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Diffusion generative models have recently become a powerful technique for creating and modifying high-quality, coherent video content. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of the critical components of diffusion models for video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Andrew Melnik , Michal Ljubljanac , Cong Lu , Qi Yan , Weiming Ren , Helge Ritter

World models allow autonomous agents to plan and explore by predicting the visual outcomes of different actions. However, for robot manipulation, it is challenging to accurately model the fine-grained robot-object interaction within the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Fangqi Zhu , Hongtao Wu , Song Guo , Yuxiao Liu , Chilam Cheang , Tao Kong

Generative models such as diffusion models, excel at capturing high-dimensional distributions with diverse input modalities, e.g. robot trajectories, but are less effective at multi-step constraint reasoning. Task and Motion Planning (TAMP)…

Realistic and interactive surgical simulation has the potential to facilitate crucial applications, such as medical professional training and autonomous surgical agent training. In the natural visual domain, world models have enabled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Saurabh Koju , Saurav Bastola , Prashant Shrestha , Sanskar Amgain , Yash Raj Shrestha , Rudra P. K. Poudel , Binod Bhattarai

Diffusion models have recently achieved significant success in various image manipulation tasks, including image super-resolution and perceptual quality enhancement. Pretrained text-to-image models, such as Stable Diffusion, have exhibited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Sanchar Palit , Subhasis Chaudhuri , Biplab Banerjee

The astonishing growth of generative tools in recent years has empowered many exciting applications in text-to-image generation and text-to-video generation. The underlying principle behind these generative tools is the concept of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Stanley H. Chan

Video inpainting is the task of filling a region in a video in a visually convincing manner. It is very challenging due to the high dimensionality of the data and the temporal consistency required for obtaining convincing results. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Nicolas Cherel , Andrés Almansa , Yann Gousseau , Alasdair Newson

Learning a generalist embodied agent capable of completing multiple tasks poses challenges, primarily stemming from the scarcity of action-labeled robotic datasets. In contrast, a vast amount of human videos exist, capturing intricate tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Haoran He , Chenjia Bai , Ling Pan , Weinan Zhang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

Text-guided generative diffusion models unlock powerful image creation and editing tools. While these have been extended to video generation, current approaches that edit the content of existing footage while retaining structure require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Patrick Esser , Johnathan Chiu , Parmida Atighehchian , Jonathan Granskog , Anastasis Germanidis

Robotic manipulation requires anticipating how the environment evolves in response to actions, yet most existing systems lack this predictive capability, often resulting in errors and inefficiency. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Songen Gu , Yunuo Cai , Tianyu Wang , Simo Wu , Yanwei Fu

Robotic automation in surgery requires precise tracking of surgical tools and mapping of deformable tissue. Previous works on surgical perception frameworks require significant effort in developing features for surgical tool and tissue…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Jingpei Lu , Ambareesh Jayakumari , Florian Richter , Yang Li , Michael C. Yip

Recent advances in synthetic imaging open up opportunities for obtaining additional data in the field of surgical imaging. This data can provide reliable supplements supporting surgical applications and decision-making through computer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Simeon Allmendinger , Patrick Hemmer , Moritz Queisner , Igor Sauer , Leopold Müller , Johannes Jakubik , Michael Vössing , Niklas Kühl

Diffusion models have made significant strides in image generation, mastering tasks such as unconditional image synthesis, text-image translation, and image-to-image conversions. However, their capability falls short in the realm of video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Gaurav Shrivastava , Abhinav Shrivastava

Tissue manipulation is a frequently used fundamental subtask of any surgical procedures, and in some cases it may require the involvement of a surgeon's assistant. The complex dynamics of soft tissue as an unstructured environment is one of…

Recognition of surgical gesture is crucial for surgical skill assessment and efficient surgery training. Prior works on this task are based on either variant graphical models such as HMMs and CRFs, or deep learning models such as Recurrent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Daochang Liu , Tingting Jiang

Training robot policies within a learned world model is trending due to the inefficiency of real-world interactions. The established image-based world models and policies have shown prior success, but lack robust geometric information that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Guanxing Lu , Baoxiong Jia , Puhao Li , Yixin Chen , Ziwei Wang , Yansong Tang , Siyuan Huang

In this paper, we argue that iterative computation with diffusion models offers a powerful paradigm for not only generation but also visual perception tasks. We unify tasks such as depth estimation, optical flow, and amodal segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Rahul Ravishankar , Zeeshan Patel , Jathushan Rajasegaran , Jitendra Malik

Diffusion models have revolutionized generative modeling, enabling unprecedented realism in image and video synthesis. This success has sparked interest in leveraging their representations for visual understanding tasks. While recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Pedro Vélez , Luisa F. Polanía , Yi Yang , Chuhan Zhang , Rishabh Kabra , Anurag Arnab , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi

As one of the most popular and sought-after generative models in the recent years, diffusion models have sparked the interests of many researchers and steadily shown excellent advantage in various generative tasks such as image synthesis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Zhiyuan Ma , Yuzhu Zhang , Guoli Jia , Liangliang Zhao , Yichao Ma , Mingjie Ma , Gaofeng Liu , Kaiyan Zhang , Jianjun Li , Bowen Zhou

We present a novel study on enhancing the capability of preserving the content in world models, focusing on a property we term World Stability. Recent diffusion-based generative models have advanced the synthesis of immersive and realistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Soonwoo Kwon , Jin-Young Kim , Hyojun Go , Kyungjune Baek