LAVIE: High-Quality Video Generation with Cascaded Latent Diffusion Models

This work aims to learn a high-quality text-to-video (T2V) generative model by leveraging a pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) model as a basis. It is a highly desirable yet challenging task to simultaneously a) accomplish the synthesis of visually realistic and temporally coherent videos while b) preserving the strong creative generation nature of the pre-trained T2I model. To this end, we propose LaVie, an integrated video generation framework that operates on cascaded video latent diffusion models, comprising a base T2V model, a temporal interpolation model, and a video super-resolution model. Our key insights are two-fold: 1) We reveal that the incorporation of simple temporal self-attentions, coupled with rotary positional encoding, adequately captures the temporal correlations inherent in video data. 2) Additionally, we validate that the process of joint image-video fine-tuning plays a pivotal role in producing high-quality and creative outcomes. To enhance the performance of LaVie, we contribute a comprehensive and diverse video dataset named Vimeo25M, consisting of 25 million text-video pairs that prioritize quality, diversity, and aesthetic appeal. Extensive experiments demonstrate that LaVie achieves state-of-the-art performance both quantitatively and qualitatively. Furthermore, we showcase the versatility of pre-trained LaVie models in various long video generation and personalized video synthesis applications.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Uses Extra
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Result Benchmark
Text-to-Video Generation EvalCrafter Text-to-Video (ECTV) Dataset Lavie Visual Quality 52.83 # 4
Total Score 234 # 2
Text-to-Video Alignment 68.49 # 1
Temporal Consistency 54.23 # 5
Motion Quality 57.99 # 3
Text-to-Video Generation UCF-101 LAVIE (Zero-shot, 320x512) FVD16 526.30 # 9
Video Generation UCF-101 LAVIE (320x512, text-conditional) FVD16 526.30 # 26

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