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WorldWander: Bridging Egocentric and Exocentric Worlds in Video Generation

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-12-01 v1

Abstract

Video diffusion models have recently achieved remarkable progress in realism and controllability. However, achieving seamless video translation across different perspectives, such as first-person (egocentric) and third-person (exocentric), remains underexplored. Bridging these perspectives is crucial for filmmaking, embodied AI, and world models. Motivated by this, we present WorldWander, an in-context learning framework tailored for translating between egocentric and exocentric worlds in video generation. Building upon advanced video diffusion transformers, WorldWander integrates (i) In-Context Perspective Alignment and (ii) Collaborative Position Encoding to efficiently model cross-view synchronization. To further support our task, we curate EgoExo-8K, a large-scale dataset containing synchronized egocentric-exocentric triplets from both synthetic and real-world scenarios. Experiments demonstrate that WorldWander achieves superior perspective synchronization, character consistency, and generalization, setting a new benchmark for egocentric-exocentric video translation.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2511.22098,
  title  = {WorldWander: Bridging Egocentric and Exocentric Worlds in Video Generation},
  author = {Quanjian Song and Yiren Song and Kelly Peng and Yuan Gao and Mike Zheng Shou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.22098},
  year   = {2025}
}