EPiC: Efficient Video Camera Control Learning with Precise Anchor-Video Guidance

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21876v1
• Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 01:45:26 GMT
• Title: EPiC: Efficient Video Camera Control Learning with Precise Anchor-Video Guidance
• Authors: Zun Wang, Jaemin Cho, Jialu Li, Han Lin, Jaehong Yoon, Yue Zhang, Mohit Bansal,
• Abstract summary: We introduce EPiC, an efficient and precise camera control learning framework.<n>It constructs high-quality anchor videos without expensive camera trajectory annotations.<n>EPiC achieves SOTA performance on RealEstate10K and MiraData for I2V camera control task.
• Score: 69.40274699401473
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent approaches on 3D camera control in video diffusion models (VDMs) often create anchor videos to guide diffusion models as a structured prior by rendering from estimated point clouds following annotated camera trajectories. However, errors inherent in point cloud estimation often lead to inaccurate anchor videos. Moreover, the requirement for extensive camera trajectory annotations further increases resource demands. To address these limitations, we introduce EPiC, an efficient and precise camera control learning framework that automatically constructs high-quality anchor videos without expensive camera trajectory annotations. Concretely, we create highly precise anchor videos for training by masking source videos based on first-frame visibility. This approach ensures high alignment, eliminates the need for camera trajectory annotations, and thus can be readily applied to any in-the-wild video to generate image-to-video (I2V) training pairs. Furthermore, we introduce Anchor-ControlNet, a lightweight conditioning module that integrates anchor video guidance in visible regions to pretrained VDMs, with less than 1% of backbone model parameters. By combining the proposed anchor video data and ControlNet module, EPiC achieves efficient training with substantially fewer parameters, training steps, and less data, without requiring modifications to the diffusion model backbone typically needed to mitigate rendering misalignments. Although being trained on masking-based anchor videos, our method generalizes robustly to anchor videos made with point clouds during inference, enabling precise 3D-informed camera control. EPiC achieves SOTA performance on RealEstate10K and MiraData for I2V camera control task, demonstrating precise and robust camera control ability both quantitatively and qualitatively. Notably, EPiC also exhibits strong zero-shot generalization to video-to-video scenarios.

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