Text edits on real videos can work but motion causes drift
A benchmark shows edits can work on real clips, but long edits drift.
- Publication
- arXiv
- Stage
- Preprint
- What we read
- Summary of the paper
- Authors
- Xinghao Chen, Xiangbo Gao, Jiongze Yu, Yuheng Wu, Zhengzhong Tu
- Universities and research institutions
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What they did and found
Researchers tested eight ways to edit text in 157 real videos with readable text. In 120-frame clips, drift, flicker, or unchanged text occurred in many cases. They used 230 training videos and 157 test videos, all with Latin letters, to compare text accuracy, image quality, and how well edits stayed on the moving surface.
Why it matters
To avoid growing text errors as scenes change, check the whole clip. A sample shop video should look correct from start to finish.
The ViTeX dataset holds many source clips and 230 training pairs. Edits often lose legibility as motion, lighting, or occlusions change, making glyphs drift.
A mixed method that lines up the letters to the moving surface can help, but it may not stop drift entirely.
What remains uncertain
Limited to Latin-script text and real-world footage; results may vary with other scripts, fonts, or heavy motion.
Original sources · 1
- ViTeX-Bench: Benchmarking High-Fidelity Video Scene Text Editing ↗arXiv · 2026-09-30
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