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Anchoring and Rescaling Attention for Semantically Coherent Inbetweening

arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 12

ELMA: Benchmarking Anaphoric Compositions for Long-Term Text-to-Motion Generation

The paper introduces ELMA, a new episodic long‑term motion dataset designed to benchmark anaphoric compositions in text‑to‑motion generation. ELMA contains densely annotated 30‑second clips extracted from in‑the‑wild videos, preserving cross‑segment dependencies that current models struggle to handle. Fine‑tuning state‑of‑the‑art models on ELMA improves both global physical realism and semantic alignment, establishing a robust baseline for long‑term motion synthesis.

By Shun Kato, Dixin Yang, Kotaro Amaya, Yuiga Wada, Kazumi Fukuda, Takashi Shibuya, Yuki Mitsufuji, Mariko Isogawa
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
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 2

VTR-Bench: A Systematic Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Text Rendering in Video Generation

VTR-Bench is a new benchmark designed to evaluate how well video generation models render text within scenes. It includes 300 prompts across five real-world scenarios such as advertisements and scientific videos, and uses an automated pipeline with human alignment to assess text fidelity and scene/motion requirements. Experiments on 11 state‑of‑the‑art models show that even the best performer has a word error rate of 0.250, underscoring widespread challenges in visual text rendering.

By Yu Huang, Jungang Li, Zhiyuan Wang, Yonghua Hei, Song Dai, Jiayu Yang, Deyuan Liu, Xiang Zheng, Xiaoshuang Shi, Hao Cheng, Kaidi Xu
arXiv AI
Jul 8

Prompt-Adapter Context Routing for Parameter-Efficient Multi-Shot Long Video Extrapolation

arXiv:2607. 06481v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present PACR-Video, a parameter-efficient framework for multi-shot long video extrapolation that preserves recurring entities, scene structure, visual style, and causal progression without full generator fine-tuning.

By Anna C\'ordoba, Adam Puente Tercero, Nerea Angulo Hijo, Mar Linares Tercero, Julia Barrientos, Ainhoa Miranda, Jes\'us Olivera
arXiv AI
Oct 31

MEV: A Multi-Event Video Dataset for Long-Take Generation

MEV is a multi‑event video dataset created to support long‑take video generation. It contains high‑quality real‑world videos where subjects perform distinct, non‑overlapping events with precise temporal boundaries and fine‑grained procedural annotations. The dataset includes a comprehensive annotation pipeline that segments videos into temporally grounded events and generates structured captions at both global and event levels, enabling event‑centric evaluation and improved long‑take event transitions in generation experiments.

By Peiyuan Zhu, Shaoan Xie, Yifan Shen, Wen Tian, Zijian Li, Guangyi Chen, Kun Zhang
arXiv AI
Oct 16

Temporal Specification Guidance for Text-to-Video Generation

The paper introduces Temporal Specification Guidance (TSG), a training‑free inference framework that uses Temporal Logic specifications to guide text‑to‑video generation. TSG evaluates visual concept traces with differentiable quantitative semantics and adjusts the denoising direction via gradient‑derived attention biases, eliminating the need for external classifiers or backpropagation through the transformer. Experiments on 220 prompts across 11 temporal constraint categories show that TSG improves specification satisfaction by 9.5–20 percentage points over classifier‑free guidance with minimal memory overhead.

By Avishree Khare, Hideki Okamoto, Bardh Hoxha, Georgios Fainekos, Rajeev Alur
arXiv AI
Jul 8

Rethinking Visual Autoregressive Sampling with Information-Grounding Guidance

arXiv:2509. 23876v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive (AR) models based on next-scale prediction have emerged as a powerful tool for image generation, but they face a critical weakness: information inconsistencies between patches across timesteps introduced by progressive resolution scaling.

By Ky Dan Nguyen, Hoang Lam Tran, Anh-Dung Dinh, Daochang Liu, Weidong Cai, Xiuying Wang, Chang Xu