Unveiling the Value of Motion for Cinematic Camera Trajectories
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arXiv:2609.38683v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cinematic camera motion is a fundamental storytelling tool, defined not only by where the camera is positioned in the scene, but also by how it moves in terms of direction and speed. Recent work on camera trajectory generation and alignment to text relies on pose-centric representations. While in principle a network could derive direction of movement and speed, we find that in practice this might not happen. In fact, in this paper we discover that decomposing the camera trajectory representation from the traditional per-frame poses to direction
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.38683v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cinematic camera motion is a fundamental storytelling tool, defined not only by where the camera is positioned in the scene, but also by how it moves in terms of direction and speed.
- Recent work on camera trajectory generation and alignment to text relies on pose-centric representations.
- While in principle a network could derive direction of movement and speed, we find that in practice this might not happen.
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