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We present "Narrative Weaver", a novel framework that addresses a fundamental challenge in generative AI: achieving multi-modal controllable, long-range, and consistent visual content generation. While existing models excel at generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zhengjian Yao , Yongzhi Li , Xinyuan Gao , Quan Chen , Peng Jiang , Yanye Lu

By generating plausible and smooth transitions between two image frames, video inbetweening is an essential tool for video editing and long video synthesis. Traditional works lack the capability to generate complex large motions. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Maham Tanveer , Yang Zhou , Simon Niklaus , Ali Mahdavi Amiri , Hao Zhang , Krishna Kumar Singh , Nanxuan Zhao

Video fundamentally intertwines two crucial axes: the dynamic content of a scene and the camera motion through which it is observed. However, existing generation models often entangle these factors, limiting independent control. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yukun Wang , Ruihuang Li , Jiale Tao , Shiyuan Yang , Liyi Chen , Zhantao Yang , Handz , Yulan Guo , Shuai Shao , Qinglin Lu

Camera trajectory design plays a crucial role in video production, serving as a fundamental tool for conveying directorial intent and enhancing visual storytelling. In cinematography, Directors of Photography meticulously craft camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Mengchen Zhang , Tong Wu , Jing Tan , Ziwei Liu , Gordon Wetzstein , Dahua Lin

For bandwidth-constrained multimedia applications, simultaneously achieving ultra-low bitrate human video compression and accurate vertex prediction remains a critical challenge, as it demands the harmonization of dynamic motion modeling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Bolin Chen , Ru-Ling Liao , Yan Ye , Jie Chen , Shanzhi Yin , Xinrui Ju , Shiqi Wang , Yibo Fan

Traditional animation generation methods depend on training generative models with human-labelled data, entailing a sophisticated multi-stage pipeline that demands substantial human effort and incurs high training costs. Due to limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Yunxin Li , Haoyuan Shi , Baotian Hu , Longyue Wang , Jiashun Zhu , Jinyi Xu , Zhen Zhao , Min Zhang

Long-form video generation is rapidly moving from short, single-scene synthesis toward minute-long, multi-shot creation with narrative structure, cinematic control, audio, and cross-modal synchronization. However, evaluating such videos…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jiamin Chen , Qianben Chen , Jiawen Zhang , Yidi Wu , Yuchen Li , Xiaokun Zhang , Wangchunshu Zhou , Chen Ma

Existing approaches for digital short-drama production typically rely on one-shot LLM generated scripts and loosely coupled pipelines, which fail to satisfy three key requirements of short-drama generation: (1) narrative pacing, resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yufei Shi , Weilong Yan , Naixuan Huang , Yucheng Chen , Chenyu Zhang , Tao He , Si Yong Yeo , Ming Li

Real-world videos naturally portray complex interactions among distinct physical objects, effectively forming dynamic compositions of visual elements. However, most current video generation models synthesize scenes holistically and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Guofeng Zhang , Angtian Wang , Jacob Zhiyuan Fang , Liming Jiang , Haotian Yang , Alan Yuille , Chongyang Ma

Recent advances in AI-driven storytelling have enhanced video generation and story visualization. However, translating dialogue-centric scripts into coherent storyboards remains a significant challenge due to limited script detail,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Min Zhang , Zilin Wang , Liyan Chen , Kunhong Liu , Juncong Lin

Recent advances in video generation have produced models capable of synthesizing stunning visual content from simple text prompts. However, these models struggle to generate long-form, coherent narratives from high-level concepts like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chenyu Mu , Xin He , Qu Yang , Wanshun Chen , Jiadi Yao , Huang Liu , Zihao Yi , Bo Zhao , Xingyu Chen , Ruotian Ma , Fanghua Ye , Erkun Yang , Cheng Deng , Zhaopeng Tu , Xiaolong Li , Linus

Traditional and neural video codecs commonly encounter limitations in controllability and generality under ultra-low-bitrate coding scenarios. To overcome these challenges, we propose M3-CVC, a controllable video compression framework…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Rui Wan , Qi Zheng , Yibo Fan

Camera control has been extensively studied in conditioned video generation; however, performing precisely altering the camera trajectories while faithfully preserving the video content remains a challenging task. The mainstream approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Dong-Yu Chen , Yixin Guo , Shuojin Yang , Tai-Jiang Mu , Shi-Min Hu

Recent Video-to-Audio (V2A) methods have achieved remarkable progress, enabling the synthesis of realistic, high-quality audio. However, they struggle with fine-grained temporal control in multi-event scenarios or when visual cues are…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-21 You Li , Dewei Zhou , Fan Ma , Fu Li , Dongliang He , Yi Yang

Text-to-video generation has shown promising results. However, by taking only natural languages as input, users often face difficulties in providing detailed information to precisely control the model's output. In this work, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Hsin-Ping Huang , Yu-Chuan Su , Deqing Sun , Lu Jiang , Xuhui Jia , Yukun Zhu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

We present a video generation model that accurately reproduces object motion, changes in camera viewpoint, and new content that arises over time. Existing video generation methods often fail to produce new content as a function of time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Tim Brooks , Janne Hellsten , Miika Aittala , Ting-Chun Wang , Timo Aila , Jaakko Lehtinen , Ming-Yu Liu , Alexei A. Efros , Tero Karras

Maintaining narrative coherence and visual consistency remains a central challenge in open-domain video generation. Existing text-to-video models often treat each shot independently, resulting in identity drift, scene inconsistency, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Qinglin Zeng , Kaitong Cai , Ruiqi Chen , Qinhan Lv , Keze Wang

Current motion-controlled image-to-video generation models rigidly follow user-provided trajectories that are often sparse, imprecise, and causally incomplete. Such reliance often yields unnatural or implausible outcomes, especially by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Lee Hsin-Ying , Hanwen Jiang , Yiqun Mei , Jing Shi , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Zhixin Shu

Most methods for conditional video synthesis use a single modality as the condition. This comes with major limitations. For example, it is problematic for a model conditioned on an image to generate a specific motion trajectory desired by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Ligong Han , Jian Ren , Hsin-Ying Lee , Francesco Barbieri , Kyle Olszewski , Shervin Minaee , Dimitris Metaxas , Sergey Tulyakov

Multimodal story customization aims to generate coherent story flows conditioned on textual descriptions, reference identity images, and shot types. While recent progress in story generation has shown promising results, most approaches rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Wei-Hua Li , Cheng Sun , Chu-Song Chen