Meta's Groundbreaking AI Film Maker: Make-A-Scene

Written by whatsai | Published 2022/10/01
Tech Story Tags: machine-learning | ai | artificial-intelligence | computer-vision | stable-diffusion | text-to-video | hackernoon-top-story | youtubers | web-monetization

TLDRMeta AI’s new model make-a-video is out and in a single sentence: it generates videos from text. It's not only able to generate videos, but it's also the new state-of-the-art method, producing higher quality and more coherent videos than ever before. This is all information you must’ve seen already on a news website or just by reading the title of the article, but what you don’t know yet is what it is exactly and how it works.via the TL;DR App

Meta AI’s new model make-a-video is out and in a single sentence: it generates videos from text. It’s not only able to generate videos, but it’s also the new state-of-the-art method, producing higher quality and more coherent videos than ever before!
You can see this model as a stable diffusion model for videos. Surely the next step after being able to generate images. This is all information you must’ve seen already on a news website or just by reading the title of the article, but what you don’t know yet is what it is exactly and how it works.
Here's how...

References

►Read the full article: https://www.louisbouchard.ai/make-a-video/
► Meta's blog post: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/generative-ai-text-to-video/
►Singer et al. (Meta AI), 2022, "MAKE-A-VIDEO: TEXT-TO-VIDEO GENERATION WITHOUT TEXT-VIDEO DATA", https://makeavideo.studio/Make-A-Video.pdf
►Make-a-video (official page): https://makeavideo.studio/?fbclid=IwAR0tuL9Uc6kjZaMoJHCngAMUNp9bZbyhLmdOUveJ9leyyfL9awRy4seQGW4
► Pytorch implementation: https://github.com/lucidrains/make-a-video-pytorch
►My Newsletter (A new AI application explained weekly to your emails!): https://www.louisbouchard.ai/newsletter/

Video Transcript

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methias new model make a video is out
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and in a single sentence it generates
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videos from text it's not unable to
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generate videos but it's also the new
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state-of-the-art method producing higher
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quality and more coherent videos than
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ever you can see this model as a stable
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diffusion model for videos surely the
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next step after being able to generate
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images this is how information you must
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have seen already on a News website or
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just by reading the title of the video
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but what you don't know yet is what is
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it exactly and how it works make a video
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is the most recent publication by met
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III and it allows you to generate a
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short video out of textual inputs just
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like this so you are adding complexity
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to the image generation test by not only
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having to generate multiple frames of
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the same subject and scene but it also
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has to be coherent in time you cannot
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simply generate 60 images using dally
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and generate a video it will just look
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bad and nothing realistic you need a
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model that understands the world in a
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better way and leverages this level of
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understanding to generate a coherent
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series of images that blend well
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together you basically want to simulate
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a world and then simulate recordings of
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it but how can you do that typically you
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will need tons of text video pairs to
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train your model to generate such videos
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from textual input but not in this case
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since this kind of data is really
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difficult to get and the training costs
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are super expensive they approach this
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problem differently another way is to
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take the best text to image model and
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adapt it to videos and that's what met I
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did in a research paper they just
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released in their case the text to image
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model is an another model by meta called
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magazine which I covered in a previous
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video if you'd like to learn more about
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it but how do you adapt such a model to
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take time into consideration you add a
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spatial temporal pipeline for your model
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to be able to process videos this means
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that the model will not only generate an
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image but in this case 16 of them in low
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resolution to create a short coherent
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video in a similar manner as a text to
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image model but adding a one-dimensional
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convolution along with the regular
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two-dimensional one the simple addition
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allows them to keep the pre-trained
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two-dimensional convolutions the same
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and add a temporal Dimension that they
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will train from scratch reusing most of
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the code and models parameters from the
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image model they started from we also
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want to guide Our Generations with text
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input which will be very similar to
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image models using clip embeddings a
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process I go in detail in my stable
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diffusion video if you are not familiar
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with their problem but they will also be
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adding the temporal Dimension when
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blending the text features with the
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image features doing the same thing
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keeping the attention module I described
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in my make a scene video and adding a
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one-dimensional attention module or
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temporal considerations copy pasting the
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image generator model and duplicating
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the generation modules for one more
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Dimension to have all our 16 initial
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frames but what can you do with 16
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frames well nothing really interesting
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we need to make a high definition video
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out of those frames the model will do
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that by having access to previews and
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future frames and iteratively
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interpolating from them both in terms of
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temporal and spatial Dimensions at the
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same time so basically generating new
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and larger frames in between those
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initial 16 frames based on the frames
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before and after them which will
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fascinate making the movement coherent
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and overall video ruined this is done
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using a frame interpolation Network
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which I also described in other videos
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but will basically take the images we
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have and fill in gaps generating in
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between information it will do the same
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thing for a spatial component enlarging
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the image and filling the pixel gaps to
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make it more high definition
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so to summarize the fine tune a text to
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image model for video generation this
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means they take a powerful model already
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trained and adapt and train it a little
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bit more to get used to videos this
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retraining will be done with unlabeled
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videos just to teach the model to
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understand videos and video frame
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consistency which makes the data set
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building process much simpler then we
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use once again an image optimized model
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to improve spatial resolution in our
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last frame interpolation component to
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add more frames to make the video fluid
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of course the results aren't perfect yet
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just like text to image models but we
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know how fast the progress goes this was
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just an overview of how met I
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successfully tackled the text to video
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task in this great paper all the links
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are in the description below if you'd
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like to learn more about their approach
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at pytorch implementation is also
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already being developed by the community
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as well so stay tuned for that if you'd
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like to implement it yourself thank you
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for watching the whole video and I will
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see you next time with another amazing
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paper




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