Gloria: Consistent Character Video Generation via Content Anchors

Text-to-video generation has advanced rapidly, yet preserving a character's holistic appearance from a single reference image remains challenging, particularly when the character undergoes large pose, motion, and scene changes. Existing reference-conditioned approaches primarily treat the reference image as a conditioning signal, which can weaken fine-grained appearance information as reference and noisy video tokens interact during denoising. We propose ContextAnyone, a context-aware diffusion framework that instead treats the reference as an explicitly preserved appearance anchor. Our key idea is to jointly reconstruct the reference image and generate the target video within a shared diffusion transformer, providing direct supervision for preserving identity and fine-grained appearance throughout denoising. To maintain the reference as a stable source of appearance information, we further introduce asymmetric information flow that allows video tokens to selectively access reference tokens while preventing noisy video features from propagating back to the reference branch. We complement this design with Gap-RoPE, which separates the positional representations of the reference and generated video tokens. Experiments on a benchmark constructed from OpenVid-HD demonstrate that ContextAnyone improves both identity and fine-grained appearance consistency over existing reference-conditioned baselines while maintaining motion characteristics close to the underlying text-to-video generator.

Precise camera control is essential for cinematic character video generation, yet existing methods struggle to follow large-angle trajectories with combined rotation, translation, and radius variation from arbitrary initial azimuths. Such viewpoint changes also reveal character regions unseen in the initial frame, causing geometric distortions, appearance degradation, and identity drift. To systematically study these coupled challenges, we introduce CLACT, a large-scale Character-centric dataset and benchmark covering diverse Large-Angle Camera Trajectories, with accurate camera geometry and multi-view character observations for training and evaluation. We further propose WorldCast, a framework for world-consistent character video generation under diverse large-angle camera motions. Specifically, we back-project the initial frame into a 3D point cloud using estimated depth, align the point-cloud scale with the target camera trajectory, and render it along the trajectory to obtain explicit geometric guidance and coverage masks. To complement the incomplete character information, we introduce Geometry-Aligned Memory Attention (GAMA). Using relative camera poses estimated jointly from the initial frame and multi-view character anchors, we express anchor and target-view geometry in a common coordinate frame. GAMA uses this geometric alignment to guide the retrieval and injection of view-relevant character features during generation. Evaluations across diverse large-angle camera trajectories demonstrate accurate trajectory following while preserving character geometry, appearance, and identity.

Current identity-consistent video generation methods struggle to preserve appearance fidelity under large viewpoint changes. While introducing multi-view reference input offers a natural solution, progress remains constrained by the lack of effective frameworks for multi-view inputs and the scarcity of multi-view data. We address these challenges by proposing HarmoView, a robust framework for identity-consistent video generation that effectively integrates multi-view cues through three architectural refinements complemented by a staged training curriculum. Specifically, we first introduce Multi-level Feature Injection to anchor identity fidelity; by injecting raw ViT features from frontal references alongside text tokens via cross-attention, MFI provides persistent low-level appearance anchors that complement the high-level identity features within DiT blocks, leading to enhanced identity preservation. Then, we employ learnable proxy tokens to unify heterogeneous reference layouts across single-/multi-view settings while simultaneously resolving the reference-view mismatch problem. Jump-RoPE is further developed for identity-wise feature isolation to reduce identity crosstalk. To activate these structural capabilities while preserving the original generative priors, we propose the Progressive View Curriculum. This four-stage training strategy employs view dropout to facilitate a stable transition from vanilla T2V generation to high-fidelity, identity-persistent spatial reasoning. Furthermore, we construct a large-scale multi-view dataset to address the issue of data scarcity. Extensive evaluation on our multi-view benchmark, comprising 100 manually-curated cases spanning 52 unique identities, demonstrates that HarmoView significantly outperforms open-source baselines and matches leading closed-source engines, achieving state-of-the-art performance in identity-consistent video generation.