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In this work, we propose a unified framework, called Visual Reasoning with Differ-entiable Physics (VRDP), that can jointly learn visual concepts and infer physics models of objects and their interactions from videos and language. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Mingyu Ding , Zhenfang Chen , Tao Du , Ping Luo , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Discovering physical laws directly from high-dimensional visual data is a long-standing human pursuit but remains a formidable challenge for machines, representing a fundamental goal of scientific intelligence. This task is inherently…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Ruikun Li , Jun Yao , Yingfan Hua , Shixiang Tang , Biqing Qi , Bin Liu , Wanli Ouyang , Yan Lu

Reconstructing simulation-ready deformable objects is important for vision, graphics, and robotics. Existing physics-driven methods can recover physical digital twins from videos, but they suffer from two fundamental limitations: they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yang Yang , Yiyan Wang , Zheming Liu , Naoya Iwamoto

Frontier LLMs now perform strongly across a wide range of physics evaluations, but it is hard to disentangle genuine reasoning from recall of established science. We introduce DiscoverPhysics, an interactive benchmark that asks a LLM agent…

Humans recognize the visual world at multiple levels: we effortlessly categorize scenes and detect objects inside, while also identifying the textures and surfaces of the objects along with their different compositional parts. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Tete Xiao , Yingcheng Liu , Bolei Zhou , Yuning Jiang , Jian Sun

Common-sense physical reasoning is an essential ingredient for any intelligent agent operating in the real-world. For example, it can be used to simulate the environment, or to infer the state of parts of the world that are currently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Michael Chang , Klaus Greff , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Predicting future video frames is extremely challenging, as there are many factors of variation that make up the dynamics of how frames change through time. Previously proposed solutions require complex inductive biases inside network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Ruben Villegas , Arkanath Pathak , Harini Kannan , Dumitru Erhan , Quoc V. Le , Honglak Lee

For the last decade, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have vastly superseded their predecessors in nearly all vision tasks in artificial intelligence, including object recognition. However, despite abundant advancements, they continue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Brandon RichardWebster , Justin Dulay , Anthony DiFalco , Elisabetta Caldesi , Walter J. Scheirer

We propose a new deep learning model for goal-driven tasks that require intuitive physical reasoning and intervention in the scene to achieve a desired end goal. Its modular structure is motivated by hypothesizing a sequence of intuitive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Augustin Harter , Andrew Melnik , Gaurav Kumar , Dhruv Agarwal , Animesh Garg , Helge Ritter

When we humans look at a video of human-object interaction, we can not only infer what is happening but we can even extract actionable information and imitate those interactions. On the other hand, current recognition or geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Kiana Ehsani , Shubham Tulsiani , Saurabh Gupta , Ali Farhadi , Abhinav Gupta

Physical AI aims to develop models that can perceive and predict real-world dynamics; yet, the extent to which current multi-modal large language models and video generative models support these abilities is insufficiently understood. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Fengzhe Zhou , Jiannan Huang , Jialuo Li , Deva Ramanan , Humphrey Shi

General physical scene understanding requires more than simply localizing and recognizing objects -- it requires knowledge that objects can have different latent properties (e.g., mass or elasticity), and that those properties affect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Hsiao-Yu Tung , Mingyu Ding , Zhenfang Chen , Daniel Bear , Chuang Gan , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Daniel LK Yamins , Judith E Fan , Kevin A. Smith

The ability to discover abstract physical concepts and understand how they work in the world through observing lies at the core of human intelligence. The acquisition of this ability is based on compositionally perceiving the environment in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Qu Tang , XiangYu Zhu , Zhen Lei , ZhaoXiang Zhang

Common-sense physical reasoning in the real world requires learning about the interactions of objects and their dynamics. The notion of an abstract object, however, encompasses a wide variety of physical objects that differ greatly in terms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Aleksandar Stanić , Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Jürgen Schmidhuber

The emergence of contemporary deepfakes has attracted significant attention in machine learning research, as artificial intelligence (AI) generated synthetic media increases the incidence of misinterpretation and is difficult to distinguish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Ammarah Hashmi , Sahibzada Adil Shahzad , Chia-Wen Lin , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang

In this paper, we teach a machine to discover the laws of physics from video streams. We assume no prior knowledge of physics, beyond a temporal stream of bounding boxes. The problem is very difficult because a machine must learn not only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Pradyumna Chari , Chinmay Talegaonkar , Yunhao Ba , Achuta Kadambi

Machine learning methods can be a valuable aid in the scientific process, but they need to face challenging settings where data come from inhomogeneous experimental conditions. Recent meta-learning methods have made significant progress in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Matthieu Blanke , Marc Lelarge

The ability to accurately predict the surrounding environment is a foundational principle of intelligence in biological and artificial agents. In recent years, a variety of approaches have been proposed for learning to predict the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Alberto Cenzato , Alberto Testolin , Marco Zorzi

This paper introduces a novel approach to evaluating deep learning models' capacity for in-diagram logic interpretation. Leveraging the intriguing realm of visual illusions, we establish a unique dataset, InDL, designed to rigorously test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Haobo Yang , Wenyu Wang , Ze Cao , Zhekai Duan , Xuchen Liu

A comprehensive artificial intelligence system needs to not only perceive the environment with different `senses' (e.g., seeing and hearing) but also infer the world's conditional (or even causal) relations and corresponding uncertainty.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-07 Hao Wang , Dit-Yan Yeung