Frame In-N-Out: Unbounded Controllable Image-to-Video Generation

Boyang Wang, Xuweiyi Chen, Matheus Gadelha, Zezhou Cheng

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS 2025) Main Conference Track

Controllability, temporal coherence, and detail synthesis remain the most critical challenges in video generation. In this paper, we focus on a commonly used yet underexplored cinematic technique known as Frame In and Frame Out. Specifically, starting from image-to-video generation, users can control the objects in the image to naturally leave the scene or provide breaking new identity references to enter the scene, guided by a user-specified motion trajectory. To support this task, we introduce a new dataset that is curated semi-automatically, an efficient identity-preserving motion-controllable video Diffusion Transformer architecture, and a comprehensive evaluation protocol targeting this task. Our evaluation shows that our proposed approach significantly outperforms existing baselines.