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Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful generative method for synthesizing high-quality and diverse set of images. In this paper, we propose a video generation method based on diffusion models, where the effects of motion are modeled in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Kangfu Mei , Vishal M. Patel

Trained on internet-scale video data, generative world models are increasingly recognized as powerful world simulators that can generate consistent and plausible dynamics over structure, motion, and physics. This raises a natural question:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Kevin Zhang , Kuangzhi Ge , Xiaowei Chi , Renrui Zhang , Shaojun Shi , Zhen Dong , Sirui Han , Shanghang Zhang

The pursuit of general-purpose embodied agents is hindered by fragmented evaluation protocols that isolate navigation skills and fixate on specific robot morphologies, failing to reflect real-world scenarios where agents must orchestrate…

Action-conditioned world models are increasingly used as scalable simulators for robot learning, yet current evaluations provide limited evidence that their predictions are reliable under the actions they condition on. Existing benchmarks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tianzhuo Yang , Zihan Shen , Zirui Mi , Zhaoyi Zhang , Jiayi Zhou , Jiaming Ji , Juntao Dai , Jiawei Chen , Boyuan Chen , Yaodong Yang

Large video models, pretrained on massive amounts of Internet video, provide a rich source of physical knowledge about the dynamics and motions of objects and tasks. However, video models are not grounded in the embodiment of an agent, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yunhao Luo , Yilun Du

Scalable AI agents training relies on interactive environments that faithfully simulate the consequences of agent actions. Manually crafted environments are expensive to build, brittle to extend, and fundamentally limited in diversity. A…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yi Liu , TingFeng Hui , Wei Zhang , Li Sun , Ningxin Su , Jian Wang , Sen Su

Thanks to recent advancements in scalable deep architectures and large-scale pretraining, text-to-video generation has achieved unprecedented capabilities in producing high-fidelity, instruction-following content across a wide range of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Xuyang Guo , Jiayan Huo , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Jiahao Zhang , Jiale Zhao

As Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) advance, multimodal agents show promise in real-world tasks like web navigation and embodied intelligence. However, due to limitations in a lack of external feedback, these agents struggle with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Tianyi Men , Zhuoran Jin , Pengfei Cao , Yubo Chen , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

We introduce CameraBench, a large-scale dataset and benchmark designed to assess and improve camera motion understanding. CameraBench consists of ~3,000 diverse internet videos, annotated by experts through a rigorous multi-stage quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Zhiqiu Lin , Siyuan Cen , Daniel Jiang , Jay Karhade , Hewei Wang , Chancharik Mitra , Tiffany Ling , Yuhan Huang , Sifan Liu , Mingyu Chen , Rushikesh Zawar , Xue Bai , Yilun Du , Chuang Gan , Deva Ramanan

Recent advances in unified multimodal models (UMMs) have enabled impressive progress in visual comprehension and generation. However, existing datasets and benchmarks focus primarily on single-turn interactions, failing to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Wei Chow , Jiachun Pan , Yongyuan Liang , Mingze Zhou , Xue Song , Liyu Jia , Saining Zhang , Siliang Tang , Juncheng Li , Fengda Zhang , Weijia Wu , Hanwang Zhang , Tat-Seng Chua

This paper describes our research on AI agents embodied in visual, virtual or physical forms, enabling them to interact with both users and their environments. These agents, which include virtual avatars, wearable devices, and robots, are…

World simulators can provide safe and scalable environments for training Physical AI systems before real-world deployment. Large video generation models are emerging as a promising basis for such simulators because they can generate diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Pu Zhao , Juyi Lin , Timothy Rupprecht , Arash Akbari , Chence Yang , Rahul Chowdhury , Elaheh Motamedi , Arman Akbari , Yumei He , Chen Wang , Geng Yuan , Weiwei Chen , Yanzhi Wang

We introduce RynnEC, a video multimodal large language model designed for embodied cognition. Built upon a general-purpose vision-language foundation model, RynnEC incorporates a region encoder and a mask decoder, enabling flexible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Ronghao Dang , Yuqian Yuan , Yunxuan Mao , Kehan Li , Jiangpin Liu , Zhikai Wang , Xin Li , Fan Wang , Deli Zhao

Vision-language-action models have advanced robotic manipulation but remain constrained by reliance on the large, teleoperation-collected datasets dominated by the static, tabletop scenes. We propose a simulation-first framework to verify…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Wenbo Wang , Fangyun Wei , QiXiu Li , Xi Chen , Yaobo Liang , Chang Xu , Jiaolong Yang , Baining Guo

Recent progress in 3D reconstruction has made it easy to create realistic digital twins from everyday environments. However, current digital twins remain largely static and are limited to navigation and view synthesis without embodied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Byungjun Kim , Taeksoo Kim , Junyoung Lee , Hanbyul Joo

The emergence of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has driven breakthroughs in egocentric vision applications. These applications necessitate persistent, context-aware understanding of objects, as users interact with tools in dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yuqian Yuan , Ronghao Dang , Long Li , Wentong Li , Dian Jiao , Xin Li , Deli Zhao , Fan Wang , Wenqiao Zhang , Jun Xiao , Yueting Zhuang

Visually-guided image editing, where edits are conditioned on both visual cues and textual prompts, has emerged as a powerful paradigm for fine-grained, controllable content generation. Although recent generative models have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sara Ghazanfari , Wei-An Lin , Haitong Tian , Ersin Yumer

This thesis introduces "Embodied Spatial Intelligence" to address the challenge of creating robots that can perceive and act in the real world based on natural language instructions. To bridge the gap between Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jiading Fang

The realization of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) necessitates Embodied AI agents capable of robust spatial perception, effective task planning, and adaptive execution in physical environments. However, current large language models…

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) show promising results as decision-making engines for embodied agents operating in complex, physical environments. However, existing benchmarks often prioritize high-level planning or spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Dayong Liu , Chao Xu , Weihong Chen , Suyu Zhang , Juncheng Wang , Jiankang Deng , Baigui Sun , Yang Liu