Learning to Generate Object Interactions with Physics-Guided Video Diffusion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02284v1
• Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:56:46 GMT
• Title: Learning to Generate Object Interactions with Physics-Guided Video Diffusion
• Authors: David Romero, Ariana Bermudez, Hao Li, Fabio Pizzati, Ivan Laptev,
• Abstract summary: We introduce KineMask, an approach for physics-guided video generation that enables realistic rigid body control, interactions, and effects.<n>We propose a two-stage training strategy that gradually removes future motion supervision via object masks.<n>Experiments show that KineMask achieves strong improvements over recent models of comparable size.
• Score: 28.191514920144456
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent models for video generation have achieved remarkable progress and are now deployed in film, social media production, and advertising. Beyond their creative potential, such models also hold promise as world simulators for robotics and embodied decision making. Despite strong advances, however, current approaches still struggle to generate physically plausible object interactions and lack physics-grounded control mechanisms. To address this limitation, we introduce KineMask, an approach for physics-guided video generation that enables realistic rigid body control, interactions, and effects. Given a single image and a specified object velocity, our method generates videos with inferred motions and future object interactions. We propose a two-stage training strategy that gradually removes future motion supervision via object masks. Using this strategy we train video diffusion models (VDMs) on synthetic scenes of simple interactions and demonstrate significant improvements of object interactions in real scenes. Furthermore, KineMask integrates low-level motion control with high-level textual conditioning via predictive scene descriptions, leading to effective support for synthesis of complex dynamical phenomena. Extensive experiments show that KineMask achieves strong improvements over recent models of comparable size. Ablation studies further highlight the complementary roles of low- and high-level conditioning in VDMs. Our code, model, and data will be made publicly available.

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