VideoCrafter2: Overcoming Data Limitations for High-Quality Video Diffusion Models

Haoxin Chen, Yong Zhang, Xiaodong Cun, Menghan Xia, Xintao Wang, Chao Weng, Ying Shan; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024, pp. 7310-7320

Text-to-video generation aims to produce a video based on a given prompt. Recently several commercial video models have been able to generate plausible videos with minimal noise excellent details and high aesthetic scores. However these models rely on large-scale well-filtered high-quality videos that are not accessible to the community. Many existing research works which train models using the low-quality WebVid-10M dataset struggle to generate high-quality videos because the models are optimized to fit WebVid-10M. In this work we explore the training scheme of video models extended from Stable Diffusion and investigate the feasibility of leveraging low-quality videos and synthesized high-quality images to obtain a high-quality video model. We first analyze the connection between the spatial and temporal modules of video models and the distribution shift to low-quality videos. We observe that full training of all modules results in a stronger coupling between spatial and temporal modules than only training temporal modules. Based on this stronger coupling we shift the distribution to higher quality without motion degradation by finetuning spatial modules with high-quality images resulting in a generic high-quality video model. Evaluations are conducted to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method particularly in picture quality motion and concept composition.