Deep Animation Video Interpolation in the Wild

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02495v1
• Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 13:26:49 GMT
• Title: Deep Animation Video Interpolation in the Wild
• Authors: Li Siyao, Shiyu Zhao, Weijiang Yu, Wenxiu Sun, Dimitris N. Metaxas, Chen Change Loy, Ziwei Liu
• Abstract summary: In this work, we formally define and study the animation video code problem for the first time. We propose an effective framework, AnimeInterp, with two dedicated modules in a coarse-to-fine manner. Notably, AnimeInterp shows favorable perceptual quality and robustness for animation scenarios in the wild.
• Score: 115.24454577119432
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: In the animation industry, cartoon videos are usually produced at low frame rate since hand drawing of such frames is costly and time-consuming. Therefore, it is desirable to develop computational models that can automatically interpolate the in-between animation frames. However, existing video interpolation methods fail to produce satisfying results on animation data. Compared to natural videos, animation videos possess two unique characteristics that make frame interpolation difficult: 1) cartoons comprise lines and smooth color pieces. The smooth areas lack textures and make it difficult to estimate accurate motions on animation videos. 2) cartoons express stories via exaggeration. Some of the motions are non-linear and extremely large. In this work, we formally define and study the animation video interpolation problem for the first time. To address the aforementioned challenges, we propose an effective framework, AnimeInterp, with two dedicated modules in a coarse-to-fine manner. Specifically, 1) Segment-Guided Matching resolves the "lack of textures" challenge by exploiting global matching among color pieces that are piece-wise coherent. 2) Recurrent Flow Refinement resolves the "non-linear and extremely large motion" challenge by recurrent predictions using a transformer-like architecture. To facilitate comprehensive training and evaluations, we build a large-scale animation triplet dataset, ATD-12K, which comprises 12,000 triplets with rich annotations. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach outperforms existing state-of-the-art interpolation methods for animation videos. Notably, AnimeInterp shows favorable perceptual quality and robustness for animation scenarios in the wild. The proposed dataset and code are available at https://github.com/lisiyao21/AnimeInterp/.

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