Precise Action-to-Video Generation Through Visual Action Prompts

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Main Authors: Wang, Yuang, Wen, Chao, Guo, Haoyu, Peng, Sida, Qin, Minghan, Bao, Hujun, Zhou, Xiaowei, Hu, Ruizhen
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author Wang, Yuang
Wen, Chao
Guo, Haoyu
Peng, Sida
Qin, Minghan
Bao, Hujun
Zhou, Xiaowei
Hu, Ruizhen
author_facet Wang, Yuang
Wen, Chao
Guo, Haoyu
Peng, Sida
Qin, Minghan
Bao, Hujun
Zhou, Xiaowei
Hu, Ruizhen
contents We present visual action prompts, a unified action representation for action-to-video generation of complex high-DoF interactions while maintaining transferable visual dynamics across domains. Action-driven video generation faces a precision-generality trade-off: existing methods using text, primitive actions, or coarse masks offer generality but lack precision, while agent-centric action signals provide precision at the cost of cross-domain transferability. To balance action precision and dynamic transferability, we propose to "render" actions into precise visual prompts as domain-agnostic representations that preserve both geometric precision and cross-domain adaptability for complex actions; specifically, we choose visual skeletons for their generality and accessibility. We propose robust pipelines to construct skeletons from two interaction-rich data sources - human-object interactions (HOI) and dexterous robotic manipulation - enabling cross-domain training of action-driven generative models. By integrating visual skeletons into pretrained video generation models via lightweight fine-tuning, we enable precise action control of complex interaction while preserving the learning of cross-domain dynamics. Experiments on EgoVid, RT-1 and DROID demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach. Project page: https://zju3dv.github.io/VAP/.
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spellingShingle Precise Action-to-Video Generation Through Visual Action Prompts
Wang, Yuang
Wen, Chao
Guo, Haoyu
Peng, Sida
Qin, Minghan
Bao, Hujun
Zhou, Xiaowei
Hu, Ruizhen
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
We present visual action prompts, a unified action representation for action-to-video generation of complex high-DoF interactions while maintaining transferable visual dynamics across domains. Action-driven video generation faces a precision-generality trade-off: existing methods using text, primitive actions, or coarse masks offer generality but lack precision, while agent-centric action signals provide precision at the cost of cross-domain transferability. To balance action precision and dynamic transferability, we propose to "render" actions into precise visual prompts as domain-agnostic representations that preserve both geometric precision and cross-domain adaptability for complex actions; specifically, we choose visual skeletons for their generality and accessibility. We propose robust pipelines to construct skeletons from two interaction-rich data sources - human-object interactions (HOI) and dexterous robotic manipulation - enabling cross-domain training of action-driven generative models. By integrating visual skeletons into pretrained video generation models via lightweight fine-tuning, we enable precise action control of complex interaction while preserving the learning of cross-domain dynamics. Experiments on EgoVid, RT-1 and DROID demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach. Project page: https://zju3dv.github.io/VAP/.
title Precise Action-to-Video Generation Through Visual Action Prompts
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13104