UCM: Unified Modeling of Camera Control and Memory with Time-aware Positional Encoding Warping for World Models
About
World models based on video generation demonstrate remarkable potential for simulating interactive environments yet suffer from persistent difficulties in two key areas: maintaining long-term content consistency when scenes are revisited and enabling precise camera control from user-specified inputs. Existing methods based on explicit 3D reconstruction often compromise flexibility in unbounded scenarios and struggle to preserve fine-grained structures. Alternative methods rely directly on previously generated frames without establishing explicit spatial correspondence, thereby limiting controllability and consistency. To address these limitations, we present UCM, a novel framework for unified modeling of long-term memory and precise camera control via a time-aware positional encoding warping mechanism. To reduce computational overhead, we design an efficient dual-stream diffusion transformer for high-fidelity generation. Moreover, we introduce a scalable data curation strategy that utilizes point-cloud-based rendering to simulate scene revisiting, enabling training on over 500K monocular videos. Extensive experiments on real-world and synthetic benchmarks demonstrate that UCM significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on long-term scene consistency, while achieving precise camera controllability in high-fidelity video generation.
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video Generation | RealEstate10K Long-duration (test) | RotErr (°)2.32 | 8 | |
| Camera-Controllable Video Generation | Realestate10K, Tanks-and-Temples, and Context-as-Memory 5% (test) | Rotation Error1.01 | 5 | |
| Inference Speed Evaluation | long-term video generation evaluation 561-frame | Gen. Time (s/frame)2.4 | 4 |