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We study series-level cinematic remaking, a long-horizon video-to-video generation problem that localizes full episodes or films via stylization or actor replacement while strictly preserving narrative structure, motion choreography, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yiren Song , Huilin Zhong , Kevin Qinghong Lin , Haofan Wang , Mike Zheng Shou

Recent text-to-image models have revolutionized image generation, but they still struggle with maintaining concept consistency across generated images. While existing works focus on character consistency, they often overlook the crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Quanjian Song , Donghao Zhou , Jingyu Lin , Fei Shen , Jiaze Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Cunjian Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng

Generating coherent long-form video sequences from discrete text prompts remains challenging due to difficulties in maintaining temporal coherence, semantic consistency, and scene-action continuity across segments. We propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Taewon Kang , Divya Kothandaraman , Ming C. Lin

Recent image generation models excel at creating high-quality images from brief captions. However, they fail to maintain consistency of multiple instances across images when encountering lengthy contexts. This inconsistency is largely due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Zilyu Ye , Jinxiu Liu , Ruotian Peng , Jinjin Cao , Zhiyang Chen , Yiyang Zhang , Ziwei Xuan , Mingyuan Zhou , Xiaoqian Shen , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Qi Liu , Guo-Jun Qi

Recent advancements in video generation models, like Stable Video Diffusion, show promising results, but primarily focus on short, single-scene videos. These models struggle with generating long videos that involve multiple scenes, coherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Weijia Wu , Mingyu Liu , Zeyu Zhu , Xi Xia , Haoen Feng , Wen Wang , Kevin Qinghong Lin , Chunhua Shen , Mike Zheng Shou

Current video generation models perform well at single-shot synthesis but struggle with multi-shot videos, facing critical challenges in maintaining character and background consistency across shots and flexibly generating videos of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Xiangyang Luo , Qingyu Li , Xiaokun Liu , Wenyu Qin , Miao Yang , Meng Wang , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Kun Gai , Shao-Lun Huang

We introduce a framework that enables both multi-view character consistency and 3D camera control in video diffusion models through a novel customization data pipeline. We train the character consistency component with recorded volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yuancheng Xu , Wenqi Xian , Li Ma , Julien Philip , Ahmet Levent Taşel , Yiwei Zhao , Ryan Burgert , Mingming He , Oliver Hermann , Oliver Pilarski , Rahul Garg , Paul Debevec , Ning Yu

Recent advancements in Large Generative Models (LGMs) have revolutionized multi-modal generation. However, generating illustrated storybooks remains an open challenge, where prior works mainly decompose this task into separate stages, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Bo Gao , Chang Liu , Yuyang Miao , Siyuan Ma , Ser-Nam Lim

For recent diffusion-based generative models, maintaining consistent content across a series of generated images, especially those containing subjects and complex details, presents a significant challenge. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yupeng Zhou , Daquan Zhou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiashi Feng , Qibin Hou

Visual storytelling systems, particularly large vision-language models, struggle to maintain character and object identity across frames, often failing to recognize when entities in different images represent the same individuals or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Daniel A. P. Oliveira , David Martins de Matos

Narrative-driven product photography has become a prevalent paradigm in modern marketing, as coherent visual storytelling helps convey product value and establishes emotional engagement with consumers. However, existing image generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Minyan Luo , Yuxin Zhang , Yifei Li , Xincan Wang , Fuzhang Wu , Tong-Yee Lee , Oliver Deussen , Weiming Dong

Story Visualization aims to generate a sequence of images that faithfully depicts a textual narrative that preserve character identity, spatial configuration, and stylistic coherence as the narratives unfold. Maintaining such cross-frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Aditya Arora , Akshita Gupta , Pau Rodriguez , Marcus Rohrbach

Generating long-form audio-visual stories from a short user prompt remains challenging due to an intent-execution gap, where high-level narrative intent must be preserved across coherent, shot-level multimodal generation over long horizons.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Wenzhang Sun , Zhenyu Wang , Zhangchi Hu , Chunfeng Wang , Hao Li , Wei Chen

Existing video captioning benchmarks and models lack causal-temporal narrative, which is sequences of events linked through cause and effect, unfolding over time and driven by characters or agents. This lack of narrative restricts models'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Asmar Nadeem , Faegheh Sardari , Robert Dawes , Syed Sameed Husain , Adrian Hilton , Armin Mustafa

Characters are important in narratives. They move the plot forward, create emotional connections, and embody the story's themes. Visual storytelling methods focus more on the plot and events relating to it, without building the narrative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Danyang Liu , Mirella Lapata , Frank Keller

Many vision-language tasks can be reduced to the problem of sequence prediction for natural language output. In particular, recent advances in image captioning use deep reinforcement learning (RL) to alleviate the "exposure bias" during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Daqing Liu , Zheng-Jun Zha , Hanwang Zhang , Yongdong Zhang , Feng Wu

Recent visual generation models have made major progress in photorealism, typography, instruction following, and interactive editing, yet they still struggle with spatial reasoning, persistent state, long-horizon consistency, and causal…

Collaborative driving systems leverage vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication for multi-agent collaborative perception to enhance driving safety, yet they remain constrained by scarce annotated real-world V2X driving datasets and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yihang Tao , Yu Guo , Senkang Hu , Yanan Ma , Zihan Fang , Sam Kwong , Yuguang Fang

Story visualization aims to generate a series of images that match the story described in texts, and it requires the generated images to satisfy high quality, alignment with the text description, and consistency in character identities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Wen Wang , Canyu Zhao , Hao Chen , Zhekai Chen , Kecheng Zheng , Chunhua Shen

Continual learning refers to the ability of humans and animals to incrementally learn over time in a given environment. Trying to simulate this learning process in machines is a challenging task, also due to the inherent difficulty in…

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