Versatile Transition Generation with Image-to-Video Diffusion

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Main Authors: Yang, Zuhao, Zhang, Jiahui, Yu, Yingchen, Lu, Shijian, Bai, Song
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Published: 2025
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author Yang, Zuhao
Zhang, Jiahui
Yu, Yingchen
Lu, Shijian
Bai, Song
author_facet Yang, Zuhao
Zhang, Jiahui
Yu, Yingchen
Lu, Shijian
Bai, Song
contents Leveraging text, images, structure maps, or motion trajectories as conditional guidance, diffusion models have achieved great success in automated and high-quality video generation. However, generating smooth and rational transition videos given the first and last video frames as well as descriptive text prompts is far underexplored. We present VTG, a Versatile Transition video Generation framework that can generate smooth, high-fidelity, and semantically coherent video transitions. VTG introduces interpolation-based initialization that helps preserve object identity and handle abrupt content changes effectively. In addition, it incorporates dual-directional motion fine-tuning and representation alignment regularization to mitigate the limitations of pre-trained image-to-video diffusion models in motion smoothness and generation fidelity, respectively. To evaluate VTG and facilitate future studies on unified transition generation, we collected TransitBench, a comprehensive benchmark for transition generation covering two representative transition tasks: concept blending and scene transition. Extensive experiments show that VTG achieves superior transition performance consistently across all four tasks.
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spellingShingle Versatile Transition Generation with Image-to-Video Diffusion
Yang, Zuhao
Zhang, Jiahui
Yu, Yingchen
Lu, Shijian
Bai, Song
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Leveraging text, images, structure maps, or motion trajectories as conditional guidance, diffusion models have achieved great success in automated and high-quality video generation. However, generating smooth and rational transition videos given the first and last video frames as well as descriptive text prompts is far underexplored. We present VTG, a Versatile Transition video Generation framework that can generate smooth, high-fidelity, and semantically coherent video transitions. VTG introduces interpolation-based initialization that helps preserve object identity and handle abrupt content changes effectively. In addition, it incorporates dual-directional motion fine-tuning and representation alignment regularization to mitigate the limitations of pre-trained image-to-video diffusion models in motion smoothness and generation fidelity, respectively. To evaluate VTG and facilitate future studies on unified transition generation, we collected TransitBench, a comprehensive benchmark for transition generation covering two representative transition tasks: concept blending and scene transition. Extensive experiments show that VTG achieves superior transition performance consistently across all four tasks.
title Versatile Transition Generation with Image-to-Video Diffusion
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01698