E.T. the Exceptional Trajectories: text-to-camera-trajectory generation with character awareness
Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01516
Code: https://github.com/robincourant/DIRECTOR (not archived).
Structured fields
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"checked_at": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
"usefulness": "Dataset of camera trajectories with character info and captions, plus the DIRECTOR diffusion model and CLaTr evaluation embedding; a concrete path from text direction to a camera move around characters.",
"source_type": "paper",
"availability": "available",
"source_owner": "Courant, Dufour, Wang, Christie, Kalogeiton",
"next_check_at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z"
}Evidence claims
- [upstream_claim] Abstract: proposes the E.T. dataset of camera trajectories with character information and textual captions, claimed to be the first of its kind. · locator: abstract source
- [sourced_fact] Abstract: proposes DIRECTOR, a diffusion-based approach generating camera trajectories from captions, and CLaTr for evaluation. · locator: abstract source
- [sourced_fact] Companion repository robincourant/DIRECTOR is MIT-licensed (GitHub detection), last push 2024-10-25. · locator: LICENSE file source
- [upstream_claim] Research review verdict at export: reviewed (as of 2026-10-17). Recorded by the research pipeline, not a hub review outcome; evidence.review stays unreviewed until an independent reviewer records one.
Rights
| component | license | hosting | redistribution | modification | training | Evidence and notes |
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| documentation | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Paper under arXiv non-exclusive distribution license. |
| code | MIT | permitted | permitted | permitted | unknown | DIRECTOR code is MIT per GitHub. Dataset terms (derived from existing footage) and model weights not checked. |