BLACKSBURG, Va., Sept. 3 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:

Today's artificial intelligence (AI) video generators are essentially black boxes. You type a prompt and hope for the best, but you have almost no control over camera angle, motion, or other specific details.

With research supported by a$562,245National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award,Pinar Yanardag, assistant professor in theVirginia Tech Department of Computer Scienceand core faculty at theSanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics,wants toopen those black boxes to give users "director-like" control over AI video.

The aim of the project is to democratize ...