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The vision and language generative models have been overgrown in recent years. For video generation, various open-sourced models and public-available services have been developed to generate high-quality videos. However, these methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yaofang Liu , Xiaodong Cun , Xuebo Liu , Xintao Wang , Yong Zhang , Haoxin Chen , Yang Liu , Tieyong Zeng , Raymond Chan , Ying Shan

High-quality benchmarks are crucial for driving progress in machine learning research. However, despite the growing interest in video generation, there is no comprehensive dataset to evaluate human generation. Humans can perform a wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Emanuele Bugliarello , Anurag Arnab , Roni Paiss , Pieter-Jan Kindermans , Cordelia Schmid

Text-to-video generative models convert textual prompts into dynamic visual content, offering wide-ranging applications in film production, gaming, and education. However, their real-world performance often falls short of user expectations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Wenhao Wang , Yi Yang

Modern foundational Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and video world models have advanced significantly in mathematical, common-sense, and visual reasoning, but their grasp of the underlying physics remains underexplored. Existing…

Physical principles are fundamental to realistic visual simulation, but remain a significant oversight in transformer-based video generation. This gap highlights a critical limitation in rendering rigid body motion, a core tenet of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Qiyuan Zhang , Biao Gong , Shuai Tan , Zheng Zhang , Yujun Shen , Xing Zhu , Yuyuan Li , Kelu Yao , Chunhua Shen , Changqing Zou

We review human evaluation practices in automatic, speech-driven 3D gesture generation and find a lack of standardisation and frequent use of flawed experimental setups. This leads to a situation where it is impossible to know how different…

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

Existing dense or paragraph video captioning approaches rely on holistic representations of videos, possibly coupled with learned object/action representations, to condition hierarchical language decoders. However, they fundamentally lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Shih-Han Chou , James J. Little , Leonid Sigal

Video generation has advanced rapidly, improving evaluation methods, yet assessing video's motion remains a major challenge. Specifically, there are two key issues: 1) current motion metrics do not fully align with human perceptions; 2) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Xinran Ling , Chen Zhu , Meiqi Wu , Hangyu Li , Xiaokun Feng , Cundian Yang , Aiming Hao , Jiashu Zhu , Jiahong Wu , Xiangxiang Chu

Despite tremendous progress in dexterous manipulation, current visuomotor policies remain fundamentally limited by two challenges: they struggle to generalize under perceptual or behavioral distribution shifts, and their performance is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Junbang Liang , Pavel Tokmakov , Ruoshi Liu , Sruthi Sudhakar , Paarth Shah , Rares Ambrus , Carl Vondrick

By providing substantial amounts of data and standardized evaluation protocols, datasets in computer vision have helped fuel advances across all areas of visual recognition. But even in light of breakthrough results on recent benchmarks, it…

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In order to reach human performance on complexvisual tasks, artificial systems need to incorporate a sig-nificant amount of understanding of the world in termsof macroscopic objects, movements, forces, etc. Inspiredby work on intuitive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Ronan Riochet , Mario Ynocente Castro , Mathieu Bernard , Adam Lerer , Rob Fergus , Véronique Izard , Emmanuel Dupoux

Video generation models have emerged as high-fidelity models of the physical world, capable of synthesizing high-quality videos capturing fine-grained interactions between agents and their environments conditioned on multi-modal user…

Due to the statistical complexity of video, the high degree of inherent stochasticity, and the sheer amount of data, generating natural video remains a challenging task. State-of-the-art video generation models often attempt to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Dirk Weissenborn , Oscar Täckström , Jakob Uszkoreit

Synthetic videos nowadays is widely used to complement data scarcity and diversity of real-world videos. Current synthetic datasets primarily replicate real-world scenarios, leaving impossible, counterfactual and anti-reality video concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Zechen Bai , Hai Ci , Mike Zheng Shou

Video generative models show emerging reasoning behaviors. It is essential to ensure that generated events remain causally consistent across frames for reliable deployment, a property we define as reasoning coherence. To bridge the gap in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yu Qi , Xinyi Xu , Ziyu Guo , Siyuan Ma , Renrui Zhang , Xinyan Chen , Ruichuan An , Ruofan Xing , Jiayi Zhang , Haojie Huang , Pheng-Ann Heng , Jonathan Tremblay , Lawson L. S. Wong

Generative AI models, particularly Text-to-Video (T2V) systems, offer a promising avenue for transforming science education by automating the creation of engaging and intuitive visual explanations. In this work, we take a first step toward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Megha Mariam K. M , Aditya Arun , Zakaria Laskar , C. V. Jawahar

Video generation models are increasingly used as world simulators for tasks like driving and robotic manipulation. What matters in these settings is not whether a single video looks right, but whether the model's output changes when its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Kunlin Cai , Rui Song , Jinghuai Zhang , Kaiyuan Zhang , Pranav Bodapati , Alicia Yu , Fnu Suya , Mohammad Rostami , Jiaqi Ma , Yuan Tian

Spatio-temporal action detection is an important and challenging problem in video understanding. The existing action detection benchmarks are limited in aspects of small numbers of instances in a trimmed video or low-level atomic actions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Yixuan Li , Lei Chen , Runyu He , Zhenzhi Wang , Gangshan Wu , Limin Wang

Recent progress in video generation has led to substantial improvements in visual fidelity, yet ensuring physically consistent motion remains a fundamental challenge. Intuitively, this limitation can be attributed to the fact that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Cong Wang , Hanxin Zhu , Xiao Tang , Jiayi Luo , Xin Jin , Long Chen , Zhibo Chen