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Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) technology demonstrates immense potential in novel viewpoint synthesis tasks, due to its physics-based volumetric rendering process, which is particularly promising in underwater scenes. Addressing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Jingchun Zhou , Tianyu Liang , Dehuan Zhang , Zongxin He

Understanding freely moving animal behavior is central to neuroscience, where pose estimation and behavioral understanding form the foundation for linking neural activity to natural actions. Yet both tasks still depend heavily on human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jingyang Ke , Weihan Li , Amartya Pradhan , Jeffrey Markowitz , Anqi Wu

We present a method to generate a video sequence given a single image. Because items in an image can be animated in arbitrarily many different ways, we introduce as control signal a sequence of motion strokes. Such control signal can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-17 Qiyang Hu , Adrian Wälchli , Tiziano Portenier , Matthias Zwicker , Paolo Favaro

We propose mesh-free fluid simulations that exploit a kinematic neural basis for velocity fields represented by an MLP. We design a set of losses that ensures that these neural bases approximate fundamental physical properties such as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yibo Liu , Zhixin Fang , Sune Darkner , Noam Aigerman , Kenny Erleben , Paul Kry , Teseo Schneider

Transferring human motion skills to humanoid robots remains a significant challenge. In this study, we introduce a Wasserstein adversarial imitation learning system, allowing humanoid robots to replicate natural whole-body locomotion…

We introduce a dynamics-level approach to watermarking generative models. Rather than embedding signals into model weights or outputs, we embed the watermark directly into the learned continuous dynamics -- the velocity field of a flow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Shuchan Wang

We consider the problem of filling in missing spatio-temporal regions of a video. We provide a novel flow-based solution by introducing a generative model of images in relation to the scene (without missing regions) and mappings from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Dong Lao , Peihao Zhu , Peter Wonka , Ganesh Sundaramoorthi

We explore neural painters, a generative model for brushstrokes learned from a real non-differentiable and non-deterministic painting program. We show that when training an agent to "paint" images using brushstrokes, using a differentiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Reiichiro Nakano

Watermarking is the process of embedding information into an image that can survive under distortions, while requiring the encoded image to have little or no perceptual difference from the original image. Recently, deep learning-based…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Xiyang Luo , Ruohan Zhan , Huiwen Chang , Feng Yang , Peyman Milanfar

We present a novel volumetric animation generation framework to create new types of animations from raw 3D surface or point cloud sequence of captured real performances. The framework considers as input time incoherent 3D observations of a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-01-14 Benjamin Allain , Li Wang , Jean-Sebastien Franco , Franck Hetroy , Edmond Boyer

Among generative neural models, flow matching techniques stand out for their simple applicability and good scaling properties. Here, velocity fields of curves connecting a simple latent and a target distribution are learned. Then the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Christian Wald , Gabriele Steidl

Neural fields have emerged as a new data representation paradigm and have shown remarkable success in various signal representations. Since they preserve signals in their network parameters, the data transfer by sending and receiving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Junwoo Cho , Seungtae Nam , Daniel Rho , Jong Hwan Ko , Eunbyung Park

Turbulent fluid flows are among the most computationally demanding problems in science, requiring enormous computational resources that become prohibitive at high flow speeds. Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) represent a radically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sifan Wang , Shyam Sankaran , Xiantao Fan , Panos Stinis , Paris Perdikaris

This paper considers the problem of regression over distributions, which is becoming increasingly important in machine learning. Existing approaches often ignore the geometry of the probability space or are computationally expensive. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Maksim Maslov , Alexander Kugaevskikh , Matthew Ivanov

Reconstructing PDE-governed fields from sparse and irregular measurements is challenging due to their ill-posed nature. Deterministic surrogates are trained on dense fields that struggle with limited measurements and uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Hao Zhou , Rui Zhang , Han Wan , Hao Sun

Predicting the dynamics of interacting objects is essential for both humans and intelligent systems. However, existing approaches are limited to simplified, toy settings and lack generalizability to complex, real-world environments. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Rick Akkerman , Haiwen Feng , Michael J. Black , Dimitrios Tzionas , Victoria Fernández Abrevaya

Video frame interpolation aims at synthesizing intermediate frames from nearby source frames while maintaining spatial and temporal consistencies. The existing deep-learning-based video frame interpolation methods can be roughly divided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Zhihao Shi , Xiaohong Liu , Kangdi Shi , Linhui Dai , Jun Chen

We study the convergence of gradient flow for the training of deep neural networks. If Residual Neural Networks are a popular example of very deep architectures, their training constitutes a challenging optimization problem due notably to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Raphaël Barboni , Gabriel Peyré , François-Xavier Vialard

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation provides valuable information on blood flow from the vascular geometry. However, it requires extracting precise models of arteries from low-resolution medical images, which remains challenging.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Méghane Decroocq , Carole Frindel , Pierre Rougé , Makoto Ohta , Guillaume Lavoué

With the advancement of generative artificial intelligence, previous studies have achieved the task of generating aesthetic images from hand-drawn sketches, fulfilling the public's needs for drawing. However, these methods are limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Lifan Jiang , Shuang Chen , Boxi Wu , Xiaotong Guan , Jiahui Zhang