Control-DINO: Feature Space Conditioning for Controllable Image-to-Video Diffusion

Video models have recently been applied with success to problems in content generation, novel view synthesis, and, more broadly, world simulation. Many applications in generation and transfer rely on conditioning these models, typically through perceptual, geometric, or simple semantic signals, fundamentally using them as generative renderers. At the same time, high-dimensional features obtained from large-scale self-supervised learning on images or point clouds are increasingly used as a general-purpose interface for vision models. The connection between the two has been explored for subject specific editing, aligning and training video diffusion models, but not in the role of a more general conditioning signal for pretrained video diffusion models. Features obtained through self-supervised learning like DINO, contain a lot of entangled information about style, lighting and semantics of the scene. This makes them great at reconstruction tasks but limits their generative capabilities. In this paper, we show how we can use the features for tasks such as video domain transfer and video-from-3D generation. We introduce a lightweight architecture and training strategy that decouples appearance from other features that we wish to preserve, enabling robust control for appearance changes such as stylization and relighting. Furthermore, we show that low spatial resolution can be compensated by higher feature dimensionality, improving controllability in generative rendering from explicit spatial representations.

Scene Generation at Absolute Scale: Utilizing Semantic and Geometric Guidance From Text for Accurate and Interpretable 3D Indoor Scene Generation

We present GuidedSceneGen, a text-to-3D generation framework that produces metrically accurate, globally consistent, and semantically interpretable indoor scenes. Unlike prior text-driven methods that often suffer from geometric drift or scale ambiguity, our approach maintains an absolute world coordinate frame throughout the entire generation process. Starting from a textual scene description, we predict a global 3D layout encoding both semantic and geometric structure, which serves as a guiding proxy for downstream stages. A semantics- and depth-conditioned panoramic diffusion model then synthesizes 360° imagery aligned with the global layout, substantially improving spatial coherence. To explore unobserved regions, we employ a video diffusion model guided by optimized camera trajectories that balances coverage and collision avoidance, achieving up to 10x faster sampling compared to exhaustive path exploration. The generated views are fused using 3D Gaussian Splatting, yielding a consistent and fully navigable 3D scene in absolute scale. GuidedSceneGen enables accurate transfer of object poses and semantic labels from layout to reconstruction, and supports progressive scene expansion without re-alignment. Quantitative results and a user study demonstrate greater 3D consistency and layout plausibility compared to recent panoramic text-to-3D baselines.