# VidStyleODE: Disentangled Video Editing via StyleGAN and NeuralODEs

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06020 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.06020/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 51 of its 59 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 12 Apr 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 51)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.00020/) (2021)
- [An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.11929/) (2020)
- [Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.14294/) (2021)
- [A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.04948/) (2018)
- [Neural Ordinary Differential Equations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1806.07366/) (2018)
- [Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.04958/) (2019)
- [Improved Techniques for Training GANs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1606.03498/) (2016)
- [Arbitrary Style Transfer in Real-time with Adaptive Instance Normalization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.06868/) (2017)
- [Towards Accurate Generative Models of Video: A New Metric & Challenges](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.01717/) (2018)
- [StyleCLIP: Text-Driven Manipulation of StyleGAN Imagery](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.17249/) (2021)
- [Encoding in Style: a StyleGAN Encoder for Image-to-Image Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.00951/) (2020)
- [VideoGPT: Video Generation using VQ-VAE and Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.10157/) (2021)
- [Designing an Encoder for StyleGAN Image Manipulation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.02766/) (2021)
- [MoCoGAN: Decomposing Motion and Content for Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1707.04993/) (2017)
- [Putting NeRF on a Diet: Semantically Consistent Few-Shot View Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.00677/) (2021)
- [Pivotal Tuning for Latent-based Editing of Real Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.05744/) (2021)
- [Video-to-Video Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1808.06601/) (2018)
- [GAN Inversion: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.05278/) (2021)
- [StyleGAN-V: A Continuous Video Generator with the Price, Image Quality and Perks of StyleGAN2](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.14683/) (2021)
- [FlowFormer: A Transformer Architecture for Optical Flow](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.16194/) (2022)
- [Motion Representations for Articulated Animation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.11280/) (2021)
- [Learning Blind Video Temporal Consistency](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1808.00449/) (2018)
- [Swapping Autoencoder for Deep Image Manipulation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.00653/) (2020)
- [Splicing ViT Features for Semantic Appearance Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.00424/) (2022)
- [Latent Image Animator: Learning to Animate Images via Latent Space Navigation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.09043/) (2022)
- [StyleHEAT: One-Shot High-Resolution Editable Talking Face Generation via Pre-trained StyleGAN](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.04036/) (2022)
- [A Good Image Generator Is What You Need for High-Resolution Video Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.15069/) (2021)
- [ManiGAN: Text-Guided Image Manipulation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.06203/) (2019)
- [Delving Deeper into Convolutional Networks for Learning Video Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1511.06432/) (2015)

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [ElasticDiffusion: Training-free Arbitrary Size Image Generation through Global-Local Content Separation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.18822/) (2023)
- [Variational Inference for SDEs Driven by Fractional Noise](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.12975/) (2023)
- [Beyond Gaussian Bottlenecks: Topologically Aligned Encoding of Vision-Transformer Feature Spaces](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.28122/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We propose VidStyleODE, a spatiotemporally continuous disentangled Video representation based upon StyleGAN and Neural-ODEs. Effective traversal of the latent space learned by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has been the basis for recent breakthroughs in image editing. However, the applicability of such advancements to the video domain has been hindered by the difficulty of representing and controlling videos in the latent space of GANs. In particular, videos are composed of content (i.e., appearance) and complex motion components that require a special mechanism to disentangle and control. To achieve this, VidStyleODE encodes the video content in a pre-trained StyleGAN W_+ space and benefits from a latent ODE component to summarize the spatiotemporal dynamics of the input video. Our novel continuous video generation process then combines the two to generate high-quality and temporally consistent videos with varying frame rates. We show that our proposed method enables a variety of applications on real videos: text-guided appearance manipulation, motion manipulation, image animation, and video interpolation and extrapolation. Project website: https://cyberiada.github.io/VidStyleODE
