X  - frame

An attempt on frame interpolation with GAN

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What is frame interpolation?

A brief review on frames

Image from Lecture slides

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α\alpha
1-\alpha
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Generate in-between frames

Synthetic video dataset

We have this claw and ball...

Sample Frames

\alpha = 0.7
α=0.7\alpha = 0.7
\alpha = 0.6
α=0.6\alpha = 0.6
\alpha = 0.2
α=0.2\alpha = 0.2
\alpha = 0.9
α=0.9\alpha = 0.9

WGAN-GP with U-Net

WGAN-GP with U-Net

Results

Start_Frame            GT           Predicted      End_Frame

Forced learning?

Generator Pyramid Loss

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real

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fake

Discriminator

py_gen

Results

Start_Frame            GT           Predicted      End_Frame

Discriminator Pyramid Loss

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B-frame

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A-frame

Discriminator

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1-α

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M-frame

py_dis

Results

Start_Frame            GT           Predicted      End_Frame

The real stuff

movie <Zathura>

Sample Frames

\alpha = 0.94
α=0.94\alpha = 0.94
\alpha = 0.40
α=0.40\alpha = 0.40
\alpha = 0.55
α=0.55\alpha = 0.55

WGAN-GP with U-Net

WGAN-GP with U-Net

Results

Start_Frame            GT              Predicted      End_Frame

Conclusion

  • Forced learning may be helpful at times
  • Phase interpolation is learnable by a simple GAN
  • Balanced WGAN loss + L2 loss

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By Arvin Liu

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