Object-Centric Diffusion for Efficient Video Editing
Authors: name: Kumara Kahatapitiya, name: Adil Karjauv, name: Davide Abati, name: Fatih Porikli, name: Yuki M. Asano, name: Amirhossein Habibian

Diffusion-based video editing have reached impressive quality and can
transform either the global style, local structure, and attributes of given
video inputs, following textual edit prompts. However, such solutions typically
incur heavy memory and computational costs to generate temporally-coherent
frames, either in the form of diffusion inversion and/or cross-frame attention.
In this paper, we conduct an analysis of such inefficiencies, and suggest
simple yet effective modifications that allow significant speed-ups whilst
maintaining quality. Moreover, we introduce Object-Centric Diffusion, coined as
OCD, to further reduce latency by allocating computations more towards
foreground edited regions that are arguably more important for perceptual
quality. We achieve this by two novel proposals: i) Object-Centric Sampling,
decoupling the diffusion steps spent on salient regions or background,
allocating most of the model capacity to the former, and ii) Object-Centric 3D
Token Merging, which reduces cost of cross-frame attention by fusing redundant
tokens in unimportant background regions. Both techniques are readily
applicable to a given video editing model without retraining, and can
drastically reduce its memory and computational cost. We evaluate our proposals
on inversion-based and control-signal-based editing pipelines, and show a
latency reduction up to 10x for a comparable synthesis quality.