SkyReels-A2: Compose Anything in Video Diffusion Transformers
About
This paper presents SkyReels-A2, a controllable video generation framework capable of assembling arbitrary visual elements (e.g., characters, objects, backgrounds) into synthesized videos based on textual prompts while maintaining strict consistency with reference images for each element. We term this task elements-to-video (E2V), whose primary challenges lie in preserving the fidelity of each reference element, ensuring coherent composition of the scene, and achieving natural outputs. To address these, we first design a comprehensive data pipeline to construct prompt-reference-video triplets for model training. Next, we propose a novel image-text joint embedding model to inject multi-element representations into the generative process, balancing element-specific consistency with global coherence and text alignment. We also optimize the inference pipeline for both speed and output stability. Moreover, we introduce a carefully curated benchmark for systematic evaluation, i.e, A2 Bench. Experiments demonstrate that our framework can generate diverse, high-quality videos with precise element control. SkyReels-A2 is the first open-source commercial grade model for the generation of E2V, performing favorably against advanced closed-source commercial models. We anticipate SkyReels-A2 will advance creative applications such as drama and virtual e-commerce, pushing the boundaries of controllable video generation.
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-reference Video Generation | S2VTime | t-L20.268 | 18 | |
| subject-to-video generation | OpenS2V-Eval zero-shot (test) | Total Score52.25 | 16 | |
| Single-ID Video Generation | Single-ID (evaluation) | ID-Sim51.1 | 13 | |
| Image-to-Video Generation | VBench | Motion Smoothness0.96 | 12 | |
| Subject-to-video | OpenS2V Eval | Total Score52.25 | 11 | |
| subject-to-video generation | OpenS2V-Nexus (held-out set of 180 subject-text pairs) | Total Score49.61 | 11 | |
| Compositional Multi-Image-to-Video Generation | IntelligentVBench 1Subject with BKG | IF3.51 | 10 | |
| Compositional Multi-Image-to-Video Generation | IntelligentVBench 2Subjects with BKG | IF Score3.22 | 10 | |
| Compositional Multi-Image-to-Video Generation | IntelligentVBench 3Subjects with BKG | IF1.64 | 10 | |
| Reference-to-Video Generation | OpenS2V-Eval 2025a | Total Score52.25 | 9 |