Published In

2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

Document Type

Pre-Print

Publication Date

12-2017

Subjects

Computer vision, Image processing -- Methodology, Neural networks (Computer science), Machine learning

Abstract

Standard video frame interpolation methods first estimate optical flow between input frames and then synthesize an intermediate frame guided by motion. Recent approaches merge these two steps into a single convolution process by convolving input frames with spatially adaptive kernels that account for motion and re-sampling simultaneously. These methods require large kernels to handle large motion, which limits the number of pixels whose kernels can be estimated at once due to the large memory demand. To address this problem, this paper formulates frame interpolation as local separable convolution over input frames using pairs of 1D kernels. Compared to regular 2D kernels, the 1D kernels require significantly fewer parameters to be estimated. Our method develops a deep fully convolutional neural network that takes two input frames and estimates pairs of 1D kernels for all pixels simultaneously. Since our method is able to estimate kernels and synthesizes the whole video frame at once, it allows for the incorporation of perceptual loss to train the neural network to produce visually pleasing frames. This deep neural network is trained end-to-end using widely available video data without any human annotation. Both qualitative and quantitative experiments show that our method provides a practical solution to high-quality video frame interpolation.

Description

This is the author's version of an paper presented at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, (ICCV). Subsequently published, the definitive version can be found at https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2017.37.

Copyright 2017 IEEE.

DOI

10.1109/ICCV.2017.37

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/25082

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