English
Related papers

Related papers: How Far is Video Generation from World Model: A Ph…

200 papers

Spatio-temporal compression of videos, utilizing networks such as Variational Autoencoders (VAE), plays a crucial role in OpenAI's SORA and numerous other video generative models. For instance, many LLM-like video models learn the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Sijie Zhao , Yong Zhang , Xiaodong Cun , Shaoshu Yang , Muyao Niu , Xiaoyu Li , Wenbo Hu , Ying Shan

Recent advances in diffusion-based video generation have achieved remarkable visual realism but still struggle to obey basic physical laws such as gravity, inertia, and collision. Generated objects often move inconsistently across frames,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Lin Geng Foo , Mark He Huang , Alexandros Lattas , Stylianos Moschoglou , Thabo Beeler , Christian Theobalt

Generating realistic hand-object interactions (HOI) videos is a significant challenge due to the difficulty of modeling physical constraints (e.g., contact and occlusion between hands and manipulated objects). Current methods utilize HOI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Haodong Yan , Hang Yu , Zhide Zhong , Weilin Yuan , Xin Gong , Zehang Luo , Chengxi Heyu , Junfeng Li , Wenxuan Song , Shunbo Zhou , Haoang Li

Human motion synthesis is an important problem with applications in graphics, gaming and simulation environments for robotics. Existing methods require accurate motion capture data for training, which is costly to obtain. Instead, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Kevin Xie , Tingwu Wang , Umar Iqbal , Yunrong Guo , Sanja Fidler , Florian Shkurti

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…

Recent video diffusion models generate photorealistic, temporally coherent videos, yet they fall short as reliable world models for autonomous driving, where structured motion and physically consistent interactions are essential. Adapting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Ahmad Rahimi , Valentin Gerard , Eloi Zablocki , Matthieu Cord , Alexandre Alahi

Videos inherently represent 2D projections of a dynamic 3D world. However, our analysis suggests that video diffusion models trained solely on raw video data often fail to capture meaningful geometric-aware structure in their learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Haoyu Wu , Diankun Wu , Tianyu He , Junliang Guo , Yang Ye , Yueqi Duan , Jiang Bian

With the rapid development of AI-generated content (AIGC), video generation has emerged as one of its most dynamic and impactful subfields. In particular, the advancement of video generation foundation models has led to growing demand for…

In video prediction tasks, one major challenge is to capture the multi-modal nature of future contents and dynamics. In this work, we propose a simple yet effective framework that can efficiently predict plausible future states. The key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Jingwei Xu , Huazhe Xu , Bingbing Ni , Xiaokang Yang , Trevor Darrell

Text-to-video (T2V) models like Sora have made significant strides in visualizing complex prompts, which is increasingly viewed as a promising path towards constructing the universal world simulator. Cognitive psychologists believe that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Fanqing Meng , Jiaqi Liao , Xinyu Tan , Wenqi Shao , Quanfeng Lu , Kaipeng Zhang , Yu Cheng , Dianqi Li , Yu Qiao , Ping Luo

The ability to accurately predict the surrounding environment is a foundational principle of intelligence in biological and artificial agents. In recent years, a variety of approaches have been proposed for learning to predict the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Alberto Cenzato , Alberto Testolin , Marco Zorzi

Generating realistic human videos remains a challenging task, with the most effective methods currently relying on a human motion sequence as a control signal. Existing approaches often use existing motion extracted from other videos, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Hsin-Ping Huang , Yang Zhou , Jui-Hsien Wang , Difan Liu , Feng Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Zhan Xu

The ultimate goal of video generation is to satisfy a fundamental trilemma: achieving high visual quality, maintaining rigorous physical consistency, and enabling precise controllability. While recent models can maintain this balance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Tianshuo Xu , Zhifei Chen , Leyi Wu , Hao Lu , Ying-cong Chen

Video generation is an interesting problem in computer vision. It is quite popular for data augmentation, special effect in move, AR/VR and so on. With the advances of deep learning, many deep generative models have been proposed to solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Tingfung Lau , Sailun Xu , Xinze Wang

Foundation video models produce visually impressive results, but their use in embodied AI remains limited because they are primarily trained on natural language rather than low-level control signals. This limitation is especially pronounced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Abdul Mohaimen Al Radi , Kunyang Li , Yuzhang Shang , Mubarak Shah , Yu Tian

Video generation is one of the most challenging tasks in Machine Learning and Computer Vision fields of study. In this paper, we tackle the text to video generation problem, which is a conditional form of video generation. Humans can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Amir Mazaheri , Mubarak Shah

Video generation has achieved remarkable progress with the introduction of diffusion models, which have significantly improved the quality of generated videos. However, recent research has primarily focused on scaling up model training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Chenyang Si , Weichen Fan , Zhengyao Lv , Ziqi Huang , Yu Qiao , Ziwei Liu

Recent advances in video generation have been dominated by diffusion and flow-matching models, which produce high-quality results but remain computationally intensive and difficult to scale. In this work, we introduce VideoAR, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Longbin Ji , Xiaoxiong Liu , Junyuan Shang , Shuohuan Wang , Yu Sun , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Recent advancements in human video synthesis have enabled the generation of high-quality videos through the application of stable diffusion models. However, existing methods predominantly concentrate on animating solely the human element…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Jinlin Liu , Kai Yu , Mengyang Feng , Xiefan Guo , Miaomiao Cui

Based on life-long observations of physical, chemical, and biologic phenomena in the natural world, humans can often easily picture in their minds what an object will look like in the future. But, what about computers? In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Yipin Zhou , Tamara L. Berg