arXiv Computer Vision

CamPilot: A Multi-Agent Cinematic Assistant for Camera-Controlled Movie Generation

CamPilot is a multi‑agent cinematic assistant that combines cinematographic planning with camera‑work control to generate more coherent and aesthetically pleasing movies from text prompts. It learns camera‑work planning from 14,000 professional films using a GRPO‑based learning paradigm, capturing motion patterns, composition principles, and cross‑shot relationships. The system is evaluated with a new benchmark, CamEval, and outperforms existing text‑to‑movie methods in cinematographic control and quality.

arXiv AI
Jul 28

FilmBench: A Film-Grade Benchmark for Cinematic Video Generation

arXiv:2607. 24241v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Progress in video generation keeps narrowing the visual gap between AI-generated and professionally produced footage, yet most benchmarks still draw prompts from web sources or LLM templates and score them with untrained, generic multimodal models.

By Shengyi Wang, Niantong Li, Guangzheng Hu, Hong Qi, Fei Ding, Weixu Qiao, Jinlin Wang, Xiaotong Lv, Peng Han, Zimeng Li, Fanshu Ding, Yushu Wang, Han Wu, Jingjing Chen, Chongxiao Wang, Yanhao Wu, Chenglong Huang, Xiaoqian Zhu, Jie Tian, Hua Li, Jingjing Fan, Mingshuang Tang, Zhong Li, Hengxia Qiang, Weibin Chen, Jinyang Zhen, Bing Zhao, Lin Qu, Jing Li, Hu Wei
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 27

FilmBench: A Film-Grade Benchmark for Cinematic Video Generation

Progress in video generation keeps narrowing the visual gap between AI-generated and professionally produced footage, yet most benchmarks still draw prompts from web sources or LLM templates and score them with untrained, generic multimodal models. More fundamentally, their evaluation taxonomies remain rudimentary (overall visual quality, coarse text alignment and temporal smoothness) rather than the professional Cinematic Language criteria by which films are actually made and judged, so they assess basic video plausibility rather than film-grade craft.

arXiv Computer Vision
2d ago

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
2d ago

CinematicVQA: Benchmarking Film-Grammar Reasoning in Large Vision-Language Models

CinematicVQA is a new benchmark for evaluating large vision‑language models on film‑grammar reasoning. It introduces the Cinematic Scene Graph, a structured representation linking filming techniques to perceptual effects and narrative functions, and tests models on tasks beyond low‑level technique recognition. The study finds a semantic gap where models excel at describing visuals but struggle to identify underlying techniques, and shows that fine‑tuning improves performance on narrative function and multi‑hop reasoning.

By Shuo Xing, Pooja Verlani, Balu Adsumilli, Zhengzhong Tu
arXiv AI
Jun 24

CineCap: Structured Reasoning with Spatio-Temporal Anchors for Cinematographic Video Captioning

arXiv:2606. 24636v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cinematographic captioning aims to describe how a video is filmed using professional film-language concepts such as camera movement, shot size, depth of field, composition, and shooting angle.

By Xinyu Mao, Yuhui Zeng, Xiaokun Liu, Wenyu Qin, Meng Wang, Xin Tao, Pengfei Wan, Xiaohan Xing, Max Meng
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Beyond End-to-End Video Models: An LLM-Based Multi-Agent System for Educational Video Generation

arXiv:2602. 11790v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Although recent end-to-end video generation models demonstrate impressive performance in visually oriented content creation, they remain limited in scenarios that require strict logical rigor and precise knowledge representation, such as instructional and educational media.

By Lingyong Yan, Jiulong Wu, Dong Xie, Weixian Shi, Deguo Xia, Jizhou Huang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 2

SimWorlds: A Multi-Agent System for Dynamic 3D Scene Creation

LLM agents are increasingly used to translate natural language into 3D scenes in a procedural way, but existing systems focus on static output. Dynamic 4D scenes from text alone, in which liquids flow, particles emit, rigid bodies cascade, and articulated mechanisms move, remain largely unexplored despite their value as editable content and as physics-grounded training data for video generation and embodied AI.