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We consider the problem of forecasting motion from a single image, i.e., predicting how objects in the world are likely to move, without the ability to observe other parameters such as the object velocities or the forces applied to them. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Gabrijel Boduljak , Laurynas Karazija , Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi

Synthesizing novel views from monocular videos of dynamic scenes remains a challenging problem. Scene-specific methods that optimize 4D representations with explicit motion priors often break down in highly dynamic regions where multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Thomas Tanay , Mohammed Brahimi , Michal Nazarczuk , Qingwen Zhang , Sibi Catley-Chandar , Arthur Moreau , Zhensong Zhang , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

Object-level manipulation, relocating or reorienting objects in images or videos while preserving scene realism, is central to film post-production, AR, and creative editing. Yet existing methods struggle to jointly achieve three core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Penghui Ruan , Bojia Zi , Xianbiao Qi , Youze Huang , Rong Xiao , Pichao Wang , Jiannong Cao , Yuhui Shi

Despite significant advances in video generation, synthesizing physically plausible human actions remains a persistent challenge, particularly in modeling fine-grained semantics and complex temporal dynamics. For instance, generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Dian Shao , Mingfei Shi , Shengda Xu , Haodong Chen , Yongle Huang , Binglu Wang

Scene generation has extensive industrial applications, demanding both high realism and precise control over geometry and appearance. Language-driven retrieval methods compose plausible scenes from a large object database, but overlook…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zhifei Yang , Guangyao Zhai , Keyang Lu , YuYang Yin , Chao Zhang , Zhen Xiao , Jieyi Long , Nassir Navab , Yikai Wang

Generating animation of physics-based characters with intuitive control has long been a desirable task with numerous applications. However, generating physically simulated animations that reflect high-level human instructions remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jiawei Ren , Mingyuan Zhang , Cunjun Yu , Xiao Ma , Liang Pan , Ziwei Liu

We explore a novel video creation experience, namely Video Creation by Demonstration. Given a demonstration video and a context image from a different scene, we generate a physically plausible video that continues naturally from the context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Yihong Sun , Hao Zhou , Liangzhe Yuan , Jennifer J. Sun , Yandong Li , Xuhui Jia , Hartwig Adam , Bharath Hariharan , Long Zhao , Ting Liu

Controllable human video generation aims to produce realistic videos of humans with explicitly guided motions and appearances,serving as a foundation for digital humans, animation, and embodied AI.However, the scarcity of largescale,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yuanchen Fei , Yude Zou , Zejian Kang , Ming Li , Jiaying Zhou , Xiangru Huang

Despite significant advances in video synthesis, research into multi-shot video generation remains in its infancy. Even with scaled-up models and massive datasets, the shot transition capabilities remain rudimentary and unstable, largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xiaoxue Wu , Bingjie Gao , Yu Qiao , Yaohui Wang , Xinyuan Chen

Autonomous driving requires robust perception models trained on high-quality, large-scale multi-view driving videos for tasks like 3D object detection, segmentation and trajectory prediction. While world models provide a cost-effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Zhuoran Yang , Xi Guo , Chenjing Ding , Chiyu Wang , Wei Wu

Text-to-video generation is an emerging field in generative AI, enabling the creation of realistic, semantically accurate videos from text prompts. While current models achieve impressive visual quality and alignment with input text, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Luca Zanchetta , Lorenzo Papa , Luca Maiano , Irene Amerini

We present I2V3D, a novel framework for animating static images into dynamic videos with precise 3D control, leveraging the strengths of both 3D geometry guidance and advanced generative models. Our approach combines the precision of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Zhiyuan Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Jing Liao

Recent advances in driving-scene generation and reconstruction have demonstrated significant potential for enhancing autonomous driving systems by producing scalable and controllable training data. Existing generation methods primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Ziyue Zhu , Zhanqian Wu , Zhenxin Zhu , Lijun Zhou , Haiyang Sun , Bing Wan , Kun Ma , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Jin Xie , jian Yang

Extended reality (XR) demands generative models that respond to users' tracked real-world motion, yet current video world models accept only coarse control signals such as text or keyboard input, limiting their utility for embodied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Linxi Xie , Lisong C. Sun , Ashley Neall , Tong Wu , Shengqu Cai , Gordon Wetzstein

Accurately simulating existing 3D objects and a wide variety of materials often demands expert knowledge and time-consuming physical parameter tuning to achieve the desired dynamic behavior. We introduce MotionPhysics, an end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Miaowei Wang , Jakub Zadrożny , Oisin Mac Aodha , Amir Vaxman

Recent video generators achieve striking photorealism, yet remain fundamentally inconsistent in 3D. We present WorldReel, a 4D video generator that is natively spatio-temporally consistent. WorldReel jointly produces RGB frames together…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shaoheng Fang , Hanwen Jiang , Yunpeng Bai , Niloy J. Mitra , Qixing Huang

Controllable and physically grounded egocentric video generation is essential for embodied agents to reason about how their own and others' actions manifest and change the world. Compared to generic video synthesis, egocentric generation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Qiao Gu , Lingni Ma , Adam W Harley , Richard Newcombe , Florian Shkurti , Julian Straub

Existing 3D scene generation methods often struggle to model the complex logical dependencies and physical constraints between objects, limiting their ability to adapt to dynamic and realistic environments. We propose CausalStruct, a novel…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Shen Chen , Ruiyu Zhao , Jiale Zhou , Zongkai Wu , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Lei Li

Recent works have successfully extended large-scale text-to-image models to the video domain, producing promising results but at a high computational cost and requiring a large amount of video data. In this work, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Bo Peng , Xinyuan Chen , Yaohui Wang , Chaochao Lu , Yu Qiao

Differentiable particle-based simulation can produce physically plausible motion, but target-driven volumetric shape morphing remains underconstrained: physics-only mass matching captures coarse global structure yet struggles with fine…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Chang-Yong Song , David Hyde