VideoSwap: Customized Video Subject Swapping with Interactive Semantic Point Correspondence
This addresses the problem of shape-preserving video editing for users in media and content creation, offering a novel approach beyond incremental improvements.
The paper tackles video editing with shape changes by introducing VideoSwap, a framework that uses semantic point correspondences to swap subjects in videos, achieving state-of-the-art results across various real-world videos.
Current diffusion-based video editing primarily focuses on structure-preserved editing by utilizing various dense correspondences to ensure temporal consistency and motion alignment. However, these approaches are often ineffective when the target edit involves a shape change. To embark on video editing with shape change, we explore customized video subject swapping in this work, where we aim to replace the main subject in a source video with a target subject having a distinct identity and potentially different shape. In contrast to previous methods that rely on dense correspondences, we introduce the VideoSwap framework that exploits semantic point correspondences, inspired by our observation that only a small number of semantic points are necessary to align the subject's motion trajectory and modify its shape. We also introduce various user-point interactions (\eg, removing points and dragging points) to address various semantic point correspondence. Extensive experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art video subject swapping results across a variety of real-world videos.