arXiv Computer Vision

VividCam: Learning Unconventional Camera Motions from Virtual Synthetic Videos

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 11

Dream4D: Lifting Camera-Controlled I2V towards Spatiotemporally Consistent 4D Generation

Dream4D is a new framework for generating spatiotemporally coherent 4D content. It uses a two‑stage pipeline: first, few‑shot learning predicts optimal camera trajectories from a single image; second, a pose‑conditioned diffusion process creates geometrically consistent multi‑view sequences that are converted into a persistent 4D representation. The method uniquely combines rich temporal priors from video diffusion models with geometric awareness from reconstruction models, achieving higher quality metrics such as mPSNR and mSSIM compared to existing approaches.

By Xiaoyan Liu, Kangrui Li, Jiaxin Liu, Yuehao Song, Yujie Xing
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

BulletTime: Decoupled Control of Time and Camera Pose for Video Generation

BulletTime presents a 4D‑controllable video diffusion framework that separates scene dynamics from camera pose, allowing precise manipulation of both temporal and spatial aspects of generated videos. The model conditions on continuous world‑time sequences and camera trajectories, integrating them via a 4D positional encoding in the attention layer and adaptive normalizations for feature modulation. A specially curated dataset with independently parameterized temporal and camera variations is used for training, and the resulting system demonstrates robust real‑world 4D control while maintaining high generation quality and surpassing prior methods in controllability.

By Yiming Wang, Qihang Zhang, Shengqu Cai, Tong Wu, Jan Ackermann, Zhengfei Kuang, Yang Zheng, Frano Raji\v{c}, Siyu Tang, Gordon Wetzstein
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 2

CameraEditor: Camera-Controlled Image Editing via Video-Prior Sequential Modeling

CameraEditor is a new framework that transforms camera-controlled image editing into a temporal sequence prediction problem. By using video diffusion models, it incorporates a geometric perception module and dynamic reference routing to create precise visual references through dynamic panorama cropping. The method also inserts intermediate transition frames to handle large perspective shifts, maintaining content identity and spatial coherence, and is evaluated on a dataset of 5,760 instances with a benchmark of 462 test cases, achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance.

By Xin Shen, Chengyou Jia, Keshuo Xing, Zifeng Zhu, Changliang Xia, Bowen Ping, Zhuohang Dang, Hangwei Qian, Minnan Luo
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

AnyView: Synthesizing Any Novel View in Dynamic Scenes

AnyView is a diffusion-based video generation framework designed for dynamic view synthesis, requiring minimal inductive biases or geometric assumptions. It trains a generalist spatiotemporal implicit representation using diverse data sources—monocular, multi-view static, and multi-view dynamic—to produce zero-shot novel videos from arbitrary camera locations and trajectories. The authors evaluate AnyView on standard benchmarks, introduce a new challenging benchmark called AnyViewBench for extreme dynamic view synthesis, and demonstrate that AnyView outperforms baselines in maintaining realistic, plausible, and spatiotemporally consistent videos across diverse real-world scenarios.

By Basile Van Hoorick, Dian Chen, Shun Iwase, Pavel Tokmakov, Muhammad Zubair Irshad, Igor Vasiljevic, Swati Gupta, Fangzhou Cheng, Sergey Zakharov, Vitor Campagnolo Guizilini
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

PoseDreamer: Scalable and Photorealistic Human Data Generation Pipeline with Diffusion Models

PoseDreamer is a new pipeline that uses diffusion models to generate large‑scale synthetic datasets for 3D human mesh estimation, providing 3D mesh annotations that remain aligned with the generated images. The system incorporates controllable image generation, Direct Preference Optimization for control alignment, curriculum‑based hard sample mining, and multi‑stage quality filtering to produce over 500,000 high‑quality samples with a 76% improvement in image‑quality metrics over traditional rendering‑based datasets. Models trained on PoseDreamer match or surpass those trained on real‑world or conventional synthetic data, and combining PoseDreamer with synthetic datasets yields better performance than mixing real and synthetic data alone.

By Lorenza Prospero, Orest Kupyn, Ostap Viniavskyi, Jo\~ao F. Henriques, Christian Rupprecht
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 27

CameraAnything: Refilming Videos with Arbitrary Camera Control

We introduce CameraAnything, the first unified framework for camera controlled video editing that enables joint control of both intrinsic and extrinsic camera parameters. Existing approaches either rely on expensive 3D reconstruction to achieve full camera functionality or restrict editing to extrinsic parameter manipulation.