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Controllable video editing has demonstrated remarkable potential across diverse applications, particularly in scenarios where capturing or re-capturing real-world videos is either impractical or costly. This paper introduces a novel and…

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World models empower model-based agents to interactively explore, reason, and plan within imagined environments for real-world decision-making. However, the high demand for interactivity poses challenges in harnessing recent advancements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jialong Wu , Shaofeng Yin , Ningya Feng , Xu He , Dong Li , Jianye Hao , Mingsheng Long

In this work, we present CineMaster, a novel framework for 3D-aware and controllable text-to-video generation. Our goal is to empower users with comparable controllability as professional film directors: precise placement of objects within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Qinghe Wang , Yawen Luo , Xiaoyu Shi , Xu Jia , Huchuan Lu , Tianfan Xue , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Kun Gai

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 a method that learns a spatiotemporal neural irradiance field for dynamic scenes from a single video. Our learned representation enables free-viewpoint rendering of the input video. Our method builds upon recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Wenqi Xian , Jia-Bin Huang , Johannes Kopf , Changil Kim

We introduce a method to generate videos of dynamic virtual objects plausibly interacting via collisions with a still image's environment. Given a starting trajectory, physically simulated with the estimated geometry of a single, static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Carlo Innamorati , Bryan Russell , Danny M. Kaufman , and Niloy J. Mitra

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

Interactive video generation has significant potential for scene simulation and video creation. However, existing methods often struggle with maintaining scene consistency during long video generation under dynamic camera control due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Xinhang Gao , Junlin Guan , Shuhan Luo , Wenzhuo Li , Guanghuan Tan , Jiacheng Wang

Generative AI (GenAI) has significantly advanced the ease and flexibility of image creation. However, it remains a challenge to precisely control spatial compositions, including object arrangement and scene conditions. To bridge this gap,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Runlin Duan , Yuzhao Chen , Rahul Jain , Yichen Hu , Jingyu Shi , Karthik Ramani

Creating plausible virtual actors from images of real actors remains one of the key challenges in computer vision and computer graphics. Marker-less human motion estimation and shape modeling from images in the wild bring this challenge to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Thiago L. Gomes , Renato Martins , João Ferreira , Erickson R. Nascimento

Envisioning physically plausible outcomes from a single image requires a deep understanding of the world's dynamics. To address this, we introduce PhysGen3D, a novel framework that transforms a single image into an amodal, camera-centric,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Boyuan Chen , Hanxiao Jiang , Shaowei Liu , Saurabh Gupta , Yunzhu Li , Hao Zhao , Shenlong Wang

We present a novel method for populating 3D indoor scenes with virtual humans that can navigate in the environment and interact with objects in a realistic manner. Existing approaches rely on training sequences that contain captured human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Kaifeng Zhao , Yan Zhang , Shaofei Wang , Thabo Beeler , Siyu Tang

Creating realistic virtual assets is a time-consuming process: it usually involves an artist designing the object, then spending a lot of effort on tweaking its appearance. Intricate details and certain effects, such as subsurface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Aljaž Božič , Denis Gladkov , Luke Doukakis , Christoph Lassner

Models that can simulate how environments change in response to actions can be used by agents to plan and act efficiently. We improve on previous environment simulators from high-dimensional pixel observations by introducing recurrent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Silvia Chiappa , Sébastien Racaniere , Daan Wierstra , Shakir Mohamed

The generation of sounding videos has seen significant advancements with the advent of diffusion models. However, existing methods often lack the fine-grained control needed to generate viewpoint-specific content from larger, immersive…

Both text and video data are abundant on the internet and support large-scale self-supervised learning through next token or frame prediction. However, they have not been equally leveraged: language models have had significant real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Sherry Yang , Jacob Walker , Jack Parker-Holder , Yilun Du , Jake Bruce , Andre Barreto , Pieter Abbeel , Dale Schuurmans

We introduce bounded generation as a generalized task to control video generation to synthesize arbitrary camera and subject motion based only on a given start and end frame. Our objective is to fully leverage the inherent generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Haiwen Feng , Zheng Ding , Zhihao Xia , Simon Niklaus , Victoria Abrevaya , Michael J. Black , Xuaner Zhang

World models based on video generation demonstrate remarkable potential for simulating interactive environments but face persistent difficulties in two key areas: maintaining long-term content consistency when scenes are revisited and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Tianxing Xu , Zixuan Wang , Guangyuan Wang , Li Hu , Zhongyi Zhang , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Song-Hai Zhang

We investigate whether video generative models can exhibit visuospatial intelligence, a capability central to human cognition, using only visual data. To this end, we present Video4Spatial, a framework showing that video diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Zeqi Xiao , Yiwei Zhao , Lingxiao Li , Yushi Lan , Ning Yu , Rahul Garg , Roshni Cooper , Mohammad H. Taghavi , Xingang Pan

Data scarcity continues to be a major challenge in the field of robotic manipulation. Although diffusion models provide a promising solution for generating robotic manipulation videos, existing methods largely depend on 2D trajectories,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ying Li , Xiaobao Wei , Xiaowei Chi , Yuming Li , Zhongyu Zhao , Hao Wang , Ningning Ma , Ming Lu , Sirui Han , Shanghang Zhang