[ECCV 2022] Flow-Guided Transformer for Video Inpainting

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This repository contains the implementation of the following paper:

Flow-Guided Transformer for Video Inpainting
Kaidong Zhang, Jingjing Fu and Dong Liu
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022

It is too tedious to run the codes on the local server? Feel free to play with our provided online demos!

• Colab demo:

:star: News

• 2024.02.01: We have uploaded the demo of FGT++ to Youtube.
• 2024.01.30: FGT++ is accepted by TPAMI.
• 2023.04.24: FGT is reported by VALSE, a premier forum for Chinese CV researchers, here is the paper report.
• 2023.01.25: We release FGT++, which is the journal extension of FGT. In this paper, we reformulate the research motivation and propose more methods to exploit the guidance from completed optical flows to transformer-based video inpainting, including the flow-guided feature propagation module and the newly designed temporal deformable MHSA in temporal transformer block. Besides, we also explore the supervision from frequency domain in video inpainting. FGT++ achieves greatly improved compared with FGT and current existing video inpainting baselines.

Overview

We propose a flow-guided transformer, which innovatively leverage the motion discrepancy exposed by optical flows to instruct the attention retrieval in transformer for high fidelity video inpainting. More specially, we design a novel flow completion network to complete the corrupted flows by exploiting the relevant flow features in a local temporal window. With the completed flows, we propagate the content across video frames, and adopt the flow-guided transformer to synthesize the rest corrupted regions. We decouple transformers along temporal and spatial dimension, so that we can easily integrate the locally relevant completed flows to instruct spatial attention only. Furthermore, we design a flow-reweight module to precisely control the impact of completed flows on each spatial transformer. For the sake of efficiency, we introduce window partition strategy to both spatial and temporal transformers. Especially in spatial transformer, we design a dual perspective spatial MHSA, which integrates the global tokens to the window-based attention. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method qualitatively and quantitatively.

Todo list

• Update the real-world results.
• Add Huggingface demo

Prerequisites

• Linux (We tested our codes on Ubuntu20.04)
• Anaconda
• Python 3.6.8
• Pytorch 1.10.1

To get started, first please clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/hitachinsk/FGT.git

Then, please run the following commands:

conda create -n FGT python=3.6.8
conda activate FGT
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install imageio-ffmpeg

Quick start

You can try our online demos:

If you need to run the codes on the local servers, here are the instructions.

1. Download the [pre-trained models], and the [data].
   • You can also get access to our models at
2. Put the downloaded zip files to the root directory of this project
3. Run bash prepare_data.sh to unzip the files
4. Run the object removal demo

cd tool
python video_inpainting.py --path ../data/frames/schoolgirls \
--path_mask ../data/masks/schoolgirls \
--outroot ../data/results/schoolgirls

If everythings works, you will find a result.mp4 file in data/results/schoolgirls. And the video should be like:

Watermark removal

cd tool
python video_inpainting.py --opt configs/watermark_removal.yaml \
--mode watermark_removal \
 --path "Path to the video frames" \
--path_mask "Path to the video masks" \
--outroot "Path to save the results"

Video extrapolation (outpainting)

cd tool
python video_inpainting.py --opt configs/video_extrapolation.yaml \
--mode video_extrapolation \
 --path "Path to the video frames" \
--outroot "Path to save the results"

Training

Our codes follow a two-stage training process. In the first stage, we train the flow completion network (LAFC), and then we train the flow-guided transformer model (FGT). We assume you are at the root directory of this repo.

First, please prepare the dataset for training.

1. Please download Youtube-VOS 2018 in the official link.
2. Unzip the Youtube-VOS files to /myData/youtubevos_frames
3. Extract the flows from Youtube-VOS with RAFT (or other flow extraction methods) and put the extracted files to /myData/youtubevos_flows

Second, train the LAFC model

cd LAFC
python train.py

Third, train the FGT model. Since LAFC takes multiple flows as input, the IO cost is huge for the training of FGT model. Therefore, we adopt the 2D version of LAFC (replace all the P3D convolutions to 2D convolutions) to guide the training of FGT. We provide a pretrained model in LAFC/flowCheckpoint, if you want to train this model by yourself, follow the command below.

python train.py --opt config/train_single.yaml

As for the training of FGT model, run the command below.

cd ../FGT
python train.py

License

This work is licensed under MIT license. See the LICENSE for details.

Citation

If our work inspires your research or some part of the codes are useful for your work, please cite our paper:

@inproceedings{zhang2022flow,
  title={Flow-Guided Transformer for Video Inpainting},
  author={Zhang, Kaidong and Fu, Jingjing and Liu, Dong},
  booktitle={European Conference on Computer Vision},
  pages={74--90},
  year={2022},
  organization={Springer}
}

@article{zhang2024exploiting,
  title={Exploiting optical flow guidance for transformer-based video inpainting},
  author={Zhang, Kaidong and Peng, Jialun and Fu, Jingjing and Liu, Dong},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
  year={2024},
  publisher={IEEE}
}

Our other video inpainting paper (ISVI) :

@InProceedings{Zhang_2022_CVPR,
    author    = {Zhang, Kaidong and Fu, Jingjing and Liu, Dong},
    title     = {Inertia-Guided Flow Completion and Style Fusion for Video Inpainting},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
    month     = {June},
    year      = {2022},
    pages     = {5982-5991}
}

Contact

If you have any questions, please contact us via

• [email protected]

Acknowledgement

Some parts of this repo are based on FGVC and Fuseformer. And we adopt RAFT for flow estimation.