arXiv AI By Frank Fundel, Malek Ben Alaya, Thomas Ressler-Antal, Stefan Andreas Baumann, Bj\"orn Ommer

What Moves? Localized Motion Representations for Compositional Scene Control

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The paper introduces a promptable localized motion representation that generates persistent embeddings for user-specified regions in a video, without cropping or masking the input. By conditioning motion encoding directly on spatial masks while processing the full video, the method produces temporally consistent, region-addressable embeddings that capture local dynamics while preserving global context. These embeddings enable object-level motion transfer for dynamic scene composition and improve localized action classification in multi-actor videos, outperforming global representations that rely on cropping or post-hoc masking.

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