cs.CVMay 17, 2026

VISTA: Triplet-Supervised Video Style Transfer with Diffusion Transformers

Authors: Yiren SongWangzi YaoHaofan WangMike Zheng Shou

Organizations: Show Lab, National University of Singapore · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Lovart AI

Abstract

Video style transfer aims to render videos in a target artistic style while preserving content, structure, and motion. While image stylization has advanced rapidly, video stylization remains challenging due to temporal inconsistency. Most existing methods stylize frames or keyframes and enforce consistency via heuristic temporal propagation, which is brittle under occlusions, disocclusions, and long-term motion, leading to drift and flickering artifacts. We argue that a fundamental bottleneck lies in the lack of large-scale triplet data and a principled training paradigm that jointly models and disentangles style, content, and motion.To address this, we introduce VISTA-1000, a synthetic dataset with 1,000 styles and motion-aligned triplets of style reference, clean video, and stylized video, and propose a diffusion-transformer-based in-context video style transfer framework with a lightweight style adapter for robust style extraction. Extensive experiments demonstrate SOTA performance in style fidelity, temporal consistency, and content preservation.

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