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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

Existing dynamic scene generation methods mostly rely on distilling knowledge from pre-trained 3D generative models, which are typically fine-tuned on synthetic object datasets. As a result, the generated scenes are often object-centric and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Heng Yu , Chaoyang Wang , Peiye Zhuang , Willi Menapace , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Junli Cao , Laszlo A Jeni , Sergey Tulyakov , Hsin-Ying Lee

Envisioning physically plausible outcomes from a single image requires a deep understanding of the world's dynamics. To address this, we introduce PhysGen3D, a novel framework that transforms a single image into an amodal, camera-centric,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Boyuan Chen , Hanxiao Jiang , Shaowei Liu , Saurabh Gupta , Yunzhu Li , Hao Zhao , Shenlong Wang

Creating hand-drawn animation sequences is labor-intensive and demands professional expertise. We introduce PhysAnimator, a novel approach for generating physically plausible meanwhile anime-stylized animation from static anime…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Tianyi Xie , Yiwei Zhao , Ying Jiang , Chenfanfu Jiang

4D content generation aims to create dynamically evolving 3D content that responds to specific input objects such as images or 3D representations. Current approaches typically incorporate physical priors to animate 3D representations, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jiajing Lin , Zhenzhong Wang , Dejun Xu , Shu Jiang , YunPeng Gong , Min Jiang

Creating a physical digital twin of a real-world object has immense potential in robotics, content creation, and XR. In this paper, we present PhysTwin, a novel framework that uses sparse videos of dynamic objects under interaction to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Hanxiao Jiang , Hao-Yu Hsu , Kaifeng Zhang , Hsin-Ni Yu , Shenlong Wang , Yunzhu Li

Lightweight, controllable, and physically plausible human motion synthesis is crucial for animation, virtual reality, robotics, and human-computer interaction applications. Existing methods often compromise between computational efficiency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Arvin Tashakori , Arash Tashakori , Gongbo Yang , Z. Jane Wang , Peyman Servati

We present FlexTraj, a framework for image-to-video generation with flexible point trajectory control. FlexTraj introduces a unified point-based motion representation that encodes each point with a segmentation ID, a temporally consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Zhiyuan Zhang , Can Wang , Dongdong Chen , Jing Liao

Recent advancements in video generation have witnessed significant progress, especially with the rapid advancement of diffusion models. Despite this, their deficiencies in physical cognition have gradually received widespread attention -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Minghui Lin , Xiang Wang , Yishan Wang , Shu Wang , Fengqi Dai , Pengxiang Ding , Cunxiang Wang , Zhengrong Zuo , Nong Sang , Siteng Huang , Donglin Wang

Recent advances have shown that video generation models can enhance robot learning by deriving effective robot actions through inverse dynamics. However, these methods heavily depend on the quality of generated data and struggle with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Kelin Yu , Sheng Zhang , Harshit Soora , Furong Huang , Heng Huang , Pratap Tokekar , Ruohan Gao

Video Diffusion Models have been developed for video generation, usually integrating text and image conditioning to enhance control over the generated content. Despite the progress, ensuring consistency across frames remains a challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Tian Xia , Xuweiyi Chen , Sihan Xu

Generative world models are increasingly used for video generation, where learned simulators are expected to capture the physical rules that govern real-world dynamics. However, evaluating whether generated videos actually follow these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Juyi Lin , Arash Akbari , Yumei He , Lin Zhao , Haichao Zhang , Arman Akbari , Xingchen Xu , Zoe Y. Lu , Enfu Nan , Hokin Deng , Edmund Yeh , Sarah Ostadabbas , Yun Fu , Jennifer Dy , Pu Zhao , Yanzhi Wang

Recent advances in the diffusion models have significantly improved text-to-image generation. However, generating videos from text is a more challenging task than generating images from text, due to the much larger dataset and higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Taegyeong Lee , Soyeong Kwon , Taehwan Kim

Video generative models have made remarkable progress, yet they often yield visual artifacts that violate grounding in physical dynamics. Recent works such as PhysGen3D tackle single image-to-3D physics through mesh reconstruction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hwidong Kim , Yunho Kim , Tae-Kyun Kim

Human motion synthesis is an important problem with applications in graphics, gaming and simulation environments for robotics. Existing methods require accurate motion capture data for training, which is costly to obtain. Instead, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Kevin Xie , Tingwu Wang , Umar Iqbal , Yunrong Guo , Sanja Fidler , Florian Shkurti

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

Realistic visual simulations are omnipresent, yet their creation requires computing time, rendering, and expert animation knowledge. Open-vocabulary visual effects generation from text inputs emerges as a promising solution that can unlock…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Luca Collorone , Mert Kiray , Indro Spinelli , Fabio Galasso , Benjamin Busam

Text-to-video generation has shown promising results. However, by taking only natural languages as input, users often face difficulties in providing detailed information to precisely control the model's output. In this work, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Hsin-Ping Huang , Yu-Chuan Su , Deqing Sun , Lu Jiang , Xuhui Jia , Yukun Zhu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Motion control is crucial for generating expressive and compelling video content; however, most existing video generation models rely mainly on text prompts for control, which struggle to capture the nuances of dynamic actions and temporal…

Text-driven diffusion models have unlocked unprecedented abilities in image generation, whereas their video counterpart still lags behind due to the excessive training cost of temporal modeling. Besides the training burden, the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yabo Zhang , Yuxiang Wei , Dongsheng Jiang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Qi Tian