Lumiere: A Space-Time Diffusion Model for Video Generation
Authors: name: Omer Bar-Tal, name: Hila Chefer, name: Omer Tov, name: Charles Herrmann, name: Roni Paiss, name: Shiran Zada, name: Ariel Ephrat, name: Junhwa Hur, name: Yuanzhen Li, name: Tomer Michaeli, name: Oliver Wang, name: Deqing Sun, name: Tali Dekel, name: Inbar Mosseri

We introduce Lumiere -- a text-to-video diffusion model designed for
synthesizing videos that portray realistic, diverse and coherent motion -- a
pivotal challenge in video synthesis. To this end, we introduce a Space-Time
U-Net architecture that generates the entire temporal duration of the video at
once, through a single pass in the model. This is in contrast to existing video
models which synthesize distant keyframes followed by temporal super-resolution
-- an approach that inherently makes global temporal consistency difficult to
achieve. By deploying both spatial and (importantly) temporal down- and
up-sampling and leveraging a pre-trained text-to-image diffusion model, our
model learns to directly generate a full-frame-rate, low-resolution video by
processing it in multiple space-time scales. We demonstrate state-of-the-art
text-to-video generation results, and show that our design easily facilitates a
wide range of content creation tasks and video editing applications, including
image-to-video, video inpainting, and stylized generation.