Object-aligned video tokens preserve generation quality with fewer latent units

Pham and colleagues report comparable UCF-101 generation quality using eight times fewer tokens, alongside stronger low-token-budget frame prediction on Kinetics-600.

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Nhi Pham · Christopher Wewer · Bernt Schiele · Jonas Fischer · Jan Eric Lenssen

Max Planck Institute for Informatics · Saarland University

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Illustration: Object-aligned video tokens preserve generation quality with fewer latent units
Pham and colleagues introduce TrackTok, a video tokenizer that compresses footage into representations organized around persistent objects rather than fixed image locations.

TrackTok learns to group video features into semantic regions, usually objects, without object annotations for that grouping.

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