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New zero-shot video restoration method uses image diffusion priors

Researchers have developed a new method for zero-shot video restoration by leveraging image diffusion models. This approach tackles the challenge of computational cost by using pre-trained image models instead of training video-specific ones. The key innovation lies in generating initial noise directly from corrupted video frames via DDIM inversion, preserving temporal correlations, and employing adaptive noise blending and trajectory attention to enhance temporal consistency and reduce degradation artifacts. Experiments show this method outperforms existing zero-shot techniques on various video restoration datasets. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Chong Wang, Zixuan Fu, Hao Cheng, Siyuan Yang, Alex C. Kot, Bihan Wen ·

    Taming Noise Initialization for Zero-shot Video Restoration with Image Diffusion Priors

    arXiv:2610.37290v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in restoring high-quality images in a zero-shot manner. Unfortunately, extending this success to video restoration is challenging due to the substantial computatio…