HOI-Swap: Swapping Objects in Videos with Hand-Object Interaction Awareness
This addresses the challenge of realistic video editing for objects interacted with by hands, which is incremental as it builds on existing diffusion models but focuses on a specific bottleneck.
The paper tackles the problem of swapping objects in videos involving hand-object interactions, using a diffusion-based framework that adjusts interaction patterns like hand grasp based on object changes, and it significantly outperforms existing methods in producing realistic edits.
We study the problem of precisely swapping objects in videos, with a focus on those interacted with by hands, given one user-provided reference object image. Despite the great advancements that diffusion models have made in video editing recently, these models often fall short in handling the intricacies of hand-object interactions (HOI), failing to produce realistic edits -- especially when object swapping results in object shape or functionality changes. To bridge this gap, we present HOI-Swap, a novel diffusion-based video editing framework trained in a self-supervised manner. Designed in two stages, the first stage focuses on object swapping in a single frame with HOI awareness; the model learns to adjust the interaction patterns, such as the hand grasp, based on changes in the object's properties. The second stage extends the single-frame edit across the entire sequence; we achieve controllable motion alignment with the original video by: (1) warping a new sequence from the stage-I edited frame based on sampled motion points and (2) conditioning video generation on the warped sequence. Comprehensive qualitative and quantitative evaluations demonstrate that HOI-Swap significantly outperforms existing methods, delivering high-quality video edits with realistic HOIs.