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We introduce World Consistency Score (WCS), a novel unified evaluation metric for generative video models that emphasizes internal world consistency of the generated videos. WCS integrates four interpretable sub-components - object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Akshat Rakheja , Aarsh Ashdhir , Aryan Bhattacharjee , Vanshika Sharma

Video prediction is increasingly viewed as a path toward generalizable world models, yet it remains unclear whether these systems learn underlying causal structure or merely exploit superficial visual correlations for future prediction. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 León Begiristain , Olaf Dünkel , Adam Kortylewski

The goal of this work is to generate step-by-step visual instructions in the form of a sequence of images, given an input image that provides the scene context and the sequence of textual instructions. This is a challenging problem as it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Tomáš Souček , Prajwal Gatti , Michael Wray , Ivan Laptev , Dima Damen , Josef Sivic

Recent advancements in predictive models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in predicting the future state of objects and scenes. However, the lack of categorization based on inherent characteristics continues to hinder the progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yiran Qin , Zhelun Shi , Jiwen Yu , Xijun Wang , Enshen Zhou , Lijun Li , Zhenfei Yin , Xihui Liu , Lu Sheng , Jing Shao , Lei Bai , Wanli Ouyang , Ruimao Zhang

Video generation models (VGMs) are rapidly entering classrooms, yet existing benchmarks evaluate only perceptual quality, intrinsic faithfulness, generic safety, or video as a reasoning medium, and none assesses whether the outputs are…

Recent advances in deep generative models have lead to remarkable progress in synthesizing high quality images. Following their successful application in image processing and representation learning, an important next step is to consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Thomas Unterthiner , Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Karol Kurach , Raphael Marinier , Marcin Michalski , Sylvain Gelly

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

Recent progress in driving video generation has shown significant potential for enhancing self-driving systems by providing scalable and controllable training data. Although pretrained state-of-the-art generation models, guided by 2D layout…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yishen Ji , Ziyue Zhu , Zhenxin Zhu , Kaixin Xiong , Ming Lu , Zhiqi Li , Lijun Zhou , Haiyang Sun , Bing Wang , Tong Lu

Recent advances in generative modeling can create remarkably realistic synthetic videos, making it increasingly difficult for humans to distinguish them from real ones and necessitating reliable detection methods. However, two key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Long Ma , Zihao Xue , Yan Wang , Zhiyuan Yan , Jin Xu , Xiaorui Jiang , Haiyang Yu , Yong Liao , Zhen Bi

Generating geometrically consistent videos remains an open challenge: text-to-video diffusion models trained on web-scale data treat geometry only implicitly, leading to object deformation, texture drift, and non-rigid backgrounds under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jan Ackermann , Shengqu Cai , Boyang Deng , Zhengfei Kuang , Songyou Peng , Gordon Wetzstein

Recent advancements in video generation have been remarkable, yet many existing methods struggle with issues of consistency and poor text-video alignment. Moreover, the field lacks effective techniques for text-guided video inpainting, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Bojia Zi , Shihao Zhao , Xianbiao Qi , Jianan Wang , Yukai Shi , Qianyu Chen , Bin Liang , Kam-Fai Wong , Lei Zhang

While generative video models have achieved remarkable visual fidelity, their capacity to internalize and reason over implicit world rules remains a critical yet under-explored frontier. To bridge this gap, we present RISE-Video, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Mingxin Liu , Shuran Ma , Shibei Meng , Xiangyu Zhao , Zicheng Zhang , Shaofeng Zhang , Zhihang Zhong , Peixian Chen , Haoyu Cao , Xing Sun , Haodong Duan , Xue Yang

Recent progress in video generation has led to impressive visual quality, yet current models still struggle to produce results that align with real-world physical principles. To this end, we propose an iterative self-refinement framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yang Liu , Xilin Zhao , Peisong Wen , Siran Dai , Qingming Huang

Despite progress in video large language models (Video-LLMs), research on instructional video understanding, crucial for enhancing access to instructional content, remains insufficient. To address this, we introduce InstructionBench, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Haiwan Wei , Yitian Yuan , Xiaohan Lan , Wei Ke , Lin Ma

While text-to-video (T2V) generation has achieved remarkable progress in photorealism, generating intent-aligned videos that faithfully obey physics principles remains a core challenge. In this work, we systematically study Newtonian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Xiangyu Bai , He Liang , Bishoy Galoaa , Utsav Nandi , Shayda Moezzi , Yuhang He , Sarah Ostadabbas

Recent advances in video generation have shown remarkable potential for constructing world simulators. However, current models still struggle to produce physically consistent results, particularly when handling large-scale or complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zijun Wang , Panwen Hu , Jing Wang , Terry Jingchen Zhang , Yuhao Cheng , Long Chen , Yiqiang Yan , Zutao Jiang , Hanhui Li , Xiaodan Liang

Long-form video generation is rapidly moving from short, single-scene synthesis toward minute-long, multi-shot creation with narrative structure, cinematic control, audio, and cross-modal synchronization. However, evaluating such videos…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jiamin Chen , Qianben Chen , Jiawen Zhang , Yidi Wu , Yuchen Li , Xiaokun Zhang , Wangchunshu Zhou , Chen Ma

Current benchmarks for evaluating the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) face significant limitations: task oversimplification, data contamination, and flawed evaluation items. These deficiencies necessitate more…

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

The evolution of video generation toward complex, multi-shot narratives has exposed a critical deficit in current evaluation methods. Existing benchmarks remain anchored to single-shot paradigms, lacking the comprehensive story assets and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Haoyuan Shi , Yunxin Li , Nanhao Deng , Zhenran Xu , Xinyu Chen , Longyue Wang , Baotian Hu , Min Zhang