CVPR 2026 Papers

Most existing evaluations of generated videos adopt a no-reference paradigm. Although recent benchmarks cover multiple dimensions and show moderate correlation with human preferences, relying solely on textual prompts weakens real-world constraints and makes it difficult to produce accountable and interpretable judgments on instance-level issues such as target behavior deviation, temporal inconsistency, and commonsense violations. In scenarios with explicit expectations, such as controlled generation, reference videos naturally provide rich, unambiguous spatio-temporal evidence, enabling stricter and more trustworthy assessment. Motivated by this, we propose Ref4D-VideoBench, a reference-based, fine-grained, multi-dimensional benchmark for generated video evaluation. Ref4D-VideoBench contains 600 high-quality reference videos with tightly evidence-bounded prompts, and introduces a 12-metric structured evaluation suite along four key dimensions: basic semantic alignment, motion consistency, event temporal consistency, and world knowledge consistency. Experiments on eight text-to-video models show that our method achieves stronger agreement with human judgments than representative no-reference frameworks. Our code is available at https://github.com/TAILab-W/Ref4D-VideoBench.

Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress, generating visually realistic and semantically coherent images from textual prompts. However, natural language alone lacks the precision required for design-centric applications that demand strict spatial and structural fidelity--particularly when representing complex concepts that integrate multi-level information, such as product or scene design. To address this limitation, controllable diffusion frameworks introduce auxiliary conditions (e.g., depth, edge, or reference images) to guide the generative process. Models like ControlNet and IP-Adapter effectively inject such priors, improving structural or appearance alignment. Yet, real-world design tasks rarely depend on a single type of condition. They often require simultaneous integration of multiple heterogeneous cues--for instance, preserving spatial layout from depth maps, structural outlines from edge maps, and stylistic attributes from reference images. Current approaches either handle only one condition or naively stack multiple ones, resulting in computational inefficiency and conflicting guidance that degrade generation quality. This multi-condition inconsistency forms a critical bottleneck for applying diffusion models to real-world design workflows, motivating our proposed framework. We propose a data-driven adaptive condition fusion mechanism for multi-conditional diffusion. Our method introduces a novel condition adaptation module that dynamically selects and fuses subsets of conditions based on the diffusion timestep, task characteristics, and feature injection position. This adaptive strategy harmonizes diverse structural and appearance priors, achieving controllable yet flexible generation in complex design scenarios. Experiments demonstrate significant improvements in fidelity, consistency, and controllability across multi-condition tasks, establishing a new direction for practical, detail-preserving diffusion-based design generation.

Large-scale video generation models have shown remarkable potential in modeling photorealistic appearance and lighting interactions in real-world scenes. However, a closed-loop framework that jointly understands intrinsic scene properties (e.g., albedo, normal, material, and irradiance), leverages them for video synthesis, and supports editable intrinsic representations remains unexplored. We present V-RGBX, the first end-to-end framework for intrinsic-aware video editing. V-RGBX unifies three key capabilities: (1) video inverse rendering into intrinsic channels, (2) photorealistic video synthesis from these intrinsic representations, and (3) keyframe-based video editing conditioned on intrinsic channels. At the core of V-RGBX is an interleaved conditioning mechanism that enables intuitive, physically grounded video editing through user-selected keyframes, supporting flexible manipulation of any intrinsic modality. Extensive qualitative and quantitative results show that V-RGBX produces temporally consistent, photorealistic videos while propagating keyframe edits across sequences in a physically plausible manner. We demonstrate its effectiveness in diverse applications, including object appearance editing and scene-level relighting, surpassing the performance of prior methods.

Recent text-to-image generation models have acquired the ability of multi-reference generation and editing; that is, to inherit the appearance of subjects from multiple reference images and re-render them in new contexts. However, existing benchmark datasets often focus on generation using a single or a few reference images, which prevents us from measuring progress in model performance or identifying weaknesses when following instructions with a larger number of references. In addition, their task definitions are still vague, limited to axes such as "what to edit" or "how many references are given", and therefore fail to capture the challenges inherent in combining heterogeneous references. To address this gap, we introduce MultiBanana, which is designed to assess the edge of model capabilities by widely covering problems specific to multi-reference settings: (1) varying the number of references (up to 8), (2) domain mismatch among references (e.g., photo vs. anime), (3) scale mismatch between reference and target scenes, (4) references containing rare concepts (e.g., a red banana), and (5) multilingual textual references for rendering. Our analysis among a variety of text-to-image models reveals their respective performances, typical failure modes, and areas for improvement.

Producing long, coherent video sequences with stable 3D structure remains a major challenge, particularly in streaming scenarios. Motivated by this, we introduce Endless World, a real-time framework for infinite, 3D-consistent video generation. To support infinite video generation, we introduce a conditional autoregressive training strategy that aligns newly generated content with existing video frames. This design preserves long-range dependencies while remaining computationally efficient, enabling real-time inference on a single GPU without additional training overhead. Moreover, our Endless World integrates global 3D-aware attention to provide continuous geometric guidance across time. Our 3D injection mechanism enforces physical plausibility and geometric consistency throughout extended sequences, addressing key challenges in long-horizon and dynamic scene synthesis. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Endless World produces long, stable, and visually coherent videos, achieving competitive or superior performance to existing methods in both visual fidelity and spatial consistency. Our code will be released after review.

Hand-object interaction forms the foundation of how humans interact with the world. Understanding the connection between hand action and egocentric video is essential for enabling embodied agents to perceive, simulate, and plan like humans. However, it is challenging to learn and predict across hand actions and egocentric videos due to their non-linear relationship. In this work, we introduce HandWorld, a unified generative framework that focuses on hand-object interaction and jointly models egocentric videos and hand actions. HandWorld learns shared cross-domain conditions through a dual-branch condition network that integrates information from both video and action domains. MANO-rendered hand representation is incorporated as an intermediate input to further enhance cross-domain coherence. Conditioned on the shared representation, two decoupled diffusion transformers are trained to predict in their respective domain. A flexible training strategy enables the model to learn across diverse task configurations, including action forecasting and controllable video generation. Experiments on large-scale egocentric HOI datasets demonstrate that HandWorld achieves high-fidelity video synthesis and accurate action prediction, outperforming existing baselines across diverse scenarios.

Diffusion transformers have recently delivered strong text-to-image generation around 1K resolution, but we show that extending them to native 4K across diverse aspect ratios exposes a tightly coupled failure mode spanning positional encoding, VAE compression, and optimization. Tackling any of these factors in isolation leaves substantial quality on the table. We therefore take a data--model co-design view and introduce UltraFlux, a Flux-based DiT trained natively at 4K on MultiAspect-4K-1M, a 1M-image 4K corpus with controlled multi-AR coverage, bilingual captions, and rich VLM/IQA metadata for resolution- and AR-aware sampling. On the model side, UltraFlux couples (i) Resonance 2D RoPE with YaRN for training-window-, frequency-, and AR-aware positional encoding at 4K; (ii) a simple, non-adversarial VAE post-training scheme that improves 4K reconstruction fidelity; (iii) an SNR-Aware Huber Wavelet objective that rebalances gradients across timesteps and frequency bands; and (iv) a Stage-wise Aesthetic Curriculum Learning strategy that concentrates high-aesthetic supervision on high-noise steps governed by the model prior. Together, these components yield a stable, detail-preserving 4K DiT that generalizes across wide, square, and tall ARs. On the Aesthetic-Eval@4096 benchmark and multi-AR 4K settings, UltraFlux consistently outperforms strong open-source baselines across fidelity, aesthetic, and alignment metrics, and--with a LLM prompt refiner--matches or surpasses the proprietary Seedream 4.0.

Text-driven 3D editing, enabled by advancements in 3D reconstruction techniques such as NeRF and 3D Gaussian Splatting, aims to provide intuitive scene customization. However, existing methods frequently exhibit limitations in controllability and consistency. To address these shortcomings, we propose VDFE, a difference-aware 3D scene editing method based on non-intrusive utilization of pre-trained video diffusion priors, which integrates Optimal Control Guided Flow Editing (FlowOCE), Decoupled Flow Difference (DFD), and Difference-Aware Gaussians Editing (DAGE) modules. Specifically, FlowOCE treats the editing process as an optimal control problem, optimizing a noise-free editing trajectory to minimize unintended modifications in non-target regions and generating results with multi-view consistency and smooth transitions; DFD innovatively achieves more precise localization of editing regions compared to cross-attention mechanisms by analyzing flow differences, which supplies priors for the subsequent optimization process; and DAGE leverages precise localization to selectively update 3D Gaussians for efficient and precise refinement. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms existing methods in both qualitative and quantitative evaluations, achieving state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance.

Scene-consistent video generation aims to create videos that explore 3D scenes based on a camera trajectory. Previous methods rely on video generation models with external memory for consistency, or iterative 3D reconstruction and inpainting, which accumulate errors during inference due to incorrect intermediary outputs, non-differentiable processes, and separate models. To overcome these limitations, we introduce "geometry-as-context". It iteratively completes the following steps using an autoregressive camera-controlled video generation model: (1) estimates the geometry of the current view necessary for 3D reconstruction, and (2) simulates and restores novel view images rendered by the 3D scene. Under this multi-task framework, we develop the camera gated attention module to enhance the model's capability to effectively leverage camera poses. During the training phase, text contexts are utilized to ascertain whether geometric or RGB images should be generated. To ensure that the model can generate RGB-only outputs during inference, the geometry context is randomly dropped from the interleaved text-image-geometry training sequence. The method has been tested on scene video generation with one-direction and forth-and-back trajectories. The results show its superiority over previous approaches in maintaining scene consistency and camera control.

Reconstructing a physiologically plausible cardiac video from a single image remains a fundamental challenge in generative modeling, owing to the complex and nonlinear periodic dynamics of echocardiography. Previous image-to-video (I2V) approaches primarily focus on temporal continuity, yet often struggle to capture the intrinsic periodicity of cardiac motion, leading to limited temporal coherence and semantic consistency. We present EchoVDiff, a novel phase-aware diffusion model that reconstructs a full cardiac cycle from any single frame. Instead of direct pixel synthesis, EchoVDiff integrates physiological priors into a diffusion paradigm, learning interpretable mappings between cardiac phase, anatomy, and motion. By jointly modeling temporal rhythm and spatial semantics within a disentangled latent space, it achieves controllable and physiologically consistent generation. Extensive experiments on EchoNet-Dynamic and EchoNet-Pediatric demonstrate that EchoVDiff consistently surpasses state-of-the-art methods in both fidelity and temporal coherence. Remarkably, it enables accurate reconstruction of complete cardiac cycles from arbitrary phases, marking the first demonstration of single-frame-driven echocardiographic video generation.

Despite the rapid progress of text-to-image (T2I) models, generating images that accurately reflect complex compositional prompts (covering attribute bindings, object relationships, counting) still remains challenging. To address this, we propose BIDPO, a framework to enhance T2I model's capability of compositional text-to-image generation. We begin by introducing an carefully designed pipeline to construct a large-scale preference dataset, BICOMP, with strictly quality control. Then, we extend Diffusion DPO to jointly optimize image and text preferences, which is shown to greatly effective in improving the models to follow complex text prompt in generation. To further enhance the models for fine-grained alignment, we employ a region-level guidance method to focus on regions relevant to compositional concepts. Experimental results demonstrate that our BIDPO substantially improves compositional fidelity, consistently outperforming prior methods across multiple benchmarks. Our approach highlights the potential of preference-based fine-tuning for complex text-to-image tasks, offering a flexible and scalable alternative to existing techniques. Code is available at https://github.com/anzeameol/BiDPO.

Scene text editing seeks to modify textual content in natural images while maintaining visual realism and semantic consistency. Existing methods often require task-specific training or paired data, limiting their scalability and adaptability. In this paper, we propose TextFlow, a training-free scene text editing framework that integrates the strengths of Attention Boost (AttnBoost) and Flow Manifold Steering (FMS) to enable flexible, high-fidelity text manipulation without additional training. Specifically, FMS preserves the structural and style consistency by modeling the visual flow of characters and background regions, while AttnBoost enhances the rendering of textual content through attention-based guidance. By jointly leveraging these complementary modules, our approach performs end-to-end text editing through semantic alignment and spatial refinement in a plug-and-play manner. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our framework achieves visual quality and text accuracy comparable to or superior to those of training-based counterparts, generalizing well across diverse scenes and languages. This study advances scene text editing toward a more efficient, generalizable, and training-free paradigm.

Image-to-Video generation (I2V) animates a static image into a temporally coherent video sequence following textual instructions, yet preserving fine-grained object identity under changing viewpoints remains a persistent challenge. Unlike text-to-video models, existing I2V pipelines often suffer from appearance drift and geometric distortion, artifacts we attribute to the sparsity of single-view 2D observations and weak cross-modal alignment. Here we address this problem from both data and model perspectives. First, we curate ConsIDVid, a large-scale object-centric dataset built with a scalable pipeline for high-quality, temporally aligned videos, and establish ConsIDVid-Bench, where we present a novel benchmarking and evaluation framework for multi-view consistency using metrics sensitive to subtle geometric and appearance deviations. We further propose ConsID-Gen, a view-assisted I2V generation framework that augments the first frame with unposed auxiliary views and fuses semantic and structural cues via a dual-stream visual-geometric encoder as well as a text-visual connector, yielding unified conditioning for a Diffusion Transformer backbone. Experiments across ConsIDVid-Bench demonstrate that ConsID-Gen consistently outperforms in multiple metrics, with the best overall performance surpassing leading video generation models like Wan2.1 and HunyuanVideo, delivering superior identity fidelity and temporal coherence under challenging real-world scenarios. Our model and dataset are at https://myangwu.github.io/ConsID-Gen.

Transformer-based video diffusion models (VDMs) deliver state-of-the-art video generation quality but are constrained by the quadratic cost of self-attention, making long sequences and high resolutions computationally expensive. While linear attention offers sub-quadratic complexity, previous approaches have failed to match the expressiveness of softmax attention unless retrained at significant computational cost. We introduce Attention Surgery, an efficient framework that enables linear or hybrid attention in pretrained VDMs, eliminating the need for training from scratch. Inspired by recent advances in language models, our method combines a novel hybrid attention mechanism, mixing softmax and linear tokens, with a lightweight distillation and fine-tuning pipeline requiring only a few GPU-days. Additionally, we incorporate a cost-aware block-rate strategy to balance expressiveness and efficiency across layers. Applied to Wan2.1 1.3B, a state-of-the-art efficient transformer VDM and evaluated on VBench, VBench2.0 and a human preference study, Attention Surgery achieves competitive results. Furthermore, measurements of on-mobile latency, memory usage, and FLOPs demonstrate notable improvements in scaling behavior for longer videos.

Visual Autoregressive (AR) models generate images by predicting discrete tokens that are decoded by a visual tokenizer.Despite demonstrating strong overall image generation ability, they still underperform on text rendering with blur strokes and disrupt letter shapes. In this work, we trace this limitation to the visual tokenizer, which struggles to reconstruct fine-grained detail.Improving the tokenizer is straightforward but expensive, as it necessitates retraining both the tokenizer and the AR model.Can we improve text rendering performance of AR models without retraining the existing tokenizer and AR model? To achieve this, we propose the Residual Decoder Adapter(\method) that upgrades an existing tokenizer post-hoc without changing its token space. Specifically, it refines the decoder output of the visual tokenizer by introducing two novel components: (i) a paired codebook that shares the token distribution with the original one; (ii) a parallel branch to learn the tiny differences (residual) between the reconstructed image and the ground-truth images in the pixel space. This residual design allows us to enhance the tokenizer non-invasively while preserving compatibility with prior AR models. \method substantially improves text rendering significantly by a large margin. For instance, we boost finetuned Janus-Pro OCR accuracy rises from 24.52% to 58.26% (TextVisionBlend), from 12.75% to 36.81% (StyledTextSynth) on competitive TextAtlas benchmark. Codes will be released.

Text-to-video generation has significantly enriched content creation and holds the potential to evolve into powerful world simulators. However, modeling the vast spatiotemporal space remains computationally demanding, particularly when employing Transformers, which incur quadratic complexity in sequence processing and thus limit practical applications. Recent advancements in linear-time sequence modeling, particularly the Mamba architecture, offer a more efficient alternative. Nevertheless, its plain design limits its direct applicability to multimodal and spatiotemporal video generation tasks. To address these challenges, we introduce M4V, a multimodal Mamba framework for efficient text-to-video generation. Specifically, a MultiModal diffusion Mamba (MM-DiM) block is designed within the framework to enable seamless integration of multimodal information and spatiotemporal modeling. In detail, we introduce a novel multimodal token re-composition design, which employs a bidirectional scheme for multimodal information integration through simple token arrangement, along with visual registers to enhance spatial-temporal consistency. As a result, the MM-DiM blocks in M4V reduce FLOPs by 45% compared with the attention-based alternative when generating videos at 768x1280 resolution. Additionally, several training strategies are explored in this work to provide a better understanding of training text-to-video models using only publicly available datasets. Extensive experiments on text-to-video benchmarks demonstrate M4V's ability to produce high-quality videos while significantly lowering computational costs. Code will be made publicly available.

While image editing has advanced rapidly, video editing remains less explored, facing challenges in consistency, control, and generalization.We study the design space of data, architecture, and control, and introduce EasyV2V, a simple and effective framework for instruction-based video editing. On the data side, we compose existing experts with fast inverses to build diverse video pairs, lift image edit pairs into videos via single-frame supervision and pseudo pairs with shared affine motion, mine dense-captioned clips for video pairs, and add transition supervision to teach how edits unfold.On the model side, we observe that pretrained text-to-video models possess editing capability, motivating a simplified design. Simple sequence concatenation for conditioning with light LoRA fine-tuning suffices to train a strong model.For control, we unify spatiotemporal control via a single mask mechanism and support optional reference images.Overall, EasyV2V works with flexible inputs, e.g., video+text, video+mask+text, video+mask+reference+text, and achieves state-of-the-art video editing results, surpassing concurrent and commercial systems.

The rapid development of generative models has significantly advanced image and video applications. Among these, video creation, aimed at generating videos under various conditions, has gained substantial attention. However, existing video creation models either focus solely on a few specific conditions or suffer from excessively long generation times due to complex model inference, making them impractical for real-world applications. To mitigate these issues, we propose an efficient unified video creation model, named VDOT. Concretely, we model the training process with the distribution matching distillation (DMD) paradigm. Instead of using the Kullback-Leibler (KL) minimization, we additionally employ a novel computational optimal transport (OT) technique to optimize the discrepancy between the real and fake score distributions. The OT distance inherently imposes geometric constraints, mitigating potential zero-forcing or gradient collapse issues that may arise during KL-based distillation within the few-step generation scenario, and thus, enhances the efficiency and stability of the distillation process. Further, we integrate a discriminator to enable the model to perceive real video data, thereby enhancing the quality of generated videos. To support training unified video creation models, we propose a fully automated pipeline for video data annotation and filtering that accommodates multiple video creation tasks. Meanwhile, we curate a unified testing benchmark, UVCBench, to advance the field. Experiments demonstrate that our 4-step VDOT outperforms or matches the performance of other baselines with 50 denoising steps. Code is available at https://vdot-page.github.io.

Reference-to-video (R2V) generation aims to synthesize videos that align with a text prompt while preserving the subject identity from reference images. However, current R2V methods are hindered by the reliance on explicit reference image-video-text triplets, whose construction is highly expensive and difficult to scale. We bypass this bottleneck by introducing Saber, a scalable zero-shot framework that requires no explicit R2V data. Trained exclusively on video-text pairs, Saber employs a masked training strategy and a tailored attention-based model design to learn identity-consistent and reference-aware representations. Mask augmentation techniques are further integrated to mitigate copy-paste artifacts common in reference-to-video generation. Moreover, Saber demonstrates remarkable generalization capabilities across a varying number of references and achieves superior performance on the OpenS2V-Eval benchmark compared to methods trained with R2V data.