Any2Caption:Interpreting Any Condition to Caption for Controllable Video Generation

Shengqiong Wu, WeicaiYe, Jiahao Wang, Quande Liu, Xintao Wang, magicwpf, Di Zhang, Kun Gai, shuicheng yan, Hao Fei, Tat-Seng Chua

Any2Caption:Interpreting Any Condition to Caption for Controllable Video Generation: 70 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers, #1 of 29 papers on 2025-04-02. Day-by-day upvote history. It lost 7 votes when the Hub removed votes in bulk.

To address the bottleneck of accurate user intent interpretation within the current video generation community, we present Any2Caption, a novel framework for controllable video generation under any condition. The key idea is to decouple various condition interpretation steps from the video synthesis step. By leveraging modern multimodal large language models (MLLMs), Any2Caption interprets diverse inputs--text, images, videos, and specialized cues such as region, motion, and camera poses--into dense, structured captions that offer backbone video generators with better guidance. We also introduce Any2CapIns, a large-scale dataset with 337K instances and 407K conditions for any-condition-to-caption instruction tuning. Comprehensive evaluations demonstrate significant improvements of our system in controllability and video quality across various aspects of existing video generation models. Project Page: https://sqwu.top/Any2Cap/

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