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Commercial video generation systems such as Seedance2.0 and Veo3.1 have rapidly improved, strengthening the view that video generators may be evolving into "world simulators." Yet the community still lacks a benchmark that directly tests…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Keming Wu , Yijing Cui , Wenhan Xue , Qijie Wang , Xuan Luo , Zhiyuan Feng , Zuhao Yang , Sudong Wang , Sicong Jiang , Haowei Zhu , Zihan Wang , Ping Nie , Wenhu Chen , Bin Wang

The ability to simulate the effects of future actions on the world is a crucial ability of intelligent embodied agents, enabling agents to anticipate the effects of their actions and make plans accordingly. While a large body of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Siyuan Zhou , Yilun Du , Yuncong Yang , Lei Han , Peihao Chen , Dit-Yan Yeung , Chuang Gan

World models play a crucial role in understanding and predicting the dynamics of the world, which is essential for video generation. However, existing world models are confined to specific scenarios such as gaming or driving, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Boyuan Wang , Xinze Chen , Jiwen Lu

Video generation has advanced rapidly, improving evaluation methods, yet assessing video's motion remains a major challenge. Specifically, there are two key issues: 1) current motion metrics do not fully align with human perceptions; 2) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Xinran Ling , Chen Zhu , Meiqi Wu , Hangyu Li , Xiaokun Feng , Cundian Yang , Aiming Hao , Jiashu Zhu , Jiahong Wu , Xiangxiang Chu

The enhancement of generalization in robots by large vision-language models (LVLMs) is increasingly evident. Therefore, the embodied cognitive abilities of LVLMs based on egocentric videos are of great interest. However, current datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Ronghao Dang , Yuqian Yuan , Wenqi Zhang , Yifei Xin , Boqiang Zhang , Long Li , Liuyi Wang , Qinyang Zeng , Xin Li , Lidong Bing

As world models gain momentum in Embodied AI, an increasing number of works explore using video foundation models as predictive world models for downstream embodied tasks like 3D prediction or interactive generation. However, before…

The pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI) has placed embodied intelligence at the forefront of robotics research. Embodied intelligence focuses on agents capable of perceiving, reasoning, and acting within the physical world.…

Video generative models pre-trained on large-scale internet datasets have achieved remarkable success, excelling at producing realistic synthetic videos. However, they often generate clips based on static prompts (e.g., text or images),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Haoran He , Yang Zhang , Liang Lin , Zhongwen Xu , Ling Pan

Video generation models, as one form of world models, have emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers in AI, promising agents the ability to imagine the future by modeling the temporal evolution of complex scenes. In autonomous driving,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yang Zhou , Hao Shao , Letian Wang , Zhuofan Zong , Hongsheng Li , Steven L. Waslander

Video generation has witnessed significant advancements, yet evaluating these models remains a challenge. A comprehensive evaluation benchmark for video generation is indispensable for two reasons: 1) Existing metrics do not fully align…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Ziqi Huang , Yinan He , Jiashuo Yu , Fan Zhang , Chenyang Si , Yuming Jiang , Yuanhan Zhang , Tianxing Wu , Qingyang Jin , Nattapol Chanpaisit , Yaohui Wang , Xinyuan Chen , Limin Wang , Dahua Lin , Yu Qiao , Ziwei Liu

Recent advances in visual generative models have highlighted the promise of learning generative world models. However, most existing approaches frame world modeling as novel-view synthesis or future-frame prediction, emphasizing visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yifan Yin , Zehao Wen , Jieneng Chen , Zehan Zheng , Nanru Dai , Haojun Shi , Suyu Ye , Aydan Huang , Zheyuan Zhang , Alan Yuille , Jianwen Xie , Ayush Tewari , Tianmin Shu

World Generation Models are emerging as a cornerstone of next-generation multimodal intelligence systems. Unlike traditional 2D visual generation, World Models aim to construct realistic, dynamic, and physically consistent 3D/4D worlds from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yiting Lu , Wei Luo , Peiyan Tu , Haoran Li , Hanxin Zhu , Zihao Yu , Xingrui Wang , Xinyi Chen , Xinge Peng , Xin Li , Zhibo Chen

Video generation has witnessed significant advancements, yet evaluating these models remains a challenge. A comprehensive evaluation benchmark for video generation is indispensable for two reasons: 1) Existing metrics do not fully align…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Ziqi Huang , Fan Zhang , Xiaojie Xu , Yinan He , Jiashuo Yu , Ziyue Dong , Qianli Ma , Nattapol Chanpaisit , Chenyang Si , Yuming Jiang , Yaohui Wang , Xinyuan Chen , Ying-Cong Chen , Limin Wang , Dahua Lin , Yu Qiao , Ziwei Liu

Video generation has advanced significantly, evolving from producing unrealistic outputs to generating videos that appear visually convincing and temporally coherent. To evaluate these video generative models, benchmarks such as VBench have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Dian Zheng , Ziqi Huang , Hongbo Liu , Kai Zou , Yinan He , Fan Zhang , Lulu Gu , Yuanhan Zhang , Jingwen He , Wei-Shi Zheng , Yu Qiao , Ziwei Liu

Text-to-video (T2V) models have shown remarkable performance in generating visually reasonable scenes, while their capability to leverage world knowledge for ensuring semantic consistency and factual accuracy remains largely understudied.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yubin Chen , Xuyang Guo , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Jiahao Zhang

World models have recently re-emerged as a central paradigm for embodied intelligence, robotics, autonomous driving, and model-based reinforcement learning. However, current world model research is often dominated by three partially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Sen Cui , Jingheng Ma

World models have become a central paradigm for learning predictive simulators that support generation, planning, and decision-making. Yet, despite rapid progress in industry-scale interactive video generation, the broader research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Siqiao Huang , Partha Kaushik , Michael Chen , Hengkai Pan , Kaiwen Geng , Omar Chehab , Fernando Moreno-Pino , Max Simchowitz

Several families of continual learning techniques have been proposed to alleviate catastrophic interference in deep neural network training on non-stationary data. However, a comprehensive comparison and analysis of limitations remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Timm Hess , Martin Mundt , Iuliia Pliushch , Visvanathan Ramesh

Generative world models are reshaping embodied AI, enabling agents to synthesize realistic 4D driving environments that look convincing but often fail physically or behaviorally. Despite rapid progress, the field still lacks a unified way…

Embodied world models have emerged as a promising paradigm in robotics, most of which leverage large-scale Internet videos or pretrained video generation models to enrich visual and motion priors. However, they still face key challenges: a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yixiang Chen , Peiyan Li , Jiabing Yang , Keji He , Xiangnan Wu , Yuan Xu , Kai Wang , Jing Liu , Nianfeng Liu , Yan Huang , Liang Wang