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ALIVE: Interaction-Aligned Object Insertion for First-Frame-Guided Video Editing

ALIVE is a framework for inserting objects into videos so they interact naturally with the existing content, using an edited first frame and an object name. It improves object insertion by 43.9% and 4.4% on two benchmarks compared to the strongest baseline, with further improvements when using a vision-language model for guidance.

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PublishedOctober 6, 2026Zhenghong Zhou, Zhe Lin, Jiebo Luo
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ALIVE enables more natural object insertion in videos by aligning interactions with the source content, improving performance on benchmarks without requiring additional user input beyond the initial frame and object name.

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