Identity-Preserving Text-to-Video Generation via Training-Free Prompt, Image, and Guidance Enhancement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01362v1
• Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:03:13 GMT
• Title: Identity-Preserving Text-to-Video Generation via Training-Free Prompt, Image, and Guidance Enhancement
• Authors: Jiayi Gao, Changcheng Hua, Qingchao Chen, Yuxin Peng, Yang Liu,
• Abstract summary: Identity-preserving text-to-video (IPT2V) generation creates videos faithful to both a reference subject image and a text prompt.<n>We introduce a Training-Free Prompt, Image, and Guidance Enhancement framework that bridges the semantic gap between the video description and the reference image.<n>We win first place in the ACM Multimedia 2025 Identity-Preserving Video Generation Challenge.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Identity-preserving text-to-video (IPT2V) generation creates videos faithful to both a reference subject image and a text prompt. While fine-tuning large pretrained video diffusion models on ID-matched data achieves state-of-the-art results on IPT2V, data scarcity and high tuning costs hinder broader improvement. We thus introduce a Training-Free Prompt, Image, and Guidance Enhancement (TPIGE) framework that bridges the semantic gap between the video description and the reference image and design sampling guidance that enhances identity preservation and video quality, achieving performance gains at minimal cost.Specifically, we first propose Face Aware Prompt Enhancement, using GPT-4o to enhance the text prompt with facial details derived from the reference image. We then propose Prompt Aware Reference Image Enhancement, leveraging an identity-preserving image generator to refine the reference image, rectifying conflicts with the text prompt. The above mutual refinement significantly improves input quality before video generation. Finally, we propose ID-Aware Spatiotemporal Guidance Enhancement, utilizing unified gradients to optimize identity preservation and video quality jointly during generation.Our method outperforms prior work and is validated by automatic and human evaluations on a 1000 video test set, winning first place in the ACM Multimedia 2025 Identity-Preserving Video Generation Challenge, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance and strong generality. The code is available at https://github.com/Andyplus1/IPT2V.git.

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