Video Synthesis via Transform-Based Tensor Neural Network

Abstract

Video frame synthesis is an important task in computer vision and has drawn great interests in wide applications. However, existing neural network methods do not explicitly impose tensor low-rankness of videos to capture the spatiotemporal correlations in a high-dimensional space, while existing iterative algorithms require hand-crafted parameters and take relatively long running time. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-phase deep neural network Transform-Based Tensor-Net that exploits the low-rank structure of video data in a learned transform domain, which unfolds an Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding Algorithm (ISTA) for tensor signal recovery. Our design is based on two observations: (i) both linear and nonlinear transforms can be implemented by a neural network layer, and (ii) the soft-thresholding operator corresponds to an activation function. Further, such an unfolding design is able to achieve nearly real-time at the cost of training time and enjoys an interpretable nature as a byproduct. Experimental results on the KTH and UCF-101 datasets show that compared with the state-of-the-art methods, i.e., DVF and Super SloMo, the proposed scheme improves Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) of video interpolation and prediction by 4.13 dB and 4.26 dB, respectively.