CRePE: Curved Ray Expectation Positional Encoding for Unified-Camera-Controlled Video Generation

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Hauptverfasser: Jin, Seonghyun, Kim, Youngmin, Park, Sunwoo, Ye, Jong Chul
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author Jin, Seonghyun
Kim, Youngmin
Park, Sunwoo
Ye, Jong Chul
author_facet Jin, Seonghyun
Kim, Youngmin
Park, Sunwoo
Ye, Jong Chul
contents Camera-conditioned video generation requires positional encoding that remains reliable under changes in camera motion, lens configuration, and scene structure. However, existing attention-level camera encodings either provide ray-only camera signals or rely on pinhole camera geometry, limiting their applicability to general camera control under the Unified Camera Model, including wide-angle and fisheye lenses. To address this limitation, we propose Curved Ray Expectation Positional Encoding (CRePE). CRePE represents each image token as a depth-aware positional distribution along its source ray, providing a Unified Camera Model-compatible positional encoding that captures the projected-path geometry induced by wide-angle and fisheye cameras. CRePE is implemented through a Geometric Attention Adapter added to frozen video DiTs, injecting token-wise scene-distance information into selected attention layers and stabilizing it with pseudo supervision from a monocular geometry foundation model. This design leads to more stable camera control and improves several geometry-aware and perceptual-quality metrics, while remaining competitive on video-quality metrics. Controlled positional-encoding ablations show a better overall average rank than a RayRoPE-style endpoint PE baseline, demonstrating the effectiveness of UCM-aware projected-path integration across diverse camera models. Furthermore, by extending the same positional-encoding pathway to external geometry control through Radial MixForcing, CRePE supports external radial-map control for scene-geometry-conditioned generation and source-video motion transfer beyond camera control.
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spellingShingle CRePE: Curved Ray Expectation Positional Encoding for Unified-Camera-Controlled Video Generation
Jin, Seonghyun
Kim, Youngmin
Park, Sunwoo
Ye, Jong Chul
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Camera-conditioned video generation requires positional encoding that remains reliable under changes in camera motion, lens configuration, and scene structure. However, existing attention-level camera encodings either provide ray-only camera signals or rely on pinhole camera geometry, limiting their applicability to general camera control under the Unified Camera Model, including wide-angle and fisheye lenses. To address this limitation, we propose Curved Ray Expectation Positional Encoding (CRePE). CRePE represents each image token as a depth-aware positional distribution along its source ray, providing a Unified Camera Model-compatible positional encoding that captures the projected-path geometry induced by wide-angle and fisheye cameras. CRePE is implemented through a Geometric Attention Adapter added to frozen video DiTs, injecting token-wise scene-distance information into selected attention layers and stabilizing it with pseudo supervision from a monocular geometry foundation model. This design leads to more stable camera control and improves several geometry-aware and perceptual-quality metrics, while remaining competitive on video-quality metrics. Controlled positional-encoding ablations show a better overall average rank than a RayRoPE-style endpoint PE baseline, demonstrating the effectiveness of UCM-aware projected-path integration across diverse camera models. Furthermore, by extending the same positional-encoding pathway to external geometry control through Radial MixForcing, CRePE supports external radial-map control for scene-geometry-conditioned generation and source-video motion transfer beyond camera control.
title CRePE: Curved Ray Expectation Positional Encoding for Unified-Camera-Controlled Video Generation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12938