Camera-Controlled Video Generation

Overview

Camera-controlled video generation studies how to make a generated or re-shot video follow a desired camera path, from simple pans and orbits to long-horizon navigation. Approaches condition diffusion or autoregressive models on camera poses, geometric cues such as depth and point tracks, or persistent 3D and visual memories; language-based planners can also turn cinematic intent into trajectories. Evaluation increasingly tests camera adherence alongside visual quality, cross-view consistency, and whether scenes remain stable on revisits, using benchmarks with real and synthetic videos. The main tension is that stronger geometric control and long-term consistency can conflict with photorealism, dynamic scene changes, and fast interactive generation.

Latest papers

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142 papers28 papers in the last four weeks, up 100% on the four weeks before. 0.2% of all new papers.

  1. WorldCraft: From Camera Navigation to Object Manipulation in Interactive Video World Models

    May 24, 2026Bohai Gu, Taiyi Wu, Yueyang Yuan +9Camera-Controlled Video GenerationObject-Centric World Models

  2. Geo-Align: Video Generation Alignment via Metric Geometry Reward

    May 22, 2026Zizun Li, Haoyu Guo, Runzhe Teng +2Camera-Controlled Video GenerationReinforcement Learning

  3. DEVIS-GRPO: Unleashing GRPO on Dynamic Extreme View Synthesis

    May 16, 2026Yi Zuo, Huimin Wu, Lingling Li +3Camera-Controlled Video GenerationDynamic Novel View Synthesis

  4. Warp-as-History: Generalizable Camera-Controlled Video Generation from One Training Video

    May 14, 2026Yifan Wang, Tong HeCamera-Controlled Video Generation

  5. Probing into Camera Control of Video Models

    May 14, 2026Chen Hou, Christian RupprechtDiffusion Model GuidanceCamera-Controlled Video Generation

  6. CRePE: Curved Ray Expectation Positional Encoding for Unified-Camera-Controlled Video Generation

    May 13, 2026Seonghyun Jin, Youngmin Kim, Sunwoo Park +1Camera-Conditioned Video GenerationCamera-Controlled Video Generation

  7. hh-control: Training-Free Camera Control via Block-Conditional Gibbs Refinement

    May 12, 2026Yuzhu Wang, Xi Ye, Duo Su +2Markov Chain Monte CarloCamera-Controlled Video Generation

  8. ActCam: Zero-Shot Joint Camera and 3D Motion Control for Video Generation

    May 7, 2026Omar El Khalifi, Thomas Rossi, Oscar Fossey +6Diffusion Model GuidanceCamera-Controlled Video Generation

  9. RealCam: Real-Time Novel-View Video Generation with Interactive Camera Control

    May 7, 2026Youcan Xu, Jiaxin Shi, Zhen Wang +5Camera-Controlled Video GenerationReal-Time Interactive Video Generation

  10. Vista4D: Video Reshooting with 4D Point Clouds

    Apr 23, 2026Kuan Heng Lin, Zhizheng Liu, Pablo Salamanca +9Camera-Controlled Video Generation4D Reconstruction

  11. CityRAG: Stepping Into a City via Spatially-Grounded Video Generation

    Apr 21, 2026Gene Chou, Charles Herrmann, Kyle Genova +6Physical Consistency in Video GenerationCamera-Controlled Video Generation

  12. ReImagine: Rethinking Controllable High-Quality Human Video Generation via Image-First Synthesis

    Apr 21, 2026Zhengwentai Sun, Keru Zheng, Chenghong Li +7Camera-Controlled Video GenerationVideo Generation

  13. Lyra 2.0: Explorable Generative 3D Worlds

    Apr 14, 2026Tianchang Shen, Sherwin Bahmani, Kai He +123D Scene Generation3D-Aware Video Generation

  14. SceneScribe-1M: A Large-Scale Video Dataset with Comprehensive Geometric and Semantic Annotations

    Apr 9, 2026Yunnan Wang, Kecheng Zheng, Jianyuan Wang +8T2V GenerationCamera-Controlled Video Generation

  15. MoRight: Motion Control Done Right

    Apr 8, 2026Shaowei Liu, Xuanchi Ren, Tianchang Shen +5Causal Video GenerationControllable Video Generation

  16. OmniCamera: A Unified Framework for Multi-task Video Generation with Arbitrary Camera Control

    Apr 7, 2026Yukun Wang, Ruihuang Li, Jiale Tao +7Camera-Controlled Video GenerationVideo Generation

  17. SymphoMotion: Joint Control of Camera Motion and Object Dynamics for Coherent Video Generation

    Apr 4, 2026Guiyu Zhang, Yabo Chen, Xunzhi Xiang +3Camera-Controlled Video GenerationControllable Video Generation

  18. VERTIGO: Visual Preference Optimization for Cinematic Camera Trajectory Generation

    Apr 2, 2026Mengtian Li, Yuwei Lu, Feifei Li +3Camera-Controlled Video GenerationPreference Optimization

  19. DynaVid: Learning to Generate Highly Dynamic Videos using Synthetic Motion Data

    Apr 2, 2026Wonjoon Jin, Jiyun Won, Janghyeok Han +4Video Diffusion ModelsControllable Video Generation

  20. MemCam: Memory-Augmented Camera Control for Consistent Video Generation

    Mar 27, 2026Xinhang Gao, Junlin Guan, Shuhan Luo +3Video GenerationCamera-Controlled Video Generation

  21. I3DM: Implicit 3D-aware Memory Retrieval and Injection for Consistent Video Scene Generation

    Mar 24, 2026Jia Li, Han Yan, Yihang Chen +63D-Aware Video GenerationMemory-Augmented Video Generation

  22. GO-Renderer: Generative Object Rendering with 3D-aware Controllable Video Diffusion Models

    Mar 24, 2026Zekai Gu, Shuoxuan Feng, Yansong Wang +6Novel View SynthesisCamera-Controlled Video Generation

  23. Grounding World Simulation Models in a Real-World Metropolis

    Mar 16, 2026Junyoung Seo, Hyunwook Choi, Minkyung Kwon +10Retrieval-Augmented Video GenerationVideo World Models