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Predicting the future in real-world settings, particularly from raw sensory observations such as images, is exceptionally challenging. Real-world events can be stochastic and unpredictable, and the high dimensionality and complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Mohammad Babaeizadeh , Chelsea Finn , Dumitru Erhan , Roy H. Campbell , Sergey Levine

Advances in technology have led to the development of methods that can create desired visual multimedia. In particular, image generation using deep learning has been extensively studied across diverse fields. In comparison, video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Doyeon Kim , Donggyu Joo , Junmo Kim

Extracting human motion from large-scale web videos offers a scalable solution to the data scarcity issue in character animation. However, some human parts in many video frames cannot be seen due to off-screen captures or occlusions. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Boyuan Li , Sipeng Zheng , Bin Cao , Ruihua Song , Zongqing Lu

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

Video Variational Autoencoder (VAE) enables latent video generative modeling by mapping the visual world into compact spatiotemporal latent spaces, improving training efficiency and stability. While existing video VAEs achieve commendable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yian Zhao , Feng Wang , Qiushan Guo , Chang Liu , Xiangyang Ji , Jian Zhang , Jie Chen

Video generation is one of the most challenging tasks in Machine Learning and Computer Vision fields of study. In this paper, we tackle the text to video generation problem, which is a conditional form of video generation. Humans can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Amir Mazaheri , Mubarak Shah

Generating videos predicting the future of a given sequence has been an area of active research in recent years. However, an essential problem remains unsolved: most of the methods require large computational cost and memory usage for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Naoya Fushishita , Antonio Tejero-de-Pablos , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

We consider the problem of image-to-video translation, where an input image is translated into an output video containing motions of a single object. Recent methods for such problems typically train transformation networks to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Long Zhao , Xi Peng , Yu Tian , Mubbasir Kapadia , Dimitris Metaxas

We propose PostCam, a framework for novel-view video generation that enables post-capture editing of camera trajectories in dynamic scenes. We find that existing video recapture methods suffer from suboptimal camera motion injection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yipeng Chen , Zhichao Ye , Zhenzhou Fang , Xinyu Chen , Xiaoyu Zhang , Jialing Liu , Nan Wang , Haomin Liu , Guofeng Zhang

Segmenting an image into its parts is a frequent preprocess for high-level vision tasks such as image editing. However, annotating masks for supervised training is expensive. Weakly-supervised and unsupervised methods exist, but they depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Xingzhe He , Bastian Wandt , Helge Rhodin

Despite having been studied to a great extent, the task of conditional generation of sequences of frames, or videos, remains extremely challenging. It is a common belief that a key step towards solving this task resides in modelling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-09 David Kanaa , Vikram Voleti , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Christopher Pal

Despite rapid advances in video generative models, robust metrics for evaluating visual and temporal correctness of complex human actions remain elusive. Critically, existing pure-vision encoders and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Xavier Thomas , Youngsun Lim , Ananya Srinivasan , Audrey Zheng , Deepti Ghadiyaram

Human-motion generation is a long-standing challenging task due to the requirement of accurately modeling complex and diverse dynamic patterns. Most existing methods adopt sequence models such as RNN to directly model transitions in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Zhenyi Wang , Ping Yu , Yang Zhao , Ruiyi Zhang , Yufan Zhou , Junsong Yuan , Changyou Chen

Diffusion models have obtained substantial progress in image-to-video generation. However, in this paper, we find that these models tend to generate videos with less motion than expected. We attribute this to the issue called conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Min Zhao , Hongzhou Zhu , Chendong Xiang , Kaiwen Zheng , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu

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

Pretraining Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies on internet-scale video is appealing, yet current latent-action objectives often learn the wrong thing: they remain anchored to pixel variation rather than action-relevant state transitions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Jingwen Sun , Wenyao Zhang , Zekun Qi , Shaojie Ren , Zezhi Liu , Hanxin Zhu , Guangzhong Sun , Xin Jin , Zhibo Chen

In order to perform unconditional video generation, we must learn the distribution of the real-world videos. In an effort to synthesize high-quality videos, various studies attempted to learn a mapping function between noise and videos,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Kangyeol Kim , Sunghyun Park , Junsoo Lee , Joonseok Lee , Sookyung Kim , Jaegul Choo , Edward Choi

Generating instructional images of human daily actions from an egocentric viewpoint serves as a key step towards efficient skill transfer. In this paper, we introduce a novel problem -- egocentric action frame generation. The goal is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Bolin Lai , Xiaoliang Dai , Lawrence Chen , Guan Pang , James M. Rehg , Miao Liu

Despite tremendous recent progress, generative video models still struggle to capture real-world motion, dynamics, and physics. We show that this limitation arises from the conventional pixel reconstruction objective, which biases models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hila Chefer , Uriel Singer , Amit Zohar , Yuval Kirstain , Adam Polyak , Yaniv Taigman , Lior Wolf , Shelly Sheynin

Videos express highly structured spatio-temporal patterns of visual data. A video can be thought of as being governed by two factors: (i) temporally invariant (e.g., person identity), or slowly varying (e.g., activity), attribute-induced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Jiawei He , Andreas Lehrmann , Joseph Marino , Greg Mori , Leonid Sigal