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| pretty_name: CineBoard3D++ |
| license: cc-by-nc-4.0 |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - 3d |
| - blender |
| - storyboard |
| - camera-planning |
| - narrative-grounding |
| - dynamic-scenes |
| - look-before-move |
| - arxiv:2606.26964 |
| size_categories: |
| - n<1K |
| configs: |
| - config_name: story_index |
| default: true |
| data_files: |
| - split: inventory |
| path: metadata/stories.jsonl |
| --- |
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| # 🎬 CineBoard3D++: Dynamic 3D Story World Dataset |
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| ## 📊 Dataset Summary |
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| CineBoard3D++ is a collection of editable, movie-inspired 3D story worlds built with StoryBlender for narrative-grounded camera planning and world visual attention. It brings together story scripts, animated characters, scene geometry, and shot-level configurations in native Blender projects. |
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| The benchmark covers **50 stories, 457 scenes, 1,585 shots, and 3,197 3D assets** (836 plot-related and 2,361 supplementary assets). It supports evaluation of subject perception, intent consistency, and trajectory quality. |
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| This dataset accompanies the paper **“Look-Before-Move: Narrative-Grounded World Visual Attention in Dynamic 3D Story Worlds.”** |
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| ## 📄 Paper |
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| **Title:** Look-Before-Move: Narrative-Grounded World Visual Attention in Dynamic 3D Story Worlds |
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| **Authors:** Jiaming Bian, Bingliang Li, Yuehao Wu, Pichao Wang, Zhi Wang, Hailan Ma, Huadong Mo†, Zhenhong Sun† |
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| (†: Co-corresponding author) |
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| **Overview:** Look-Before-Move treats the camera as an active observer: it determines what the narrative requires it to see before planning movement. A Semantic Observation Contract specifies visual requirements, Monte Carlo Viewpoint Search selects feasible viewpoints, and Semantic Trajectory Grounding connects them into coherent, collision-aware camera motion. |
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| ## 🔗 Project Page |
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| - 🌐 **Project:** [Look-Before-Move](https://engineeringai-lab.github.io/Look-Before-Move/) |
| - 📜 **arXiv:** [2606.26964](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26964) |
| - 📑 **PDF:** [Read the paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.26964) |
| - 💻 **Code:** [EngineeringAI-LAB/Look-Before-Move](https://github.com/EngineeringAI-LAB/Look-Before-Move) |
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| ## 📁 Dataset Structure |
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| Each story is packaged as a single archive under `stories/`, such as `12 Years a Slave.tar`, `A Beautiful Mind.tar`, and `The Godfather.tar`. Story packages contain: |
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| - 🎞️ **Blender projects** (`.blend`) with editable scenes and character animations. |
| - 📝 **Story scripts and JSON metadata** describing assets, layouts, scenes, and shots. |
| - 🧩 **Project resources**, including 3D models, textures, and animation assets. |
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| The [story index](metadata/stories.jsonl) lists archive paths, project entry files, and checksums. |
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| ## 🚀 Usage |
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| 1. ⬇️ Download a story archive from [`stories/`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/EngineeringAI-LAB/CineBoard3D-plus/tree/main/stories). |
| 2. 📦 Extract the archive, keeping its project folders together. |
| 3. 🖥️ Open the story’s `.blend` file in Blender (usually `step_9.blend`). |
| 4. 🎨 Explore scenes and animations, edit the world, or use the [code](https://github.com/EngineeringAI-LAB/Look-Before-Move) for camera-planning experiments. |
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| ## ⚖️ License |
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| CineBoard3D++ is released under [CC BY-NC 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Third-party assets retain their applicable licenses and attribution requirements; see [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md). |
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| ## 📚 Citation |
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| If you use CineBoard3D++ in your research, please cite: |
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| ```bibtex |
| @misc{bian2026lookbeforemovenarrativegroundedworldvisual, |
| title={Look-Before-Move: Narrative-Grounded World Visual Attention in Dynamic 3D Story Worlds}, |
| author={Jiaming Bian and Bingliang Li and Yuehao Wu and Pichao Wang and Zhi Wang and Hailan Ma and Huadong Mo and Zhenhong Sun}, |
| year={2026}, |
| eprint={2606.26964}, |
| archivePrefix={arXiv}, |
| primaryClass={cs.AI}, |
| url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26964} |
| } |
| ``` |
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