Regional Anchor Routing for Multi-Object Motion Transfer
Compositional motion transfer requires a model to extract motions from multiple reference videos, and apply each motion to a user-specified object in one target scene. Existing methods normally struggle to reliably assign different reference motions to the correct target objects, thus a motion intended for one object may affect another. Meanwhile, some motion-specific tuning approaches are still facing another issue: they must run a new optimization whenever the reference video changes, making repeated transfers inefficient. To address these limitations, we propose RART, a framework that unifies object-wise motion extraction, target-region anchoring, and frame-aligned injection into a frozen video Diffusion Transformer for multi-object motion transfer. For each reference motion, RART extracts temporally ordered features from the masked reference video, and then conditions them on the target first-frame mask to form mask-anchored motion tokens. Frame-aligned motion cross-attention allows each generated frame to read only the motion tokens at the corresponding time slots, composing all object motions in one denoising process. During training, a motion-attention routing loss encourages each target region to attend to its corresponding motion tokens and reduces interference between objects. Therefore, RART can handle novel reference-target combinations without per-video optimization. Experiments show that RART achieves accurate motion preservation, efficient inference, and strong compositional generalization.
Authors
- Xinlong Sun
- Fuchen Long (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0818-0985)
- Yuze Li
- Cheng Yan
- Xinyu Zhang
- Xi Chen
Publication Details
- Journal
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Published
- 2026-10-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2610.39478
- Primary Topic
- Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
- Type
- preprint