TrackTok learns to group video features into semantic regions, usually objects, without object annotations for that grouping.
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
Research Digest··2 min read

Pham and colleagues introduce TrackTok, a video tokenizer that compresses footage into representations organized around persistent objects rather than fixed image locations.
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