GEN3C: 3D-Informed World-Consistent Video Generation with Precise Camera
  Control
Authors: name: Xuanchi Ren, name: Tianchang Shen, name: Jiahui Huang, name: Huan Ling, name: Yifan Lu, name: Merlin Nimier-David, name: Thomas Müller, name: Alexander Keller, name: Sanja Fidler, name: Jun Gao

We present GEN3C, a generative video model with precise Camera Control and
temporal 3D Consistency. Prior video models already generate realistic videos,
but they tend to leverage little 3D information, leading to inconsistencies,
such as objects popping in and out of existence. Camera control, if implemented
at all, is imprecise, because camera parameters are mere inputs to the neural
network which must then infer how the video depends on the camera. In contrast,
GEN3C is guided by a 3D cache: point clouds obtained by predicting the
pixel-wise depth of seed images or previously generated frames. When generating
the next frames, GEN3C is conditioned on the 2D renderings of the 3D cache with
the new camera trajectory provided by the user. Crucially, this means that
GEN3C neither has to remember what it previously generated nor does it have to
infer the image structure from the camera pose. The model, instead, can focus
all its generative power on previously unobserved regions, as well as advancing
the scene state to the next frame. Our results demonstrate more precise camera
control than prior work, as well as state-of-the-art results in sparse-view
novel view synthesis, even in challenging settings such as driving scenes and
monocular dynamic video. Results are best viewed in videos. Check out our
webpage! https://research.nvidia.com/labs/toronto-ai/GEN3C/