TI2V-Zero - Zero-Shot Image Conditioning for Text-to-Video Diffusion Models

Text-conditioned image-to-video generation.

MERL Researchers: Suhas Lohit, Anoop Cherian, Ye Wang, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Tim K. Marks (Computer Vision).
Joint work with: Haomiao Ni (Pennsylvania State University), Sharon X. Huang (Pennsylvania State University), Bernhard Egger (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

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Text-conditioned image-to-video generation (TI2V) aims to synthesize a realistic video starting from a given image (e.g., a woman's photo) and a text description (e.g., "a woman is drinking water."). Existing TI2V frameworks often require costly training on video-text datasets and specific model designs for text and image conditioning. In this paper, we propose TI2V-Zero, a zero-shot, tuning-free method that empowers a pretrained text-to-video (T2V) diffusion model to be conditioned on a provided image, enabling TI2V generation without any optimization, fine-tuning, or introducing external modules. TI2V-Zero is able to generate various types of videos, and the generated videos are more realistic than those generated by competing approaches. Furthermore, we show that TI2V-Zero can seamlessly extend to other tasks such as video infilling and prediction when provided with more images. Its autoregressive design also supports long video generation.

Zero-shot image conditioning of a pretrained T2V diffusion model

To guide video generation with the additional image input, we propose a simple ``Repeat-and-Slide'' strategy that modulates the reverse denoising process, allowing the frozen diffusion model to synthesize a video frame-by-frame starting from the provided image. To ensure temporal continuity, we employ a DDPM inversion strategy to initialize Gaussian noise for each newly synthesized frame and a resampling technique to help preserve visual details.

Video generation results:

1. UCF-101 dataset

2. Open dataset

3. Video prediction example