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Despite recent progress, video diffusion models still struggle to synthesize realistic videos involving highly dynamic motions or requiring fine-grained motion controllability. A central limitation lies in the scarcity of such examples in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Wonjoon Jin , Jiyun Won , Janghyeok Han , Qi Dai , Chong Luo , Seung-Hwan Baek , Sunghyun Cho

Generating realistic human videos remains a challenging task, with the most effective methods currently relying on a human motion sequence as a control signal. Existing approaches often use existing motion extracted from other videos, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Hsin-Ping Huang , Yang Zhou , Jui-Hsien Wang , Difan Liu , Feng Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Zhan Xu

Human action is naturally compositional: humans can easily recognize and perform actions with objects that are different from those used in training demonstrations. In this paper, we study the compositionality of action by looking into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Joanna Materzynska , Tete Xiao , Roei Herzig , Huijuan Xu , Xiaolong Wang , Trevor Darrell

AI video generation has lowered barriers to video creation, but current tools still struggle with inconsistency. Filmmakers often find that clips fail to match characters and backgrounds, making it difficult to build coherent sequences. A…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Hye-Young Jo , Mose Sakashita , Aditi Mishra , Ryo Suzuki , Koichiro Niinuma , Aakar Gupta

The field of video generation has expanded significantly in recent years, with controllable and compositional video generation garnering considerable interest. Most methods rely on leveraging annotations such as text, objects' bounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Aram Davtyan , Sepehr Sameni , Björn Ommer , Paolo Favaro

Text-to-Image (T2I) generation has long been an open problem, with compositional synthesis remaining particularly challenging. This task requires accurate rendering of complex scenes containing multiple objects that exhibit diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shijian Wang , Runhao Fu , Siyi Zhao , Qingqin Zhan , Xingjian Wang , Jiarui Jin , Yuan Lu , Hanqian Wu , Cunjian Chen

Video-to-Video synthesis (Vid2Vid) has achieved remarkable results in generating a photo-realistic video from a sequence of semantic maps. However, this pipeline suffers from high computational cost and long inference latency, which largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Long Zhuo , Guangcong Wang , Shikai Li , Wayne Wu , Ziwei Liu

Action recognition is an important problem in multimedia understanding. This paper addresses this problem by building an expressive compositional action model. We model one action instance in the video with an ensemble of spatio-temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Xiaodan Liang , Liang Lin , Liangliang Cao

Recent advancements in video generation, particularly in diffusion models, have driven notable progress in text-to-video (T2V) and image-to-video (I2V) synthesis. However, challenges remain in effectively integrating dynamic motion signals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Ziye Li , Hao Luo , Xincheng Shuai , Henghui Ding

While recent text-to-video models excel at generating diverse scenes, they struggle with precise motion control, particularly for complex, multi-subject motions. Although methods for single-motion customization have been developed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Youcan Xu , Zhen Wang , Jiaxin Shi , Kexin Li , Feifei Shao , Jun Xiao , Yi Yang , Jun Yu , Long Chen

We capitalize on large amounts of unlabeled video in order to learn a model of scene dynamics for both video recognition tasks (e.g. action classification) and video generation tasks (e.g. future prediction). We propose a generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Carl Vondrick , Hamed Pirsiavash , Antonio Torralba

We present visual action prompts, a unified action representation for action-to-video generation of complex high-DoF interactions while maintaining transferable visual dynamics across domains. Action-driven video generation faces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yuang Wang , Chao Wen , Haoyu Guo , Sida Peng , Minghan Qin , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou , Ruizhen Hu

In recent years, interest in synthetic data has grown, particularly in the context of pre-training the image modality to support a range of computer vision tasks, including object classification, medical imaging etc. Previous work has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Davyd Svyezhentsev , George Retsinas , Petros Maragos

As a natural extension of the image synthesis task, video synthesis has attracted a lot of interest recently. Many image synthesis works utilize class labels or text as guidance. However, neither labels nor text can provide explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Yuren Cong , Jinhui Yi , Bodo Rosenhahn , Michael Ying Yang

We propose Make-A-Video -- an approach for directly translating the tremendous recent progress in Text-to-Image (T2I) generation to Text-to-Video (T2V). Our intuition is simple: learn what the world looks like and how it is described from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Uriel Singer , Adam Polyak , Thomas Hayes , Xi Yin , Jie An , Songyang Zhang , Qiyuan Hu , Harry Yang , Oron Ashual , Oran Gafni , Devi Parikh , Sonal Gupta , Yaniv Taigman

Temporal grounding in videos aims to localize one target video segment that semantically corresponds to a given query sentence. Thanks to the semantic diversity of natural language descriptions, temporal grounding allows activity grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Juncheng Li , Junlin Xie , Long Qian , Linchao Zhu , Siliang Tang , Fei Wu , Yi Yang , Yueting Zhuang , Xin Eric Wang

Our goal is to synthesize 3D human motions given textual inputs describing simultaneous actions, for example 'waving hand' while 'walking' at the same time. We refer to generating such simultaneous movements as performing 'spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Nikos Athanasiou , Mathis Petrovich , Michael J. Black , Gül Varol

Compositional actions consist of dynamic (verbs) and static (objects) concepts. Humans can easily recognize unseen compositions using the learned concepts. For machines, solving such a problem requires a model to recognize unseen actions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Rongchang Li , Zhenhua Feng , Tianyang Xu , Linze Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Muhammad Awais , Sara Atito , Josef Kittler

Graphs are a highly expressive data structure, but it is often difficult for humans to find patterns from a complex graph. Hence, generating human-interpretable sequences from graphs have gained interest, called graph2seq learning. It is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Takeshi D. Itoh , Takatomi Kubo , Kazushi Ikeda

Deep video action recognition models have been highly successful in recent years but require large quantities of manually annotated data, which are expensive and laborious to obtain. In this work, we investigate the generation of synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 César Roberto de Souza , Adrien Gaidon , Yohann Cabon , Naila Murray , Antonio Manuel López