Layer-Aware Video Composition via Split-then-Merge

Ozgur Kara, Yujia Chen, Ming-Hsuan Yang, James M. Rehg, Wen-Sheng Chu +1 more
11/25/2025
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We present Split-then-Merge (StM), a novel framework designed to enhance control in generative video composition and address its data scarcity problem. Unlike conventional methods relying on annotated datasets or handcrafted rules, StM splits a large corpus of unlabeled videos into dynamic foreground and background layers, then self-composes them to learn how dynamic subjects interact with diverse scenes. This process enables the model to learn the complex compositional dynamics required for realistic video generation. StM introduces a novel transformation-aware training pipeline that utilizes a multi-layer fusion and augmentation to achieve affordance-aware composition, alongside an identity-preservation loss that maintains foreground fidelity during blending. Experiments show StM outperforms SoTA methods in both quantitative benchmarks and in humans/VLLM-based qualitative evaluations. More details are available at our project page: https://split-then-merge.github.io

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@article{kara2025layeraware,
  title  = {Layer-Aware Video Composition via Split-then-Merge},
  author = {Ozgur Kara and Yujia Chen and Ming-Hsuan Yang and James M. Rehg and Wen-Sheng Chu and Du Tran},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2511.20809},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20809v1}
}

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