arXiv AI
Oct 2

Generative Cinematographer: Composing Camera and Object Motion in 3D

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
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 23

WorldForge V2: Eliciting Camera-Trajectory Alignment in Video Diffusion Models

WorldForge V2 introduces a training‑free guidance framework that refines video diffusion outputs along a target camera path using warped references and optical‑flow‑identified latent channels for selective guidance. It employs a dual‑path strategy to correct artifacts, a v‑cache to reduce refinement cost, and Trajectory LoRA adapters trained in two stages to focus on trajectory‑responsive network blocks. The approach achieves state‑of‑the‑art generation quality and trajectory accuracy with minimal training data, enabling reliable camera control across unseen scenes.

By Chenxi Song, Yanming Yang, Tong Zhao, Ruibo Li, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Chi Zhang
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