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A key challenge in manipulation is learning a policy that can robustly generalize to diverse visual environments. A promising mechanism for learning robust policies is to leverage video generative models, which are pretrained on large-scale…

High-quality video generation, encompassing text-to-video (T2V), image-to-video (I2V), and video-to-video (V2V) generation, holds considerable significance in content creation to benefit anyone express their inherent creativity in new ways…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Ailing Zeng , Yuhang Yang , Weidong Chen , Wei Liu

Generating temporally coherent high fidelity video is an important milestone in generative modeling research. We make progress towards this milestone by proposing a diffusion model for video generation that shows very promising initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Jonathan Ho , Tim Salimans , Alexey Gritsenko , William Chan , Mohammad Norouzi , David J. Fleet

Video-based world models have recently garnered increasing attention for their ability to synthesize diverse and dynamic visual environments. In this paper, we focus on shared world modeling, where a model generates multiple videos from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Fan Wu , Jiacheng Wei , Ruibo Li , Yi Xu , Junyou Li , Deheng Ye , Guosheng Lin

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

Large-scale pre-trained diffusion models have exhibited remarkable capabilities in diverse video generations. Given a set of video clips of the same motion concept, the task of Motion Customization is to adapt existing text-to-video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Rui Zhao , Yuchao Gu , Jay Zhangjie Wu , David Junhao Zhang , Jiawei Liu , Weijia Wu , Jussi Keppo , Mike Zheng Shou

World models simulate future states of the world in response to different actions. They facilitate interactive content creation and provides a foundation for grounded, long-horizon reasoning. Current foundation models do not fully meet the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jiannan Xiang , Guangyi Liu , Yi Gu , Qiyue Gao , Yuting Ning , Yuheng Zha , Zeyu Feng , Tianhua Tao , Shibo Hao , Yemin Shi , Zhengzhong Liu , Eric P. Xing , Zhiting Hu

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 tackle the long video generation problem, i.e.~generating videos beyond the output length of video generation models. Due to the computation resource constraints, video generation models can only generate video clips that are relatively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Hsin-Ping Huang , Yu-Chuan Su , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Diffusion generative models have recently become a powerful technique for creating and modifying high-quality, coherent video content. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of the critical components of diffusion models for video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Andrew Melnik , Michal Ljubljanac , Cong Lu , Qi Yan , Weiming Ren , Helge Ritter

Diffusion models have marked a significant milestone in the enhancement of image and video generation technologies. However, generating videos that precisely retain the shape and location of moving objects such as robots remains a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Peng Wang , Zhihao Guo , Abdul Latheef Sait , Minh Huy Pham

The accelerating advancement of generative models has introduced new challenges for detecting AI-generated images, especially in real-world scenarios where novel generation techniques emerge rapidly. Existing learning paradigms are likely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Qinghui He , Haifeng Zhang , Xiuli Bi , Bo Liu , Chi-Man Pun , Bin Xiao

While recent years have witnessed great progress on using diffusion models for video generation, most of them are simple extensions of image generation frameworks, which fail to explicitly consider one of the key differences between videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Jingyun Liang , Yuchen Fan , Kai Zhang , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool , Rakesh Ranjan

Large-scale video generation models have demonstrated emergent physical coherence, positioning them as potential world models. However, a gap remains between contemporary "stateless" video architectures and classic state-centric world model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Luozhou Wang , Zhifei Chen , Yihua Du , Dongyu Yan , Wenhang Ge , Guibao Shen , Xinli Xu , Leyi Wu , Man Chen , Tianshuo Xu , Peiran Ren , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Ying-Cong Chen

We present a framework for video modeling based on denoising diffusion probabilistic models that produces long-duration video completions in a variety of realistic environments. We introduce a generative model that can at test-time sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 William Harvey , Saeid Naderiparizi , Vaden Masrani , Christian Weilbach , Frank Wood

Video generation models have shown strong potential as world models for autonomous driving simulation. However, existing approaches are primarily trained on real-world driving datasets, which mostly contain natural and safe driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jiawei Zhou , Zhenxin Zhu , Lingyi Du , Linye Lyu , Lijun Zhou , Zhanqian Wu , Hongcheng Luo , Zhuotao Tian , Bing Wang , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Haiyang Sun , Yu Li

Achieving semantic alignment across diverse video generation conditions remains a significant challenge. Methods that rely on explicit structural guidance often enforce rigid spatial constraints that limit semantic flexibility, whereas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Zexi Wu , Baolu Li , Jing Dai , Yiming Zhang , Yue Ma , Qinghe Wang , Xu Jia , Hongming Xu

Recent successful video generation systems that predict and create realistic automotive driving scenes from short video inputs assign tokenization, future state prediction (world model), and video decoding to dedicated models. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Björn Möller , Zhengyang Li , Malte Stelzer , Thomas Graave , Fabian Bettels , Muaaz Ataya , Tim Fingscheidt

Reconstructing dynamic 3D scenes (i.e., 4D geometry) from monocular video is an important yet challenging problem. Conventional multiview geometry-based approaches often struggle with dynamic motion, whereas recent learning-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Jinjie Mai , Wenxuan Zhu , Haozhe Liu , Bing Li , Cheng Zheng , Jürgen Schmidhuber , Bernard Ghanem

Understanding and predicting dynamics of the physical world can enhance a robot's ability to plan and interact effectively in complex environments. While recent video generation models have shown strong potential in modeling dynamic scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zeyi Liu , Shuang Li , Eric Cousineau , Siyuan Feng , Benjamin Burchfiel , Shuran Song