ResearchResearch paperRobotics & Embodied AI · Image, Video & 3D Generation1 source · Oct 20, 2026

HorizonComposer: Spatiotemporally Consistent Driving Video Editing with Enriched Traffic Semantics

Instruction-guided video generative models offer a scalable solution for stress-testing autonomous driving systems by simulating diverse environmental conditions.

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  • However, driving scenes operate within a dense Operational Design Domain (ODD) governed by strict traffic semantics.
  • First, we construct a hybrid dataset by combining temporally aligned real-world videos with synthetic edits, balancing foundational scene structure with unambiguous appearance signals.
  • Finally, our model mitigates temporal shock by introducing thinking frames, a transition mechanism that seamlessly reconciles static image conditioning with dynamic video context.
  • Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method prevents the corruption of multi-actor dynamics, establishing state-of-the-art spatiotemporal consistency, yielding consistent user preference (39% relative improvement in content preservation and 12% in temporal consistency), and achieving a significant 5% gain in downstream road line segmentation and 7% gain in downstream multi-object detection.

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