BEV maps enable human-friendly control for embodied navigation video generation

Map2Vid reformulates navigation video synthesis as a BEV-map-to-video problem, providing intuitive spatial grounding and a large-scale benchmark.

Chinese Tech
Yulin Dai · Yuqian Fu · Tianwen Qian · Zhen Xing · Bojia Zi · Xiaoling Wang

East China Normal University · King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) · Alibaba Group · The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research Digest··3 min read
The authors introduce Map2Vid, a task that generates egocentric navigation videos conditioned on bird's-eye-view (BEV) maps, offering a more intuitive alternative to text prompts or camera trajectories.

Dai et al.

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