arXiv Computer Vision

A Closer Look at Evaluation of Text-to-Video Models Under Camera Motion

arXiv AI
Jul 7

Motion Attribution for Video Generation

arXiv:2601. 08828v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite the rapid progress of video generation models, the role of data in influencing motion is poorly understood.

By Xindi Wu, Despoina Paschalidou, Jun Gao, Antonio Torralba, Laura Leal-Taix\'e, Olga Russakovsky, Sanja Fidler, Jonathan Lorraine
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 19

CamWorldQA: Perceptual Quality Assessment of Camera-Controlled World Video Generation

CamWorldQA introduces the first benchmark for assessing the perceptual quality of camera‑controlled world video generation, featuring 720 videos generated by six methods from 20 source videos across six camera trajectories, each scored by human raters. The paper also presents CWQA, a no‑reference quality assessment network that combines spatial, temporal motion, and optical flow features to predict quality scores. Experiments show CWQA outperforms existing VQA methods on the CamWorldQA dataset.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

WanPE: Towards Cinematic Prompt Enhancement for Modern Text-to-Video Generation

WanPE is a 397‑B parameter prompt‑enhancement model that learns director‑level cinematic planning from 1.05 M real‑world videos. It generates shot‑level cinematic plans through video‑grounded reverse construction and uses Semantic‑Consistency GRPO (SC‑GRPO) to maintain user intent across shots and time. In evaluations, WanPE improves human preference over raw prompts by up to 50.86 points for 30‑second videos and outperforms commercial offerings for shorter durations.

By Yubo Zhu, Yawen Shao, Ziyun Dai, Zixun Fang, Kai Zhu, Siyang Sun, Haolan Xue, Chuxin Wang, Tingyu Weng, Jingming Luo, Chen Shi, Lianghua Huang, Yufeng Ai, Yuzheng Wang, Wenyuan Zhang, Yu Shang, Yuxiang Bao, Zoubin Bi, Jie Xiao, Jinbo Xing, Jiaxing Zhao, Chongyang Zhong, Hengjian Chen, Chenwei Xie, Akide Liu, Zhehan Kan, Yu Liu, Wei Zhai, Sheng Zhong, Wei Tong
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

WorldReward: Reward Modeling for Camera-Conditioned World Models

WorldReward introduces a vision‑language model–based reward system for camera‑conditioned world models, combining action consistency and visual quality evaluation. It processes paired videos by splitting them into action‑aligned chunks, structuring visual evidence, and aggregating decisions through voting. The model is trained on a large, reasoning‑augmented preference dataset and outperforms GPT‑5.5 on a human‑annotated benchmark, improving both action execution and visual quality when applied to RL post‑training.

By Yibin Wang, Zehan Wang, Junshu Tang, Zhimin Li, Yujie Zhou, Jiazi Bu, Pengyang Ling, Feng Han, Zhixiong Zhang, Long Xing, Shengyuan Ding, Ziang Li, Cheng Jin, Yuhang Zang, Jiaqi Wang, Tianyu Pang
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 9

TKCAM: Text and Keyframe to Camera Trajectory Generation

TKCAM is a new framework for generating controllable camera motion conditioned on text and sparse keyframes, using a 12‑dimensional kinematic representation and a two‑stage masked transformer with residual vector quantization. It allows users to provide free‑form text prompts and RGB observations at selected timestamps, enabling temporally localized visual guidance for coherent trajectory synthesis. The authors also introduce the RealEstate10K‑Cap dataset and a Universal CLaTr Evaluator, showing that TKCAM outperforms recent baselines on FID, text‑motion matching, and retrieval metrics.

By Haozhe Yang, Zhiyang Dou, Zekai Gu, Cheng Lin, Wenping Wang, Yuan Liu, Taku Komura
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 2

VTR-Bench: A Systematic Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Text Rendering in Video Generation

VTR-Bench is a new benchmark designed to evaluate how well video generation models render text within scenes. It includes 300 prompts across five real-world scenarios such as advertisements and scientific videos, and uses an automated pipeline with human alignment to assess text fidelity and scene/motion requirements. Experiments on 11 state‑of‑the‑art models show that even the best performer has a word error rate of 0.250, underscoring widespread challenges in visual text rendering.

By Yu Huang, Jungang Li, Zhiyuan Wang, Yonghua Hei, Song Dai, Jiayu Yang, Deyuan Liu, Xiang Zheng, Xiaoshuang Shi, Hao Cheng, Kaidi Xu