Vivid-VR: Turning Blurry Footage into Cinematic Clarity with a Text-to-Video Transformer Authors: Haoran Bai, Xiaoxu Chen, Canqian Yang, Zongyao He, Sibin Deng, Ying Chen (Alibaba – Taobao & Tmall Group) Paper: arXiv:2508.14483 Project page: https://csbhr.github.io/projects/vivid-vr/ 1. Why Should You Care About Video Restoration? If you have ever tried to upscale an old family video, salvage a live-stream recording, or polish AI-generated clips, you have probably asked: “ “Photos can be enhanced—why not videos?” Traditional tools either leave the footage smeared or create disturbing “AI faces.” Pure diffusion image models fix one frame beautifully but give the next frame a new …