The Invertible U-Net for Optical-Flow-free Video Interframe Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09576v1
• Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:37:10 GMT
• Title: The Invertible U-Net for Optical-Flow-free Video Interframe Generation
• Authors: Saem Park, Donghun Han and Nojun Kwak
• Abstract summary: In this paper, we try to tackle the video interframe generation problem without using problematic optical flow. We propose a learning method with a new consistency loss in the latent space to maintain semantic temporal consistency between frames. The resolution of the generated image is guaranteed to be identical to that of the original images by using an invertible network.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Video frame interpolation is the task of creating an interface between two adjacent frames along the time axis. So, instead of simply averaging two adjacent frames to create an intermediate image, this operation should maintain semantic continuity with the adjacent frames. Most conventional methods use optical flow, and various tools such as occlusion handling and object smoothing are indispensable. Since the use of these various tools leads to complex problems, we tried to tackle the video interframe generation problem without using problematic optical flow. To enable this, we have tried to use a deep neural network with an invertible structure and developed an invertible U-Net which is a modified normalizing flow. In addition, we propose a learning method with a new consistency loss in the latent space to maintain semantic temporal consistency between frames. The resolution of the generated image is guaranteed to be identical to that of the original images by using an invertible network. Furthermore, as it is not a random image like the ones by generative models, our network guarantees stable outputs without flicker. Through experiments, we confirmed the feasibility of the proposed algorithm and would like to suggest invertible U-Net as a new possibility for baseline in video frame interpolation. This paper is meaningful in that it is the worlds first attempt to use invertible networks instead of optical flows for video interpolation.

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