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Video Frame Synthesis Using Deep Voxel Flow (arxiv.org)
1 point by Katydid on Feb 15, 2017 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A network learns to build missing video frames by moving pixels from the frames around them, trained by hiding real frames so no labels are needed. It beats both motion-tracking and pixel-guessing approaches, giving sharper, more accurate frames.

Abstract · Video Frame Synthesis using Deep Voxel Flow

We address the problem of synthesizing new video frames in an existing video, either in-between existing frames (interpolation), or subsequent to them (extrapolation). This problem is challenging because video appearance and motion can be highly complex. Traditional optical-flow-based solutions often fail where flow estimation is challenging, while newer neural-network-based methods that hallucinate pixel values directly often produce blurry results. We combine the advantages of these two methods by training a deep network that learns to synthesize video frames by flowing pixel values from existing ones, which we call deep voxel flow. Our method requires no human supervision, and any video can be used as training data by dropping, and then learning to predict, existing frames. The technique is efficient, and can be applied at any video resolution. We demonstrate that our method produces results that both quantitatively and qualitatively improve upon the state-of-the-art.

Ziwei Liu, Raymond A. Yeh, Xiaoou Tang, Yiming Liu, Aseem Agarwala
arXiv:1702.02463 · cs.CV, cs.GR, cs.LG · submitted Feb 8, 2017 · updated Aug 5, 2017
abstract · pdf · html · To appear in ICCV 2017 as an oral paper. More details at the project page: https://liuziwei7.github.io/projects/VoxelFlow.html

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