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Estimating the geometric and volumetric properties of transparent deformable liquids is challenging due to optical complexities and dynamic surface deformations induced by container movements. Autonomous robots performing precise liquid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ke Ma , Yizhou Fang , Jean-Baptiste Weibel , Shuai Tan , Xinggang Wang , Yang Xiao , Yi Fang , Tian Xia

Reconstructing physically stable 3D scenes from a single RGB image enables casual images to be converted into simulation-ready digital assets for applications such as immersive interaction and content creation. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xiaoxuan Ma , Jiashun Wang , Nicolas Ugrinovic , Yehonathan Litman , Kris Kitani

Scalable sensor simulation is an important yet challenging open problem for safety-critical domains such as self-driving. Current works in image simulation either fail to be photorealistic or do not model the 3D environment and the dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yun Chen , Frieda Rong , Shivam Duggal , Shenlong Wang , Xinchen Yan , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Shangjie Xue , Ersin Yumer , Raquel Urtasun

Incorporating accurate physics-based simulation into interactive design tools is challenging. However, adding the physics accurately becomes crucial to several emerging technologies. For example, in virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR) videos,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Dingzeyu Li

Interactive world models that simulate object dynamics are crucial for robotics, VR, and AR. However, it remains a significant challenge to learn physics-consistent dynamics models from limited real-world video data, especially for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yu Yang , Zhilu Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Yihan Zeng , Hui Li , Wangmeng Zuo

3D photography is a new medium that allows viewers to more fully experience a captured moment. In this work, we refer to a 3D photo as one that displays parallax induced by moving the viewpoint (as opposed to a stereo pair with a fixed…

Generative models have made remarkable advancements and are capable of producing high-quality content. However, performing controllable editing with generative models remains challenging, due to their inherent uncertainty in outputs. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yikun Ma , Yiqing Li , Jiawei Wu , Xing Luo , Zhi Jin

In this paper, we aim to model 3D scene geometry, appearance, and the underlying physics purely from multi-view videos. By applying various governing PDEs as PINN losses or incorporating physics simulation into neural networks, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jinxi Li , Ziyang Song , Siyuan Zhou , Bo Yang

Predicting the dynamics of interacting objects is essential for both humans and intelligent systems. However, existing approaches are limited to simplified, toy settings and lack generalizability to complex, real-world environments. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Rick Akkerman , Haiwen Feng , Michael J. Black , Dimitrios Tzionas , Victoria Fernández Abrevaya

This paper propose a interactive 3D modeling method and corresponding system based on single or multiple uncalibrated images. The main feature of this method is that, according to the modeling habits of ordinary people, the 3D model of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Zhi He , Rui Wang , Wei Hua , Yuchi Huo

Image view synthesis has seen great success in reconstructing photorealistic visuals, thanks to deep learning and various novel representations. The next key step in immersive virtual experiences is view synthesis of dynamic scenes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Kai-En Lin , Guowei Yang , Lei Xiao , Feng Liu , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Crafting a single, versatile physics-based controller that can breathe life into interactive characters across a wide spectrum of scenarios represents an exciting frontier in character animation. An ideal controller should support diverse…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Chen Tessler , Yunrong Guo , Ofir Nabati , Gal Chechik , Xue Bin Peng

We propose a novel task of text-controlled human object interaction generation in 3D scenes with movable objects. Existing human-scene interaction datasets suffer from insufficient interaction categories and typically only consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xinhao Cai , Minghang Zheng , Xin Jin , Yang Liu

Recent advances in text-to-image generation have driven interest in generating personalized human images that depict specific identities from reference images. Although existing methods achieve high-fidelity identity preservation, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Xirui Hu , Jiahao Wang , Hao Chen , Weizhan Zhang , Benqi Wang , Yikun Li , Haishun Nan

Visual SLAM algorithms achieve significant improvements through the exploration of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) representations, particularly in generating high-fidelity dense maps. However, they depend on a static environment assumption…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yi Liu , Haoxuan Xu , Hongbo Duan , Keyu Fan , Zhengyang Zhang , Peiyu Zhuang , Pengting Luo , Houde Liu

While current methods have shown promising progress on estimating 3D human motion from monocular videos, their motion estimates are often physically unrealistic because they mainly consider kinematics. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yufei Zhang , Jeffrey O. Kephart , Zijun Cui , Qiang Ji

Intelligent agents need a physical understanding of the world to predict the impact of their actions in the future. While learning-based models of the environment dynamics have contributed to significant improvements in sample efficiency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Eric Heiden , David Millard , Hejia Zhang , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Despite advances in physics-based 3D motion synthesis, current methods face key limitations: reliance on pre-reconstructed 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) built from dense multi-view images with time-consuming per-scene optimization; physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chunji Lv , Zequn Chen , Donglin Di , Weinan Zhang , Hao Li , Wei Chen , Yinjie Lei , Changsheng Li

Inferring the physical properties of 3D scenes from visual information is a critical yet challenging task for creating interactive and realistic virtual worlds. While humans intuitively grasp material characteristics such as elasticity or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Long Le , Ryan Lucas , Chen Wang , Chuhao Chen , Dinesh Jayaraman , Eric Eaton , Lingjie Liu

Humanoid Reaction Synthesis is pivotal for creating highly interactive and empathetic robots that can seamlessly integrate into human environments, enhancing the way we live, work, and communicate. However, it is difficult to learn the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yunze Liu , Changxi Chen , Chenjing Ding , Li Yi