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The ability to accurately predict the surrounding environment is a foundational principle of intelligence in biological and artificial agents. In recent years, a variety of approaches have been proposed for learning to predict the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Alberto Cenzato , Alberto Testolin , Marco Zorzi

Modern video diffusion models excel at appearance synthesis but still struggle with physical consistency: objects drift, collisions lack realistic rebound, and material responses seldom match their underlying properties. We present PhyCo, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Sriram Narayanan , Ziyu Jiang , Srinivasa Narasimhan , Manmohan Chandraker

Video generators are increasingly evaluated as potential world models, which requires them to encode and understand physical laws. We investigate their representation of a fundamental law: gravity. Out-of-the-box video generators…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Varun Varma Thozhiyoor , Shivam Tripathi , Venkatesh Babu Radhakrishnan , Anand Bhattad

While large-scale video diffusion models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating high-resolution and semantically rich content, a significant gap remains between their pretraining performance and real-world deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Zeyue Xue , Siming Fu , Jie Huang , Shuai Lu , Haoran Li , Yijun Liu , Yuming Li , Xiaoxuan He , Mengzhao Chen , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan , Ping Luo

Diffusion models excel at capturing complex data distributions, such as those of natural images and proteins. While diffusion models are trained to represent the distribution in the training dataset, we often are more concerned with other…

In this work, we rethink the approach to video super-resolution by introducing a method based on the Diffusion Posterior Sampling framework, combined with an unconditional video diffusion transformer operating in latent space. The video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Zhihao Zhan , Wang Pang , Xiang Zhu , Yechao Bai

Despite remarkable achievements in video synthesis, achieving granular control over complex dynamics, such as nuanced movement among multiple interacting objects, still presents a significant hurdle for dynamic world modeling, compounded by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Pengxiang Li , Kai Chen , Zhili Liu , Ruiyuan Gao , Lanqing Hong , Guo Zhou , Hua Yao , Dit-Yan Yeung , Huchuan Lu , Xu Jia

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…

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

Recent video diffusion models have achieved impressive capabilities as large-scale generative world models. However, these models often struggle with fine-grained physical consistency, exhibiting physically implausible dynamics over time.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Haoran Lu , Shang Wu , Jianshu Zhang , Maojiang Su , Guo Ye , Chenwei Xu , Lie Lu , Pranav Maneriker , Fan Du , Manling Li , Zhaoran Wang , Han Liu

In recent years, there has been rapid development in 3D generation models, opening up new possibilities for applications such as simulating the dynamic movements of 3D objects and customizing their behaviors. However, current 3D generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Fangfu Liu , Hanyang Wang , Shunyu Yao , Shengjun Zhang , Jie Zhou , Yueqi Duan

In video prediction tasks, one major challenge is to capture the multi-modal nature of future contents and dynamics. In this work, we propose a simple yet effective framework that can efficiently predict plausible future states. The key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Jingwei Xu , Huazhe Xu , Bingbing Ni , Xiaokang Yang , Trevor Darrell

Recent advancements in video generation have enabled the development of ``world models'' capable of simulating potential futures for robotics and planning. However, specifying precise goals for these models remains a challenge; text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Nate Gillman , Yinghua Zhou , Zitian Tang , Evan Luo , Arjan Chakravarthy , Daksh Aggarwal , Michael Freeman , Charles Herrmann , Chen Sun

Text-to-image diffusion models achieve impressive visual fidelity, yet they remain unreliable in multi-object generation. Despite extensive empirical evidence of these failures, the underlying causes remain unclear. We begin by asking how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yujin Jeong , Arnas Uselis , Iro Laina , Seong Joon Oh , Anna Rohrbach

Focus is a cornerstone of photography, yet autofocus systems often fail to capture the intended subject, and users frequently wish to adjust focus after capture. We introduce a novel method for realistic post-capture refocusing using video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 SaiKiran Tedla , Zhoutong Zhang , Xuaner Zhang , Shumian Xin

We consider the problem of forecasting motion from a single image, i.e., predicting how objects in the world are likely to move, without the ability to observe other parameters such as the object velocities or the forces applied to them. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Gabrijel Boduljak , Laurynas Karazija , Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi

Generating visual instructions in a given context is essential for developing interactive world simulators. While prior works address this problem through either text-guided image manipulation or video prediction, these tasks are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yujiang Pu , Zhanbo Huang , Vishnu Boddeti , Yu Kong

Video is a rich and scalable source of 3D/4D visual observations, and camera control is a key capability for video generation models to produce geometrically meaningful content. Existing approaches typically learn a mapping from camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Chen Hou , Christian Rupprecht

Recent advances in video generation models have sparked interest in world models capable of simulating realistic environments. While navigation has been well-explored, physically meaningful interactions that mimic real-world forces remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Nate Gillman , Charles Herrmann , Michael Freeman , Daksh Aggarwal , Evan Luo , Deqing Sun , Chen Sun

We present a framework for video modeling based on denoising diffusion probabilistic models that produces long-duration video completions in a variety of realistic environments. We introduce a generative model that can at test-time sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 William Harvey , Saeid Naderiparizi , Vaden Masrani , Christian Weilbach , Frank Wood