Open Source BSD AI Video Generators

Implementation of Make-A-Video, new SOTA text to video generator from Meta AI, in Pytorch. They combine pseudo-3d convolutions (axial convolutions) and temporal attention and show much better temporal fusion. The pseudo-3d convolutions isn't a new concept. It has been explored before in other contexts, say for protein contact prediction as "dimensional hybrid residual networks". The gist of the paper comes down to, take a SOTA text-to-image model (here they use DALL-E2, but the same learning points would easily apply to Imagen), make a few minor modifications for attention across time and other ways to skimp on the compute cost, do frame interpolation correctly, get a great video model out. Passing in images (if one were to pretrain on images first), both temporal convolution and attention will be automatically skipped. In other words, you can use this straightforwardly in your 2d Unet and then port it over to a 3d Unet once that phase of the training is done.