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The rapid evolution of video generation has enabled models to simulate complex physical dynamics and long-horizon causalities, positioning them as potential world simulators. However, a critical gap still remains between the theoretical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Muyang He , Hanzhong Guo , Junxiong Lin , Yizhou Yu

Robotic manipulation requires anticipating how the environment evolves in response to actions, yet most existing systems lack this predictive capability, often resulting in errors and inefficiency. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Songen Gu , Yunuo Cai , Tianyu Wang , Simo Wu , Yanwei Fu

Embodied action planning is a core challenge in robotics, requiring models to generate precise actions from visual observations and language instructions. While video generation world models are promising, their reliance on pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yangcheng Yu , Xin Jin , Yu Shang , Xin Zhang , Haisheng Su , Wei Wu , Yong Li

Video--based world models have emerged along two dominant paradigms: video generation and 3D reconstruction. However, existing evaluation benchmarks either focus narrowly on visual fidelity and text--video alignment for generative models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Meiqi Wu , Zhixin Cai , Fufangchen Zhao , Xiaokun Feng , Rujing Dang , Bingze Song , Ruitian Tian , Jiashu Zhu , Jiachen Lei , Hao Dou , Jing Tang , Lei Sun , Jiahong Wu , Xiangxiang Chu , Zeming Liu , Kaiqi Huang

Automatically generating training supervision for embodied tasks is crucial, as manual designing is tedious and not scalable. While prior works use large language models (LLMs) or vision-language models (VLMs) to generate rewards, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Xiaowen Qiu , Yian Wang , Jiting Cai , Zhehuan Chen , Chunru Lin , Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Chuang Gan

Understanding the physical world is a fundamental challenge in embodied AI, critical for enabling agents to perform complex tasks and operate safely in real-world environments. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown great promise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Wei Chow , Jiageng Mao , Boyi Li , Daniel Seita , Vitor Guizilini , Yue Wang

Video generation models have emerged as high-fidelity models of the physical world, capable of synthesizing high-quality videos capturing fine-grained interactions between agents and their environments conditioned on multi-modal user…

World models are widely explored in embodied intelligence, yet they typically predict distinct evolutions of the world and the ego within a single stream, where the world captures persistent instruction-agnostic scene regularities and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zuyao Lin , Jianhui Zhang , Peidong Jia , Xiaoguang Zhao , Shanghang Zhang , Xingyu Chen

The evolution of video generation toward complex, multi-shot narratives has exposed a critical deficit in current evaluation methods. Existing benchmarks remain anchored to single-shot paradigms, lacking the comprehensive story assets and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Haoyuan Shi , Yunxin Li , Nanhao Deng , Zhenran Xu , Xinyu Chen , Longyue Wang , Baotian Hu , Min Zhang

Video generation assessment is essential for ensuring that generative models produce visually realistic, high-quality videos while aligning with human expectations. Current video generation benchmarks fall into two main categories:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Hui Han , Siyuan Li , Jiaqi Chen , Yiwen Yuan , Yuling Wu , Chak Tou Leong , Hanwen Du , Junchen Fu , Youhua Li , Jie Zhang , Chi Zhang , Li-jia Li , Yongxin Ni

Generative models trained on internet data have revolutionized how text, image, and video content can be created. Perhaps the next milestone for generative models is to simulate realistic experience in response to actions taken by humans,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Sherry Yang , Yilun Du , Kamyar Ghasemipour , Jonathan Tompson , Leslie Kaelbling , Dale Schuurmans , Pieter Abbeel

World models have made significant progress in modeling dynamic environments; however, most embodied world models are still restricted to 2D representations, lacking the comprehensive multi-view information essential for embodied spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Peiyan Tu , Hanxin Zhu , Jingwen Sun , Shaojie Ren , Cong Wang , Jiayi Luo , Xiaoqian Cheng , Zhibo Chen

Reliable anticipation of traffic accidents is essential for advancing autonomous driving systems. However, this objective is limited by two fundamental challenges: the scarcity of diverse, high-quality training data and the frequent absence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yanchen Guan , Haicheng Liao , Chengyue Wang , Xingcheng Liu , Jiaxun Zhang , Zhenning Li

Rapid advances in audio-video (AV) generation have enabled high-fidelity synthesis with synchronized sound, particularly for human-related scenarios involving speech and interactions. Yet evaluation for AV generation remains at an early…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jialiang Yang , Bin Xia , Ruihang Chu , Dingdong Wang , Wanke Xia , Zhun Mou , Tianyang Zhong , Yiting Zhao , Wenming Yang

Humans develop an understanding of intuitive physics through active interaction with the world. This approach is in stark contrast to current video models, such as Sora, which rely on passive observation and therefore struggle with grasping…

Are current Vision Language Models (VLMs) ready to comprehend and reason about complex embodied interactions in 3D environments? We introduce Embodied3DBench, a robot-centric benchmark targeting low-level spatial intelligence in embodied 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jiyao Zhang , Mingxu Zhang , Yitong Peng , Haoxuan Liu , Chenshuo Wang , Yuxing Long , Haoyang Huang , Dongjiang Li , Nan Duan , Hui Shen , Hao Dong

What if a video generation model could not only imagine a plausible future, but the correct one, accurately reflecting how the world changes with each action? We address this question by presenting the Egocentric World Model (EgoWM), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Anurag Bagchi , Zhipeng Bao , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Yu-Xiong Wang , Pavel Tokmakov , Martial Hebert

Large-scale video generative models can synthesize diverse and realistic visual content for dynamic world creation, but they often lack element-wise controllability, hindering their use in editing scenes and training embodied AI agents. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sicheng Mo , Ziyang Leng , Leon Liu , Weizhen Wang , Honglin He , Bolei Zhou

Embodied agents in household environments must plan under partial observation: they need to remember objects, track state changes, and recover when actions fail. Existing benchmarks only partially test this ability. Egocentric video…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Qinchuan Cheng , Zhantao Gong , Pengzhan Sun , Angela Yao , Xulei Yang , Shijie Li

Humans and animals have a rich and flexible understanding of the physical world, which enables them to infer the underlying dynamical trajectories of objects and events, plausible future states, and use that to plan and anticipate the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Aran Nayebi , Rishi Rajalingham , Mehrdad Jazayeri , Guangyu Robert Yang