VidCRAFT3: Camera, Object, and Lighting Control for Image-to-Video Generation
This work addresses the need for flexible and accurate image-to-video generation in content creation workflows, particularly for professionals and artists requiring precise control over visual elements.
VidCRAFT3 tackles the problem of controllable image-to-video generation, achieving precise and simultaneous control over camera motion, object motion, and lighting direction, and outperforms existing methods in control precision and visual coherence. The framework integrates three core components and is trained on a newly curated dataset with per-frame lighting-direction labels.
Controllable image-to-video (I2V) generation transforms a reference image into a coherent video guided by user-specified control signals. In content creation workflows, precise and simultaneous control over camera motion, object motion, and lighting direction enhances both accuracy and flexibility. However, existing approaches typically treat these control signals separately, largely due to the scarcity of datasets with high-quality joint annotations and mismatched control spaces across modalities. We present VidCRAFT3, a unified and flexible I2V framework that supports both independent and joint control over camera motion, object motion, and lighting direction by integrating three core components. Image2Cloud reconstructs a 3D point cloud from the reference image to enable precise camera motion control. ObjMotionNet encodes sparse object trajectories into multi-scale optical flow features to guide object motion. The Spatial Triple-Attention Transformer integrates lighting direction embeddings via parallel cross-attention. To address the scarcity of jointly annotated data, we curate the VideoLightingDirection (VLD) dataset of synthetic static-scene video clips with per-frame lighting-direction labels, and adopt a three-stage training strategy that enables robust learning without fully joint annotations. Extensive experiments show that VidCRAFT3 outperforms existing methods in control precision and visual coherence. Code and data will be released. Project page: https://sixiaozheng.github.io/VidCRAFT3/.