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DyNCA: Real-time Dynamic Texture Synthesis Using Neural Cellular Automata

Pajouheshgar, Ehsan
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Xu, Yitao
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Zhang, Tong
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2023

Current Dynamic Texture Synthesis (DyTS) models can synthesize realistic videos. However, they require a slow iterative optimization process to synthesize a single fixed-size short video, and they do not offer any post-training control over the synthesis process. We propose Dynamic Neural Cellular Automata (DyNCA), a framework for real-time and controllable dynamic texture synthesis. Our method is built upon the recently introduced NCA models and can synthesize infinitely long and arbitrary-sized realistic video textures in real time. We quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate our model and show that our synthesized videos appear more realistic than the existing results. We improve the SOTA DyTS performance by $2\sim 4$ orders of magnitude. Moreover, our model offers several real-time video controls including motion speed, motion direction, and an editing brush tool. We exhibit our trained models in an online interactive demo that runs on local hardware and is accessible on personal computers and smartphones. Link to the demo: https://dynca.github.io/

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preprint
DOI
10.48550/arxiv.2211.11417
Author(s)
Pajouheshgar, Ehsan
Xu, Yitao
Zhang, Tong
Süsstrunk, Sabine  
Date Issued

2023

Subjects

Neural Cellular Automata

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Texture

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Dynamic Texture

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Texture Synthesis

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Dynamic Texture Synthesis

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Video Texture

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Link to the demo

https://dynca.github.io/
Editorial or Peer reviewed

NON-REVIEWED

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IVRL  
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April 3, 2023
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/196706
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