Interactive control for video generation is moving from coarse prompts toward fine-grained, physically meaningful manipulation of dynamic scenes. Yet existing controllable methods either require the f...
The paper introduces 4DStreamCtrl, a system that unifies camera motion, object trajectories, and depth into a single 3D point‑track representation, enabling joint control, depth editing, and motion transfer in a single forward pass. By mining in‑the‑wild video for 3D motion supervision and encoding it with a lightweight Geometric Motion Head, the authors train a causal streaming student that can generate arbitrarily long videos in just four denoising steps, achieving 20 FPS on a single high‑end GPU for 480p video. This approach outperforms prior camera‑only, 2D, and offline‑3D methods in motion‑control precision while maintaining temporal coherence over hundreds of frames, thereby enabling interactive 4D‑controllable streaming generation for the first time.
By Shiqian Li, Chenguo Lin, Zhiguang Liu, Yu Tang, Jiarong Ou, Rui Chen, Yixin Zhu
Recent advances in image-to-video generation have improved visual realism, making physically grounded and controllable dynamics an important step toward future world simulation. Current models often generate plausible motion, but it is not reliably governed by explicit physical causes, and instance-level constraints can leak or become entangled in multi-object interactions.
arXiv:2610.03691v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present FlowHMR, a framework for recovering physically plausible global 3D human motion from monocular video. Previous learning-based methods typica...
By Zhanke Wang, Chengfeng Zhao, Qing Shuai, Jingzhong Lin, Heng Li, Zeyu Ling, Yuxin Wen, Jing Li, Di Kang, Chunchao Guo, Linchao Bao
We present FlowHMR, a framework for recovering physically plausible global 3D human motion from monocular video. Previous learning-based methods typically regress human motion directly from video and...
Generative Cinematographer (GenCine) lifts a single image into an editable 3D scene scaffold, allowing artists to jointly author camera paths and foreground motion using local 3D motion handles. The system projects these controls into guidance maps that encode handle positions and colors across frames, enabling a pretrained video model to follow camera-relative, piecewise-rigid motion without physics simulation. Training recovers controls from real videos and synthetic ground-truth geometry, and experiments demonstrate consistent camera-relative motion, improved geometric consistency, and strong controllability across diverse real-world scenes.
By Jiahan Zhang, Chaohao Yang, Namitha Guruprasad, Vivekjyoti Banerjee, Trong-Tung Nguyen, Alan Yuille, Anand Bhattad
Fluid-Gen-Zero is a training-free framework that generates physics-aware fluid-object interaction videos by separating physical reasoning from appearance synthesis. It uses a physics simulator for motion dynamics and a pretrained video generator for visual quality, coordinated through a two-level agentic workflow involving a vision-language model for planning and latent-space guidance for simulation signals. The method improves simulation alignment and fluid flow accuracy across multiple backbones while maintaining perceptual quality, as shown by quantitative metrics and human preference studies.
By Hong Huang, Yuqiu Liu, Chenyu You, Daniel Martin, Chuhang Zou, Wuyang Chen
PhysPlan is a training‑free guidance framework that enhances video diffusion models by incorporating physical awareness through agentic physics simulation. It uses a vision‑language model to generate a Chain‑of‑Visual‑Thought representation of kinematic trajectories and 3D depth, which then drives an object‑centric test‑time optimization that isolates kinematic changes and locks the passive environment. The framework also employs Kinetic Intensity Profiling to adapt hyperparameters to varying physical deformations, and demonstrates superior performance on PhyGenBench and Physics‑IQ benchmarks compared to existing VDM baselines.
By Minh-Loi Nguyen, Xuan-Vu Le, Thanh-Toan Do, Tam V. Nguyen, Minh-Triet Tran, Trung-Nghia Le
World Action Models (WAMs) are able to leverage pretrained video generators for both world modeling and action prediction. However, directly leveraging such video generators for control raises a new challenge: how to represent actions in a suitable form that aligns with pretrained video generators while carrying enough motion cues for accurate control.
arXiv:2605.30263v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recent video diffusion foundation models have achieved remarkable progress in high-quality video generation, yet turning them into real-time intera...
By Min Zhao, Hongzhou Zhu, Bokai Yan, Zihan Zhou, Yimin Chen, Honglie Wang, Wenqiang Sun, Zhengwei Fang, Zizheng Xun, Zihao Li, Kaiwen Zheng, Guande He, Xiao Yang, Chongxuan Li, Fan Bao, Jun Zhu
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
We present Fluid-Gen-Zero, a training-free framework for physics-aware fluid-object interaction video generation that decouples physical reasoning from appearance synthesis. Our key insight is to dele...