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Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) offer a promising approach for simulating dynamic scenes and environments, with broad applications in robotics and media generation. However, existing models often generate temporally incoherent content that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhexiao Xiong , Yizhi Song , Liu He , Wei Xiong , Yu Yuan , Feng Qiao , Nathan Jacobs

Despite remarkable advances in video generative models, they still struggle to generate physically realistic videos, frequently exhibiting appearance drift, implausible motion, and temporal inconsistencies. In this work, we address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Manjin Kim , Suha Kwak , Minsu Cho

Text-to-video (T2V) generation technology holds potential to transform multiple domains such as education, marketing, entertainment, and assistive technologies for individuals with visual or reading comprehension challenges, by creating…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Nilay Kumar , Priyansh Bhandari , G. Maragatham

Humans develop an understanding of intuitive physics through active interaction with the world. This approach is in stark contrast to current video models, such as Sora, which rely on passive observation and therefore struggle with grasping…

With the rapid development of generative models, Artificial Intelligence-Generated Contents (AIGC) have exponentially increased in daily lives. Among them, Text-to-Video (T2V) generation has received widespread attention. Though many T2V…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Tengchuan Kou , Xiaohong Liu , Zicheng Zhang , Chunyi Li , Haoning Wu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai , Ning Liu

Large-scale pre-trained video generation models excel in content creation but are not reliable as physically accurate world simulators out of the box. This work studies the process of post-training these models for accurate world modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Chenyu Li , Oscar Michel , Xichen Pan , Sainan Liu , Mike Roberts , Saining Xie

The landscape of video generation is shifting, from a focus on generating visually appealing clips to building virtual environments that support interaction and maintain physical plausibility. These developments point toward the emergence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Jingtong Yue , Ziqi Huang , Zhaoxi Chen , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Ziwei Liu

The evolution of video generation from text, from animating MNIST to simulating the world with Sora, has progressed at a breakneck speed. Here, we systematically discuss how far text-to-video generation technology supports essential…

AI video generation is undergoing a revolution, with quality and realism advancing rapidly. These advances have led to a passionate scientific debate: Do video models learn "world models" that discover laws of physics -- or, alternatively,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Saman Motamed , Laura Culp , Kevin Swersky , Priyank Jaini , Robert Geirhos

Recent advancements in video generation have witnessed significant progress, especially with the rapid advancement of diffusion models. Despite this, their deficiencies in physical cognition have gradually received widespread attention -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Minghui Lin , Xiang Wang , Yishan Wang , Shu Wang , Fengqi Dai , Pengxiang Ding , Cunxiang Wang , Zhengrong Zuo , Nong Sang , Siteng Huang , Donglin Wang

Recent advances in Text-to-Video generation (T2V) have achieved remarkable success in synthesizing high-quality general videos from textual descriptions. A largely overlooked problem in T2V is that existing models have not adequately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Shenghai Yuan , Jinfa Huang , Yujun Shi , Yongqi Xu , Ruijie Zhu , Bin Lin , Xinhua Cheng , Li Yuan , Jiebo Luo

Video generation models are increasingly used as world simulators for storytelling, simulation, and embodied AI. As these models advance, a key question arises: do generated videos obey the physical laws of the real world? Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Qin Zhang , Peiyu Jing , Hong-Xing Yu , Fangqiang Ding , Fan Nie , Weimin Wang , Yilun Du , James Zou , Jiajun Wu , Bing Shuai

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

The recent wave of AI-generated content has witnessed the great development and success of Text-to-Image (T2I) technologies. By contrast, Text-to-Video (T2V) still falls short of expectations though attracting increasing interests. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Zhen Xing , Qi Dai , Han Hu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Generating high-fidelity upper-body 3D avatars from one-shot input image remains a significant challenge. Current 3D avatar generation methods, which rely on large reconstruction models, are fast and capable of producing stable body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Fan Yang , Heyuan Li , Peihao Li , Weihao Yuan , Lingteng Qiu , Chaoyue Song , Cheng Chen , Yisheng He , Shifeng Zhang , Xiaoguang Han , Steven Hoi , Guosheng Lin

Simulation has the potential to transform the development of robust algorithms for mobile agents deployed in safety-critical scenarios. However, the poor photorealism and lack of diverse sensor modalities of existing simulation engines…

Visuals are valuable tools for teaching math word problems (MWPs), helping young learners interpret textual descriptions into mathematical expressions before solving them. However, creating such visuals is labor-intensive and there is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Junling Wang , Anna Rutkiewicz , April Yi Wang , Mrinmaya Sachan

Generative video models achieve high visual fidelity but often violate basic physical principles, limiting reliability in real-world settings. Prior attempts to inject physics rely on conditioning: frame-level signals are domain-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Saurabh Pathak , Elahe Arani , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Bahram Zonooz

Transforming recorded videos into concise and accurate textual summaries is a growing challenge in multimodal learning. This paper introduces VISTA, a dataset specifically designed for video-to-text summarization in scientific domains.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Dongqi Liu , Chenxi Whitehouse , Xi Yu , Louis Mahon , Rohit Saxena , Zheng Zhao , Yifu Qiu , Mirella Lapata , Vera Demberg

Existing video generation models predominantly emphasize appearance fidelity while exhibiting limited ability to synthesize complex human motions, such as whole-body movements, long-range dynamics, and fine-grained human-environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Haoyu Wang , Hao Tang , Donglin Di , Zhilu Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Feng Gao , Siwei Ma , Shiliang Zhang