# ConMo: Controllable Motion Disentanglement and Recomposition for Zero-Shot Motion Transfer

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02451 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.02451/

## Key facts

- Cited by 12 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 32 of its 39 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 3 Apr 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 32)

- [Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.00020/) (2021)
- [Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.02502/) (2020)
- [SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.00714/) (2024)
- [Make-A-Video: Text-to-Video Generation without Text-Video Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.14792/) (2022)
- [Tune-A-Video: One-Shot Tuning of Image Diffusion Models for Text-to-Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.11565/) (2022)
- [The 2017 DAVIS Challenge on Video Object Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.00675/) (2017)
- [Structure and Content-Guided Video Synthesis with Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.03011/) (2023)
- [MotionCtrl: A Unified and Flexible Motion Controller for Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.03641/) (2023)
- [Sora: A Review on Background, Technology, Limitations, and Opportunities of Large Vision Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.17177/) (2024)
- [VideoComposer: Compositional Video Synthesis with Motion Controllability](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.02018/) (2023)
- [CameraCtrl: Enabling Camera Control for Text-to-Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.02101/) (2024)
- [Lumiere: A Space-Time Diffusion Model for Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.12945/) (2024)
- [Photorealistic Video Generation with Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.06662/) (2023)
- [Show-1: Marrying Pixel and Latent Diffusion Models for Text-to-Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.15818/) (2023)
- [DragNUWA: Fine-grained Control in Video Generation by Integrating Text, Image, and Trajectory](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.08089/) (2023)
- [Motion-I2V: Consistent and Controllable Image-to-Video Generation with Explicit Motion Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.15977/) (2024)
- [Dreamix: Video Diffusion Models are General Video Editors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.01329/) (2023)
- [SparseCtrl: Adding Sparse Controls to Text-to-Video Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.16933/) (2023)
- [Direct-a-Video: Customized Video Generation with User-Directed Camera Movement and Object Motion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.03162/) (2024)
- [AnyV2V: A Tuning-Free Framework For Any Video-to-Video Editing Tasks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.14468/) (2024)
- [Space-Time Diffusion Features for Zero-Shot Text-Driven Motion Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.17009/) (2023)
- [RAVE: Randomized Noise Shuffling for Fast and Consistent Video Editing with Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.04524/) (2023)
- [MotionClone: Training-Free Motion Cloning for Controllable Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.05338/) (2024)
- [VMC: Video Motion Customization using Temporal Attention Adaption for Text-to-Video Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.00845/) (2023)
- [I2V-Adapter: A General Image-to-Video Adapter for Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.16693/) (2023)
- [MotionEditor: Editing Video Motion via Content-Aware Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.18830/) (2023)
- [CVPR 2023 Text Guided Video Editing Competition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.16003/) (2023)
- [MotionMaster: Training-free Camera Motion Transfer For Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.15789/) (2024)
- [Spectral Motion Alignment for Video Motion Transfer using Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.15249/) (2024)
- [Boosting Camera Motion Control for Video Diffusion Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.10802/) (2024)

## Built on by (most cited first, 12 of 12)

- [CineTechBench: A Benchmark for Cinematographic Technique Understanding and Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.15145/) (2025)
- [RoPECraft: Training-Free Motion Transfer with Trajectory-Guided RoPE Optimization on Diffusion Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.13344/) (2025)
- [Open-Vocabulary HOI Detection with Interaction-aware Prompt and Concept Calibration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.03207/) (2025)
- [Identity-Preserving Text-to-Video Generation via Training-Free Prompt, Image, and Guidance Enhancement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.01362/) (2025)
- [Taming I2V models for Image HOI Editing: A Cognitive Benchmark and Agentic Self-Correcting Framework](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.19073/) (2026)
- [Interact-Custom: Customized Human Object Interaction Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.19575/) (2025)
- [IM-Animation: An Implicit Motion Representation for Identity-decoupled Character Animation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.07498/) (2026)
- [MotionGrounder: Grounded Multi-Object Motion Transfer via Diffusion Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.00853/) (2026)
- [Controlling Motion Transfer in Diffusion Transformers via Attention Heads](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.11081/) (2026)
- [Motion Beyond Morphology: Bootstrapping Cross-Category Motion Transfer from Abstract Motion Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.01628/) (2026)
- [KeyID: Decoupled Drafting and Keyframe Editing for Identity-Preserving Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.16154/) (2026)
- [Identity-Preserving Text-to-Video Generation via Agentic Enhancement and Semantic Repair](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.20749/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The development of Text-to-Video (T2V) generation has made motion transfer possible, enabling the control of video motion based on existing footage. However, current methods have two limitations: 1) struggle to handle multi-subjects videos, failing to transfer specific subject motion; 2) struggle to preserve the diversity and accuracy of motion as transferring to subjects with varying shapes. To overcome these, we introduce ConMo, a zero-shot framework that disentangle and recompose the motions of subjects and camera movements. ConMo isolates individual subject and background motion cues from complex trajectories in source videos using only subject masks, and reassembles them for target video generation. This approach enables more accurate motion control across diverse subjects and improves performance in multi-subject scenarios. Additionally, we propose soft guidance in the recomposition stage which controls the retention of original motion to adjust shape constraints, aiding subject shape adaptation and semantic transformation. Unlike previous methods, ConMo unlocks a wide range of applications, including subject size and position editing, subject removal, semantic modifications, and camera motion simulation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ConMo significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in motion fidelity and semantic consistency. The code is available at https://github.com/Andyplus1/ConMo.