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Recent diffusion-based methods have achieved impressive results on animating images of human subjects. However, most of that success has built on human-specific body pose representations and extensive training with labeled real videos. In…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Zeqi Gu , Difan Liu , Timothy Langlois , Matthew Fisher , Abe Davis

Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved state-of-the-art results for image synthesis tasks as well as density estimation. Applied in the latent space of a powerful pretrained autoencoder (LDM), their immense computational requirements can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Jeremias Traub

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success in various domains, yet it often relies on carefully designed programmatic reward functions to guide agent behavior. Designing such reward functions can be challenging and may not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Qi Wang , Mian Wu , Yuyang Zhang , Mingqi Yuan , Wenyao Zhang , Haoxiang You , Yunbo Wang , Xin Jin , Xiaokang Yang , Wenjun Zeng

An ideal traffic simulator replicates the realistic long-term point-to-point trip that a self-driving system experiences during deployment. Prior models and benchmarks focus on closed-loop motion simulation for initial agents in a scene.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Xiuyu Yang , Shuhan Tan , Philipp Krähenbühl

Conventional class-guided diffusion models generally succeed in generating images with correct semantic content, but often struggle with texture details. This limitation stems from the usage of class priors, which only provide coarse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xiaoyu Yue , Zidong Wang , Zeyu Lu , Shuyang Sun , Meng Wei , Wanli Ouyang , Lei Bai , Luping Zhou

Deep generative models (DGM) are neural networks with many hidden layers trained to approximate complicated, high-dimensional probability distributions using a large number of samples. When trained successfully, we can use the DGMs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Lars Ruthotto , Eldad Haber

High-resolution climate simulations are valuable for understanding climate change impacts. This has motivated use of regional convection-permitting climate models (CPMs), but these are very computationally expensive. We present a…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Henry Addison , Elizabeth Kendon , Suman Ravuri , Laurence Aitchison , Peter AG Watson

Image-generation diffusion models have been fine-tuned to unlock new capabilities such as image-editing and novel view synthesis. Can we similarly unlock image-generation models for visuomotor control? We present GENIMA, a behavior-cloning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Mohit Shridhar , Yat Long Lo , Stephen James

Diffusion models have shown impressive performance in capturing complex and multi-modal action distributions for game agents, but their slow inference speed prevents practical deployment in real-time game environments. While consistency…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Ruoqi Zhang , Ziwei Luo , Jens Sjölund , Per Mattsson , Linus Gisslén , Alessandro Sestini

Realistic temporal dynamics are crucial for many video generation, processing and modelling applications, e.g. in computational fluid dynamics, weather prediction, or long-term climate simulations. Video diffusion models (VDMs) are the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Philipp Hess , Maximilian Gelbrecht , Christof Schötz , Michael Aich , Yu Huang , Shangshang Yang , Niklas Boers

Recent research explores the potential of Diffusion Models (DMs) for consistent object editing, which aims to modify object position, size, and composition, etc., while preserving the consistency of objects and background without changing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Liyao Jiang , Negar Hassanpour , Mohammad Salameh , Mohammadreza Samadi , Jiao He , Fengyu Sun , Di Niu

The exponential growth of the global makeup market has paralleled advancements in virtual makeup simulation technology. Despite the progress led by GANs, their application still encounters significant challenges, including training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Geon Yeong Park , Inhwa Han , Serin Yang , Yeobin Hong , Seongmin Jeong , Heechan Jeon , Myeongjin Goh , Sung Won Yi , Jin Nam , Jong Chul Ye

We introduce StreamDiffusion, a real-time diffusion pipeline designed for interactive image generation. Existing diffusion models are adept at creating images from text or image prompts, yet they often fall short in real-time interaction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Akio Kodaira , Chenfeng Xu , Toshiki Hazama , Takanori Yoshimoto , Kohei Ohno , Shogo Mitsuhori , Soichi Sugano , Hanying Cho , Zhijian Liu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Kurt Keutzer

Soccer is a globally renowned sport with significant applications in video games and VR/AR. However, generating realistic soccer motions remains challenging due to the intricate interactions between the human player and the ball. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Hongdi Yang , Chengyang Li , Zhenxuan Wu , Gaozheng Li , Jingya Wang , Jingyi Yu , Zhuo Su , Lan Xu

In this study, we explore Transformer-based diffusion models for image and video generation. Despite the dominance of Transformer architectures in various fields due to their flexibility and scalability, the visual generative domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Shoufa Chen , Mengmeng Xu , Jiawei Ren , Yuren Cong , Sen He , Yanping Xie , Animesh Sinha , Ping Luo , Tao Xiang , Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua

Autonomous driving systems demand trajectory planners that not only model the inherent uncertainty of future motions but also respect complex temporal dependencies and underlying physical laws. While diffusion-based generative models excel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Hang Zhou , Qiang Zhang , Peiran Liu , Yihao Qin , Zhaoxu Yan , Yiding Ji

In this paper, we present DreaMoving, a diffusion-based controllable video generation framework to produce high-quality customized human videos. Specifically, given target identity and posture sequences, DreaMoving can generate a video of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Mengyang Feng , Jinlin Liu , Kai Yu , Yuan Yao , Zheng Hui , Xiefan Guo , Xianhui Lin , Haolan Xue , Chen Shi , Xiaowen Li , Aojie Li , Xiaoyang Kang , Biwen Lei , Miaomiao Cui , Peiran Ren , Xuansong Xie

AI-generated content has attracted lots of attention recently, but photo-realistic video synthesis is still challenging. Although many attempts using GANs and autoregressive models have been made in this area, the visual quality and length…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yingqing He , Tianyu Yang , Yong Zhang , Ying Shan , Qifeng Chen

Current motion-conditioned video generation methods suffer from prohibitive latency (minutes per video) and non-causal processing that prevents real-time interaction. We present MotionStream, enabling sub-second latency with up to 29 FPS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Joonghyuk Shin , Zhengqi Li , Richard Zhang , Jun-Yan Zhu , Jaesik Park , Eli Shechtman , Xun Huang

We present The Matrix, the first foundational realistic world simulator capable of generating continuous 720p high-fidelity real-scene video streams with real-time, responsive control in both first- and third-person perspectives, enabling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Ruili Feng , Han Zhang , Zhantao Yang , Jie Xiao , Zhilei Shu , Zhiheng Liu , Andy Zheng , Yukun Huang , Yu Liu , Hongyang Zhang