@rowancheung: Netflix researchers have released VOID, an open-source AI framework that removes objects from video while rewriting the scene's physics to reflect their absence. Unlike conventional inpainting tools that simply fill in backgrounds, VOID uses a vision-language model to identify physical dependencies and a diffusion model to generate plausible counterfactual outcomes. In tests, human evaluators preferred VOID's results nearly two-thirds of the time over six competing models including Runway. The system even generalizes to physics scenarios absent from its training data. The code and demo are available on GitHub and Hugging Face, though output quality remains limited to short, lower-resolution clips. You can test it out for yourself by going to - huggingface.co/spaces/sam-motamed/VOID Study: “VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion” DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2604.02296

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