arxiv: 2604.21931 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-23 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI· cs.GR

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Seeing Fast and Slow: Learning the Flow of Time in Videos

Yen-Siang Wu , Rundong Luo , Jingsen Zhu , Tao Tu , Ali Farhadi , Matthew Wallingford , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Steve Marschner

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keywords temporal reasoningself-supervised learningvideo speed estimationslow-motion datasetspeed-conditioned generationtemporal super-resolution

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The pith

Self-supervised models learn to perceive and control the flow of time in videos by detecting speed changes and estimating playback speeds.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper treats time as a learnable visual concept rather than a fixed property of video data. It builds self-supervised models that use multimodal cues and natural temporal structure to detect when videos have been sped up or slowed down and to estimate their playback speed. These models then allow curation of a very large slow-motion video collection from ordinary web sources. With that collection the authors train new models that generate video motion at a user-specified speed and that turn low-frame-rate blurry clips into high-frame-rate sequences with sharper temporal detail.

Core claim

We study time as a learnable visual concept and develop models for reasoning about and manipulating the flow of time in videos. We first exploit the multimodal cues and temporal structure naturally present in videos to learn, in a self-supervised manner, to detect speed changes and estimate playback speed. We then show that these learned temporal reasoning models enable us to curate the largest slow-motion video dataset to date from noisy in-the-wild sources. Using this data, we further develop models capable of temporal control, including speed-conditioned video generation, which produces motion at specified playback speed, and temporal super-resolution, which transforms low-FPS, blurry 3D

What carries the argument

self-supervised temporal reasoning models trained to detect speed changes and estimate playback speed from multimodal and temporal cues in videos

If this is right

A large high-quality slow-motion dataset becomes available for training without manual labeling.
Video generators can be conditioned on a target playback speed so the same scene can be rendered fast or slow on demand.
Low-frame-rate input can be turned into high-frame-rate output that recovers fine-grained motion details.
Temporal forensics tasks such as spotting speed tampering become feasible with the same learned speed detectors.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same speed-estimation signal could be used to flag edited or synthetic video that contains inconsistent timing.
World models for robotics or simulation might improve if they explicitly represent how events unfold at different timescales.
Extending the approach to audio-visual alignment could let models learn consistent speed across sound and image streams.

Load-bearing premise

Multimodal cues and temporal structure inside ordinary videos are rich enough to let a model reliably spot speed changes and estimate playback speed even when the source videos are noisy and uncurated.

What would settle it

Training the same generation and super-resolution models on a random sample of ordinary video instead of the curated slow-motion collection yields no measurable gain in temporal coherence or detail.

read the original abstract

How can we tell whether a video has been sped up or slowed down? How can we generate videos at different speeds? Although videos have been central to modern computer vision research, little attention has been paid to perceiving and controlling the passage of time. In this paper, we study time as a learnable visual concept and develop models for reasoning about and manipulating the flow of time in videos. We first exploit the multimodal cues and temporal structure naturally present in videos to learn, in a self-supervised manner, to detect speed changes and estimate playback speed. We then show that these learned temporal reasoning models enable us to curate the largest slow-motion video dataset to date from noisy in-the-wild sources. Such slow-motion footage, typically filmed by high-speed cameras, contains substantially richer temporal detail than standard videos. Using this data, we further develop models capable of temporal control, including speed-conditioned video generation, which produces motion at specified playback speed, and temporal super-resolution, which tranforms low-FPS, blurry videos into high-FPS sequences with fine-grained temporal details. Our findings highlight time as a manipulable, perceptual dimension in video learning, opening doors to temporally controllable video generation, temporal forensics detection, and potentially richer world-models that understand how events unfold over time.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

The paper frames time flow as a self-supervised visual concept to curate a large slow-mo dataset and enable speed-controlled video generation, but the abstract gives no evidence that the key estimation step holds up on real data.

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The main takeaway is that they treat playback speed as something a model can learn to detect and then control, starting from self-supervised training on natural video cues and ending with generation models that take speed as input or upsample temporally. The idea of using that to pull a big slow-motion collection from web video is the clearest new angle here. Most prior work on video speed either assumes fixed rates or focuses on optical flow without explicitly reasoning about perceived time passage, so this direction feels like a reasonable extension into controllable generation and forensics-style tasks. The pipeline logic is straightforward and avoids needing expensive labeled data upfront, which is a practical plus if the self-supervision actually delivers clean labels. The downstream uses for speed-conditioned synthesis and temporal super-resolution follow directly from having richer slow-mo footage. The soft spot is the missing validation for the speed estimator itself. The stress-test concern lands because the whole dataset and all later results depend on that model correctly identifying slow clips amid camera shake, edits, and audio issues in wild video. The abstract reports nothing on error rates, human agreement, or ablation on how label noise affects the generators, so we cannot yet judge whether the curation step is reliable or just noisy. This leaves the central claims provisional. The work is aimed at computer vision researchers focused on video generation and temporal modeling. A reader looking for new control axes in synthesis models could get ideas from it, but only once the experiments are visible. I would send it to peer review because the framing is coherent and scoped, and referees could usefully ask for the quantitative checks on the estimation accuracy and downstream robustness.

Referee Report

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Summary. The paper claims to treat time as a learnable visual concept in videos by developing self-supervised models that detect speed changes and estimate playback speed from multimodal and temporal cues. These models are then used to curate the largest slow-motion video dataset from noisy in-the-wild sources, which in turn supports new models for speed-conditioned video generation and temporal super-resolution.

Significance. If the self-supervised speed estimation step is reliable, the work would provide a valuable large-scale slow-motion dataset and demonstrate new capabilities for temporal control in video models, potentially advancing generative video methods, temporal forensics, and richer world models that reason about event timing. The self-supervised curation approach is a notable strength if validated.

major comments (1)

[Abstract] The self-supervised pipeline for speed change detection and playback speed estimation is the load-bearing step for curating the claimed largest slow-motion dataset and all downstream results. The abstract describes the high-level approach but provides no quantitative validation, error analysis, ablations on real-world confounders (e.g., camera shake, cuts, audio desync), or comparisons to baselines, so the reliability of the labels cannot be assessed.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their thoughtful and constructive review. We address the major comment on the abstract below and have made revisions to improve clarity regarding the reliability of the self-supervised pipeline.

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Referee: [Abstract] The self-supervised pipeline for speed change detection and playback speed estimation is the load-bearing step for curating the claimed largest slow-motion dataset and all downstream results. The abstract describes the high-level approach but provides no quantitative validation, error analysis, ablations on real-world confounders (e.g., camera shake, cuts, audio desync), or comparisons to baselines, so the reliability of the labels cannot be assessed.

Authors: We agree that the abstract, in its original form, emphasizes the high-level approach without embedding specific quantitative results, which limits immediate assessment of the pipeline's reliability. The body of the manuscript contains the requested quantitative validation, including accuracy and error metrics for speed change detection and playback speed estimation, ablations addressing real-world factors such as camera motion and temporal discontinuities, and comparisons against baselines. To directly address this point, we have revised the abstract to incorporate key quantitative highlights from our experiments while preserving its concise nature. This change makes the load-bearing role of the self-supervised step more transparent to readers. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; self-supervised pipeline is data-driven and self-contained

full rationale

The paper presents a self-supervised learning pipeline that exploits naturally occurring multimodal and temporal cues in videos to train models for speed change detection and playback speed estimation. These models are then applied to curate a slow-motion dataset from in-the-wild sources, which in turn supports downstream tasks like speed-conditioned generation and temporal super-resolution. No equations, derivations, or self-citations appear that reduce any claimed prediction or result to its own inputs by construction. The approach relies on external data patterns rather than fitted parameters renamed as predictions or ansatzes smuggled via prior self-work. This is the standard case of an honest non-finding: the derivation chain does not collapse into tautology.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on the assumption that videos contain learnable cues for time flow and that self-supervised training plus model-based curation can produce usable slow-motion data. Standard deep learning training involves many hyperparameters, but these are not specified in the abstract.

free parameters (1)

neural network hyperparameters and training settings
Typical in self-supervised video models; values are chosen or fitted during development but not detailed here.

axioms (1)

domain assumption Videos contain sufficient multimodal and temporal structure to support self-supervised inference of playback speed changes.
Invoked as the basis for the initial self-supervised learning stage described in the abstract.

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Jinguo Zhu, Weiyun Wang, Zhe Chen, Zhaoyang Liu, Shenglong Ye, Lixin Gu, Hao Tian, Yuchen Duan, Weijie Su, Jie Shao, et al. Internvl3: Exploring advanced training and test-time recipes for open-source multimodal models.arXiv:2504.10479, 2025. 15 A Supplementary Material Overview In this supplementary document, we provide additional implementation details ...

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Watch the video and use the preview slider (1.0× to 16.0×) to experiment with different speeds
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Based on your observation, determine what speed factor would make it look normal
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Speed Factor

Enter that factor in the "Speed Factor" input box
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Click Done to save your answer and move to the next video
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4" in the input box • If the video appears 2× slow when slider is at 10× → Enter

If you cannot determine a reasonable speed, click Cannot Tell (use sparingly) Important Notes • Please make sure you're using Chrome • Your answer can exceed these limits - enter any value you believe is correct Example Scenarios • If the video looks normal at 4× on the slider → Enter "4" in the input box • If the video appears 2× slow when slider is at 1...