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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

The scarcity of large-scale robotic data has motivated the repurposing of foundation models from other modalities for policy learning. In this work, we introduce PhysGen (Learning Physics from Pretrained Video Generation Models), a scalable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Zijian Song , Qichang Li , Sihan Qin , Yuhao Chen , Tianshui Chen , Liang Lin , Guangrun 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

Video generation models have emerged as high-fidelity models of the physical world, capable of synthesizing high-quality videos capturing fine-grained interactions between agents and their environments conditioned on multi-modal user…

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

In scientific and engineering domains, modeling high-dimensional complex systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) remains challenging in terms of physical consistency and numerical stability. However, existing approaches,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Siqi Wang , Mengmeng Zhang , Yude Bu , Chaozhou Mou

We introduce Puppet-Master, an interactive video generator that captures the internal, part-level motion of objects, serving as a proxy for modeling object dynamics universally. Given an image of an object and a set of "drags" specifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Ruining Li , Chuanxia Zheng , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi

Generating realistic human motion is a central yet unsolved challenge in video generation. While reinforcement learning (RL)-based post-training has driven recent gains in general video quality, extending it to human motion remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yidong Huang , Zun Wang , Han Lin , Dong-Ki Kim , Shayegan Omidshafiei , Jaehong Yoon , Jaemin Cho , Yue Zhang , Mohit Bansal

Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have shown impressive performance across a wide range of video-language tasks. However, they often fail in scenarios requiring a deeper understanding of physical dynamics. This limitation primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yu-Wei Zhan , Xin Wang , Hong Chen , Tongtong Feng , Wei Feng , Ren Wang , Guangyao Li , Qing Li , Wenwu Zhu

Reconstructing physically plausible human motion from monocular videos remains a challenging problem in computer vision and graphics. Existing methods primarily focus on kinematics-based pose estimation, often leading to unrealistic results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Qiao Feng , Yiming Huang , Yufu Wang , Jiatao Gu , Lingjie Liu

Recent advances in text-to-video (T2V) generation have achieved good visual quality, yet synthesizing videos that faithfully follow physical laws remains an open challenge. Existing methods mainly based on graphics or prompt extension…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yuanhao Cai , Kunpeng Li , Menglin Jia , Jialiang Wang , Junzhe Sun , Feng Liang , Weifeng Chen , Felix Juefei-Xu , Chu Wang , Ali Thabet , Xiaoliang Dai , Xuan Ju , Alan Yuille , Ji Hou

Recent advances in Text-to-Video generation (T2V) have achieved remarkable success in synthesizing high-quality general videos from textual descriptions. A largely overlooked problem in T2V is that existing models have not adequately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Shenghai Yuan , Jinfa Huang , Yujun Shi , Yongqi Xu , Ruijie Zhu , Bin Lin , Xinhua Cheng , Li Yuan , Jiebo Luo

Recent advances in generative video modeling, driven by large-scale datasets and powerful architectures, have yielded remarkable visual realism. However, emerging evidence suggests that simply scaling data and model size does not endow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ying Shen , Jerry Xiong , Tianjiao Yu , Ismini Lourentzou

Camera control has been actively studied in text or image conditioned video generation tasks. However, altering camera trajectories of a given video remains under-explored, despite its importance in the field of video creation. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Jianhong Bai , Menghan Xia , Xiao Fu , Xintao Wang , Lianrui Mu , Jinwen Cao , Zuozhu Liu , Haoji Hu , Xiang Bai , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang

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

The field of visual representation learning has seen explosive growth in the past years, but its benefits in robotics have been surprisingly limited so far. Prior work uses generic visual representations as a basis to learn (task-specific)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jianren Wang , Sudeep Dasari , Mohan Kumar Srirama , Shubham Tulsiani , Abhinav Gupta

A long-standing question in physical reasoning is whether video-based models need to rely on factorized representations of physical variables in order to make physically accurate predictions, or whether they can implicitly represent such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Sonia Joseph , Quentin Garrido , Randall Balestriero , Matthew Kowal , Thomas Fel , Shahab Bakhtiari , Blake Richards , Mike Rabbat

In this work, we present CineMaster, a novel framework for 3D-aware and controllable text-to-video generation. Our goal is to empower users with comparable controllability as professional film directors: precise placement of objects within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Qinghe Wang , Yawen Luo , Xiaoyu Shi , Xu Jia , Huchuan Lu , Tianfan Xue , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Kun Gai

Recent advancements in video generation have enabled the development of ``world models'' capable of simulating potential futures for robotics and planning. However, specifying precise goals for these models remains a challenge; text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Nate Gillman , Yinghua Zhou , Zitian Tang , Evan Luo , Arjan Chakravarthy , Daksh Aggarwal , Michael Freeman , Charles Herrmann , Chen Sun

Despite advances in physics-based 3D motion synthesis, current methods face key limitations: reliance on pre-reconstructed 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) built from dense multi-view images with time-consuming per-scene optimization; physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chunji Lv , Zequn Chen , Donglin Di , Weinan Zhang , Hao Li , Wei Chen , Yinjie Lei , Changsheng Li