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Modular-Cam: Modular Dynamic Camera-view Video Generation with LLM

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Pith's one-line read Modular-Cam combines LLM-based prompt decomposition, per-motion LoRA modules, and ControlNet-based scene conditioning to generate multi-scene videos with camera-view control.

arxiv 2504.12048 v1 pith:JH5SQQPN submitted 2025-04-16 cs.CV

Zirui Pan , Xin Wang , Yipeng Zhang , Hong Chen , Kwan Man Cheng , Yaofei Wu , Wenwu Zhu This is my paper · ORCID
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Most text-to-video models are built by adding temporal attention to a text-to-image model such as Stable Diffusion. They understand a prompt through a text encoder, so when a prompt describes two or three different scenes with camera moves, the encoder cannot separate the scenes, and the model produces a video where the scenes bleed into each other or the camera barely moves. Modular-Cam addresses this by inserting a planning step. A large language model reads the user instruction and outputs a list of scene descriptions, each paired with one of six camera actions: zoom in, zoom out, pan left, pan right, tilt up, tilt down. The video generator then renders the scenes one at a time.

For camera control, the authors train a separate low-rank adapter, called a CamOperator, for each of the six motions. The adapters are added to a model built on AnimateDiff, and the LLM chooses which adapter to plug in for each scene. The authors claim the adapters can be combined, so a scene can use both a pan and a zoom. Between scenes, the last frame of the previous scene is fed into a ControlNet-based module, AdaControlNet, which also normalizes the colors of the new scene and randomly blends the first frame so the transition looks continuous.

The results shown in the paper look plausible, and the ablations support the role of each module. However, the quantitative evaluation is weaker. The test prompts were generated by the authors with ChatGPT, the closest LLM-based multi-scene baselines were not included in the comparison table, and camera accuracy was never measured numerically. No code or weights are released. So the paper is a convincing demonstration of an idea, but not yet a fully verified method.

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Core claim

Modular-Cam is capable of generating high-quality multi-scene dynamic camera-view videos, ensuring consistency across multiple scenes, and providing a modular method to achieve fine-grained control of the contents and camera movements in the video (Contributions, Introduction). If this is true, the system would be a practical modular recipe for long, multi-shot video generation with explicit camera direction.

Load-bearing premise

The assumption that six LoRA motion modules trained on synthetic augmented videos transfer to natural video content and remain composable, so that additive LoRA weights (Equation 4: W = W_TT + A_CO * B_CO) can simulate arbitrary camera paths such as 'ZoomIn + PanLeft'. The paper asserts 'theoretically simulate any motion pattern' (CamOperator with Modular Network) without experiments verifying transfer or composition, and it is the load-bearing premise for the 'fine-grained control' part of the central claim.

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Assumptions & free parameters 1 free parameters · 3 assumptions · 0 invented entities

Modular-Cam builds on Stable Diffusion, AnimateDiff, ControlNet, and LoRA, so no new physical or formal entities are introduced. The load-bearing ad hoc assumptions are the transferability and composability of the LoRA motion pool, the reliability of LLM scene decomposition, and the sufficiency of the color-normalization and blending tricks for smooth transitions.

free parameters (1)
  • randomized blending intensity lambda = 0.5
    Hyper-parameter in Equation 6 controlling how often the noisy first frame is replaced by the condition image latent. Set to 0.5 after a small sensitivity analysis on a few examples; this value is used at inference and directly affects transition smoothness.
assumptions (3)
  • ad hoc to paper Six basic CamOperators, trained on simulated data with simple augmentations, transfer to natural video content and remain composable when their LoRA weights are added.
    Equation 4 defines W = W_TT + A_CO * B_CO and the text claims these modules 'can be composed to form more complicated motions'. No quantitative experiment verifies that the composition behaves as the sum of its parts on real videos.
  • domain assumption ChatGPT3.5-turbo reliably decomposes arbitrary user instructions into scene descriptions and transition actions from the fixed six-motion vocabulary.
    The LLM-Director section provides one hand-written prompt and one example; there is no evaluation of parsing accuracy across the 1000-instruction test set or on instructions outside the six-motion vocabulary.
  • domain assumption Adaptive pixel normalization and randomized blending on the first frame yield visually smooth transitions without harming temporal coherence.
    Supported only by qualitative ablations (Figure 4) and a sensitivity study of lambda on a small number of cases; no quantitative metric measures transition smoothness or long-range coherence.

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Text-to-Video generation, which utilizes the provided text prompt to generate high-quality videos, has drawn increasing attention and achieved great success due to the development of diffusion models recently. Existing methods mainly rely on a pre-trained text encoder to capture the semantic information and perform cross attention with the encoded text prompt to guide the generation of video. However, when it comes to complex prompts that contain dynamic scenes and multiple camera-view transformations, these methods can not decompose the overall information into separate scenes, as well as fail to smoothly change scenes based on the corresponding camera-views. To solve these problems, we propose a novel method, i.e., Modular-Cam. Specifically, to better understand a given complex prompt, we utilize a large language model to analyze user instructions and decouple them into multiple scenes together with transition actions. To generate a video containing dynamic scenes that match the given camera-views, we incorporate the widely-used temporal transformer into the diffusion model to ensure continuity within a single scene and propose CamOperator, a modular network based module that well controls the camera movements. Moreover, we propose AdaControlNet, which utilizes ControlNet to ensure consistency across scenes and adaptively adjusts the color tone of the generated video. Extensive qualitative and quantitative experiments prove our proposed Modular-Cam's strong capability of generating multi-scene videos together with its ability to achieve fine-grained control of camera movements. Generated results are available at https://modular-cam.github.io.

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Figure 1. Generated results based on instruction “ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Framework for our proposed Modular-Cam, which contains four modules, i.e., Base Video Generator, CamOpera [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Qualitative comparison between Modular-Cam [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Ablation study on adjusting the color tone, where [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Ablation study on LLM decomposing user instruc [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Videos generated by Modular-Cam, where the user instruction is presented in the corresponding subcaption. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_7.png]

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