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We introduce RealmDreamer, a technique for generating forward-facing 3D scenes from text descriptions. Our method optimizes a 3D Gaussian Splatting representation to match complex text prompts using pretrained diffusion models. Our key…

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Learning data-efficient object dynamics models for robotic manipulation remains challenging, especially for deformable objects. A popular approach is to model objects as sets of 3D particles and learn their motion using graph neural…

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Despite recent progress in developing animatable full-body avatars, realistic modeling of clothing - one of the core aspects of human self-expression - remains an open challenge. State-of-the-art physical simulation methods can generate…

Existing dynamic scene generation methods mostly rely on distilling knowledge from pre-trained 3D generative models, which are typically fine-tuned on synthetic object datasets. As a result, the generated scenes are often object-centric and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Heng Yu , Chaoyang Wang , Peiye Zhuang , Willi Menapace , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Junli Cao , Laszlo A Jeni , Sergey Tulyakov , Hsin-Ying Lee

Existing deep models predict 2D and 3D kinematic poses from video that are approximately accurate, but contain visible errors that violate physical constraints, such as feet penetrating the ground and bodies leaning at extreme angles. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Davis Rempe , Leonidas J. Guibas , Aaron Hertzmann , Bryan Russell , Ruben Villegas , Jimei Yang

Despite recent progress in video generation, producing videos that adhere to physical laws remains a significant challenge. Traditional diffusion-based methods struggle to extrapolate to unseen physical conditions (eg, velocity) due to…

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Realistic dynamic garments on animated characters have many AR/VR applications. While authoring such dynamic garment geometry is still a challenging task, data-driven simulation provides an attractive alternative, especially if it can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Meng Zhang , Duygu Ceylan , Niloy J. Mitra

Generating physically plausible human motion is crucial for applications such as character animation and virtual reality. Existing approaches often incorporate a simulator-based motion projection layer to the diffusion process to enforce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Akihisa Watanabe , Jiawei Ren , Li Siyao , Yichen Peng , Erwin Wu , Edgar Simo-Serra

As pretrained text-to-image diffusion models become increasingly powerful, recent efforts have been made to distill knowledge from these text-to-image pretrained models for optimizing a text-guided 3D model. Most of the existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Gege Gao , Weiyang Liu , Anpei Chen , Andreas Geiger , Bernhard Schölkopf

Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have shown impressive performance across a wide range of video-language tasks. However, they often fail in scenarios requiring a deeper understanding of physical dynamics. This limitation primarily…

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Recent advancements in AI-generated content have significantly improved the realism of 3D and 4D generation. However, most existing methods prioritize appearance consistency while neglecting underlying physical principles, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Siwei Meng , Yawei Luo , Ping Liu

Recent diffusion-based text-to-image customization methods have achieved significant success in understanding concrete concepts to control generation processes, such as styles and shapes. However, few efforts dive into the realistic yet…

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Real-time tracking of previously unseen, highly dynamic objects in contact-rich scenes, such as during dexterous in-hand manipulation, remains a major challenge. Pure vision-based approaches often fail under heavy occlusions due to frequent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Wen Yang , Zhixian Xie , Yiting Wang , Abhijit Tadepalli , Heni Ben Amor , Shan Lin , Wanxin Jin

Achieving real-time physics-based animation that generalizes across diverse 3D shapes and discretizations remains a fundamental challenge. We introduce PhysSkin, a physics-informed framework that addresses this challenge. In the spirit of…

Humans frequently grasp, manipulate, and move objects. Interactive systems assist humans in these tasks, enabling applications in Embodied AI, human-robot interaction, and virtual reality. However, current methods in hand-object synthesis…

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Production-level workflows for producing convincing 3D dynamic human faces have long relied on an assortment of labor-intensive tools for geometry and texture generation, motion capture and rigging, and expression synthesis. Recent neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Longwen Zhang , Chuxiao Zeng , Qixuan Zhang , Hongyang Lin , Ruixiang Cao , Wei Yang , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu

Recent advances in diffusion-based video generation have achieved remarkable visual realism but still struggle to obey basic physical laws such as gravity, inertia, and collision. Generated objects often move inconsistently across frames,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Lin Geng Foo , Mark He Huang , Alexandros Lattas , Stylianos Moschoglou , Thabo Beeler , Christian Theobalt

Recent generative models can synthesize high-quality images, but they often fail to generate humans interacting with objects using their hands. This arises mostly from the model's misunderstanding of such interactions and the hardships of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Patrick Kwon , Chen Chen , Hanbyul Joo

A vital task of the wider digital human effort is the creation of realistic garments on digital avatars, both in the form of characteristic fold patterns and wrinkles in static frames as well as richness of garment dynamics under avatars'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Meng Zhang , Duygu Ceylan , Tuanfeng Wang , Niloy J. Mitra

3D city generation is a desirable yet challenging task, since humans are more sensitive to structural distortions in urban environments. Additionally, generating 3D cities is more complex than 3D natural scenes since buildings, as objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Haozhe Xie , Zhaoxi Chen , Fangzhou Hong , Ziwei Liu