arXiv Computer Vision

SNF-Bench: Separating Static Drift from Natural Flow in Long-Horizon Fixed-Camera Video Generation

SNF-Bench is an evaluation framework for long‑horizon fixed‑camera video generation that separates static background fidelity from dynamic flow persistence and drift leakage. It reports these three factors independently, using controlled injections of translation, rotation, scale drift, and progressive freezing to validate each metric’s sensitivity. Auditing public checkpoints shows that whole‑frame motion metrics can mislead, while SNF‑Bench reveals the true trade‑offs between motion quality and background stability.

arXiv AI
Jun 16

Steady-Forcing: Balancing Spatial Persistence and Motion Continuity in Long-Horizon Nature Video Diffusion

arXiv:2606. 14732v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive video diffusion models enable streaming generation but often degrade over long rollouts: static scene layouts drift, while mechanisms that improve spatial stability tend to suppress motion, causing natural flows such as water, fire, or smoke to stagnate.

By Matiur Rahman Minar, Seunghun Oh, GangHyeon Jeong, Unsang Park
arXiv Computer Vision
3d ago

PERSIST: Persistent-State Discrimination for Shot Boundary Detection

PERSIST redefines shot boundary detection as a task of semantic discrimination, requiring a persistent update of a video’s latent temporal state rather than a transient visual change. It employs a FiLM‑conditioned sinusoidal representation network and a structured discriminator that fuses local change, transient impulse, and return‑to‑trend cues into a single interpretable per‑frame signal. The method achieves comparable recall to leading detectors while significantly reducing false positives from flash, text overlay, and archival artifacts, and it is trained solely on real transitions from ClipShots.

By Tingyu Lin, Christian Stippel, Armin Dadras, Jakob Zenzmaier, Florian Kleber, Wolfgang Aigner, Robert Sablatnig
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

R2M-Bench: Evaluating Revisit Memory via Relative Consistency in Interactive Video World Models

R2M-Bench is a benchmark that evaluates revisit memory in interactive video world models by comparing a revisit pair to two control pairs from the same rollout: a gap‑matched non‑revisit pair and a short‑range pair. It introduces MemoryGain (MG) and Normalized Memory Ratio (NMR) to quantify the revisit advantage over generic temporal stability and normalize it by short‑to‑baseline dynamics. Across 300 instances and seven models, NMR correlates with human judgments and reduces the influence of slow‑motion artifacts, with DreamX‑World‑Memo achieving the highest NMR.

By Qiwen Gu, Bingjie Gao, Rui Chen, Geng Li, Jifan Li, Qishuai Wen, Li Niu, Jing Tang, Xiangxiang Chu, Junqiao Zhao
arXiv AI
Aug 21

Stream4D: 4D-Consistency for Streaming Autoregressive Diffusion Video Models

arXiv:2608. 19556v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Streaming autoregressive diffusion models enable real-time, long-horizon video generation, but their training objectives optimize local frame prediction rather than the geometry and dynamics of a coherent world: long rollouts accumulate geometric drift and degrade into static or unnatural motion.

By Yuanhao Ban, Jiaqi Feng, Hengguang Zhou, Xiaohuan Pei, Justin Cui, Cho-Jui Hsieh
arXiv Computer Vision
4d ago

Manifold4D: Denoising on Point Cloud Rendered Manifolds for Video Re-shooting

Manifold4D introduces a new denoising strategy for video re‑shooting that injects a rendered point‑cloud directly into the initial noise manifold, eliminating the need for the render to be an explicit conditioning stream during denoising. This approach allows the network to rely solely on the source video as a visual condition, improving camera‑control accuracy on the DAVIS‑Traj benchmark and Vista4D set, with significant reductions in rotation and translation errors while maintaining video fidelity. User studies confirm enhanced trajectory following and dynamic consistency, especially for large yaw amplitudes and even when the render is corrupted.

By Yongqi Mao, Zijia Dai, Zhishuo Liu, Wei Xu, Kaiwei Wang, Guotao Meng
arXiv AI
Jul 7

SPLIT: Training-Free AI-Generated and Partially Edited Video Detection via Spatial Patch-Level Incoherence and Temporal Roughness

arXiv:2607. 02886v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying AI-generated video detectors in real-world services demands an ultra-low false positive rate (FPR) on real videos to avoid falsely rejecting authentic content, a regime where standard metrics such as AUROC fail to reflect actual operating behavior.

By Jongyeop Hyun, Hyounghun Kim