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Existing multi-agent video generation systems use LLM agents to orchestrate neural video generators, producing visually impressive but semantically unreliable outputs with no ground truth annotations. We present an agentic system that…

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Current video generation techniques excel at single-shot clips but struggle to produce narrative multi-shot videos, which require flexible shot arrangement, coherent narrative, and controllability beyond text prompts. To tackle these…

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The rise of short-form video platforms and the emergence of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have amplified the need for scalable, effective, zero-shot text-to-video retrieval systems. While recent advances in large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jiaxin Wu , Xiao-Yong Wei , Qing Li

AI-driven content creation has shown potential in film production. However, existing film generation systems struggle to implement cinematic principles and thus fail to generate professional-quality films, particularly lacking diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Kaiyi Huang , Yukun Huang , Xintao Wang , Zinan Lin , Xuefei Ning , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Yu Wang , Xihui Liu

Visual effects (VFX) are essential for enhancing the expressiveness and creativity of video content, yet producing high-quality effects typically requires expert knowledge and costly production pipelines. Existing AIGC systems face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Shiyuan Yang , Ruihuang Li , Jiale Tao , Shuai Shao , Qinglin Lu , Jing Liao

Building embodied agents capable of accomplishing arbitrary tasks is a core objective towards achieving embodied artificial general intelligence (E-AGI). While recent work has advanced such general robot policies, their training and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Liu Dai , Haina Wang , Weikang Wan , Hao Su

Text-to-image generation has advanced rapidly, but existing models still struggle with faithfully composing multiple objects and preserving their attributes in complex scenes. We propose coDrawAgents, an interactive multi-agent dialogue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Chunhan Li , Qifeng Wu , Jia-Hui Pan , Ka-Hei Hui , Jingyu Hu , Yuming Jiang , Bin Sheng , Xihui Liu , Wenjuan Gong , Zhengzhe Liu

Long-form video generation is rapidly moving from short, single-scene synthesis toward minute-long, multi-shot creation with narrative structure, cinematic control, audio, and cross-modal synchronization. However, evaluating such videos…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jiamin Chen , Qianben Chen , Jiawen Zhang , Yidi Wu , Yuchen Li , Xiaokun Zhang , Wangchunshu Zhou , Chen Ma

Clipart, a pre-made art form, offers a convenient and efficient way of creating visual content. However, traditional workflows for animating static clipart are laborious and time-consuming, involving steps like rigging, keyframing, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Ronghuan Wu , Wanchao Su , Kede Ma , Jing Liao

Automated movie creation requires coordinating multiple characters, modalities, and narrative elements across extended sequences -- a challenge that existing end-to-end approaches struggle to address effectively. We present…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tianyidan Xie , Zhentao Huang , Mingjie Wang , Xin Huang , Jun Zhou , Minglun Gong , Zili Yi

Recent advancements in visual generative models have enabled high-quality image and video generation, opening diverse applications. However, evaluating these models often demands sampling hundreds or thousands of images or videos, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Fan Zhang , Shulin Tian , Ziqi Huang , Yu Qiao , Ziwei Liu

The dense, temporal nature of video presents a profound challenge for automated analysis. Despite the use of powerful Vision-Language Models, prevailing methods for video understanding are limited by the inherent disconnect between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Keliang Li , Yansong Li , Hongze Shen , Mengdi Liu , Hong Chang , Shiguang Shan

Video understanding has seen significant progress in recent years, with models' performance on perception from short clips continuing to rise. Yet, multiple recent benchmarks, such as LVBench, Neptune, and ActivityNet-RTL, show performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Sachit Menon , Ahmet Iscen , Arsha Nagrani , Tobias Weyand , Carl Vondrick , Cordelia Schmid

Maintaining consistent characters, props, and environments across multiple shots is a central challenge in narrative video generation. Existing models can produce high-quality short clips but often fail to preserve entity identity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Jinsong Zhou , Yihua Du , Xinli Xu , Luozhou Wang , Zijie Zhuang , Yehang Zhang , Shuaibo Li , Xiaojun Hu , Bolan Su , Ying-cong Chen

Virtual film production requires intricate decision-making processes, including scriptwriting, virtual cinematography, and precise actor positioning and actions. Motivated by recent advances in automated decision-making with language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Zhenran Xu , Longyue Wang , Jifang Wang , Zhouyi Li , Senbao Shi , Xue Yang , Yiyu Wang , Baotian Hu , Jun Yu , Min Zhang

Text-to-video generation has been dominated by diffusion-based or autoregressive models. These novel models provide plausible versatility, but are criticized for improper physical motion, shading and illumination, camera motion, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Liu He , Yizhi Song , Hejun Huang , Pinxin Liu , Yunlong Tang , Daniel Aliaga , Xin Zhou

Digital storytelling, essential in entertainment, education, and marketing, faces challenges in production scalability and flexibility. The StoryAgent framework, introduced in this paper, utilizes Large Language Models and generative tools…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Samuel S. Sohn , Danrui Li , Sen Zhang , Che-Jui Chang , Mubbasir Kapadia

Although significant progress has been made in many tasks within the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Controlled Text Generation (CTG) continues to face numerous challenges, particularly in achieving fine-grained conditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Xinxu Zhou , Jiaqi Bai , Zhenqi Sun , Fanxiang Zeng , Yue Liu

Large language models (LLMs) have enabled remarkable advances in automated task-solving with multi-agent systems. However, most existing LLM-based multi-agent approaches rely on predefined agents to handle simple tasks, limiting the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Guangyao Chen , Siwei Dong , Yu Shu , Ge Zhang , Jaward Sesay , Börje F. Karlsson , Jie Fu , Yemin Shi

Recent advances in multimodal LLMs and systems that use tools for long-video QA point to the promise of reasoning over hour-long episodes. However, many methods still compress content into lossy summaries or rely on limited toolsets,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Runtao Liu , Ziyi Liu , Jiaqi Tang , Yue Ma , Renjie Pi , Jipeng Zhang , Qifeng Chen