Overview

AI video editing studies how to change footage—such as removing or inserting objects, altering motion or appearance, and assembling clips—while preserving the content that should remain. Common approaches adapt video diffusion and flow-matching models, using text, masks, reference images, keyframes, tracks, or 3D geometry to localize and guide edits; agentic systems also plan edits and operate professional timelines. Work increasingly targets streaming and long-video editing, alongside joint audio-visual changes and physics-aware scene effects. A central challenge is balancing strong instruction following with source fidelity, temporal and cross-shot coherence, and physically plausible results, while benchmarks still expose failures on complex instructions and secondary effects.

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178 papers23 papers in the last four weeks, up 156% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. CLEAR: Context-Aware Learning with End-to-End Mask-Free Inference for Adaptive Video Subtitle Removal

    Mar 23, 2026Qingdong He, Chaoyi Wang, Peng Tang +2Video EditingVideo Diffusion Models

  2. PerformRecast: Expression and Head Pose Disentanglement for Portrait Video Editing

    Mar 20, 2026Jiadong Liang, Bojun Xiong, Jie Tian +4Video EditingRepresentation Disentanglement

  3. SAMA: Factorized Semantic Anchoring and Motion Alignment for Instruction-Guided Video Editing

    Mar 19, 2026Xinyao Zhang, Wenkai Dong, Yuxin Song +10Video EditingInstruction-Based Video Editing

  4. EffectErase: Joint Video Object Removal and Insertion for High-Quality Effect Erasing

    Mar 19, 2026Yang Fu, Yike Zheng, Ziyun Dai +1Video Object InsertionObject Removal

  5. Versatile Editing of Video Content, Actions, and Dynamics without Training

    Mar 18, 2026Vladimir Kulikov, Roni Paiss, Andrey Voynov +3Video EditingInstruction-Based Video Editing

  6. ViFeEdit: A Video-Free Tuner of Your Video Diffusion Transformer

    Mar 16, 2026Ruonan Yu, Zhenxiong Tan, Zigeng Chen +2Diffusion-Based Video EditingVideo Editing

  7. When to Lock Attention: Training-Free KV Control in Video Diffusion

    Mar 10, 2026Tianyi Zeng, Jincheng Gao, Tianyi Wang +8Video Diffusion ModelsVideo Editing

  8. SyncEdit: Rethinking Lip Synchronization as Editing with Audio-Driven Diffusion Models

    Mar 10, 2026Lixiang Lin, Siyuan Jin, Jinshan ZhangLip SynchronizationVideo Editing

  9. Place-it-R1: Unlocking Environment-aware Reasoning Potential of MLLM for Video Object Insertion

    Mar 6, 2026Bohai Gu, Taiyi Wu, Dazhao Du +5Video Object InsertionVideo Editing

  10. NOVA: Sparse Control, Dense Synthesis for Pair-Free Video Editing

    Mar 3, 2026Tianlin Pan, Jiayi Dai, Chenpu Yuan +7Video Editing

  11. Kiwi-Edit: Versatile Video Editing via Instruction and Reference Guidance

    Mar 2, 2026Yiqi Lin, Guoqiang Liang, Ziyun Zeng +3Video EditingInstruction-Based Video Editing

  12. FREE-Edit: Using Editing-aware Injection in Rectified Flow Models for Zero-shot Image-Driven Video Editing

    Mar 1, 2026Maomao Li, Yunfei Liu, Yu LiVideo Editing

  13. CamDirector: Towards Long-Term Coherent Video Trajectory Editing

    Feb 27, 2026Zhihao Shi, Kejia Yin, Weilin Wan +5Video EditingCamera-Controlled Video Generation

  14. PropFly: Learning to Propagate via On-the-Fly Supervision from Pre-trained Video Diffusion Models

    Feb 24, 2026Wonyong Seo, Jaeho Moon, Jaehyup Lee +2Video EditingDiffusion-Based Video Editing

  15. EditCtrl: Disentangled Local and Global Control for Real-Time Generative Video Editing

    Feb 16, 2026Yehonathan Litman, Shikun Liu, Dario Seyb +5Video EditingInstruction-Based Video Editing

  16. PISCO: Precise Video Instance Insertion with Sparse Control

    Feb 9, 2026Xiangbo Gao, Renjie Li, Xinghao Chen +4Physical Consistency in Video GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

  17. Learning Stochastic Bridges for Video Object Removal via Video-to-Video Translation

    Jan 17, 2026Zijie Lou, Xiangwei Feng, Jiaxin Wang +7Video EditingVideo-to-Video Translation

  18. InsertAnywhere: Geometrically Grounded and Optics-Aware Video Object Insertion

    Dec 19, 2025Hoiyeong Jin, Hyojin Jang, Junha Hyung +6Video Diffusion ModelsVideo Editing

  19. DirectSwap: Paired, Mask-Free Video Head Swapping with Full-Reference Evaluation

    Dec 10, 2025Yanan Wang, Shengcai Liao, Panwen Hu +4Video EditingVideo Generation Evaluation

  20. Unified Long Video Inpainting and Outpainting via Overlapping High-Order Co-Denoising

    Nov 5, 2025Shuangquan Lyu, Jian Mao, Yue MaVideo Diffusion ModelsLong Video Generation

  21. Edit-Your-Interest: Efficient Video Editing via Feature Most-Similar Propagation

    Oct 15, 2025Yi Zuo, Zitao Wang, Lingling Li +3Diffusion-Based Video EditingVideo Editing

  22. UniVideo: Unified Understanding, Generation, and Editing for Videos

    Oct 9, 2025Cong Wei, Quande Liu, Zixuan Ye +5Video GenerationUnified Multimodal Models

  23. VRWKV-Editor: Reducing quadratic complexity in transformer-based video editing

    Sep 30, 2025Abdelilah Aitrouga, Youssef Hmamouche, Amal El Fallah SeghrouchniVideo Diffusion ModelsVideo Editing

  24. MoCA-Video: Motion-Aware Concept Alignment for Consistent Video Editing

    Jun 1, 2025Tong Zhang, Victor Escorcia, Juan C Leon Alcazar +1Diffusion Model GuidanceVideo Editing

  25. PRIMEdit: Probability Redistribution for Instance-Aware Multi-Object Video Editing With a New Benchmark Dataset

    Dec 17, 2024Samuel Teodoro, Agus Gunawan, Soo Ye Kim +2Video EditingInstruction-Based Video Editing

  26. Diffusion Model-Based Video Editing: A Survey

    Jun 26, 2024Wenhao Sun, Rong-Cheng Tu, Jingyi Liao +1Video Diffusion ModelsVideo Editing