In this paper, we present MovieFactory, a powerful framework to generate cinematic-picture (3072x1280), film-style (multi-scene), and multi-modality (sounding) movies on the demand of natural languages. As the first fully automated movie generation model to the best of our knowledge, our approach empowers users to create captivating movies with smooth transitions using simple text inputs, surpassing existing methods that produce soundless videos limited to a single scene of modest quality. To facilitate this distinctive functionality, we leverage ChatGPT to expand user-provided text into detailed sequential scripts for movie generation. Then we bring scripts to life visually and acoustically through vision generation and audio retrieval. To generate videos, we extend the capabilities of a pretrained text-to-image diffusion model through a two-stage process. Firstly, we employ spatial finetuning to bridge the gap between the pretrained image model and the new video dataset. Subsequently, we introduce temporal learning to capture object motion. In terms of audio, we leverage sophisticated retrieval models to select and align audio elements that correspond to the plot and visual content of the movie.

Story visualization aims to create visually compelling images or videos corresponding to textual narratives. Despite recent advances in diffusion models yielding promising results, existing methods still struggle to create a coherent sequence of subject-consistent frames based solely on a story. To this end, we propose DreamStory, an automatic open-domain story visualization framework by leveraging the LLMs and a novel multi-subject consistent diffusion model. DreamStory consists of (1) an LLM acting as a story director and (2) an innovative Multi-Subject consistent Diffusion model (MSD) for generating consistent multi-subject across the images. First, DreamStory employs the LLM to generate descriptive prompts for subjects and scenes aligned with the story, annotating each scene’s subjects for subsequent subject-consistent generation. Second, DreamStory utilizes these detailed subject descriptions to create portraits of the subjects, with these portraits and their corresponding textual information serving as multimodal anchors (guidance). Finally, the MSD uses these multimodal anchors to generate story scenes with consistent multi-subject. Specifically, the MSD includes Masked Mutual Self-Attention (MMSA) and Masked Mutual Cross-Attention (MMCA) modules. MMSA module ensures detailed appearance consistency with reference images, while MMCA captures key attributes of subjects from their reference text to ensure semantic consistency. Both modules employ masking mechanisms to restrict each scene’s subjects to referencing the multimodal information of the corresponding subject, effectively preventing blending between multiple subjects. To validate our approach and promote progress in story visualization, we established a benchmark, DS-500, which can assess the overall performance of the story visualization framework, subject-identification accuracy, and the consistency of the generation model. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of DreamStory in both subjective and objective evaluations.

It is a research hotspot to restore decoded videos with existing bitstreams by applying deep neural network to improve compression efficiency at decoder-end. Existing research has verified that the utilization of redundancy at decoder-end, which is underused by the encoder, can bring an increase of compression efficiency. However, most existing research neglects the abundant multi-scale information among video frames as a typical type of such redundancy. It remains an interesting yet challenging topic how to build an effective, interpretable and fast deep neural network for the purpose of using the multi-scale similarity at decoder-end and further enhancing compression efficiency. To this end, this paper considers the use of underused inter multi-scale information, and proposes the Fast Multi-Scale Deep Decoder (Fast MSDD) for the state-of-the-art video coding standard HEVC. The advantages of Fast MSDD are three-fold. First, it achieves a higher coding efficiency without modifying any encoding algorithm. Second, Fast MSDD is interpretable based on the framework of using the underused redundancy. Third, it guarantees the model's inference speed while fully using the multi-scale similarity among video frames. Extensive experiment results verify Fast MSDD's effectiveness, interpretability, and computational efficiency. Fast MSDD obtains averagely 14.3%, 10.8%, 8.5% and 7.6% BD gains for AI, LP, LB and RA respectively. Compared with our previous work MSDD, Fast MSDD achieves increases of 59.3%, 49.1%, 61.0% and 29.3%. Meanwhile, 16.9%, 11.2%, 9.2% and 8.3% BD gains are observed on videos with scaling changes, which validate the interpretability of the proposed method. Furthermore, Fast MSDD can save at most 56.3% time compared to MSDD.

We study the task of generating profitable Non-Fungible Token (NFT) images from user-input texts. Recent advances in diffusion models have shown great potential for image generation. However, existing works can fall short in generating visually-pleasing and highly-profitable NFT images, mainly due to the lack of 1) plentiful and fine-grained visual attribute prompts for an NFT image, and 2) effective optimization metrics for generating high-quality NFT images. To solve these challenges, we propose a Diffusion based generation framework with Multiple Visual-Policies as rewards (i.e., Diffusion-MVP) for NFT images. The proposed framework consists of a large language model (LLM), a diffusion-based image generator, and a series of visual rewards by design. First, the LLM enhances a basic human input (such as "panda") by generating more comprehensive NFT-style prompts that include specific visual attributes, such as "panda with Ninja style and green background." Second, the diffusion-based image generator is fine-tuned using a large-scale NFT dataset to capture fine-grained image styles and accessory compositions of popular NFT elements. Third, we further propose to utilize multiple visual-policies as optimization goals, including visual rarity levels, visual aesthetic scores, and CLIP-based text-image relevances. This design ensures that our proposed Diffusion-MVP is capable of minting NFT images with high visual quality and market value. To facilitate this research, we have collected the largest publicly available NFT image dataset to date, consisting of 1.5 million high-quality images with corresponding texts and market values. Extensive experiments including objective evaluations and user studies demonstrate that our framework can generate NFT images showing more visually engaging elements and higher market value, compared with state-of-the-art approaches.

Videos for mobile devices become the most popular access to share and acquire information recently. For the convenience of users' creation, in this paper, we present a system, namely MobileVidFactory, to automatically generate vertical mobile videos where users only need to give simple texts mainly. Our system consists of two parts: basic and customized generation. In the basic generation, we utilize the pretrained image diffusion model, and adapt it to a high-quality open-domain vertical video generator. As for the audio, by retrieving from our big database, our system matches a suitable background sound for the video. Additionally to produce customized content, our system allows users to add specified screen texts for enriching visual expression, and specify texts for automatic reading with optional voices as they like.