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Human motion generation is a significant pursuit in generative computer vision with widespread applications in film-making, video games, AR/VR, and human-robot interaction. Current methods mainly utilize either diffusion-based generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Canxuan Gang

A primary bottleneck in large-scale text-to-video generation today is physical consistency and controllability. Despite recent advances, state-of-the-art models often produce unrealistic motions, such as objects falling upward, or abrupt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yu Yuan , Xijun Wang , Tharindu Wickremasinghe , Zeeshan Nadir , Bole Ma , Stanley H. Chan

Physical principles are fundamental to realistic visual simulation, but remain a significant oversight in transformer-based video generation. This gap highlights a critical limitation in rendering rigid body motion, a core tenet of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Qiyuan Zhang , Biao Gong , Shuai Tan , Zheng Zhang , Yujun Shen , Xing Zhu , Yuyuan Li , Kelu Yao , Chunhua Shen , Changqing Zou

Despite substantial progress in text-to-video generation, achieving precise and flexible control over fine-grained spatiotemporal attributes remains a significant unresolved challenge in video generation research. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Xu Zhang , Hao Zhou , Haoming Qin , Xiaobin Lu , Jiaxing Yan , Guanzhong Wang , Zeyu Chen , Yi Liu

Recent works have sought to enhance the controllability and precision of text-driven motion generation. Some approaches leverage large language models (LLMs) to produce more detailed texts, while others incorporate global 3D coordinate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Keming Shen , Bizhu Wu , Junliang Chen , Xiaoqin Wang , Linlin Shen

Recent advances in diffusion-based video generation have achieved remarkable visual realism but still struggle to obey basic physical laws such as gravity, inertia, and collision. Generated objects often move inconsistently across frames,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Lin Geng Foo , Mark He Huang , Alexandros Lattas , Stylianos Moschoglou , Thabo Beeler , Christian Theobalt

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

Realistic simulation of dynamic scenes requires accurately capturing diverse material properties and modeling complex object interactions grounded in physical principles. However, existing methods are constrained to basic material types…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Zhuoman Liu , Weicai Ye , Yan Luximon , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang

Synthesizing physics-grounded 3D assets is a critical bottleneck for interactive virtual worlds and embodied AI. Existing methods predominantly focus on static geometry, overlooking the functional properties essential for interaction. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yunhan Yang , Chunshi Wang , Junliang Ye , Yang Li , Zanxin Chen , Zehuan Huang , Yao Mu , Zhuo Chen , Chunchao Guo , Xihui Liu

Despite recent progress in video generation, producing videos that adhere to physical laws remains a significant challenge. Traditional diffusion-based methods struggle to extrapolate to unseen physical conditions (eg, velocity) due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Wang Lin , Liyu Jia , Wentao Hu , Kaihang Pan , Zhongqi Yue , Wei Zhao , Jingyuan Chen , Fei Wu , Hanwang Zhang

With the rapid development of AI-generated content (AIGC), video generation has emerged as one of its most dynamic and impactful subfields. In particular, the advancement of video generation foundation models has led to growing demand for…

In recent years, there has been rapid development in 3D generation models, opening up new possibilities for applications such as simulating the dynamic movements of 3D objects and customizing their behaviors. However, current 3D generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Fangfu Liu , Hanyang Wang , Shunyu Yao , Shengjun Zhang , Jie Zhou , Yueqi Duan

Recent diffusion-based text-to-image customization methods have achieved significant success in understanding concrete concepts to control generation processes, such as styles and shapes. However, few efforts dive into the realistic yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Fan Wu , Cheng Chen , Zhoujie Fu , Jiacheng Wei , Yi Xu , Deheng Ye , Guosheng Lin

Video generation models nowadays are capable of generating visually realistic videos, but often fail to adhere to physical laws, limiting their ability to generate physically plausible videos and serve as ''world models''. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Sihui Ji , Xi Chen , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Hengshuang Zhao

Recent generative video models achieve impressive visual quality but remain constrained by limited physical consistency and controllability. Existing video generation methods provide minimal physical control, and single-image-to-3D…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xin Zhang , Yabo Chen , Yijie Fang , Wanying Qu , Haibin Huang , Chi Zhang , Feng Xu , Xuelong Li

Creating high-dynamic videos such as motion-rich actions and sophisticated visual effects poses a significant challenge in the field of artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, current state-of-the-art video generation methods, primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yan Zeng , Guoqiang Wei , Jiani Zheng , Jiaxin Zou , Yang Wei , Yuchen Zhang , Hang Li

Video generation models are increasingly used as world simulators for storytelling, simulation, and embodied AI. As these models advance, a key question arises: do generated videos obey the physical laws of the real world? Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Qin Zhang , Peiyu Jing , Hong-Xing Yu , Fangqiang Ding , Fan Nie , Weimin Wang , Yilun Du , James Zou , Jiajun Wu , Bing Shuai

Can we learn the physics of matter in motion directly from images and video--and trust it? Answering this question requires integrating experiments, physics-based simulation, and data across traditionally separate disciplines. Much of this…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hagen Holthusen , Kevin Linka , Ellen Kuhl

Despite remarkable achievements in video synthesis, achieving granular control over complex dynamics, such as nuanced movement among multiple interacting objects, still presents a significant hurdle for dynamic world modeling, compounded by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Pengxiang Li , Kai Chen , Zhili Liu , Ruiyuan Gao , Lanqing Hong , Guo Zhou , Hua Yao , Dit-Yan Yeung , Huchuan Lu , Xu Jia

Recent progress in video generation has led to substantial improvements in visual fidelity, yet ensuring physically consistent motion remains a fundamental challenge. Intuitively, this limitation can be attributed to the fact that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Cong Wang , Hanxin Zhu , Xiao Tang , Jiayi Luo , Xin Jin , Long Chen , Zhibo Chen