Technology Preview: CineMaster Lets You control Camera motions with 3D

Technology Preview: CineMaster Lets You control Camera motions with 3D

CineMaster is a groundbreaking framework for 3D-aware and controllable text-to-video generation, enabling users to manipulate objects and cameras in 3D space, offering film director-level control for creating high-quality cinematic videos.


Revolutionizing Text-to-Video Generation

Text-to-video generation has advanced significantly, but existing methods often fall short in providing users with precise control over scene composition, object placement, and camera movements. CineMaster addresses this gap, introducing a 3D-aware and controllable framework that empowers users to craft cinematic videos with unparalleled control.

CineMaster offers capabilities akin to professional film direction: precise placement of objects, seamless manipulation of both objects and camera in 3D space, and intuitive layout control over rendered frames. This approach bridges the gap between generative AI and traditional filmmaking.

Two-Stage Workflow for Ultimate Control

CineMaster operates through a two-stage process designed to offer intuitive user interaction and high-fidelity video generation.

Stage 1: Interactive 3D Scene Construction

  • Users build 3D-aware conditional signals by positioning object bounding boxes and defining camera movements.
  • An interactive interface allows precise placement of objects and planning of dynamic camera trajectories within the 3D space.

Stage 2: Guided Text-to-Video Generation

  • The system uses the defined control signals—rendered depth maps, camera trajectories, and object class labels—as guidance.
  • A text-to-video diffusion model interprets these signals to produce high-quality, user-intended video content.

This dual-stage process ensures that user-defined layouts and movements are faithfully translated into the generated video, offering flexibility and creative freedom.

Overcoming Data Limitations with Automated Annotation

High-quality 3D-aware video generation requires rich datasets with detailed 3D annotations—resources that are often scarce. CineMaster tackles this issue through a sophisticated automated data annotation pipeline, extracting 3D bounding boxes and camera trajectories from large-scale video datasets.

Data Labeling Pipeline Overview:

  1. Instance Segmentation: Identifies and segments objects within video frames.
  2. Depth Estimation: Utilizes DepthAnything V2 to produce accurate depth maps.
  3. 3D Point Cloud & Box Calculation: Computes 3D point clouds via inverse projection, then calculates bounding boxes using a minimum volume method.
  4. Entity Tracking & 3D Box Adjustment: Tracks objects across frames, refining 3D bounding boxes and projecting scenes into depth maps.

This pipeline ensures a robust dataset for training and improves the model's understanding of 3D spatial relationships.

See video in action at the project page

Advanced Architecture: Semantic Layout ControlNet

CineMaster’s core strength lies in its innovative network architecture, designed to integrate 3D spatial information seamlessly into the video generation process.

  • Semantic Injector: Fuses 3D spatial layouts and object class labels, enabling the model to understand complex scene compositions.
  • DiT-based ControlNet: Processes fused features, integrating them into the hidden states of the base text-to-video diffusion model.
  • Camera Adapter: Injects detailed camera trajectories, allowing synchronized control over object and camera movements.

This architecture empowers users to manipulate scenes with a level of precision previously unattainable in text-to-video generation.

Unmatched Results and Future Prospects

Extensive qualitative and quantitative evaluations highlight CineMaster’s superiority over existing methods. The framework generates videos with higher spatial coherence, dynamic camera movements, and complex scene compositions, all while maintaining high visual fidelity.

CineMaster opens new possibilities for filmmakers, content creators, and AI enthusiasts, providing a powerful tool to bridge the creative gap between text prompts and cinematic storytelling.

To explore CineMaster in detail, visit the official project page.

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