VIRES: Video Instance Repainting via Sketch and Text Guided Generation

Shuchen Weng1,2†‡, Haojie Zheng3,4†, Peixuan Zhang5, Yuchen Hong1,2, Han Jiang3, Si Li5, Boxin Shi1,2*
1National Key Laboratory for Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University
2National Engineering Research Center of Visual Technology, School of Computer Science, Peking University  
3OpenBayes Information Technology Co., Ltd.   4School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University
5School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
(† Equal contribution    ‡ Now at Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence    * Corresponding author)
arXiv Code Video Dataset Dataset
Showcases Sparse sketch guidance Long-duration
Sketch-to-video repainting Comparisons

 

Showcases produced by our VIRES

Mask Sketch Input Result
The man is dressed in a blue shirt, walking in the park.
A dark-colored SUV is seen driving on the curve of the road, away from the camera.
A corgi, with its orange and white fur, runs towards the camera.
A football field with a brown-green graffiti wall as the background.

 

First sketch frame guidance video repainting

Mask Sketch First sketch frame Input Result
Static Image
Static Image
A person in a park, wearing a white t-shirt with scattered graffiti on it.

 

Long-duration video repainting

Mask Sketch Input Result
A woman wears a black leather jacket, black leggings, and black boots with a brown shoulder bag slung across her body, walking towards two cars.

 

Sketch-to-video repainting

Sketch-to-video generation

Sketch Original Ours (VIRES) VideoComposer
A lotus flower in full bloom, with delicate pinkish-white petals.

Sketch-to-video inpainting

Mask Sketch Original
Input Ours (VIRES) VideoComposer
A soccer ball is predominantly white with blue patterns.
Mask Sketch Original
Input Ours (VIRES) VideoComposer
A brown bear is walking towards the right side of the frame.
Mask Sketch Original
Input Ours (VIRES) VideoComposer
A white lotus flower in full bloom, with its delicate petals spread out.

 

Comparisons with stat-of-the-art methods

Mask Sketch Input Ours (VIRES)
Rerender VidToMe Text2VideoZero RAVE VideoComposer
A brown horse with a shiny coat, trotting within an enclosed sandy area.
Mask Sketch Input Ours (VIRES)
Rerender VidToMe Text2VideoZero RAVE VideoComposer
A players wears a light green jersey with the white number 1 on the back.
Mask Sketch Input Ours (VIRES)
Rerender VidToMe Text2VideoZero RAVE VideoComposer
The man is dressed in a blue shirt, walking in the park.
Mask Sketch Input Ours (VIRES)
Rerender VidToMe Text2VideoZero RAVE VideoComposer
A dark-colored SUV is seen driving on the curve of the road, away from the camera.
Mask Sketch Input Ours (VIRES)
Rerender VidToMe Text2VideoZero RAVE VideoComposer
A corgi, with its orange and white fur, runs towards the camera.
Mask Sketch Input Ours (VIRES)
Rerender VidToMe Text2VideoZero RAVE VideoComposer
A football field with a brown-green graffiti wall as the background.

 

BibTeX

@article{vires,
      title={VIRES: Video Instance Repainting via Sketch and Text Guided Generation},
      author={Weng, Shuchen and Zheng, Haojie and Zhang, Peixuan and Hong, Yuchen and Jiang, Han and Li, Si and Shi, Boxin},
      booktitle={Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference},
      pages={28416--28425},
      year={2025}
}