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We present Imagen Video, a text-conditional video generation system based on a cascade of video diffusion models. Given a text prompt, Imagen Video generates high definition videos using a base video generation model and a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Jonathan Ho , William Chan , Chitwan Saharia , Jay Whang , Ruiqi Gao , Alexey Gritsenko , Diederik P. Kingma , Ben Poole , Mohammad Norouzi , David J. Fleet , Tim Salimans

Face animation has achieved much progress in computer vision. However, prevailing GAN-based methods suffer from unnatural distortions and artifacts due to sophisticated motion deformation. In this paper, we propose a Face Animation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Bohan Zeng , Xuhui Liu , Sicheng Gao , Boyu Liu , Hong Li , Jianzhuang Liu , Baochang Zhang

Driving world models are used to simulate futures by video generation based on the condition of the current state and actions. However, current models often suffer serious error accumulations when predicting the long-term future, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xiaodong Wang , Zhirong Wu , Peixi Peng

Text-driven human motion generation in computer vision is both significant and challenging. However, current methods are limited to producing either deterministic or imprecise motion sequences, failing to effectively control the temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Yin Wang , Zhiying Leng , Frederick W. B. Li , Shun-Cheng Wu , Xiaohui Liang

Discrete diffusion models have recently emerged as strong alternatives to autoregressive language models, matching their performance through large-scale training. However, inference-time control remains relatively underexplored. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Meihua Dang , Jiaqi Han , Minkai Xu , Kai Xu , Akash Srivastava , Stefano Ermon

There has been substantial progress in humanoid robots, with new skills continuously being taught, ranging from navigation to manipulation. While these abilities may seem impressive, the teaching methods often remain inefficient. To enhance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Josua Spisak , Matthias Kerzel , Stefan Wermter

Video grounding aims to localize the target moment in an untrimmed video corresponding to a given sentence query. Existing methods typically select the best prediction from a set of predefined proposals or directly regress the target span…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Xiao Liang , Tao Shi , Yaoyuan Liang , Te Tao , Shao-Lun Huang

Modern diffusion-based image generative models have made significant progress and become promising to enrich training data for the object detection task. However, the generation quality and the controllability for complex scenes containing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Jingyuan Zhu , Shiyu Li , Yuxuan Liu , Ping Huang , Jiulong Shan , Huimin Ma , Jian Yuan

Generating realistic animated videos from static images is an important area of research in computer vision. Methods based on physical simulation and motion prediction have achieved notable advances, but they are often limited to specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Qiang Wang , Minghua Liu , Junjun Hu , Fan Jiang , Mu Xu

Safety-critical traffic simulation plays a crucial role in evaluating autonomous driving systems under rare and challenging scenarios. However, existing approaches often generate unrealistic scenarios due to insufficient consideration of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Mingxing Peng , Ruoyu Yao , Xusen Guo , Yuting Xie , Xianda Chen , Jun Ma

Video diffusion models achieve strong frame-level fidelity but still struggle with motion coherence, dynamics and realism, often producing jitter, ghosting, or implausible dynamics. A key limitation is that the standard denoising MSE…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Haotian Xue , Qi Chen , Zhonghao Wang , Xun Huang , Eli Shechtman , Jinrong Xie , Yongxin Chen

We present a data-driven method for learning to generate animations of 3D garments using a 2D image diffusion model. In contrast to existing methods, typically based on fully connected networks, graph neural networks, or generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Raquel Vidaurre , Elena Garces , Dan Casas

Current mainstream methods of aligning diffusion models with human preferences typically employ VLM-based reward models. However, these reward models, pre-trained for semantic alignment, struggle to capture the essential perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jaxon Zhang , Binxin Yang , Hubery Yin , Chen Li , Jing Lyu

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has unified language generation tasks and revolutionized human-machine interaction. However, in the realm of image generation, a unified model capable of handling various tasks within a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Shitao Xiao , Yueze Wang , Junjie Zhou , Huaying Yuan , Xingrun Xing , Ruiran Yan , Chaofan Li , Shuting Wang , Tiejun Huang , Zheng Liu

Neural receivers have demonstrated strong performance in wireless communication systems. However, their effectiveness typically depends on access to large-scale, scenario-specific channel data for training, which is often difficult to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xingyu Zhou , Le Liang , Xinjie Li , Jing Zhang , Peiwen Jiang , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

Recent approaches have demonstrated the promise of using diffusion models to generate interactive and explorable worlds. However, most of these methods face critical challenges such as excessively large parameter sizes, reliance on lengthy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Xiaofeng Mao , Zhen Li , Chuanhao Li , Xiaojie Xu , Kaining Ying , Tong He , Jiangmiao Pang , Yu Qiao , Kaipeng Zhang

Reinforcement learning for training end-to-end autonomous driving models in closed-loop simulations is gaining growing attention. However, most simulation environments differ significantly from real-world conditions, creating a substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Chaojun Ni , Guosheng Zhao , Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Wenkang Qin , Xinze Chen , Guanghong Jia , Guan Huang , Wenjun Mei

Can continuous diffusion models bring the same performance breakthrough on natural language they did for image generation? To circumvent the discrete nature of text data, we can simply project tokens in a continuous space of embeddings, as…

Creating high-quality and interactive virtual environments, such as games and simulators, often involves complex and costly manual modeling processes. In this paper, we present Video2Game, a novel approach that automatically converts videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Hongchi Xia , Zhi-Hao Lin , Wei-Chiu Ma , Shenlong Wang

World simulation has gained increasing popularity due to its ability to model virtual environments and predict the consequences of actions. However, the limited temporal context window often leads to failures in maintaining long-term…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Zeqi Xiao , Yushi Lan , Yifan Zhou , Wenqi Ouyang , Shuai Yang , Yanhong Zeng , Xingang Pan