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Camera Movement v1updated 2026-09-03

World Models: Camera Movement Benchmark

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This benchmark ranks world and video generation models on whether they can carry out a camera movement stated in plain terms, without referencing the scene, such as moving forward, tilting down or rolling clockwise, starting from a single still image. The rankings are updated continuously from 340,044 votes across 67,988 pairwise human-preference matches. Quality is decomposed into capability dimensions: a fixed, curated prompt set paired with a single criterion, fitted with a Bradley–Terry model on the Elo scale. All data and judgments are public.

1  Methodology

We evaluate generative model performance purely on human feedback. Humans perform inconsistently on absolute judgements, but much better in a comparative setting. Our rating is therefore based on pair-wise matches, the results of which are jointly fit using the Bradley–Terry model where the probability of model m beating model m′ is given by:

P(m ≻ m′) =eβmeβm + eβm′=11 + e−(βm − βm′)(1)

A match pairs outputs from two models for the same prompt. As evaluating all permutations is infeasible, matches are sampled, ensuring broad coverage per model. The resulting scores are scaled to the familiar Elo range via Rm = 400 βm + 1000 (2), which stretches standard Elo by ln 10 ≈ 2.3 to better highlight differences in model capability.

We curated 30 camera-movement instructions across 22 spaces and mixed and matched them into 600 prompts, held fixed to ensure reproducibility of the results.

To ensure trustworthy ratings we employ several measures, notably annotator pre-filtering via gold-standard questions, and redundancy, collecting a minimum of m responses per match (m = 5) and deciding the winner by majority. Read more

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1. Evaluation dimensions
Each prompt in the fixed set is evaluated separately across one dimension. Each vote addresses only one dimension, using the dedicated question shown below.
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Question asked to annotators
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Which video better matches the movement of the top video?
2. Prompt set version
We curated 30 camera-movement instructions across 22 spaces, then mixed and matched them into 600 prompts across 39 categories. The categories cover three things: which of 14 motions a prompt asks for (moves, tilts, turns, rolls and zooms), which of the 22 spaces it takes place in, and how many motions it combines (289 prompts ask for one, 251 for two, 60 for three). The spaces themselves are images found on the internet, not scenes shot or rendered for the benchmark. The set is held fixed, ensuring reproducibility of the results.
3. Model generation protocol
Every model generates from the same input (a source image and a text prompt) using its standard available configuration. Four of the world models also received a camera path (see Public artifacts and limitations). For each entrant, we record the provider, model identifier and generation date. Material changes to the model or generation configuration are evaluated separately.
4. Matchmaking
Matchups are sampled from the full pool, and each ranked model is included in at least 3,200 matches.
5. Judgements
This round aggregates 67,988 matches, each decided by the majority of at least 5 judgements from distinct annotators.
6. Annotator audience
This round was judged by a dedicated audience rather than the global pool. Annotators qualify on gold-standard camera-movement comparisons (pairs whose correct answer is known) and are removed from the audience when their agreement with those falls below an accuracy threshold of 75%.
7. Public artifacts and limitations
The round is published as a Parquet dataset on Hugging Face: one row per matchup, carrying the prompt, both outputs, the weighted score of every dimension and each individual judgement with the annotator’s user score, country, language, gender and age. Four of the world models (Sana WM, Dream X World, Alaya World and Cosmos 3 Nano) also received a camera path: the prompt’s movement written as numbers, which is the input these models use for camera control. Without it, they do not move the camera. All other models received only the source image and the prompt, because none of the commercial video APIs accepts a camera path. The Rapidata team tested adding the same camera path to the commercial models’ prompts as text and saw no improvement. Rankings are human preference judgements from the audience named above, with no automated metrics.

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