Video generators can follow motion without distorting their starting noise

The authors report motion control that preserves the noise distribution expected by video diffusion models, with noise processing 2.7 times faster than a noise-warping baseline.

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Tao Jun Lin · Jinhong Ni · Ruyi Zha · Yifu Wang · Xibin Song · Pan Ji · +1 more

The Australian National University · Vertex Lab · Amazon Inc.

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Illustration: Video generators can follow motion without distorting their starting noise

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HME encodes motion into noise via Householder reflections, exactly preserving spatial Gaussianity and achieving a 2.7x speedup.

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Generating videos that follow a user's motion instructions, like a camera pan, is challenging. Current methods alter the random noise that starts the generation process to reflect the motion, but this distorts the noise's special statistical structure, degrading quality and requiring slow corrections.

We introduce Householder Motion Embedding (HME), which applies a series of mathematical rotations (orthogonal transformations) to the noise at each pixel. These rotations encode the motion without harming the noise's natural Gaussian properties, removing the need for corrections.

In benchmarks, HME matches or surpasses existing motion-control methods in accuracy and quality while achieving a 2.7 times speedup in noise processing. It is a plug-and-play upgrade for any video .

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NOISE WARPINGFlow guidance: Motion guidance fieldFlow guidanceMotion guidance fieldSpatial noise warping: Move noise along motionSpatial noisewarpingMove noise along motionDistribution repair: Restore Gaussian statisticsDistribution repairRestore GaussianstatisticsHOUSEHOLDER MOTION EMBEDDINGmotionguidanceorthogonaltransformsinitialnoiseMotion guidance: From video, camera, or dragMotionguidanceFrom video,camera, or dragHouseholder reflections: Orthogonal channel transformsHouseholderreflectionsOrthogonalchannel…Motion-embedded noise: Gaussian structure preservedMotion-embedded…Gaussianstructure…Video diffusion model: CogVideoX fine-tunedVideodiffusion…CogVideoXfine-tunedNo learnable parameters; fits into standard video diffusion fine-tuning pipelines.
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