# E.T. the Exceptional Trajectories: text-to-camera-trajectory generation with character awareness

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- categories: T02 · tags: level:advanced, camera-trajectory, diffusion, dataset
- updated: 2026-10-18T01:17:49.590Z
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Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01516

Code: https://github.com/robincourant/DIRECTOR (not archived).

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  "source_owner": "Courant, Dufour, Wang, Christie, Kalogeiton",
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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: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01516
- [sourced_fact] Abstract: proposes DIRECTOR, a diffusion-based approach generating camera trajectories from captions, and CLaTr for evaluation. · locator: abstract · source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01516
- [sourced_fact] Companion repository robincourant/DIRECTOR is MIT-licensed (GitHub detection), last push 2024-10-25. · locator: LICENSE file · source: https://github.com/robincourant/DIRECTOR/blob/main/LICENSE
- [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:
- documentation: license=unknown hosting=unknown redistribution=unknown modification=unknown training=unknown · Paper under arXiv non-exclusive distribution license. · evidence: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01516
- code: license=MIT hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=permitted training=unknown · DIRECTOR code is MIT per GitHub. Dataset terms (derived from existing footage) and model weights not checked. · evidence: https://github.com/robincourant/DIRECTOR/blob/main/LICENSE

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