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Do video diffusion models encode signals predictive of physical plausibility? We probe intermediate denoising representations of a pretrained Diffusion Transformer (DiT) and find that physically plausible and implausible videos are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Chujun Tang , Lei Zhong , Fangqiang Ding

AI video generation is undergoing a revolution, with quality and realism advancing rapidly. These advances have led to a passionate scientific debate: Do video models learn "world models" that discover laws of physics -- or, alternatively,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Saman Motamed , Laura Culp , Kevin Swersky , Priyank Jaini , Robert Geirhos

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

When we humans look at a video of human-object interaction, we can not only infer what is happening but we can even extract actionable information and imitate those interactions. On the other hand, current recognition or geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Kiana Ehsani , Shubham Tulsiani , Saurabh Gupta , Ali Farhadi , Abhinav Gupta

The steep computational cost of diffusion models at inference hinders their use as fast physics emulators. In the context of image and video generation, this computational drawback has been addressed by generating in the latent space of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 François Rozet , Ruben Ohana , Michael McCabe , Gilles Louppe , François Lanusse , Shirley Ho

Humans possess an exceptional ability to imagine 4D scenes, encompassing both motion and 3D geometry, from a single still image. This ability is rooted in our accumulated observations of similar scenes and an intuitive understanding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Emily Yue-Ting Jia , Jiageng Mao , Zhiyuan Gao , Yajie Zhao , Yue Wang

Large-scale pre-trained video generation models excel in content creation but are not reliable as physically accurate world simulators out of the box. This work studies the process of post-training these models for accurate world modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Chenyu Li , Oscar Michel , Xichen Pan , Sainan Liu , Mike Roberts , Saining Xie

By providing substantial amounts of data and standardized evaluation protocols, datasets in computer vision have helped fuel advances across all areas of visual recognition. But even in light of breakthrough results on recent benchmarks, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Brandon RichardWebster , Samuel E. Anthony , Walter J. Scheirer

Despite advancements in generating visually stunning content, video diffusion models (VDMs) often yield physically inconsistent results due to pixel-only reconstruction. To address this, we propose MMPhysVideo, the first framework to scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Shubo Lin , Xuanyang Zhang , Wei Cheng , Weiming Hu , Gang Yu , Jin Gao

Physics-informed deep learning has been developed as a novel paradigm for learning physical dynamics recently. While general physics-informed deep learning methods have shown early promise in learning fluid dynamics, they are difficult to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-07 Jing Qiu , Jiancheng Huang , Xiangdong Zhang , Zeng Lin , Minglei Pan , Zengding Liu , Fen Miao

Diffusion models can generate realistic videos, but existing methods rely on implicitly learning physical reasoning from large-scale text-video datasets, which is costly, difficult to scale, and still prone to producing implausible motions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yutong Hao , Chen Chen , Ajmal Saeed Mian , Chang Xu , Daochang Liu

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

Extracting physical dynamical system parameters from recorded observations is key in natural science. Current methods for automatic parameter estimation from video train supervised deep networks on large datasets. Such datasets require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Alejandro Castañeda Garcia , Jan van Gemert , Daan Brinks , Nergis Tömen

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

Video diffusion models (VDMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in text-to-video (T2V) generation. Despite their success, VDMs still suffer from degraded image quality and flickering artifacts. To address these issues, some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Jiacheng Zhang , Jie Wu , Weifeng Chen , Yatai Ji , Xuefeng Xiao , Weilin Huang , Kai Han

Diffusion models have made significant strides in image generation, mastering tasks such as unconditional image synthesis, text-image translation, and image-to-image conversions. However, their capability falls short in the realm of video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Gaurav Shrivastava , Abhinav Shrivastava

This paper proposes a novel framework to evaluate fluid simulation methods based on crowd-sourced user studies in order to robustly gather large numbers of opinions. The key idea for a robust and reliable evaluation is to use a reference…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Kiwon Um , Xiangyu Hu , Nils Thuerey

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

We study the task of predicting dynamic physical properties from videos. More specifically, we consider physical properties that require temporal information to be inferred: elasticity of a bouncing object, viscosity of a flowing liquid,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Guanqi Zhan , Xianzheng Ma , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Generating physically plausible human motion is crucial for applications such as character animation and virtual reality. Existing approaches often incorporate a simulator-based motion projection layer to the diffusion process to enforce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Akihisa Watanabe , Jiawei Ren , Li Siyao , Yichen Peng , Erwin Wu , Edgar Simo-Serra