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Although humans have the innate ability to imagine multiple possible actions from videos, it remains an extraordinary challenge for computers due to the intricate camera movements and montages. Most existing motion generation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Liangdong Qiu , Chengxing Yu , Yanran Li , Zhao Wang , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Di Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Xiaoguang Han

Can we learn the physics of matter in motion directly from images and video--and trust it? Answering this question requires integrating experiments, physics-based simulation, and data across traditionally separate disciplines. Much of this…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hagen Holthusen , Kevin Linka , Ellen Kuhl

A natural approach to generative modeling of videos is to represent them as a composition of moving objects. Recent works model a set of 2D sprites over a slowly-varying background, but without considering the underlying 3D scene that gives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Paul Henderson , Christoph H. Lampert

Current video diffusion models generate visually compelling content but often violate basic laws of physics, producing subtle artifacts like rubber-sheet deformations and inconsistent object motion. We introduce a frequency-domain physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Bowen Xue , Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera , Shuang Zhao , Zahra Montazeri

Vision and language are the two foundational senses for humans, and they build up our cognitive ability and intelligence. While significant breakthroughs have been made in AI language ability, artificial visual intelligence, especially the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Zangwei Zheng , Xiangyu Peng , Tianji Yang , Chenhui Shen , Shenggui Li , Hongxin Liu , Yukun Zhou , Tianyi Li , Yang You

Generative models hold promise for revolutionizing medical education, robot-assisted surgery, and data augmentation for medical AI development. Diffusion models can now generate realistic images from text prompts, while recent advancements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Weixiang Sun , Xiaocao You , Ruizhe Zheng , Zhengqing Yuan , Xiang Li , Lifang He , Quanzheng Li , Lichao Sun

Recent advances in image and video generation raise hopes that these models possess world modeling capabilities, the ability to generate realistic, physically plausible videos. This could revolutionize applications in robotics, autonomous…

We present a video generation model that accurately reproduces object motion, changes in camera viewpoint, and new content that arises over time. Existing video generation methods often fail to produce new content as a function of time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Tim Brooks , Janne Hellsten , Miika Aittala , Ting-Chun Wang , Timo Aila , Jaakko Lehtinen , Ming-Yu Liu , Alexei A. Efros , Tero Karras

In recent years, there has been rapid development in 3D generation models, opening up new possibilities for applications such as simulating the dynamic movements of 3D objects and customizing their behaviors. However, current 3D generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Fangfu Liu , Hanyang Wang , Shunyu Yao , Shengjun Zhang , Jie Zhou , Yueqi Duan

Building on the momentum of image generation diffusion models, there is an increasing interest in video-based diffusion models. However, video generation poses greater challenges due to its higher-dimensional nature, the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Aimon Rahman , Malsha V. Perera , Vishal M. Patel

In this paper, we teach a machine to discover the laws of physics from video streams. We assume no prior knowledge of physics, beyond a temporal stream of bounding boxes. The problem is very difficult because a machine must learn not only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Pradyumna Chari , Chinmay Talegaonkar , Yunhao Ba , Achuta Kadambi

Recent advances in video generation models have sparked interest in world models capable of simulating realistic environments. While navigation has been well-explored, physically meaningful interactions that mimic real-world forces remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Nate Gillman , Charles Herrmann , Michael Freeman , Daksh Aggarwal , Evan Luo , Deqing Sun , Chen Sun

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…

We explore a novel video creation experience, namely Video Creation by Demonstration. Given a demonstration video and a context image from a different scene, we generate a physically plausible video that continues naturally from the context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Yihong Sun , Hao Zhou , Liangzhe Yuan , Jennifer J. Sun , Yandong Li , Xuhui Jia , Hartwig Adam , Bharath Hariharan , Long Zhao , Ting Liu

Diffusion models have revolutionized generative modeling, enabling unprecedented realism in image and video synthesis. This success has sparked interest in leveraging their representations for visual understanding tasks. While recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Pedro Vélez , Luisa F. Polanía , Yi Yang , Chuhan Zhang , Rishabh Kabra , Anurag Arnab , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi

The recent wave of AI-generated content (AIGC) has witnessed substantial success in computer vision, with the diffusion model playing a crucial role in this achievement. Due to their impressive generative capabilities, diffusion models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Zhen Xing , Qijun Feng , Haoran Chen , Qi Dai , Han Hu , Hang Xu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Video generation models have progressed tremendously through large latent diffusion transformers trained with rectified flow techniques. Yet these models still struggle with geometric inconsistencies, unstable motion, and visual artifacts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Orest Kupyn , Fabian Manhardt , Federico Tombari , Christian Rupprecht

Video generation models are increasingly used as world simulators for storytelling, simulation, and embodied AI. As these models advance, a key question arises: do generated videos obey the physical laws of the real world? Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Qin Zhang , Peiyu Jing , Hong-Xing Yu , Fangqiang Ding , Fan Nie , Weimin Wang , Yilun Du , James Zou , Jiajun Wu , Bing Shuai

World models, which predict future transitions from past observation and action sequences, have shown great promise for improving data efficiency in sequential decision-making. However, existing world models often require extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Siqiao Huang , Jialong Wu , Qixing Zhou , Shangchen Miao , Mingsheng Long

The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) has revolutionized video generation, enabling systems ranging from proprietary pioneers like OpenAI's Sora, Google's Veo3, and Bytedance's Seedance to powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Teng Hu , Jiangning Zhang , Hongrui Huang , Ran Yi , Zihan Su , Jieyu Weng , Zhucun Xue , Lizhuang Ma , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Dacheng Tao