Portrait of Gian Favero

Gian Favero

Master's Research - McGill University
Supervisor
Tal Arbel
Research Topics
Computer Vision
Generative Models
Medical Machine Learning
Website
GitHub

Publications

Beyond FVD: Enhanced Evaluation Metrics for Video Generation Quality
Ge Ya Luo
Gian Favero
Zhi Hao Luo
Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau
Chris Pal
The Fr\'echet Video Distance (FVD) is a widely adopted metric for evaluating video generation distribution quality. However, its effectivene… (see more)ss relies on critical assumptions. Our analysis reveals three significant limitations: (1) the non-Gaussianity of the Inflated 3D Convnet (I3D) feature space; (2) the insensitivity of I3D features to temporal distortions; (3) the impractical sample sizes required for reliable estimation. These findings undermine FVD's reliability and show that FVD falls short as a standalone metric for video generation evaluation. After extensive analysis of a wide range of metrics and backbone architectures, we propose JEDi, the JEPA Embedding Distance, based on features derived from a Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture, measured using Maximum Mean Discrepancy with polynomial kernel. Our experiments on multiple open-source datasets show clear evidence that it is a superior alternative to the widely used FVD metric, requiring only 16% of the samples to reach its steady value, while increasing alignment with human evaluation by 34%, on average.
2024-10-07
ArXiv (preprint)
doi.org
arxiv.org