# Motion-Conditioned Image Animation for Video Editing

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.18827 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.18827/

## Key facts

- Cited by 26 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 42 of its 44 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 30 Nov 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 42)

- [Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.00020/) (2021)
- [High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10752/) (2021)
- [Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.02502/) (2020)
- [Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.05233/) (2021)
- [Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.06125/) (2022)
- [Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.11487/) (2022)
- [Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.12598/) (2022)
- [Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.05543/) (2023)
- [Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.12092/) (2021)
- [DreamBooth: Fine Tuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Subject-Driven Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.12242/) (2022)
- [InstructPix2Pix: Learning to Follow Image Editing Instructions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.09800/) (2022)
- [Prompt-to-Prompt Image Editing with Cross Attention Control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.01626/) (2022)
- [RAFT: Recurrent All-Pairs Field Transforms for Optical Flow](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.12039/) (2020)
- [An Image is Worth One Word: Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation using Textual Inversion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.01618/) (2022)
- [SDEdit: Guided Image Synthesis and Editing with Stochastic Differential Equations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.01073/) (2021)
- [Imagen Video: High Definition Video Generation with Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.02303/) (2022)
- [Make-A-Video: Text-to-Video Generation without Text-Video Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.14792/) (2022)
- [Align your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.08818/) (2023)
- [T2I-Adapter: Learning Adapters to Dig out More Controllable Ability for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.08453/) (2023)
- [Null-text Inversion for Editing Real Images using Guided Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.09794/) (2022)
- [Imagic: Text-Based Real Image Editing with Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.09276/) (2022)
- [Tune-A-Video: One-Shot Tuning of Image Diffusion Models for Text-to-Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.11565/) (2022)
- [Plug-and-Play Diffusion Features for Text-Driven Image-to-Image Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.12572/) (2022)
- [The Flan Collection: Designing Data and Methods for Effective Instruction Tuning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.13688/) (2023)
- [MasaCtrl: Tuning-Free Mutual Self-Attention Control for Consistent Image Synthesis and Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.08465/) (2023)
- [Muse: Text-To-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.00704/) (2023)
- [Structure and Content-Guided Video Synthesis with Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.03011/) (2023)
- [Phenaki: Variable Length Video Generation From Open Domain Textual Description](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.02399/) (2022)
- [FateZero: Fusing Attentions for Zero-shot Text-based Video Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.09535/) (2023)
- [VideoComposer: Compositional Video Synthesis with Motion Controllability](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.02018/) (2023)

## Built on by (most cited first, 26 of 26)

- [ReVideo: Remake a Video with Motion and Content Control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.13865/) (2024)
- [I2VEdit: First-Frame-Guided Video Editing via Image-to-Video Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.16537/) (2024)
- [UniEdit: A Unified Tuning-Free Framework for Video Motion and Appearance Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.13185/) (2024)
- [Diffusion Model-Based Video Editing: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.07111/) (2024)
- [Video Editing via Factorized Diffusion Distillation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.09334/) (2024)
- [Generative Video Propagation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.19761/) (2024)
- [Generating Multi-Image Synthetic Data for Text-to-Image Customization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.01720/) (2025)
- [Compositional 3D-aware Video Generation with LLM Director](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.00558/) (2024)
- [Survey of Video Diffusion Models: Foundations, Implementations, and Applications](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.16081/) (2025)
- [Learning an Image Editing Model without Image Editing Pairs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.14978/) (2025)
- [Fast Multi-view Consistent 3D Editing with Video Priors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.23172/) (2025)
- [MotiF: Making Text Count in Image Animation with Motion Focal Loss](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.16153/) (2024)
- [VidSketch: Hand-drawn Sketch-Driven Video Generation with Diffusion Control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.01101/) (2025)
- [One missing piece in Vision and Language: A Survey on Comics Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.09502/) (2024)
- [PAI-Studio: Cinematic Video Background Replacement with Camera-Aware Motion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.01399/) (2026)
- [Target-Aware Video Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.18950/) (2025)
- [Evolution of Video Generative Foundations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.06339/) (2026)
- [Reenact Anything: Semantic Video Motion Transfer Using Motion-Textual Inversion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.00458/) (2024)
- [Taming Flow-based I2V Models for Creative Video Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.21917/) (2025)
- [Beyond Generation: Unlocking Universal Editing via Self-Supervised Fine-Tuning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.02114/) (2024)
- [Towards 3D-Aware Video Diffusion Models: Render-Free Human Motion Control with Mesh Tokenization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.02000/) (2026)
- [Edit as You See: Image-guided Video Editing via Masked Motion Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.04325/) (2025)
- [EndoControlMag: Robust Endoscopic Vascular Motion Magnification with Periodic Reference Resetting and Hierarchical Tissue-aware Dual-Mask Control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.15292/) (2025)
- [VRWKV-Editor: Reducing quadratic complexity in transformer-based video editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.25998/) (2025)
- [VIDMP3: Video Editing by Representing Motion with Pose and Position Priors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.12069/) (2025)
- [Joint and Cross-Modal Video-Audio Generation and Editing: A Unified Formulation and Design Taxonomy](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.34381/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We introduce MoCA, a Motion-Conditioned Image Animation approach for video editing. It leverages a simple decomposition of the video editing problem into image editing followed by motion-conditioned image animation. Furthermore, given the lack of robust evaluation datasets for video editing, we introduce a new benchmark that measures edit capability across a wide variety of tasks, such as object replacement, background changes, style changes, and motion edits. We present a comprehensive human evaluation of the latest video editing methods along with MoCA, on our proposed benchmark. MoCA establishes a new state-of-the-art, demonstrating greater human preference win-rate, and outperforming notable recent approaches including Dreamix (63%), MasaCtrl (75%), and Tune-A-Video (72%), with especially significant improvements for motion edits.