CameraVLM: 9B model cracks camera-motion understanding where most VLMs flip coins

tencent · hf · 2026-10-16

A HKUST-GZ, Tencent and LIX paper shows most VLMs perform no better than a coin flip at telling whether the camera moved left or right. CameraVLM pairs motion-state tokens (off-screen camera movement) with flow tokens (on-screen dynamics) under state–language alignment training. At only 9B parameters it beats all open-source and camera-motion-specific models across 3 benchmarks and 20+ baselines, matching or surpassing GPT-6 Astra and humans in a 48-participant study. Project page: 3dagentworld.github.io/CameraVLM

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