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Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) generation have achieved impressive results, yet existing models still struggle with prompts that require rich world knowledge and implicit reasoning: both of which are critical for producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Daoan Zhang , Che Jiang , Ruoshi Xu , Biaoxiang Chen , Zijian Jin , Yutian Lu , Jianguo Zhang , Liang Yong , Jiebo Luo , Shengda Luo

Despite impressive progress in video generation, existing models remain limited to surface-level plausibility, lacking a coherent and unified understanding of the world. Prior approaches typically incorporate only a single form of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Boming Tan , Xiangdong Zhang , Ning Liao , Yuqing Zhang , Shaofeng Zhang , Xue Yang , Qi Fan , Yanyong Zhang

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

World models and video generation are pivotal technologies in the domain of autonomous driving, each playing a critical role in enhancing the robustness and reliability of autonomous systems. World models, which simulate the dynamics of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Ao Fu , Yi Zhou , Tao Zhou , Yi Yang , Bojun Gao , Qun Li , Guobin Wu , Ling Shao

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

World modeling has become a cornerstone in AI research, enabling agents to understand, represent, and predict the dynamic environments they inhabit. While prior work largely emphasizes generative methods for 2D image and video data, they…

The rapid advancement of video generation models has made it increasingly challenging to distinguish AI-generated videos from real ones. This issue underscores the urgent need for effective AI-generated video detectors to prevent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Zhenliang Ni , Qiangyu Yan , Mouxiao Huang , Tianning Yuan , Yehui Tang , Hailin Hu , Xinghao Chen , Yunhe Wang

The recent rapid advancement of Text-to-Video (T2V) generation technologies are engaging the trained models with more world model ability, making the existing benchmarks increasingly insufficient to evaluate state-of-the-art T2V models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Zeqing Wang , Xinyu Wei , Bairui Li , Zhen Guo , Jinrui Zhang , Hongyang Wei , Keze Wang , Lei Zhang

With the rapid advancement of autonomous driving technology, a lack of data has become a major obstacle to enhancing perception model accuracy. Researchers are now exploring controllable data generation using world models to diversify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Xinqing Li , Ruiqi Song , Qingyu Xie , Ye Wu , Nanxin Zeng , Yunfeng Ai

Humans are known to have an internal "world model" that enables us to carry out action planning based on world states. AI agents need to have such a world model for action planning as well. It is not clear how current AI models, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Delong Chen , Willy Chung , Yejin Bang , Ziwei Ji , Pascale Fung

Reliable anticipation of traffic accidents is essential for advancing autonomous driving systems. However, this objective is limited by two fundamental challenges: the scarcity of diverse, high-quality training data and the frequent absence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yanchen Guan , Haicheng Liao , Chengyue Wang , Xingcheng Liu , Jiaxun Zhang , Zhenning Li

Interactive video generation models such as Genie, YUME, HY-World, and Matrix-Game are advancing rapidly, yet every model is evaluated on its own benchmark with private scenes and trajectories, making fair cross-model comparison impossible.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Xiaojie Xu , Zhengyuan Lin , Kang He , Yukang Feng , Xiaofeng Mao , Yuanyang Yin , Kaipeng Zhang , Yongtao Ge

Recent progress in text-to-video (T2V) generation has enabled the synthesis of visually compelling and temporally coherent videos from natural language. However, these models often fall short in basic physical commonsense, producing outputs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Enes Sanli , Baris Sarper Tezcan , Aykut Erdem , Erkut Erdem

Understanding fine-grained temporal dynamics is crucial for multimodal video comprehension and generation. Due to the lack of fine-grained temporal annotations, existing video benchmarks mostly resemble static image benchmarks and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Mu Cai , Reuben Tan , Jianrui Zhang , Bocheng Zou , Kai Zhang , Feng Yao , Fangrui Zhu , Jing Gu , Yiwu Zhong , Yuzhang Shang , Yao Dou , Jaden Park , Jianfeng Gao , Yong Jae Lee , Jianwei Yang

Recent advances in large-scale video world models have enabled increasingly realistic future prediction, raising the prospect of using generated videos as scalable supervision for robot learning. However, for embodied manipulation,…

Large-scale video generative models, capable of creating realistic videos of diverse visual concepts, are strong candidates for general-purpose physical world simulators. However, their adherence to physical commonsense across real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hritik Bansal , Clark Peng , Yonatan Bitton , Roman Goldenberg , Aditya Grover , Kai-Wei Chang

World models have become a central paradigm for learning predictive simulators that support generation, planning, and decision-making. Yet, despite rapid progress in industry-scale interactive video generation, the broader research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Siqiao Huang , Partha Kaushik , Michael Chen , Hengkai Pan , Kaiwen Geng , Omar Chehab , Fernando Moreno-Pino , Max Simchowitz

Rapid advances in audio-video (AV) generation have enabled high-fidelity synthesis with synchronized sound, particularly for human-related scenarios involving speech and interactions. Yet evaluation for AV generation remains at an early…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jialiang Yang , Bin Xia , Ruihang Chu , Dingdong Wang , Wanke Xia , Zhun Mou , Tianyang Zhong , Yiting Zhao , Wenming Yang

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

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have demonstrated outstanding capabilities in various visual perception tasks, which has in turn made the evaluation of LMMs significant. However, the capability of video aesthetic quality assessment, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yunhao Li , Sijing Wu , Zhilin Gao , Zicheng Zhang , Qi Jia , Huiyu Duan , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai