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Researchers have developed GroundShot, a new framework for generating long videos with multiple scenes while maintaining visual consistency of characters, objects, and locations across scenes. The system works by building a visual memory of entities from previously generated shots, strategically ordering shot generation based on their usefulness as references, and verifying the reliability of entities before storing them in memory. Testing on their new GroundBench benchmark shows that GroundShot improves consistency in multi-shot videos compared to existing methods without requiring additional model training.
Why it matters
This advancement addresses a major limitation in AI video generation—maintaining consistent appearance of characters and objects across longer videos with multiple scenes. The training-free approach could enable more practical applications in film production, advertising, and content creation where visual consistency is essential.
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arXiv:2606.20799v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Generating visually consistent multi-shot videos remains an open challenge. As videos span more shots, inconsistencies can accumulate across shots, causing entities that reappear across shots — characters, objects, and locations — to drift away from how they first appear. We observe that viewers judge consistency by comparing each later appearance of an entity with its first clear appearance; the visual quality of this initial appearance sets the consistency ceiling for all that follows. Motivated by this, we present textbf{GroundShot}, a training-free, model-agnostic agentic framework for entity-grounded multi-shot generation. GroundShot builds an entity-level visual memory online from accepted generated shots: it schedules shots’ generation order by their expected usefulness as entity references, grounds entities from generated videos, verifies their reliability before adding them to memory, and retrieves suitable entity references from memory before each shot is generated. To evaluate this entity-centered view of consistency, we further introduce textbf{GroundBench}, a diagnostic benchmark that measures consistency at the entity level while isolating controlled challenge dimensions. Experiments show that GroundShot improves multi-shot consistency over existing methods while requiring no additional training or model modification.
Source: GroundShot: Visually Consistent Multi-Shot Long Video Generation via Entity-Grounded Shot Scheduling