RAVE: Randomized Noise Shuffling for Fast and Consistent Video Editing with Diffusion Models
Ozgur KaraBariscan KurtkayaHidir YesiltepeJames M. RehgPinar Yanardag
Proposes a training-free video editing framework that uses randomized noise shuffling across diffusion steps to achieve temporally consistent, full-sequence edits with lower memory overhead and faster inference than prior methods.
Artificial intelligence tools have achieved significant success in generating and modifying still images from text descriptions, but translating these capabilities to video editing remains challenging. Existing video editing techniques frequently suffer from visual inconsistencies across frames, blurriness, severe memory limitations on longer sequences, and high computational costs from model retraining or extensive processing time. The article presents RAVE, a zero-shot, training-free framework designed to perform fast and temporally consistent video editing using off-the-shelf text-to-image diffusion models.
The framework organizes video frames into structured grids to process multiple frames as a unified image while incorporating spatial control tools for structural guidance. To overcome memory constraints that prevent processing entire videos in a single grid, RAVE randomly shuffles frame assignments across grids at each step of the iterative image generation process. This shuffling enforces global visual connections across all frames without demanding proportional GPU memory, effectively eliminating stylistic discrepancies between separate frame batches.
Empirical evaluations across 186 text-video pairs covering 8-, 36-, and 90-frame sequences demonstrate that RAVE outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods in overall edit quality and frame-to-frame consistency, with advantages becoming especially pronounced on longer videos. In a user study involving 130 participants, RAVE achieved the highest satisfaction, securing top ratings in 90.51% of evaluations for general editing, 82.82% for temporal consistency, and 86.67% for prompt alignment. Furthermore, RAVE executes edits approximately 25% faster than competing tools, processing a 90-frame video in 4 minutes and 28 seconds.
These findings indicate that high-quality, complex video modifications—including style transfers, local attribute modifications, and major shape changes—can be deployed economically without fine-tuning specialized models. Practitioners should consider adopting randomized noise shuffling architectures when low latency, limited hardware overhead, and long-sequence consistency are critical. However, minor visual artifacts and flickering can still arise during extreme shape edits due to approximation errors inherent in latent image reconstruction. Further development is recommended to extend the technique to related domains such as consistent avatar synthesis and three-dimensional texture editing.
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