arXiv · 2609.39504
PartiCam: Camera Controlled Video Generation with Reward Guidance
Abstract
We present PartiCam, a training-free Particle filtering rooted method for improved Camera controlled video generation. Generating videos that follow a precisely specified camera trajectory remains challenging for large video diffusion models. Training-free approaches are backbone-agnostic and avoid the need to construct large camera-annotated datasets by steering pretrained models toward the desired camera motion at test time. This enables the generation of camera-controlled video data that can subsequently be used to train camera-conditioned video diffusion models. Existing sampling-based guidance approaches often suffer from unstable trajectories: they either explore too broadly and fail to respect the target camera motion or collapse early and lose visual diversity over time. We introduce a global-local refinement framework for diffusion reward guidance, enabling accurate and consistent camera control during video generation. Our method builds on Sequential Monte-Carlo (SMC) guidance, but introduces a local refinement stage based on particle filtered resampling. Experiments show large improvements in camera trajectory adherence, reduced drift, and better visual quality, without requiring model retraining.
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Amine Ouasfi, Runjia Li, Junlin Han, Eric Marchand, Philip H. S. Torr, Adnane Boukhayma. 2026-09-30. PartiCam: Camera Controlled Video Generation with Reward Guidance. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39504
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