UniVid: Unifying Vision Tasks with Pre-trained Video Generation Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21760v1
• Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 01:43:40 GMT
• Title: UniVid: Unifying Vision Tasks with Pre-trained Video Generation Models
• Authors: Lan Chen, Yuchao Gu, Qi Mao,
• Abstract summary: Large language models, trained on extensive corpora, successfully unify diverse linguistic tasks within a single generative framework.<n>Such modeling requires task-specific pre-training across modalities and sources, which is costly and limits scalability to unseen tasks.<n>We propose UniVid, a framework that fine-tunes a video diffusion transformer to handle various vision tasks without task-specific modifications.
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• Abstract: Large language models, trained on extensive corpora, successfully unify diverse linguistic tasks within a single generative framework. Inspired by this, recent works like Large Vision Model (LVM) extend this paradigm to vision by organizing tasks into sequential visual sentences, where visual prompts serve as the context to guide outputs. However, such modeling requires task-specific pre-training across modalities and sources, which is costly and limits scalability to unseen tasks. Given that pre-trained video generation models inherently capture temporal sequence dependencies, we explore a more unified and scalable alternative: can a pre-trained video generation model adapt to diverse image and video tasks? To answer this, we propose UniVid, a framework that fine-tunes a video diffusion transformer to handle various vision tasks without task-specific modifications. Tasks are represented as visual sentences, where the context sequence defines both the task and the expected output modality. We evaluate the generalization of UniVid from two perspectives: (1) cross-modal inference with contexts composed of both images and videos, extending beyond LVM's uni-modal setting; (2) cross-source tasks from natural to annotated data, without multi-source pre-training. Despite being trained solely on natural video data, UniVid generalizes well in both settings. Notably, understanding and generation tasks can easily switch by simply reversing the visual sentence order in this paradigm. These findings highlight the potential of pre-trained video generation models to serve as a scalable and unified foundation for vision modeling. Our code will be released at https://github.com/CUC-MIPG/UniVid.

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