MSc Thesis Presentation - Dylan Green

Name: Dylan Green

Date: August 11

Time: 1 p.m.

Location: ICCS X836

Supervisor’s Name: Mark Schmidt, Frank Wood

Title: Semantically consistent video inpainting with conditional diffusion models

Abstract:
Current state-of-the-art methods for video inpainting typically rely on optical flow or attention-based approaches to inpaint masked regions by propagating visual information across frames. While such approaches have led to significant progress on standard benchmark datasets, they struggle with tasks that require the synthesis of novel content that is not present in other frames. In this thesis, we reframe video inpainting as a conditional generative modeling problem and present a framework for solving such problems with conditional video diffusion models. We highlight the advantages of using a generative approach for this task, showing that our method is capable of generating diverse, high-quality inpaintings and synthesizing new content that is spatially, temporally, and semantically consistent with the provided context.