Consistent Generative Query Networks
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Stochastic video prediction is usually framed as an extrapolation problem where the goal is to sample a sequence of consecutive future image frames conditioned on a sequence of observed past frames. For the most part, algorithms for this task generate future video frames sequentially in an autoregressive fashion, which is slow and requires the input and output to be consecutive. We introduce a model that overcomes these drawbacks -- it learns to generate a global latent representation from an arbitrary set of frames within a video. This representation can then be used to simultaneously and efficiently sample any number of temporally consistent frames at arbitrary time-points in the video. We apply our model to synthetic video prediction tasks and achieve results that are comparable to state-of-the-art video prediction models. In addition, we demonstrate the flexibility of our model by applying it to 3D scene reconstruction where we condition on location instead of time. To the best of our knowledge, our model is the first to provide flexible and coherent prediction on stochastic video datasets, as well as consistent 3D scene samples. Please check the project website https://bit.ly/2jX7Vyu to view scene reconstructions and videos produced by our model.
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