Moaw: Unleashing Motion Awareness for Video Diffusion Models

ICLR 2026 Conference Submission4276 Authors

Keywords: Video Diffusion Model; Point Tracking

TL;DR: A framework that bridges generation and understanding in video diffusion models.

Abstract:

Video diffusion models, trained on large-scale datasets, naturally capture correspondences of shared features across frames.
Recent works have exploited this property for tasks such as optical flow prediction and tracking in a zero-shot setting.
Motivated by these findings, we investigate whether supervised training can more fully harness the tracking capability of video diffusion models. To this end, we propose Moaw, a framework that unleashes motion awareness for video diffusion models and leverages it to facilitate motion transfer. Specifically, we train a diffusion model for motion perception, shifting its modality from image-to-video generation to video-to-dense-tracking. We then construct a motion-labeled dataset to identify features that encode the strongest motion information, and inject them into a structurally identical video generation model. Owing to the homogeneity between the two networks, these features can be naturally adapted in a zero-shot manner, enabling motion transfer without additional adapters. Our work provides a new paradigm for bridging generative modeling and motion understanding, paving the way for more unified and controllable video learning frameworks.

Primary Area: applications to computer vision, audio, language, and other modalities

Submission Number: 4276