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Despite tremendous recent progress, generative video models still struggle to capture real-world motion, dynamics, and physics. We show that this limitation arises from the conventional pixel reconstruction objective, which biases models…

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Learning high-quality video representation has shown significant applications in computer vision and remains challenging. Previous work based on mask autoencoders such as ImageMAE and VideoMAE has proven the effectiveness of learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Xingjian Diao , Ming Cheng , Shitong Cheng

Realistic digital avatars require expressive and dynamic hair motion; however, most existing head avatar methods assume rigid hair movement. These methods often fail to disentangle hair from the head, representing it as a simple outer shell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Berna Kabadayi , Vanessa Sklyarova , Wojciech Zielonka , Justus Thies , Gerard Pons-Moll

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

We investigate how to enhance the physical fidelity of video generation models by leveraging synthetic videos derived from computer graphics pipelines. These rendered videos respect real-world physics, such as maintaining 3D consistency,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-28 Qi Zhao , Xingyu Ni , Ziyu Wang , Feng Cheng , Ziyan Yang , Lu Jiang , Bohan Wang

Generative video models achieve high visual fidelity but often violate basic physical principles, limiting reliability in real-world settings. Prior attempts to inject physics rely on conditioning: frame-level signals are domain-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Saurabh Pathak , Elahe Arani , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Bahram Zonooz

Video-based dialog task is a challenging multimodal learning task that has received increasing attention over the past few years with state-of-the-art obtaining new performance records. This progress is largely powered by the adaptation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Huda Alamri , Anthony Bilic , Michael Hu , Apoorva Beedu , Irfan Essa

Appearance of dressed humans undergoes a complex geometric transformation induced not only by the static pose but also by its dynamics, i.e., there exists a number of cloth geometric configurations given a pose depending on the way it has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Jae Shin Yoon , Duygu Ceylan , Tuanfeng Y. Wang , Jingwan Lu , Jimei Yang , Zhixin Shu , Hyun Soo Park

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

4D content generation focuses on creating dynamic 3D objects that change over time. Existing methods primarily rely on pre-trained video diffusion models, utilizing sampling processes or reference videos. However, these approaches face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Jiajing Lin , Zhenzhong Wang , Yongjie Hou , Yuzhou Tang , Min Jiang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly applied to robotic perception and manipulation, yet their ability to infer physical properties required for manipulation remains limited. In particular, estimating the mass of real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Hisayuki Yokomizo , Taiki Miyanishi , Yan Gang , Shuhei Kurita , Nakamasa Inoue , Yusuke Iwasawa

Understanding and predicting dynamics of the physical world can enhance a robot's ability to plan and interact effectively in complex environments. While recent video generation models have shown strong potential in modeling dynamic scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zeyi Liu , Shuang Li , Eric Cousineau , Siyuan Feng , Benjamin Burchfiel , Shuran Song

Data-driven character animation based on motion capture can produce highly naturalistic behaviors and, when combined with physics simulation, can provide for natural procedural responses to physical perturbations, environmental changes, and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Xue Bin Peng , Angjoo Kanazawa , Jitendra Malik , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

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

Recent advances in diffusion-based and autoregressive video generation models have achieved remarkable visual realism. However, these models typically lack accurate physical alignment, failing to replicate real-world dynamics in object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Tao Feng , Xianbing Zhao , Zhenhua Chen , Tien Tsin Wong , Hamid Rezatofighi , Gholamreza Haffari , Lizhen Qu

Recent advances in video diffusion models shows promise for generating robotic decision-making data, with trajectory conditions further enabling fine-grained control. However, existing methods primarily focus on individual object motion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xiao Fu , Xintao Wang , Xian Liu , Jianhong Bai , Runsen Xu , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Dahua Lin

Video diffusion models (VDMs) have advanced significantly in recent years, enabling the generation of highly realistic videos and drawing the attention of the community in their potential as world simulators. However, despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Xindi Yang , Baolu Li , Yiming Zhang , Zhenfei Yin , Lei Bai , Liqian Ma , Zhiyong Wang , Jianfei Cai , Tien-Tsin Wong , Huchuan Lu , Xu Jia

The rapid advancement of Embodied AI has led to an increasing demand for large-scale, high-quality real-world data. However, collecting such embodied data remains costly and inefficient. As a result, simulation environments have become a…

Video Motion Magnification (VMM) reveals imperceptible dynamics but often suffers from structural inconsistencies under complex geometric transformations. Existing learning-based methods generally face a trade-off between the limited global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Kecheng Han , Yuchen Zhang , Bingqing Liu , Boqiang Guo , Wenbin Zheng , Shiyuan Pei

For many applications with limited computation, communication, storage and energy resources, there is an imperative need of computer vision methods that could select an informative subset of the input video for efficient processing at or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Shuyue Lan , Rameswar Panda , Qi Zhu , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury