitor Guizilini, Phillip Isola, Vincent Sitzmann
arXiv Computer Vision
1d ago

High-Fidelity Video Quality Assessment with VQA-Specific Saliency

High-Fidelity Video Quality Assessment (HFVQA) is a new framework that uses fixed-size spatio‑temporal patches across multiple scales, including the original resolution, to preserve low‑level quality cues and semantic context. It incorporates a lightweight auxiliary network that learns VQA‑specific saliency directly from quality supervision, enabling the model to focus on the most important spatio‑temporal regions. By combining high‑fidelity cues with task‑specific saliency, HFVQA achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on standard no‑reference VQA benchmarks while processing only about 12% of the candidate patches, making it computationally efficient.

By Hakan Emre Gedik, Shashank Gupta, Alan Bovik