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OpenAI's Sora highlights the potential of video generation for developing world models that adhere to fundamental physical laws. However, the ability of video generation models to discover such laws purely from visual data without human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Bingyi Kang , Yang Yue , Rui Lu , Zhijie Lin , Yang Zhao , Kaixin Wang , Gao Huang , Jiashi Feng

Video diffusion models (VDMs) have advanced significantly in recent years, enabling the generation of highly realistic videos and drawing the attention of the community in their potential as world simulators. However, despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Xindi Yang , Baolu Li , Yiming Zhang , Zhenfei Yin , Lei Bai , Liqian Ma , Zhiyong Wang , Jianfei Cai , Tien-Tsin Wong , Huchuan Lu , Xu Jia

Data-driven character animation based on motion capture can produce highly naturalistic behaviors and, when combined with physics simulation, can provide for natural procedural responses to physical perturbations, environmental changes, and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Xue Bin Peng , Angjoo Kanazawa , Jitendra Malik , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

How can we tell whether a video has been sped up or slowed down? How can we generate videos at different speeds? Although videos have been central to modern computer vision research, little attention has been paid to perceiving and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yen-Siang Wu , Rundong Luo , Jingsen Zhu , Tao Tu , Ali Farhadi , Matthew Wallingford , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Steve Marschner , Wei-Chiu Ma

World models empower model-based agents to interactively explore, reason, and plan within imagined environments for real-world decision-making. However, the high demand for interactivity poses challenges in harnessing recent advancements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jialong Wu , Shaofeng Yin , Ningya Feng , Xu He , Dong Li , Jianye Hao , Mingsheng Long

World models, which predict future transitions from past observation and action sequences, have shown great promise for improving data efficiency in sequential decision-making. However, existing world models often require extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Siqiao Huang , Jialong Wu , Qixing Zhou , Shangchen Miao , Mingsheng Long

Visual Generative AI models have demonstrated remarkable capability in generating high-quality images from user inputs like text prompts. However, because these models have billions of parameters, they risk memorizing certain parts of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Lena Reissinger , Yuanyuan Li , Anna-Carolina Haensch , Neeraj Sarna

We tackle the long video generation problem, i.e.~generating videos beyond the output length of video generation models. Due to the computation resource constraints, video generation models can only generate video clips that are relatively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Hsin-Ping Huang , Yu-Chuan Su , Ming-Hsuan Yang

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

Neural video game simulators emerged as powerful tools to generate and edit videos. Their idea is to represent games as the evolution of an environment's state driven by the actions of its agents. While such a paradigm enables users to play…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Willi Menapace , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Stéphane Lathuilière , Panos Achlioptas , Vladislav Golyanik , Sergey Tulyakov , Elisa Ricci

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

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful generative method for synthesizing high-quality and diverse set of images. In this paper, we propose a video generation method based on diffusion models, where the effects of motion are modeled in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Kangfu Mei , Vishal M. Patel

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

The performance of computer vision models in certain real-world applications (e.g., rare wildlife observation) is limited by the small number of available images. Expanding datasets using pre-trained generative models is an effective way to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Changjian Chen , Fei Lv , Yalong Guan , Pengcheng Wang , Shengjie Yu , Yifan Zhang , Zhuo Tang

Video generation models have achieved remarkable progress in creating high-quality, photorealistic content. However, their ability to accurately simulate physical phenomena remains a critical and unresolved challenge. This paper presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jing Gu , Xian Liu , Yu Zeng , Ashwin Nagarajan , Fangrui Zhu , Daniel Hong , Yue Fan , Qianqi Yan , Kaiwen Zhou , Ming-Yu Liu , Xin Eric Wang

Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) have emerged as powerful generative tools, capable of synthesizing high-quality spatiotemporal content. Yet, their potential goes far beyond mere video generation. We argue that the training dynamics of VDMs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Pablo Acuaviva , Aram Davtyan , Mariam Hassan , Sebastian Stapf , Ahmad Rahimi , Alexandre Alahi , Paolo Favaro

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

Understanding and predicting motion is a fundamental component of visual intelligence. Although modern video models exhibit strong comprehension of scene dynamics, exploring multiple possible futures through full video synthesis remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Nick Stracke , Kolja Bauer , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Miguel Angel Bautista , Josh Susskind , Björn Ommer

Video generation models have rapidly progressed, positioning themselves as video world models capable of supporting decision-making applications like robotics and autonomous driving. However, current benchmarks fail to rigorously evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Dacheng Li , Yunhao Fang , Yukang Chen , Shuo Yang , Shiyi Cao , Justin Wong , Michael Luo , Xiaolong Wang , Hongxu Yin , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Ion Stoica , Song Han , Yao Lu

Large language models trained for code generation can be applied to speaking virtual worlds into existence (creating virtual worlds). In this work we show that prompt-based methods can both accelerate in-VR level editing, as well as can…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Jasmine Roberts , Andrzej Banburski-Fahey , Jaron Lanier