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Motion-Zero: Zero-Shot Moving Object Control Framework for Diffusion-Based Video Generation

arXiv 2401.10150 ↗First posted 18 Jan 2024cs.CVcited by 25

On the map: Diffusion models → Video generation

Abstract (arXiv)

Recent large-scale pre-trained diffusion models have demonstrated a powerful generative ability to produce high-quality videos from detailed text descriptions. However, exerting control over the motion of objects in videos generated by any video diffusion model is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a novel zero-shot moving object trajectory control framework, Motion-Zero, to enable a bounding-box-trajectories-controlled text-to-video diffusion model. To this end, an initial noise prior module is designed to provide a position-based prior to improve the stability of the appearance of the moving object and the accuracy of position. In addition, based on the attention map of the U-net, spatial constraints are directly applied to the denoising process of diffusion models, which further ensures the positional and spatial consistency of moving objects during the inference. Furthermore, temporal consistency is guaranteed with a proposed shift temporal attention mechanism. Our method can be flexibly applied to various state-of-the-art video diffusion models without any training process. Extensive experiments demonstrate our proposed method can control the motion trajectories of objects and generate high-quality videos. Our project page is https://vpx-ecnu.github.io/MotionZero-website/

Key facts. Cited by 25 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Video generation, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 25 of its 28 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 18 Jan 2024.

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  1. 2023TrailBlazer: Trajectory Control for Diffusion-Based Video Generation31 Dec
  2. 2023Stable Video Diffusion: Scaling Latent Video Diffusion Models to Large Datasets25 Nov
  3. 2023VideoCrafter1: Open Diffusion Models for High-Quality Video Generation30 Oct
  4. 2023Show-1: Marrying Pixel and Latent Diffusion Models for Text-to-Video Generation27 Sep
  5. 2023ModelScope Text-to-Video Technical Report12 Aug
  6. 2023AnimateDiff: Animate Your Personalized Text-to-Image Diffusion Models without Specific Tuning10 Jul
  7. 2022Tune-A-Video: One-Shot Tuning of Image Diffusion Models for Text-to-Video Generation22 Dec
  8. 2022MagicVideo: Efficient Video Generation With Latent Diffusion Models20 Nov
  9. 2022Imagen Video: High Definition Video Generation with Diffusion Models5 Oct

Other references · 16

  1. 2020Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Modelscited by 20,851
  2. 2021High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 18,694
  3. 2020Denoising Diffusion Implicit Modelscited by 9,655
  4. 2021Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesiscited by 8,185
  5. 2023Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Modelscited by 5,466
  6. 2017mixup: Beyond Empirical Risk Minimizationcited by 5,155
  7. 2021CLIPScore: A Reference-free Evaluation Metric for Image Captioningcited by 2,388
  8. 2022Make-A-Video: Text-to-Video Generation without Text-Video Datacited by 1,725
  9. 2021Frozen in Time: A Joint Video and Image Encoder for End-to-End Retrievalcited by 1,175
  10. 2023Pick-a-Pic: An Open Dataset of User Preferences for Text-to-Image Generationcited by 950
  11. 2023MotionCtrl: A Unified and Flexible Motion Controller for Video Generationcited by 568
  12. 2023VideoComposer: Compositional Video Synthesis with Motion Controllabilitycited by 461
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  1. 2023Diffusion Self-Guidance for Controllable Image Generationcited by 305
  2. 2023BoxDiff: Text-to-Image Synthesis with Training-Free Box-Constrained Diffusioncited by 280
  3. 2023DragNUWA: Fine-grained Control in Video Generation by Integrating Text, Image, and Trajectorycited by 260
  4. 2021Advancing High-Resolution Video-Language Representation with Large-Scale Video Transcriptionscited by 226

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  1. 2024Motion-I2V: Consistent and Controllable Image-to-Video Generation with Explicit Motion Modelingcited by 209
  2. 2024CamI2V: Camera-Controlled Image-to-Video Diffusion Modelcited by 115
  3. 2024MotionBooth: Motion-Aware Customized Text-to-Video Generationcited by 92
  4. 20244Real: Towards Photorealistic 4D Scene Generation via Video Diffusion Modelscited by 64
  5. 2025RealCam-I2V: Real-World Image-to-Video Generation with Interactive Complex Camera Controlcited by 54
  6. 2024DreamVideo-2: Zero-Shot Subject-Driven Video Customization with Precise Motion Controlcited by 42
  7. 2025Free-Form Motion Control: Controlling the 6D Poses of Camera and Objects in Video Generationcited by 15
  8. 2024EasyControl: Transfer ControlNet to Video Diffusion for Controllable Generation and Interpolationcited by 12
  9. 2024Animate Your Motion: Turning Still Images into Dynamic Videoscited by 10
  10. 2025AniCrafter: Customizing Realistic Human-Centric Animation via Avatar-Background Conditioning in Video Diffusion Modelscited by 10
  11. 2025SmartSight: Mitigating Hallucination in Video-LLMs Without Compromising Video Understanding via Temporal Attention Collapsecited by 9
  12. 2024CinePreGen: Camera Controllable Video Previsualization via Engine-powered Diffusioncited by 7
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  1. 20253D Object Manipulation in a Single Image using Generative Modelscited by 7
  2. 2024Reenact Anything: Semantic Video Motion Transfer Using Motion-Textual Inversioncited by 6
  3. 2025LiON-LoRA: Rethinking LoRA Fusion to Unify Controllable Spatial and Temporal Generation for Video Diffusioncited by 6
  4. 2026Evolution of Video Generative Foundationscited by 6
  5. 2025DiTraj: training-free trajectory control for video diffusion transformercited by 5
  6. 2026DreamVideo-Omni: Omni-Motion Controlled Multi-Subject Video Customization with Latent Identity Reinforcement Learningcited by 4
  7. 2024StarVid: Enhancing Semantic Alignment in Video Diffusion Models via Spatial and SynTactic Guided Attention Refocusingcited by 3
  8. 2025What Are You Doing? A Closer Look at Controllable Human Video Generationcited by 3
  9. 2025LMP: Leveraging Motion Prior in Zero-Shot Video Generation with Diffusion Transformercited by 3
  10. 2025Interactive Video Generation via Domain Adaptationcited by 0
  11. 2026When to Lock Attention: Training-Free KV Control in Video Diffusioncited by 0
  12. 2026Making Video Models Adhere to User Intent with Minor Adjustmentscited by 0
  13. 2026TrajLoc: Trajectory-Attention Localization for Multi-Object Motion Controlcited by 0

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  2. 2024FreeTraj: Tuning-Free Trajectory Control in Video Diffusion Models
  3. 2026QWERTY: Training-Free Motion Control via Query-Warped Video Diffusion Transformers
  4. 2024Controllable Longer Image Animation with Diffusion Models
  5. 2024Investigating the Effectiveness of Cross-Attention to Unlock Zero-Shot Editing of Text-to-Video Diffusion Models
  6. 2023Text2Video-Zero: Text-to-Image Diffusion Models are Zero-Shot Video Generators
  7. 2023Control-A-Video: Controllable Text-to-Video Diffusion Models with Motion Prior and Reward Feedback Learning
  8. 2023AnimateZero: Video Diffusion Models are Zero-Shot Image Animators