Natural Language Camera Movement Understanding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.03043v1
• Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:33:28 GMT
• Title: Natural Language Camera Movement Understanding
• Abstract summary: We establish natural language camera movement understanding as a standalone research task.<n>We introduce a two-level cinematographic taxonomy and an extensive, atomic benchmark featuring both real and synthetic videos.<n>Our fine-tuned VLM-8B outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro by 10% and 11% on our benchmark's real and synthetic videos, respectively.
• Score: 25.318138436729452
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Understanding camera movement in natural language is critical for training and evaluating video generation models, among other applications. However, we demonstrate that existing vision-language models (VLMs) fail this task in surprising ways, frequently confusing translation with rotation, left with right, and object movement with camera movement. To address these limitations, we establish natural language camera movement understanding as a standalone research task. We introduce a two-level cinematographic taxonomy and an extensive, atomic benchmark featuring both real and synthetic videos. Furthermore, we curate a large-scale, multi-source training set enhanced by targeted camera movement augmentation. Our fine-tuned VLM-8B outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro by 10% and 11% on our benchmark's real and synthetic videos, respectively. Despite these gains, a significant gap remains relative to human performance, underscoring the need to promote and facilitate future research on natural language camera movement understanding.

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