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We present a new test-time optimization method for estimating dense and long-range motion from a video sequence. Prior optical flow or particle video tracking algorithms typically operate within limited temporal windows, struggling to track…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Qianqian Wang , Yen-Yu Chang , Ruojin Cai , Zhengqi Li , Bharath Hariharan , Aleksander Holynski , Noah Snavely

Human beings are endowed with a complementary learning system, which bridges the slow learning of general world dynamics with fast storage of episodic memory from a new experience. Previous video generation models, however, primarily focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yining Hong , Beide Liu , Maxine Wu , Yuanhao Zhai , Kai-Wei Chang , Linjie Li , Kevin Lin , Chung-Ching Lin , Jianfeng Wang , Zhengyuan Yang , Yingnian Wu , Lijuan Wang

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

Video generation models often operate under the assumption of fixed frame rates, which leads to suboptimal performance when it comes to handling flexible frame rates (e.g., increasing the frame rate of the more dynamic portion of the video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Sunghyun Park , Kangyeol Kim , Junsoo Lee , Jaegul Choo , Joonseok Lee , Sookyung Kim , Edward Choi

Generating long-duration videos has always been a significant challenge due to the inherent complexity of spatio-temporal domain and the substantial GPU memory demands required to calculate huge size tensors. While diffusion based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Siyang Zhang , Ser-Nam Lim

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a challenging task that requires an agent to navigate through photorealistic environments following natural-language instructions. One main obstacle existing in VLN is data scarcity, leading to poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yu Zhong , Rui Zhang , Zihao Zhang , Shuo Wang , Chuan Fang , Xishan Zhang , Jiaming Guo , Shaohui Peng , Di Huang , Yanyang Yan , Xing Hu , Qi Guo

Recent "Thinking with Video" approaches use Video Generation Models (VGMs) for visual reasoning by producing temporally coherent Chain-of-Frames as reasoning artifacts. Even strong VGMs, however, exhibit two recurring failure modes on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Joowon Kim , Seungho Shin , Joonhyung Park , Eunho Yang

Video generation has seen remarkable progress thanks to advancements in generative deep learning. However, generating long sequences remains a significant challenge. Generated videos should not only display coherent and continuous movement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Jingbo Yang , Adrian G. Bors

Automating the detection of anomalous events within long video sequences is challenging due to the ambiguity of how such events are defined. We approach the problem by learning generative models that can identify anomalies in videos using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Jefferson Ryan Medel , Andreas Savakis

With the rapid advancement in video generation, people can conveniently use video generation models to create videos tailored to their specific desires. As a result, there are also growing concerns about the potential misuse of video…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yan Pang , Baicheng Chen , Yang Zhang , Tianhao Wang

Consistency models have demonstrated powerful capability in efficient image generation and allowed synthesis within a few sampling steps, alleviating the high computational cost in diffusion models. However, the consistency model in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Han Zhang , Yu Liu , Yingya Zhang , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

When perceiving the world from multiple viewpoints, humans have the ability to reason about the complete objects in a compositional manner even when an object is completely occluded from certain viewpoints. Meanwhile, humans are able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Chengmin Gao , Bin Li

Spatio-temporal scene graphs provide a principled representation for modeling evolving object interactions, yet existing methods remain fundamentally frame-centric: they reason only about currently visible objects, discard entities upon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Rohith Peddi , Saurabh , Shravan Shanmugam , Likhitha Pallapothula , Yu Xiang , Parag Singla , Vibhav Gogate

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 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

World models are a powerful paradigm in AI and robotics, enabling agents to reason about the future by predicting visual observations or compact latent states. The 1X World Model Challenge introduces an open-source benchmark of real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Riccardo Mereu , Aidan Scannell , Yuxin Hou , Yi Zhao , Aditya Jitta , Antonio Dominguez , Luigi Acerbi , Amos Storkey , Paul Chang

Text-to-Video generation, which utilizes the provided text prompt to generate high-quality videos, has drawn increasing attention and achieved great success due to the development of diffusion models recently. Existing methods mainly rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Zirui Pan , Xin Wang , Yipeng Zhang , Hong Chen , Kwan Man Cheng , Yaofei Wu , Wenwu Zhu

While proprietary systems such as Seedance-2.0 have achieved remarkable success in omni-capable video generation, open-source alternatives significantly lag behind. Most academic models remain heavily fragmented, and the few existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Kaihang Pan , Qi Tian , Jianwei Zhang , Weijie Kong , Jiangfeng Xiong , Yanxin Long , Shixue Zhang , Haiyi Qiu , Tan Wang , Zheqi Lv , Yue Wu , Liefeng Bo , Siliang Tang , Zhao Zhong

A world model enables an intelligent agent to imagine, predict, and reason about how the world evolves in response to its actions, and accordingly to plan and strategize. While recent video generation models produce realistic visual…

Generative video models, a leading approach to world modeling, face fundamental limitations. They often violate physical and logical rules, lack interactivity, and operate as opaque black boxes ill-suited for building structured, queryable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Felix O'Mahony , Roberto Cipolla , Ayush Tewari