Re-Attentional Controllable Video Diffusion Editing

Abstract

Editing videos with textual guidance has garnered popularity due to its streamlined process which mandates users to solely edit the text prompt corresponding to the source video. Recent studies have explored and exploited large-scale text-to-image diffusion models for text-guided video editing, resulting in remarkable video editing capabilities. However, they may still suffer from some limitations such as mislocated objects, incorrect number of objects. Therefore, the controllability of video editing remains a formidable challenge. In this paper, we aim to challenge the above limitations by proposing a Re-Attentional Controllable Video Diffusion Editing (ReAtCo) method. Specially, to align the spatial placement of the target objects with the edited text prompt in a training-free manner, we propose a Re-Attentional Diffusion (RAD) to refocus the cross-attention activation responses between the edited text prompt and the target video during the denoising stage, resulting in a spatially location-aligned and semantically high-fidelity manipulated video. In particular, to faithfully preserve the invariant region content with less border artifacts, we propose an Invariant Region-guided Joint Sampling (IRJS) strategy to mitigate the intrinsic sampling errors w.r.t the invariant regions at each denoising timestep and constrain the generated content to be harmonized with the invariant region content. Experimental results verify that ReAtCo consistently improves the controllability of video diffusion editing and achieves superior video editing performance.

Cite

Text

Wang et al. "Re-Attentional Controllable Video Diffusion Editing." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025. doi:10.1609/AAAI.V39I8.32876

Markdown

[Wang et al. "Re-Attentional Controllable Video Diffusion Editing." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2025/wang2025aaai-re-a/) doi:10.1609/AAAI.V39I8.32876

BibTeX

@inproceedings{wang2025aaai-re-a,
  title     = {{Re-Attentional Controllable Video Diffusion Editing}},
  author    = {Wang, Yuanzhi and Li, Yong and Liu, Mengyi and Zhang, Xiaoya and Liu, Xin and Cui, Zhen and Chan, Antoni B.},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2025},
  pages     = {8123-8131},
  doi       = {10.1609/AAAI.V39I8.32876},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2025/wang2025aaai-re-a/}
}