MotiMotion: Motion-Controlled Video Generation with Visual Reasoning

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Main Authors: Hsin-Ying, Lee, Jiang, Hanwen, Mei, Yiqun, Shi, Jing, Yang, Ming-Hsuan, Shu, Zhixin
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Published: 2026
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author Hsin-Ying, Lee
Jiang, Hanwen
Mei, Yiqun
Shi, Jing
Yang, Ming-Hsuan
Shu, Zhixin
author_facet Hsin-Ying, Lee
Jiang, Hanwen
Mei, Yiqun
Shi, Jing
Yang, Ming-Hsuan
Shu, Zhixin
contents Current motion-controlled image-to-video generation models rigidly follow user-provided trajectories that are often sparse, imprecise, and causally incomplete. Such reliance often yields unnatural or implausible outcomes, especially by missing secondary causal consequences. To address this, we introduce MotiMotion, a novel framework that reformulates motion control as a reasoning-then-generation problem. To encourage causally grounded and commonsense-consistent interactions, we leverage a training-free vision-language reasoner to refine image-space coordinates of primary trajectories and to hallucinate plausible secondary motions. To further improve motion naturalness, we propose a confidence-aware control scheme that modulates guidance strength, enabling the model to closely follow high-confidence plans while correcting artifacts under low-confidence inputs with its internal generative priors. To support systematic evaluation, we curate a new image-to-video benchmark, MotiBench, consisting of interaction-centric scenes where new events are triggered by motion. Both VLM-based evaluation and a human study on MotiBench demonstrate that MotiMotion produces videos with more plausible object behaviors and interaction, and is preferred over existing approaches.
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spellingShingle MotiMotion: Motion-Controlled Video Generation with Visual Reasoning
Hsin-Ying, Lee
Jiang, Hanwen
Mei, Yiqun
Shi, Jing
Yang, Ming-Hsuan
Shu, Zhixin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Current motion-controlled image-to-video generation models rigidly follow user-provided trajectories that are often sparse, imprecise, and causally incomplete. Such reliance often yields unnatural or implausible outcomes, especially by missing secondary causal consequences. To address this, we introduce MotiMotion, a novel framework that reformulates motion control as a reasoning-then-generation problem. To encourage causally grounded and commonsense-consistent interactions, we leverage a training-free vision-language reasoner to refine image-space coordinates of primary trajectories and to hallucinate plausible secondary motions. To further improve motion naturalness, we propose a confidence-aware control scheme that modulates guidance strength, enabling the model to closely follow high-confidence plans while correcting artifacts under low-confidence inputs with its internal generative priors. To support systematic evaluation, we curate a new image-to-video benchmark, MotiBench, consisting of interaction-centric scenes where new events are triggered by motion. Both VLM-based evaluation and a human study on MotiBench demonstrate that MotiMotion produces videos with more plausible object behaviors and interaction, and is preferred over existing approaches.
title MotiMotion: Motion-Controlled Video Generation with Visual Reasoning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22818