ROSE: Remove Objects with Side Effects in Videos

Neural Information Processing Systems 

Video object removal has achieved advanced performance due to the recent success of video generative models. However, when addressing the side effects of objects, \textit{e.g.,} their shadows and reflections, existing works struggle to eliminate these effects for the scarcity of paired video data as supervision. This paper presents \method, termed \textbf{R}emove \textbf{O}bjects with \textbf{S}ide \textbf{E}ffects, a framework that systematically studies the object's effects on environment, which can be categorized into five common cases: shadows, reflections, light, translucency and mirror. Given the challenges of curating paired videos exhibiting the aforementioned effects, we leverage a 3D rendering engine for synthetic data generation. We carefully construct a fully-automatic pipeline for data preparation, which simulates a large-scale paired dataset with diverse scenes, objects, shooting angles, and camera trajectories.