Deep generative video prediction

Video prediction plays a fundamental role in video analysis and pattern recognition. However, the generated future frames are often blurred, which are not sufficient for further research. To overcome this obstacle, this paper proposes a new deep generative video prediction network under the framework of generative adversarial nets. The network consists of three components: a motion encoder, a frame generator and a frame discriminator. The motion encoder receives multiple frame differences (also known as Eulerian motion) as input and outputs a global video motion representation. The frame generator is a pseudo-reverse two-stream network to generate the future frame. The frame discriminator is a discriminative 3D convolution network to determine whether the given frame is derived from the true future frame distribution or not. The frame generator and frame discriminator train jointly in an adversarial manner until a Nash equilibrium. Motivated by theories on color filter array, this paper also designs a novel cross channel color gradient (3CG) loss as a guidance of deblurring. Experiments on two state-of-the-art data sets demonstrate that the proposed network is promising.