diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Dockerfile
+.dockerignore
+compose.yml
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diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 .DS_Store
 __pycache__/
 outputs/*
-weights/*
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+weights/*
+!weights/.gitkeep
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diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+FROM nvidia/cuda:11.8.0-cudnn8-devel-ubuntu22.04
+
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+
+# Install system dependencies
+# We split this to ensure software-properties-common is installed before add-apt-repository
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
+    software-properties-common \
+    git \
+    git-lfs \
+    wget \
+    build-essential \
+    libgl1 \
+    libglib2.0-0 \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
+    && git lfs install
+
+# Add Python 3.8 PPA
+RUN add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa && \
+    apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y \
+    python3.8 \
+    python3.8-dev \
+    python3.8-distutils \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# Install pip for Python 3.8
+RUN wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.8/get-pip.py && \
+    python3.8 get-pip.py && \
+    rm get-pip.py
+
+# Set python3.8 as default python
+RUN ln -s /usr/bin/python3.8 /usr/bin/python
+
+# Install PyTorch and dependencies
+# We install torch first to ensure the correct cuda version is picked up
+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir torch==2.0.1 torchvision==0.15.2 --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118
+
+# Copy requirements and install
+COPY requirements.txt .
+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
+
+# Copy the entire repository
+COPY . /app
+
+# Install customized 'Forward-Warp' package
+WORKDIR /app/dependency/Forward-Warp
+RUN chmod +x install.sh && ./install.sh
+
+WORKDIR /app
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4c2352a..9c0e81e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ cd StereoCrafter
 pip install -r requirements.txt
 ```
 
-
 #### 4. Install customized 'Forward-Warp' package for forward splatting
 ```
 cd ./dependency/Forward-Warp
@@ -64,6 +63,26 @@ chmod a+x install.sh
 ./install.sh
 ```
 
+## 🛠️ Installation with Docker
+
+#### 1. Set up the environment
+Docker will run the code on Python 3.8 and Cuda 11.8.
+You need to install Docker with CUDA support first.
+
+#### 2. Clone the repo
+```bash
+# use --recursive to clone the dependent submodules
+git clone --recursive https://github.com/TencentARC/StereoCrafter
+cd StereoCrafter
+```
+
+#### 3. Download models
+Please refer to "📦 Model Weights" for downloading the models.
+
+#### 4. Start the Docker image
+```bash
+docker compose run stereo_crafter --build --remove-orphans
+```
 
 ## 📦 Model Weights
 
@@ -71,7 +90,6 @@ chmod a+x install.sh
 
 ```bash
 # in StereoCrafter project root directory
-mkdir weights
 cd ./weights
 git lfs install
 git clone https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-video-diffusion-img2vid-xt-1-1
diff --git a/compose.yml b/compose.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1317810
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compose.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+services:
+  stereo_crafter:
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: Dockerfile
+    volumes:
+      - ./test:/app/test
+    deploy:
+      resources:
+        reservations:
+          devices:
+            - driver: nvidia
+              count: 1
+              capabilities: [gpu]
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index 0000000..e69de29