| --- |
| license: mit |
| task_categories: |
| - video-to-video |
| tags: |
| - physics |
| - video-editing |
| - benchmark |
| - rigid-body |
| - simulation |
| - arxiv:2609.35134 |
| pretty_name: PCVE-RigidBench |
| size_categories: |
| - n<1K |
| --- |
| |
| # PCVE-RigidBench |
|
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| [](https://github.com/Hammour-steak/PCVE-RigidBench) |
| [](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35134) |
|
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| Physics Counterfactual Video Editing benchmark. 20 scenes, |
| 20 source videos, 129 edit tasks. |
|
|
| Introduced in [VideoPhysEdit: Physical Counterfactual Video Editing via |
| Rigid-Body Physical Scene Reconstruction](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35134). |
|
|
| ## Layout |
| - `benchmark_manifest.json`: flat index of every source + edit; the |
| authoritative record. Every field the evaluator needs (prompts, |
| physics_diff, edit_summary, video/gt paths) is inlined here. |
| - `scenes/{scene}/cases/{case_id}/`: |
| - `video.mp4` -- the source (in the baseline case) or edited render. |
| - `prompts.json` -- redundant with the top-level manifest; kept |
| per-case so an evaluator that iterates directories has everything |
| local. |
| - `ground_truth_transforms.json` -- per-frame world matrices, |
| linear/angular velocities and any object-specific quality metrics |
| the physics sim produced. Use these for physics-consistency |
| metrics; skip them if you are only doing pixel/perceptual eval. |
| - `thumbnails/{scene}/{case_id}.jpg`: mid-frame preview per case. |
| - `splits/all.txt`: every edit's `global_id`, one per line. |
| - `splits/by_property/`: same, bucketed by the edited property (mass / |
| friction / restitution / initial_velocity / presence for DELETE and ADD |
| edits, which both move an object along the present/absent axis). |
| - `splits/by_timing/`: same, bucketed by when the edit takes effect -- |
| `whole_clip.txt` for edits that hold from the first frame, and |
| `partway.txt` for edits that land at `applies_from_frame`, where the |
| frames before it are supposed to match the source video exactly. |
| |
| ## Prompts |
| Each edit has 4 flavors under `prompts`: |
| - `vague.zh` / `vague.en`: direction-only ("调大一点" / "Decrease X"). |
| - `quantitative.zh` / `quantitative.en`: includes `from` and `to` numbers. |
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| Every prompt opens by saying when the edit takes effect, because that is |
| part of the instruction: "From frame 1 onwards" / "From the start of the |
| clip" for the whole-clip edits, and "From frame 22 onwards" / "Early in |
| the clip" for one that lands partway through. `applies_from_frame` in the |
| manifest is the same fact in machine-readable form. |
|
|
| ## Task |
| Given (`source_video`, prompt), generate a video that matches |
| `edited_video`. Compare against `ground_truth_transforms.json` for |
| per-frame object trajectories, or against `edited_video` for pixel / |
| perceptual metrics. |
|
|
| ## Counts |
| - Edits by kind: {'ADD': 7, 'DELETE': 30, 'SET': 92} |
| - Edits by timing: {'partway': 12, 'whole_clip': 117} |
| - Edits by property: {'friction': 21, 'initial_velocity': 26, 'mass': 32, 'presence': 37, 'restitution': 13} |
|
|
| ## Citation |
| If you use this benchmark, please cite: |
|
|
| ```bibtex |
| @misc{yue2026videophysedit, |
| title={VideoPhysEdit: Physical Counterfactual Video Editing via Rigid-Body Physical Scene Reconstruction}, |
| author={Conghan Yue and Yuanjie Chen and Yue Han and Ya Gao and Yunyan Xiao and WeiYao Zhang and Zhineng Chen}, |
| year={2026}, |
| eprint={2609.35134}, |
| archivePrefix={arXiv}, |
| primaryClass={cs.CV}, |
| url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35134}, |
| } |
| ``` |
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