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Willi Menapace

32 accepted papers

2026

AlphaFlow: Understanding and Improving MeanFlow Models

ICLR 2026poster

MeanFlow has recently emerged as a powerful framework for few-step generative modeling trained from scratch, but its success is not yet fully understood. In this work, we show that the MeanFlow objective naturally decomposes into two parts: trajectory flow matching and trajectory consistency. Throug…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

EasyV2V: A High-quality Instruction-based Video Editing Framework

CVPR 2026

While image editing has advanced rapidly, video editing remains less explored, facing challenges in consistency, control, and generalization.We study the design space of data, architecture, and control, and introduce EasyV2V, a simple and effective framework for instruction-based video editing. On t

Cited by 4SourcecodeScholar
2026

EgoEdit: Dataset, Real-Time Streaming Model, and Benchmark for Egocentric Video Editing

CVPR 2026

We study instruction-guided editing of egocentric videos for interactive AR applications. While recent AI video editors perform well on third-person footage, egocentric views present unique challenges -- including rapid egomotion, and frequent hand-object interactions -- that create a significant do

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Omni-Attribute: Open-vocabulary Attribute Encoder for Visual Concept Personalization

CVPR 2026

Visual concept personalization aims to transfer only specific image attributes, such as identity, expression, lighting, and style, into unseen contexts. However, existing methods rely on holistic embeddings from general-purpose image encoders, which entangle multiple visual factors and make it diffi

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

One Model, Many Budgets: Elastic Latent Interfaces for Diffusion Transformers

CVPR 2026

Diffusion transformers (DiTs) achieve high generative quality but lock FLOPs to image resolution, limiting principled latency-quality trade-offs, and allocate computation uniformly across input spatial tokens, wasting resource allocation to unimportant regions. We introduce Elastic Latent Interface

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

SPRINT: Sparse-Dense Residual Fusion for Efficient Diffusion Transformers

ICLR 2026poster

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) deliver state-of-the-art generative performance but their quadratic training cost with sequence length makes large-scale pretraining prohibitively expensive. Token dropping can reduce training cost, yet naïve strategies degrade representations, and existing methods are…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

4Real-Video: Learning Generalizable Photo-Realistic 4D Video Diffusion

CVPR 2025highlight

We propose 4Real-Video, a novel framework for generating 4D videos, organized as a grid of video frames with both time and viewpoint axes. In this grid, each row contains frames sharing the same timestep, while each column contains frames from the same viewpoint. One stream performs viewpoint updat…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2025

AC3D: Analyzing and Improving 3D Camera Control in Video Diffusion Transformers

CVPR 2025poster

Numerous works have recently integrated 3D camera control into foundational text-to-video models, but the resulting camera control is often imprecise, and video generation quality suffers. In this work, we analyze camera motion from a first principles perspective, uncovering insights that enable pre…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2025

AV-Link: Temporally-Aligned Diffusion Features for Cross-Modal Audio-Video Generation

ICCV 2025poster

We propose AV-Link, a unified framework for Video-to-Audio (A2V) and Audio-to-Video (A2V) generation that leverages the activations of frozen video and audio diffusion models for temporally-aligned cross-modal conditioning. The key to our framework is a Fusion Block that facilitates bidirectional in…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Can Text-to-Video Generation help Video-Language Alignment?

CVPR 2025poster

Recent video-language alignment models are trained on sets of videos, each with an associated positive caption and a negative caption generated by large language models. A problem with this procedure is that negative captions may introduce linguistic biases, i.e., concepts are seen only as negatives…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

DenseDPO: Fine-Grained Temporal Preference Optimization for Video Diffusion Models

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has recently been applied as a post‑training technique for text-to-video diffusion models. To obtain training data, annotators are asked to provide preferences between two videos generated from independent noise. However, this approach prohibits fine-grained comp…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Fused View-Time Attention and Feedforward Reconstruction for 4D Scene Generation

NeurIPS 2025poster

We propose the first framework capable of computing a 4D spatio-temporal grid of video frames and 3D Gaussian particles for each time step using a feed-forward architecture. Our architecture has two main components, a 4D video model and a 4D reconstruction model. In the first part, we analyze curren…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Improving Progressive Generation with Decomposable Flow Matching

NeurIPS 2025poster

Generating high-dimensional visual modalities is a computationally intensive task. A common solution is progressive generation, where the outputs are synthesized in a coarse-to-fine spectral autoregressive manner. While diffusion models benefit from the coarse-to-fine nature of denoising, explicit m…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Improving the Diffusability of Autoencoders

ICML 2025poster

Latent diffusion models have emerged as the leading approach for generating high-quality images and videos, utilizing compressed latent representations to reduce the computational burden of the diffusion process. While recent advancements have primarily focused on scaling diffusion backbones and imp…

2025

Mind the Time: Temporally-Controlled Multi-Event Video Generation

CVPR 2025poster

Real-world videos consist of sequences of events. Generating such sequences with precise temporal control is infeasible with existing video generators that rely on a single paragraph of text as input. When tasked with generating multiple events described using a single prompt, such methods often ign…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2025

Multi-subject Open-set Personalization in Video Generation

CVPR 2025poster

Video personalization methods allow us to synthesize videos with specific concepts such as people, pets, and places. However, existing methods often focus on limited domains, require time-consuming optimization per subject, or support only a single subject. We present Video Alchemist--a video model…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

VD3D: Taming Large Video Diffusion Transformers for 3D Camera Control

ICLR 2025poster

Modern text-to-video synthesis models demonstrate coherent, photorealistic generation of complex videos from a text description. However, most existing models lack fine-grained control over camera movement, which is critical for downstream applications related to content creation, visual effects, an…

Cited by 38SourcePDFScholar
2024

4Real: Towards Photorealistic 4D Scene Generation via Video Diffusion Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Existing dynamic scene generation methods mostly rely on distilling knowledge from pre-trained 3D generative models, which are typically fine-tuned on synthetic object datasets. As a result, the generated scenes are often object-centric and lack photorealism. To address these limitations, we introd…

Cited by 26SourcePDFScholar
2024

AsCAN: Asymmetric Convolution-Attention Networks for Efficient Recognition and Generation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Neural network architecture design requires making many crucial decisions. The common desiderata is that similar decisions, with little modifications, can be reused in a variety of tasks and applications. To satisfy that, architectures must provide promising latency and performance trade-offs, suppo…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2024

Harnessing Large Language Models for Training-free Video Anomaly Detection

CVPR 2024poster

Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to temporally locate abnormal events in a video. Existing works mostly rely on training deep models to learn the distribution of normality with either video-level supervision one-class supervision or in an unsupervised setting. Training-based methods are prone to b…

Cited by 40SourcePDFScholar
2024

Hierarchical Patch Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Video Generation

CVPR 2024poster

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in image and video synthesis. However scaling them to high-resolution inputs is challenging and requires restructuring the diffusion pipeline into multiple independent components limiting scalability and complicating downstream applications.…

2024

Panda-70M: Captioning 70M Videos with Multiple Cross-Modality Teachers

CVPR 2024poster

The quality of the data and annotation upper-bounds the quality of a downstream model. While there exist large text corpora and image-text pairs high-quality video-text data is much harder to collect. First of all manual labeling is more time-consuming as it requires an annotator to watch an entire…

Cited by 190SourcePDFScholar
2024

SF-V: Single Forward Video Generation Model

NeurIPS 2024poster

Diffusion-based video generation models have demonstrated remarkable success in obtaining high-fidelity videos through the iterative denoising process. However, these models require multiple denoising steps during sampling, resulting in high computational costs. In this work, we propose a novel appr…

2024

Snap Video: Scaled Spatiotemporal Transformers for Text-to-Video Synthesis

CVPR 2024highlight

Contemporary models for generating images show remarkable quality and versatility. Swayed by these advantages the research community repurposes them to generate videos. Since video content is highly redundant we argue that naively bringing advances of image models to the video generation domain redu…

Cited by 66SourcePDFScholar
2024

VIMI: Grounding Video Generation through Multi-modal Instruction

EMNLP 2024main

Existing text-to-video diffusion models rely solely on text-only encoders for their pretraining. This limitation stems from the absence of large-scale multimodal prompt video datasets, resulting in a lack of visual grounding and restricting their versatility and application in multimodal integration…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2023

InfiniCity: Infinite-Scale City Synthesis

ICCV 2023poster

Toward infinite-scale 3D city synthesis, we propose a novel framework, InfiniCity, which constructs and renders an unconstrainedly large and 3D-grounded environment from random noises. InfiniCity decomposes the seemingly impractical task into three feasible modules, taking advantage of both 2D and 3…

Cited by 57PDFScholar
2023

Quantum Multi-Model Fitting

CVPR 2023highlight

Geometric model fitting is a challenging but fundamental computer vision problem. Recently, quantum optimization has been shown to enhance robust fitting for the case of a single model, while leaving the question of multi-model fitting open. In response to this challenge, this paper shows that the l…

2023

Unsupervised Volumetric Animation

CVPR 2023poster

We propose a novel approach for unsupervised 3D animation of non-rigid deformable objects. Our method learns the 3D structure and dynamics of objects solely from single-view RGB videos, and can decompose them into semantically meaningful parts that can be tracked and animated. Using a 3D autodecoder…

Cited by 25SourcePDFScholar
2022

Playable Environments: Video Manipulation in Space and Time

CVPR 2022poster

We present Playable Environments - a new representation for interactive video generation and manipulation in space and time. With a single image at inference time, our novel framework allows the user to move objects in 3D while generating a video by providing a sequence of desired actions. The actio…

Cited by 20PDFcodeScholar
2022

Quantum Motion Segmentation

ECCV 2022poster

Motion segmentation is a challenging problem that seeks to identify independent motions in two or several input images. This paper introduces the first algorithm for motion segmentation that relies on adiabatic quantum optimization of the objective function. The proposed method achieves on-par perfo…