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Pixel diffusion generates images directly in pixel space, avoiding the VAE artifacts and representational bottlenecks of two-stage latent diffusion. Recent JiT further simplifies pixel diffusion with x-prediction, where the model predicts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zehong Ma , Ruihan Xu , Shiliang Zhang

Reconstructing metrically accurate humans and their surrounding scenes from a single image is crucial for virtual reality, robotics, and comprehensive 3D scene understanding. However, existing methods struggle with depth ambiguity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Pradyumna Yalandur Muralidhar , Yuxuan Xue , Xianghui Xie , Margaret Kostyrko , Gerard Pons-Moll

In this paper, we aim to jointly model the geometry, appearance, and physical information of 3D scenes solely from dynamic multi-view videos, without relying on any physical priors. Existing works typically employ physical losses merely as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nengbo Lu , Bin Zhao

Inferring universal laws of the environment is an important ability of human intelligence as well as a symbol of general AI. In this paper, we take a step toward this goal such that we introduce a new challenging problem of inferring…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Siyu Huang , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Xi Li , Xiao Wu , Zhongfei Zhang , Alexander Hauptmann

In this paper, we aim to model 3D scene geometry, appearance, and physical information just from dynamic multi-view videos in the absence of any human labels. By leveraging physics-informed losses as soft constraints or integrating simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jinxi Li , Ziyang Song , Bo Yang

We propose a model that is able to perform unsupervised physical parameter estimation of systems from video, where the differential equations governing the scene dynamics are known, but labeled states or objects are not available. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Miguel Jaques , Michael Burke , Timothy Hospedales

This paper studies the problem of estimating physical properties (system identification) through visual observations. To facilitate geometry-aware guidance in physical property estimation, we introduce a novel hybrid framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Junhao Cai , Yuji Yang , Weihao Yuan , Yisheng He , Zilong Dong , Liefeng Bo , Hui Cheng , Qifeng Chen

We introduce latent intuitive physics, a transfer learning framework for physics simulation that can infer hidden properties of fluids from a single 3D video and simulate the observed fluid in novel scenes. Our key insight is to use latent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Xiangming Zhu , Huayu Deng , Haochen Yuan , Yunbo Wang , Xiaokang Yang

We investigate the problem of learning to generate 3D parametric surface representations for novel object instances, as seen from one or more views. Previous work on learning shape reconstruction from multiple views uses discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Jiahui Lei , Srinath Sridhar , Paul Guerrero , Minhyuk Sung , Niloy Mitra , Leonidas J. Guibas

Object recognition has seen significant progress in the image domain, with focus primarily on 2D perception. We propose to leverage existing large-scale datasets of 3D models to understand the underlying 3D structure of objects seen in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Weicheng Kuo , Anelia Angelova , Tsung-Yi Lin , Angela Dai

Creating high-quality articulated 3D models of animals is challenging either via manual creation or using 3D scanning tools. Therefore, techniques to reconstruct articulated 3D objects from 2D images are crucial and highly useful. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Chun-Han Yao , Wei-Chih Hung , Yuanzhen Li , Michael Rubinstein , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Varun Jampani

The ability to extrapolate dynamic 3D scenes beyond the observed timeframe is fundamental to advancing physical world understanding and predictive modeling. Existing dynamic 3D reconstruction methods have achieved high-fidelity rendering of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jinsheng Quan , Qiaowei Miao , Yichao Xu , Zizhuo Lin , Ying Li , Wei Yang , Zhihui Li , Yawei Luo

Video representation learning has recently attracted attention in computer vision due to its applications for activity and scene forecasting or vision-based planning and control. Video prediction models often learn a latent representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Rama Krishna Kandukuri , Jan Achterhold , Michael Möller , Jörg Stückler

Differentiable rendering techniques have recently shown promising results for free-viewpoint video synthesis of characters. However, such methods, either Gaussian Splatting or neural implicit rendering, typically necessitate per-subject…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Boyao Zhou , Shunyuan Zheng , Hanzhang Tu , Ruizhi Shao , Boning Liu , Shengping Zhang , Liqiang Nie , Yebin Liu

We study the problem of learning physical object representations for robot manipulation. Understanding object physics is critical for successful object manipulation, but also challenging because physical object properties can rarely be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Zhenjia Xu , Jiajun Wu , Andy Zeng , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Shuran Song

Holistic 3D human-scene reconstruction is a crucial and emerging research area in robot perception. A key challenge in holistic 3D human-scene reconstruction is to generate a physically plausible 3D scene from a single monocular RGB image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Sandika Biswas , Kejie Li , Biplab Banerjee , Subhasis Chaudhuri , Hamid Rezatofighi

Texture cues on 3D objects are key to compelling visual representations, with the possibility to create high visual fidelity with inherent spatial consistency across different views. Since the availability of textured 3D shapes remains very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Yawar Siddiqui , Justus Thies , Fangchang Ma , Qi Shan , Matthias Nießner , Angela Dai

We study the problem of unsupervised physical object discovery. While existing frameworks aim to decompose scenes into 2D segments based off each object's appearance, we explore how physics, especially object interactions, facilitates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Yilun Du , Kevin Smith , Tomer Ulman , Joshua Tenenbaum , Jiajun Wu

Simulation of the dynamics of physical systems is essential to the development of both science and engineering. Recently there is an increasing interest in learning to simulate the dynamics of physical systems using neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Ce Yang , Weihao Gao , Di Wu , Chong Wang

We propose a framework for learning neural scene representations directly from images, without 3D supervision. Our key insight is that 3D structure can be imposed by ensuring that the learned representation transforms like a real 3D scene.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Emilien Dupont , Miguel Angel Bautista , Alex Colburn , Aditya Sankar , Carlos Guestrin , Josh Susskind , Qi Shan