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Existing text-to-video (T2V) models often struggle with generating videos with sufficiently pronounced or complex actions. A key limitation lies in the text prompt's inability to precisely convey intricate motion details. To address this,…

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State-of-the-art Text-to-Video (T2V) diffusion models can generate visually impressive results, yet they still frequently fail to compose complex scenes or follow logical temporal instructions. In this paper, we argue that many errors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Mariam Hassan , Bastien Van Delft , Wuyang Li , Alexandre Alahi

Despite rapid advances in video generative models, robust metrics for evaluating visual and temporal correctness of complex human actions remain elusive. Critically, existing pure-vision encoders and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Xavier Thomas , Youngsun Lim , Ananya Srinivasan , Audrey Zheng , Deepti Ghadiyaram

Compositional video generation aims to synthesize multiple instances with diverse appearance and motion. However, current approaches mainly focus on binding semantics, neglecting to understand diverse motion categories specified in prompts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zixuan Wang , Ziqin Zhou , Feng Chen , Duo Peng , Yixin Hu , Changsheng Li , Yinjie Lei

Video generation has many unique challenges beyond those of image generation. The temporal dimension introduces extensive possible variations across frames, over which consistency and continuity may be violated. In this study, we move…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Weixi Feng , Jiachen Li , Michael Saxon , Tsu-jui Fu , Wenhu Chen , William Yang Wang

Human activity videos involve rich, varied interactions between people and objects. In this paper we develop methods for generating such videos -- making progress toward addressing the important, open problem of video generation in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Megha Nawhal , Mengyao Zhai , Andreas Lehrmann , Leonid Sigal , Greg Mori

Image-to-video (I2V) generation seeks to produce realistic motion sequences from a single reference image. Although recent methods exhibit strong temporal consistency, they often struggle when dealing with complex, non-repetitive human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ashkan Taghipour , Morteza Ghahremani , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Aref Miri Rekavandi , Zinuo Li , Qiuhong Ke , Hamid Laga

We present a novel framework for compositional video synthesis that leverages temporally consistent object-centric representations, extending our previous work, SlotAdapt, from images to video. While existing object-centric approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Adil Kaan Akan , Yucel Yemez

We study the problem of video-to-video synthesis, whose goal is to learn a mapping function from an input source video (e.g., a sequence of semantic segmentation masks) to an output photorealistic video that precisely depicts the content of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Ting-Chun Wang , Ming-Yu Liu , Jun-Yan Zhu , Guilin Liu , Andrew Tao , Jan Kautz , Bryan Catanzaro

We address the problem of action detection in videos. Driven by the latest progress in object detection from 2D images, we build action models using rich feature hierarchies derived from shape and kinematic cues. We incorporate appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Georgia Gkioxari , Jitendra Malik

Large-scale Text-to-Video (T2V) diffusion models have recently demonstrated unprecedented capability to transform natural language descriptions into stunning and photorealistic videos. Despite the promising results, a significant challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xingyi Yang , Xinchao Wang

Numerous studies in the field of music generation have demonstrated impressive performance, yet virtually no models are able to directly generate music to match accompanying videos. In this work, we develop a generative music AI framework,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Jaeyong Kang , Soujanya Poria , Dorien Herremans

We aim to tackle the interesting yet challenging problem of generating videos of diverse and natural human motions from prescribed action categories. The key issue lies in the ability to synthesize multiple distinct motion sequences that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Chuan Guo , Xinxin Zuo , Sen Wang , Xinshuang Liu , Shihao Zou , Minglun Gong , Li Cheng

Composing simple elements into complex concepts is crucial yet challenging, especially for 3D action generation. Existing methods largely rely on extensive neural language annotations to discern composable latent semantics, a process that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Xiao Liu , Guangyi Chen , Yansong Tang , Guangrun Wang , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Ser-Nam Lim

Generating controllable videos conforming to user intentions is an appealing yet challenging topic in computer vision. To enable maneuverable control in line with user intentions, a novel video generation task, named Text-Image-to-Video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Yaosi Hu , Chong Luo , Zhenzhong Chen

Video-to-video synthesis (vid2vid) aims at converting an input semantic video, such as videos of human poses or segmentation masks, to an output photorealistic video. While the state-of-the-art of vid2vid has advanced significantly,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Ting-Chun Wang , Ming-Yu Liu , Andrew Tao , Guilin Liu , Jan Kautz , Bryan Catanzaro

Deep learning for human action recognition in videos is making significant progress, but is slowed down by its dependency on expensive manual labeling of large video collections. In this work, we investigate the generation of synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-20 César Roberto de Souza , Adrien Gaidon , Yohann Cabon , Antonio Manuel López Peña

Recent advances in robot foundation models trained on large-scale human teleoperation data have enabled robots to perform increasingly complex real-world tasks. However, scaling these systems remains difficult because collecting…

Given a series of natural language descriptions, our task is to generate 3D human motions that correspond semantically to the text, and follow the temporal order of the instructions. In particular, our goal is to enable the synthesis of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Nikos Athanasiou , Mathis Petrovich , Michael J. Black , Gül Varol

Synthesising the spatial and temporal dynamics of the human body skeleton remains a challenging task, not only in terms of the quality of the generated shapes, but also of their diversity, particularly to synthesise realistic body movements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Bruno Degardin , João Neves , Vasco Lopes , João Brito , Ehsan Yaghoubi , Hugo Proença