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We tackle the challenges of synthesizing versatile, physically simulated human motions for full-body object manipulation. Unlike prior methods that are focused on detailed motion tracking, trajectory following, or teleoperation, our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Chen Tessler , Yifeng Jiang , Erwin Coumans , Zhengyi Luo , Gal Chechik , Xue Bin Peng

Accurate video understanding involves reasoning about the relationships between actors, objects and their environment, often over long temporal intervals. In this paper, we propose a message passing graph neural network that explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Anurag Arnab , Chen Sun , Cordelia Schmid

Automated surgical gesture recognition is of great importance in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery. However, existing methods assume that training and testing data are from the same domain, which suffers from severe performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Xueying Shi , Yueming Jin , Qi Dou , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng

Deep video action recognition models have been highly successful in recent years but require large quantities of manually annotated data, which are expensive and laborious to obtain. In this work, we investigate the generation of synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 César Roberto de Souza , Adrien Gaidon , Yohann Cabon , Naila Murray , Antonio Manuel López

We present a new video-based performance cloning technique. After training a deep generative network using a reference video capturing the appearance and dynamics of a target actor, we are able to generate videos where this actor reenacts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Kfir Aberman , Mingyi Shi , Jing Liao , Dani Lischinski , Baoquan Chen , Daniel Cohen-Or

How can robot manipulation policies generalize to novel tasks involving unseen object types and new motions? In this paper, we provide a solution in terms of predicting motion information from web data through human video generation and…

We present a versatile model, FaceAnime, for various video generation tasks from still images. Video generation from a single face image is an interesting problem and usually tackled by utilizing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Xiaoguang Tu , Yingtian Zou , Jian Zhao , Wenjie Ai , Jian Dong , Yuan Yao , Zhikang Wang , Guodong Guo , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Jiashi Feng

Skeleton-based action recognition has recently received considerable attention. Current approaches to skeleton-based action recognition are typically formulated as one-hot classification tasks and do not fully exploit the semantic relations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Wangmeng Xiang , Chao Li , Yuxuan Zhou , Biao Wang , Lei Zhang

Cross-embodiment video generation aims to transfer motions across different humanoid embodiments, such as human-to-robot and robot-to-robot, enabling scalable data generation for embodied intelligence. A major challenge in this setting is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yiren Song , Xiyao Deng , Pei Yang , Yihan Wang , Mike Zheng Shou

Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) offer a promising approach for simulating dynamic scenes and environments, with broad applications in robotics and media generation. However, existing models often generate temporally incoherent content that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhexiao Xiong , Yizhi Song , Liu He , Wei Xiong , Yu Yuan , Feng Qiao , Nathan Jacobs

Human video generation is becoming an increasingly important task with broad applications in graphics, entertainment, and embodied AI. Despite the rapid progress of video diffusion models (VDMs), their use for general-purpose human video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hyelin Nam , Hyojun Go , Byeongjun Park , Byung-Hoon Kim , Hyungjin Chung

Recent years have seen substantial progress in diffusion-based controllable video generation. However, achieving precise control in complex scenarios, including fine-grained object parts, sophisticated motion trajectories, and coherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Haitao Zhou , Chuang Wang , Rui Nie , Jinlin Liu , Dongdong Yu , Qian Yu , Changhu Wang

Recent advances in scene-based video generation enable coherent visual narratives from structured prompts, yet a key aspect of storytelling -- character-driven dialogue and speech -- remains underexplored. We present a modular pipeline that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Taewon Kang , Ming C. Lin

Recent video generation models have achieved remarkable progress and are now deployed in film, social media production, and advertising. Beyond their creative potential, such models also hold promise as world simulators for robotics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 David Romero , Ariana Bermudez , Viacheslav Iablochnikov , Hao Li , Fabio Pizzati , Ivan Laptev

Videos of actions are complex signals containing rich compositional structure in space and time. Current video generation methods lack the ability to condition the generation on multiple coordinated and potentially simultaneous timed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Amir Bar , Roei Herzig , Xiaolong Wang , Anna Rohrbach , Gal Chechik , Trevor Darrell , Amir Globerson

Camera and object motions are central to a video's narrative. However, precisely editing these captured motions remains a significant challenge, especially under complex object movements. Current motion-controlled image-to-video (I2V)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yao-Chih Lee , Zhoutong Zhang , Jiahui Huang , Jui-Hsien Wang , Joon-Young Lee , Jia-Bin Huang , Eli Shechtman , Zhengqi Li

Video generative models pre-trained on large-scale internet datasets have achieved remarkable success, excelling at producing realistic synthetic videos. However, they often generate clips based on static prompts (e.g., text or images),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Haoran He , Yang Zhang , Liang Lin , Zhongwen Xu , Ling Pan

Advances in video generation have significantly improved the realism and quality of created scenes. This has fueled interest in developing intuitive tools that let users leverage video generation as world simulators. Text-to-video (T2V)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zuhao Liu , Aleksandar Yanev , Ahmad Mahmood , Ivan Nikolov , Saman Motamed , Wei-Shi Zheng , Xi Wang , Lei Sun , Luc Van Gool , Danda Pani Paudel

Video temporal grounding is an emerging topic aiming to identify specific clips within videos. In addition to pre-trained video models, contemporary methods utilize pre-trained vision-language models (VLM) to capture detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Yubin Wang , Xinyang Jiang , De Cheng , Dongsheng Li , Cairong Zhao

A major bottleneck for developing general reinforcement learning agents is determining rewards that will yield desirable behaviors under various circumstances. We introduce a general mechanism for automatically specifying meaningful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Ashley D. Edwards , Charles L. Isbell