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Despite recent advances in Visual QuestionAnswering (VQA), it remains a challenge todetermine how much success can be attributedto sound reasoning and comprehension ability.We seek to investigate this question by propos-ing a new task…

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Recent advances in creative AI have enabled the synthesis of high-fidelity images and videos conditioned on language instructions. Building on these developments, text-to-video diffusion models have evolved into embodied world models (EWMs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hu Yue , Siyuan Huang , Yue Liao , Shengcong Chen , Pengfei Zhou , Liliang Chen , Maoqing Yao , Guanghui Ren

While large language models (LLMs) promise to revolutionize automated scientific discovery, their application in rigorous real-world physical research is stalled by two critical barriers: a lack of realistic evaluation benchmarks and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Ken Deng , Xiangfei Wang , Guijing Duan , Chen Mo , Junkun Huang , Runqing Zhang , Ling Qian , Zhiguo Huang , Jize Han , Di Luo

Text-to-3D (T23D) generation has emerged as a crucial visual generation task, aiming at synthesizing 3D content from textual descriptions. Studies of this task are currently shifting from per-scene T23D, which requires optimization of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Xiao Cai , Sitong Su , Jingkuan Song , Pengpeng Zeng , Ji Zhang , Qinhong Du , Mengqi Li , Heng Tao Shen , Lianli Gao

Text-to-Image generation has evolved from basic image synthesis into a frequently used core capability in professional creative workflows, where simple text-image alignment can no longer satisfy users' pressing demands for faithful…

Modern video generative models produce visually impressive results, yet frequently violate basic physical principles. We propose Proprio, a training-free framework that enables a frozen video generator to assess and improve the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Mariam Hassan , Kaouther Messaoud , Wuyang Li , Alexandre Alahi

Despite significant progress in generative AI, comprehensive evaluation remains challenging because of the lack of effective metrics and standardized benchmarks. For instance, the widely-used CLIPScore measures the alignment between a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Zhiqiu Lin , Deepak Pathak , Baiqi Li , Jiayao Li , Xide Xia , Graham Neubig , Pengchuan Zhang , Deva Ramanan

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have achieved remarkable progress across various capabilities; however, complex video reasoning in the scientific domain remains a significant and challenging frontier. Current video benchmarks predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Andong Deng , Taojiannan Yang , Shoubin Yu , Lincoln Spencer , Mohit Bansal , Chen Chen , Serena Yeung-Levy , Xiaohan Wang

Video generation models nowadays are capable of generating visually realistic videos, but often fail to adhere to physical laws, limiting their ability to generate physically plausible videos and serve as ''world models''. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Sihui Ji , Xi Chen , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Hengshuang Zhao

Evaluating the nuanced human-centric video understanding capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) remains a great challenge, as existing benchmarks often overlook the intricacies of emotion, behavior, and cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ting Zhou , Daoyuan Chen , Qirui Jiao , Bolin Ding , Yaliang Li , Ying Shen

Text-to-video (T2V) generation technology holds potential to transform multiple domains such as education, marketing, entertainment, and assistive technologies for individuals with visual or reading comprehension challenges, by creating…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Nilay Kumar , Priyansh Bhandari , G. Maragatham

Existing single-image 3D indoor scene generators often produce results that look visually plausible but fail to obey real-world physics, limiting their reliability in robotics, embodied AI, and design. To examine this gap, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Dongli Wu , Jingyu Hu , Ka-Hei Hui , Xiaobao Wei , Chengwen Luo , Jianqiang Li , Zhengzhe Liu

The vision and language generative models have been overgrown in recent years. For video generation, various open-sourced models and public-available services have been developed to generate high-quality videos. However, these methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yaofang Liu , Xiaodong Cun , Xuebo Liu , Xintao Wang , Yong Zhang , Haoxin Chen , Yang Liu , Tieyong Zeng , Raymond Chan , Ying Shan

As large language models have demonstrated impressive performance in many domains, recent works have adopted language models (LMs) as controllers of visual modules for vision-and-language tasks. While existing work focuses on equipping LMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Jaemin Cho , Abhay Zala , Mohit Bansal

A primary bottleneck in large-scale text-to-video generation today is physical consistency and controllability. Despite recent advances, state-of-the-art models often produce unrealistic motions, such as objects falling upward, or abrupt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yu Yuan , Xijun Wang , Tharindu Wickremasinghe , Zeeshan Nadir , Bole Ma , Stanley H. Chan

We propose T2I-ReasonBench, a benchmark evaluating reasoning capabilities of text-to-image (T2I) models. It consists of four dimensions: Idiom Interpretation, Textual Image Design, Entity-Reasoning and Scientific-Reasoning. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kaiyue Sun , Rongyao Fang , Chengqi Duan , Xian Liu , Xihui Liu

Existing vision-language understanding benchmarks largely consist of images of objects in their usual contexts. As a consequence, recent multimodal large language models can perform well with only a shallow visual understanding by relying…

Video generation has many unique challenges beyond those of image generation. The temporal dimension introduces extensive possible variations across frames, over which consistency and continuity may be violated. In this study, we move…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Weixi Feng , Jiachen Li , Michael Saxon , Tsu-jui Fu , Wenhu Chen , William Yang Wang

Vision-language-action models have advanced rapidly, but robot trajectories alone provide limited coverage for learning broad physical understanding. PhysBrain 1.0 studies a complementary route: converting large-scale human egocentric video…