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Procedural Content Generation (PCG) refers to the practice, in videogames and other games, of generating content such as levels, quests, or characters algorithmically. Motivated by the need to make games replayable, as well as to reduce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Sebastian Risi , Julian Togelius

Unsupervised learning poses one of the most difficult challenges in computer vision today. The task has an immense practical value with many applications in artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, as large quantities of unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Ioana Croitoru , Simion-Vlad Bogolin , Marius Leordeanu

Unbiased scene graph generation (USGG) is a challenging task that requires predicting diverse and heavily imbalanced predicates between objects in an image. To address this, we propose a novel framework peer learning that uses predicate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Liguang Zhou , Junjie Hu , Yuhongze Zhou , Tin Lun Lam , Yangsheng Xu

As video games evolve into expansive, detailed worlds, visual quality becomes essential, yet increasingly challenging. Traditional testing methods, limited by resources, face difficulties in addressing the plethora of potential bugs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Farrukh Rahman

The emergence of generative models enables the creation of texts and images tailored to users' preferences. Existing personalized generative models have two critical limitations: lacking a dedicated paradigm for accurate preference…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yuting Zhang , Ying Sun , Dazhong Shen , Ziwei Xie , Feng Liu , Changwang Zhang , Xiang Liu , Jun Wang , Hui Xiong

Generating videos for visual storytelling can be a tedious and complex process that typically requires either live-action filming or graphics animation rendering. To bypass these challenges, our key idea is to utilize the abundance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Yingqing He , Menghan Xia , Haoxin Chen , Xiaodong Cun , Yuan Gong , Jinbo Xing , Yong Zhang , Xintao Wang , Chao Weng , Ying Shan , Qifeng Chen

Text-to-video diffusion models generate realistic videos, but often fail on prompts requiring fine-grained compositional understanding, such as relations between entities, attributes, actions, and motion directions. We hypothesize that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ariel Shaulov , Eitan Shaar , Amit Edenzon , Gal Chechik , Lior Wolf

Generative models have emerged as an essential building block for many image synthesis and editing tasks. Recent advances in this field have also enabled high-quality 3D or video content to be generated that exhibits either multi-view or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Sherwin Bahmani , Jeong Joon Park , Despoina Paschalidou , Hao Tang , Gordon Wetzstein , Leonidas Guibas , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Recent advancements in procedural content generation via machine learning enable the generation of video-game levels that are aesthetically similar to human-authored examples. However, the generated levels are often unplayable without…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Hejia Zhang , Matthew C. Fontaine , Amy K. Hoover , Julian Togelius , Bistra Dilkina , Stefanos Nikolaidis

Children learn though play. We introduce the analogous idea of learning programs through play. In this approach, a program induction system (the learner) is given a set of tasks and initial background knowledge. Before solving the tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Andrew Cropper

Video anomaly detection (VAD) plays a critical role in public safety applications such as intelligent surveillance. However, the rarity, unpredictability, and high annotation cost of real-world anomalies make it difficult to scale VAD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Suhang Cai , Xiaohao Peng , Chong Wang , Xiaojie Cai , Jiangbo Qian

In recent years, with the vigorous development of the video game industry, the proportion of gaming videos on major video websites like YouTube has dramatically increased. However, relatively little research has been done on the automatic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Xiangxu Yu , Zhengzhong Tu , Neil Birkbeck , Yilin Wang , Balu Adsumilli , Alan C. Bovik

Despite their irresistible success, deep learning algorithms still heavily rely on annotated data. On the other hand, unsupervised settings pose many challenges, especially about determining the right inductive bias in diverse scenarios.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Beril Besbinar , Pascal Frossard

Current deep learning results on video generation are limited while there are only a few first results on video prediction and no relevant significant results on video completion. This is due to the severe ill-posedness inherent in these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Haoye Cai , Chunyan Bai , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

In this paper, we propose self-supervised training for video transformers using unlabeled video data. From a given video, we create local and global spatiotemporal views with varying spatial sizes and frame rates. Our self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Kanchana Ranasinghe , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Michael Ryoo

We introduce Genie, the first generative interactive environment trained in an unsupervised manner from unlabelled Internet videos. The model can be prompted to generate an endless variety of action-controllable virtual worlds described…

Character video generation is a significant real-world application focused on producing high-quality videos featuring specific characters. Recent advancements have introduced various control signals to animate static characters,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Zhao Wang , Hao Wen , Lingting Zhu , Chenming Shang , Yujiu Yang , Qi Dou

Generating videos from text has proven to be a significant challenge for existing generative models. We tackle this problem by training a conditional generative model to extract both static and dynamic information from text. This is…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Yitong Li , Martin Renqiang Min , Dinghan Shen , David Carlson , Lawrence Carin

Unified multimodal models integrating visual understanding and generation face a fundamental challenge: visual generation incurs substantially higher computational costs than understanding, particularly for video. This imbalance motivates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Luozheng Qin , Jia Gong , Qian Qiao , Tianjiao Li , Li Xu , Haoyu Pan , Chao Qu , Zhiyu Tan , Hao Li

Understanding and predicting dynamics of the physical world can enhance a robot's ability to plan and interact effectively in complex environments. While recent video generation models have shown strong potential in modeling dynamic scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zeyi Liu , Shuang Li , Eric Cousineau , Siyuan Feng , Benjamin Burchfiel , Shuran Song