arXiv Computer Vision

FilmFlow: Agentic System for 3D Virtual Film Cinematography

FilmFlow is an agentic framework that transforms natural‑language instructions or reference videos into explicit camera trajectories for dynamic 3D environments. It uses a Director agent that composes high‑level motions from concurrent atomic operations, supported by Interpreter, Scout, and Critic agents for intent extraction, viewpoint selection, and iterative refinement. The authors also introduce CinemaBench, a benchmark of 150 Blender scenes with 750 text‑directed tasks and 60 video‑reference tasks, where FilmFlow outperforms baselines and receives the highest user preference.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 11

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.

By Yang Wu, Stefano Petrangeli, Ishita Dasgupta, Yu Shen
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.

arXiv AI
Aug 11

VideoCoCo: Code-as-CoT for Physically-Consistent Video Generation via an Agentic Dual-Engine System

arXiv:2607. 27380v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-to-video models have achieved remarkable visual quality, yet they still struggle to generate physically consistent dynamics because the temporal evolution of a scene must be inferred implicitly from a highly compressed text prompt.

By Haodong Li, Tianfei Ren, Xiaoxiao Ma, Chunmei Qing, Zhen Fang, Sipeng He, Ziyu Guo, Haoyu Wu, Juanxi Tian, Yihang Zou, Ruichuan An, Dongzhi Jiang, Boxue Yang, Ji Xie, Xu Huang, Wenhao Yan, Jialv Zou, Zhengrong Yue, Yaxin Luo, Xiaotong Li, Yuzhu Wang, Junyan Ye, Jinjing Zhao, Zehui Chen, Lin Chen, Renye Yan, Feng Zhao, Pheng-Ann Heng
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 28

Auteur: Language-Driven Cinematographic Framing for Human-Centric Video Generation

Auteur is a language‑driven method that generates human‑centric camera framing for generative video models. It treats shots as framings relative to an actor, encoding shot size, angle, and composition as functions of human pose and motion, and uses a domain‑specific language that converts to standard 6‑DoF camera parameters. A fine‑tuned multimodal large language model acts as a virtual director, mapping natural language descriptions and coarse human motion to sparse DSL keyframes that are interpolated into continuous camera trajectories for video generation.

By Muhammed Burak Kizil, Enes Sanli, Niloy J. Mitra, Xuelin Chen, Erkut Erdem, Aykut Erdem, Duygu Ceylan
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